Reflection on other blogs

After reading other peoples blog posts I discovered that other people have differing opinions on the ideas that surround love and what it means. When looking at these posts i found them to be helpful because there was a lot of good insight into certain ideas that i agreed with. It also made me think more because there was some things that i had never thought about before. Everyone had their own perspective on love so it was interesting to see how everyone viewed it. I also looked at some peoples blogs that we weren't assigned to look at such as Courtney's blog. I thought all of her posts were well written and very insightful. All of these ideas were very helpful and will contribute greatly to my new posts because they added ideas and insight that i never would have thought of. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* HI TINE~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

To love or not to love

Love is an intense emotion that every human being is capable of feeling. Love can be in many forms. Also love can be very complicated. It is a word that can mean something different for every single person. However some people may question the word love for many different reasons. Maybe they love someone and the person dosent love them back of they dot feel the same love for someone that they used to feel. Recently divorce rates have been increasing possibly due to loss of love. Love can be a strong feeling that can happen immediately among two people or develop over time. Love is something that can hold a family together and also tear it apart. Love can also raise many questions such as does the other person feel the love that one person does or do you love someone as much as you should? Love is a very complicated term and can be defined differently by every person in the world.

None is enough

In the article "None is enough" I learned new things about woman and kids that shocked me and made me look at having kids with a new perspective. I have always known that i want to have kid when i am older but after reading the article i found out that some woman also have known from a young age that they dont want to have children when they grow up. Some woman decide they don't want kids because they feel as if they would be a burden seeing how they were a burden on their mother while growing up. Studies from the article show that the birth rate has decreased recently this could be due to many things. Some factors may include money because woman want to have money to do things like travel and pay for themselves instead of having to pay for their children's college funds and other things. Also as the birth rate decreases and woman without children are becoming more common, woman are starting to feel more comfortable with their decision on not to have children. Also not having children used to be frowned upon many many years ago because people felt like it was a woman's job to have kids if they could but now it is becoming more common for woman to just get married and have no children because it is not looked down upon. Another reason why woman are leading a child free life is because of stress and how they grew up. If woman saw their moms having a hard time raising kids and often times losing their patience its possible that it will make them less likely to have kids or want kids. Also woman might want to focus more on their life and their career opportunities rather than having to leave their job to stay home and take care of their children. There are some woman who would much rather go out and work for themselves at a job they love in order to earn money for themselves rather than sit home all day and care for children.

Interview

Me: Robin Murphy is a mother of two. Her daughter is sixteen years old and a junior in high school and her son is nineteen years old and a sophomore in college. She raised her children in Mansfield and they have been living in the same house ever since they were born. Robin is here today to answer a couple of question from me, her daughter about her children and love.
Mom: Hello
Me: Hi mom. I have gathered a few questions that i am going to ask you today about me and Chris.
Mom: Ok
Me: So first off, if you could would you change the age gap between me and Chris seeing now how we grew up together and how we only got to experience one year in high school together before he left for college?
Mom:No, i would not change the age difference at all. I think the gap between you and Chris is perfect. If you guys were any closer in age of further apart in age i think you would fight more than you already do because you would be able to relate to each other or you would share some of the same friends. Also, i think it was good for you guys to experience one year of high school together because you guys became closer and were able to bond more.
Me: Do you miss not having Chris home now?
Mom: Yes i miss not having Chris home everyday but I'm glad he has gained so much independence at college.
Me: Heres a difficult question. Looking back on the early years would you make any changes on how you raised me and Chris?
Mom: No. I wouldn't change a thing about how you two grew up. I think the environment in which you grew up in was perfect and there is nothing i would change about my parenting. All the decisions i made about parenting were made for a reason and I'm confident in the way i raised you guys.
Me: Would you change the location we grew up in or the schools we went to?
Mom: No i think Mansfield was and is the perfect fit for me you Chris and dad. The school system is phenomenal and the atmosphere of Mansfield is great.
Me: Heres another difficult question. What were the biggest challenges you faced when raising me and Chris?
Mom: Hmmm that is difficult. If i had to choose the biggest difficulty it would be dealing with you and Chris fighting all the time and having to have enough patience to sometimes just ignore it.
Me: Was the fighting really that bad?
Mom: You guys would be fighting one minute and then be friends the next but fighting between you two was defiantly a common occurrence.
Me: Why did you choose to have two kids instead of having one or three?
Mom: I always knew i wanted to have more than one child. i grew up having siblings and i cant imagine my life any differently. However after having Chris and you me and your father thought about having a third but we felt that two was an ideal number and we thought having a boy and a girl was perfect.
Me: I couldn't imagine not having a sibling i feel like life would be so boring. My last question for the night is Do you wish I had different friends and is there one friend of mine that really annoys you?
Mom: Yeah you and Courtney are really annoying together but thats ok because you guys are sooooo funny and i love you two.
Me: Thanks for dedicating time to this mom
Mom: Your welcome

Best Friend Love

Daily Exposures

The daily exposures that we have everyday before the beginning of class help me begin to think about different ideas and perspectives instead of just answering a question. I like how there isn't a question that goes along with the song, poem, video, or picture, you just need to talk about it or make comments on it. The daily exposures let me have my own view on the thing that we are looking at and everyone can interpret it how ever they want to. Two daily exposures that i really liked lately was the video called "Flawed" and the song "Courtesy of the Red White and Blue". Both of these left me thinking with new ideas.

Flifferhuzza

One day i was driving around with my friend. My friends name was Courtney. She was driving her car( the BRT which stand for big rolling turd). All of the suddena squirrel ran out into the middle of the road. Courtney couldnt slam on the breaks so she ran righ over the squirrel acting like it was no big deal and yelled FLIFFERHUZZA!!!!! i was shocked because i had never heard the word flifferhuzza before. When i asked courtney what it meant she told me that it is a word that you yell when you run over something. Ever since then, whenever i am in the car with courtney when she runs over something she always yells FLIFFERHUZZA.