Death. :( Week 9!

With Halloween coming up and after watching all of the scary YouTube clips in class today, I have been thinking about all the creepy things that are shown on T.V. and that sometimes occur in real life. Watching the clip of Children of the Corn made me think of the family that was murdered not too long ago. I have never seen all of that movie but that sparked the thought of the Gee family. When watching all of these movies, I think to myself, “Ew that is not right.” Yet, it is something that happens in real, everyday life. People do get murdered by others whether it is for revenge or just because something...snapped. To me, this just shows how much this world can be broken, fallen, and slightly twisted. I see how the media runs with this and how movies are made of these incidents. To me, this does not seem right and only gives more sick, brutal ideas about how to kill someone or hurt others. People learn from what they see and these movies may seem enjoyable at times but I think that they have the potential to spark something in the minds of others. Now, don’t get me wrong, I like watching scary movies and I am not saying that people who watch them are going to flip their lid and go on a killing spree. But I do think that people do learn from what they see. When I think of the Gee family and how they were innocently killed, my heart hurts for them. I cannot understand why these things happen and the only thing I can think of is that the world is broken.

Stages of My Writing : )

I never thought of it this way but my writing is divided into multiple stages. I wrote as a child...in a creative way. Whether it was writing a short book for school or even coloring a picture in which a story on the back always accompanied it, I did a great deal of writing as a little kid. Writing about princesses and dancers were always on the top of my “best seller” list. Haha! As I grew older, I drifted away from writing for fun except for some diary entries here and there that I usually forgot about. I tended to stick with drawing instead of writing. Well, except for the few bits of writing that was always more on the boring sides of things that teachers forced you against your will to do. I had a difficult time with this because it is hard to write about something that is not intriguing. This stage was around late grade school/early middle school. Around my seventh grade year, I truly learned how to write. I was able to enjoy writing creatively and have the opportunity to express me in how I write. I felt like this was my first chance to understand true writing. Of course, high school was interesting when I think about writing... There were the days of the term papers. I wrote three in my high school days and they weren’t as bad as I thought but again, it is difficult to write well under so much pressure and a topic that has the potential to be extremely boring. There were the few exceptions to fun writing in school but it never lasted long until another research paper was assigned. I learned however to write on my own. I was able to find time to journal or email or something that added some spice and creativity to the writing in my life. I loved doing this and even poetry became a part of me. I found myself writing poetry which always helped me to relax...or vent. :) My creative writing class was something that opened my eyes to a whole new world of writing and I have been changed ever since. I talk about this topic a lot but why not talk about a good thing, right? I am able to write and I am always writing about something whether it is a blog, email, journal entry, or a paper. I understand how to put my own spice in the paper so that I don’t become so boring and uninterested. Whether I was 5 years old, 10 or even a senior in high school, I have found myself writing. Many sorts of writing and an immense amount of time to grow in my writing but I have wrote nonetheless and I would not change a thing about it!

WALL-E! Week 7

So I was in the mood for a movie the other night and my boyfriend suggested Wall-e. When he says this, I have to admit that I laughed at him. I was thinking to myself, “Justin, why would you like a movie like that? You’re a guy...” However, he had seen it earlier and said it was actually a very cute movie so I went along with it because I had been dying to see it. We invited another couple to join us and we drank hot chocolate while watching Wall-e. I recommend this movie to anyone! Seriously, its hilarious! It’s not just one of those movies that children watch but it is one that is good for people of any age. I guess thats why I liked it. Also, it had a cute lesson to it. To me, the movie was saying, keep the earth clean...and don’t design robots to do the work for you. This is a big movement that is going on in the world today about respecting the environment and keeping it healthy for people in the future to enjoy. I totally agree with this because I don’t want to live in a trashed world. Another thing that was shown in the movie was obesity with how the people ate things that were very bad for them and they were very lazy. This was showing how the future may be and I don’t know about you but I hope our future isn’t like that because living in a trashed world full of lazy people who don’t look after themselves does not sound very appealing. Therefore, I encourage you to see Wall-e...and continue to make the world a healthier place! :)