REAL LIFE

This post is really kind of scatterbrained.  I'm sorry.  I hope you understand what I'm trying to get through.

Recently, sports are becoming less and less attractive to me.  Not just because I'm not very good at sports, but the way that they bring out the worst in people.  I don't like the conversations about "why this team is better"  or "that team sucks" .  All they do is cause unnecessary anger in people over silly things.  Why do they take things so personally?  Some people seem like they take more offence from people dissing their favorite sports team than they would their mother.  That's not right.  I'm not saying sports are bad, and neither are rivalries, but all of the terrible things people say about each other while they argue over rankings and records make me sick.



I'm considering transferring into journalism with Rachel at the semester.  We've come to the conclusion that it's pretty sucky, but I'm not saying that I could do any better; I just want to try new things.

Something Emily posted about in her blog today stuck a chord in my mind that I used to think about often.  I don't know why, maybe it had something to do with one of my friends.  I honestly can't remember.

As a society here in Utah, some of us are too sheltered, which isn't a good thing.  I have no problems with Utah, in fact, I love it here.  Not only does this kind of thing happen in Utah, but every where.  Utah is just a different aspect of it because of the LDS culture.  Being too underexposed to things can be a bad thing.  How are you supposed to protect yourself or avoid something that you don't know anything about?  It's like taking a test without learning anything before hand.  What will you do when the situation comes up? Will you know what to do?  I see it like this; another one of my analogies.  In my mind I relate the things we wish to avoid to a sickness.  To protect yourself from the flu, one usually gets a vaccination.  This vaccination contains the actual flu virus, a small amount of it, which in turn is killed by your immune system.  Now that your body has experienced the virus once you will have a better immunity to it if you are exposed to it again.   Being slightly exposed to the things we want to avoid can help us better fortify ourselves.  We need to know what's out there.  In the real world.

One of my favorite teachers, my history teacher Mr. Kofoed, really helped me to understand that all the things that happen in the world are more than just text on a newspaper, or words in a text book.  They're real things that real people went through. He taught us that if we aren't aware of the things that go on around us and around the world, that we are bound to fail.  Ignorance will be the death of us if we aren't exposed to the facts and events around us.

Thanks for listening.

Have a splendid Monday.