SO, I am getting pretty stoked about my advanced writing class. This is the class that everyone warned me about and said, dn't take it here if you can avoid it. Basically, they knew the teacher's rep and didn't want me to have to deal with it. But as it turns out, I am enjoying that class soooo much. I am not what one would call a writer of words. I have always been more suited for music. But now I am really looking forward to writing my paper.
We get to choose our own topic. She suggested righting on something that I am already passionate about or am already thinking about all the time, because without even knowing it, I already have a lot of the information I will need inorder to accomplish this task.
When she said all this, I realized that I have perhaps two directions I could go with this. One is the way gender plays out in society and what is missing now that the genders are considered equal and there is little recognition of differences or the need for differences. Bascally, what has happened to our world since women stopped being "women" and men stopped being "men"? Another option is perhaps a deeper argument based on a blog I wrote in 10-06? called "Pardon my rant" and it dealt with the question, "at what point do people who committed their lives to one another decide not to love each other anymore?" I have seen a number of relationships which are only a shell of ther former love and all that is left is bitterness and insults. I think about this one a lot because I soooo do not wat that to be my life, as I believe I discussed in the original blog. I watch people and how they interact with others and I wonder how they came from loving Mr(s) X so very much and respecting him/her so much ... to disrespecting and hurting each other, as if it should be normal that way. Disgusting! Arg, well, I guess dialoging with you right now has helped me to know which way I should take my paper :)
Anyway, I don't have this class until Wednesday, but it is one of the major things I spent this weekend thinking over. There was another, but this is enough for now. Thank you for reading my ramblings on. God bless you. Thank you also for your prayers.
Oh! PS, my brother is moving to MT this monday. I am not going to get a chance to see him before he goes. This means I won't be seeing him at all till his wedding in April. This is a very hard concept for me. I miss him so much already and he's only in Seattle, but now he'll be so far away. It's going to be better for him though. His fiancee doesn't like Seattle, and he loves living in MT, so it's good.
Anyway, God is good! All the time! Thanks again :) Ciao
laura jean
1 comment:
I think the biggest problem with marriages nowadays is that people go in thinking they can walk back out again if the going gets tough. They have all these unrealistic expectations about how it's supposed to be, how the other person is supposed to be, and when that doesn't happen start to think it was a mistake. That being said, I wouldn't presume to judge anyone who has had a divorce. Lord knows we've been on the brink of it ourselves, and if it weren't for the fact that at least one of us was always in love with the other, and especially my husband's commitment to me even through all the hard times I put him through, I don't know that we would have made it this far. I consider that a blessing, that we have.
As for women and men not being what they should, you know I agree with you there. The older I get, the more I stop seeing feminism as some great equalizer, and start seeing it as an extremely damaging philosophy that is totally contrary to scripture. Ah, now I'm ranting!
God bless!
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