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I am a teenager.
Isn’t it funny how way back when, the big punishment was “go to your room?” Well, how does that figure, when kids nowadays have TVs, telephones and laptops in their rooms? And that too, rooms don’t have solid white walls and a bed and a desk. Kids and teenagers alike love colouring their space, and making it a home.
This is DEFINITELY my ideal room. Simple and clean. And white and green – my favorite!
Asia lamp theme? Cute room.
Ohh. Princessy.
Messy in a really cool way!
Me encanta baloncesto. Maybe for a boy. But could be for a girl, too!
How pink.
Yeah. Maybe the right punishment is to stay out of your room. ;]
(pictures from google!)
…Is certainly not a human.
Technically, I know, humans are the smartest animals in the world. But who are we to judge? Of course we’ll put ourselves right on top in our own hierarchy of intelligence. We can speak. So can a parrot. We can understand emotion. So can a dog, cat, dolphin, and a whale. And we do all of our testing on rodents.
So, today, I challenge science to speculate whether humans are the definition of intelligence.
There are other living creatures on earth. The fact that our emotions can be percieved on a higher level by a dog than possibly our best human friends is proof itself – we aren’t the height of smartness.
Well, as my sophomore year of high school comes to an end, I have to go through on obstacle before I can reach my vacations.
Final exams.
It’s so mean, having to take these tests before a great summer. We can’t just slip easily into a world of relaxation. However, I see why. We students would have nothing to work for, to achieve, and to aim. School teaches you a lot more than knowledge about the material. It refines your personality, therefore, I actually love school, it allows me to explore the possibilities of my personality. It’s like pick-and-choose who you are, except through destiny.
That doesn’t make so much sense.
Anyway, for one of my finals, I have to do a project about one of the issues in America, and my friend and I have chosen the death penalty. Not that I really care- the class I’m in is a joke, and I’m 95% sure I will get an “A” no matter what. But, really, it is an interesting subject. The death penalty seems so harsh – “cruel and unusual punishment.” There are so many ways one can oppose the use of this penalty. That’s why my assignment is hard- I have to be FOR the death penalty.
On this site, I found reasonsfor why the DP would be refuted. One reason would be that no matter how many are killed, our crime rate here in the US continues to increase. I find this are hard point to create a rebuttal for. It’s totally true. Nobody is afraid of dying. There are all these martyrs out there that don’t care, and then there are the adventurous, taking whatever their life throws at them. (Although, calling people martyrs and adventurous makes them sound better than they might actually be!) And then another is that we may kill someone that is in fact innocent. I can agree, that an innocent person could be killed – I had read an article in the Reader’s Digest not too long ago about a man who was innocent, yet falsely accused and jailed for 30 years until his innocence had been proved. Supposing he had died? That would have been a loss for the family – and, oh- the government would have to a few others to their list of people who might form an anarchist movement.
Yet, is it better that we don’t kill people at all? Some deserve it. Ethically, there are so many people who should never get another chance to live, because of their crimes. If you kill, you get killed right? This is where the death penalty crosses the path of one of the greatest men to walk the earth – Mahatma Gandhi. What did he say, now? “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.” I do wonder what Gandhi would have said if faced witha final project like this. He used non-violence and fought off a powerful nation with words. If someone killed his a loved one, I suppose he wouldn’t have rushed to Indian government and pleaded with them to hunt out the murderer and kill he or she, too.
Ahh. I picked a hard prompt. Here I am, making a good arguement for the other side!
Now, I just have to find a way to say the opposite. Pah.
WIsh me luck.
Well, my bad for never updating this. I figured it’s good to keep a journal, you know, something good might come out of it one day!
SO in these past few months, I’ve decided on one thing. My the end of my senior year, I will have written a book. My goal.
Today I wrote half the summary. I think I really like the story, because I know where it is going. Maybe I’ll start to write it here first. Make a new page, and title it the name of my book. Yeah. That might happen. I was thinking about a fantasy novel, but you know, writing one of those is so plot level, and I think I’ve changed for the better. Plus, if I were to try and write one, I know for a fact that my imagination is the widest sea in the world, and I would edit it and edit it and never be happy. Of course, that is the case with all aspects of my life. Well, this knowledge comes from fact, and I hold No bearings against either fact or fiction, reality or fantasy.
My friend said she’s already sent one out to a publisher, a copy of a story she’s written. This kind of thing propels me more. It’s like competition. Except I would feel bad if I one. But then again, I’ve never read anything she’s written. And I should know better than anyone that when a person writes, it is always much different than when they speak. I feel bad to feel excited in the wrong way. But It happens. I will try and take ans more of a challnge than a threat.
Perhaps an open opposition to my mental authority as the best writer I know.
And of course, completely called for, considering that figure in solely in my head.
