falling behind….

I havent been keepin up with my posts. i write my idea down on paper, but they never seem to make it on here. so i am going to just start posting all the ones i have meant to in the past weeks. forgive if the timing is a little off.

equality in a relationship

My parents have been divorced for almost 10 years now. They still have a strong friendship because of me and my younger brother. Before we moved to Texas and lived in Oklahoma is a good example of how my parents had more equality in responsibility of us then my friends whose parents were married.

My brother and I lived with my mom and my dad stayed about 15 minutes away in an apartment. They worked for the same company but my mom worked 1st shift and my dad worked 3rd. Every morning after my dad got off work he would come to our house and get my brother and I ready for school. This way my mom only had to worry about getting herself ready. He would make us breakfast and take us to school. He would also pick us up for school and take me to gymnastics practice. When my mom got home from work she would make dinner, do laundry, and/or clean the house. My dad would pick me up from practice when I was done. Occasionally my mom would get me and my dad would get dinner ready. After dinner was homework, depending on what subject it was depended on who helped who. Normally mom helped me and dad helped my brother.

Even though they are divorced they still share the responsibility of raising us.

Class Discussions

In our class we have many opinionated people, which makes for many very interesting discussions.  I just like to sit back and listen to everyone’s opinions on things.  When I sit there and listen I am sure to keep an open mind, because someone always seems to make a point in a way that I have never thought about that topic, whether I agree with it or not.  I have my opinions on some things and when that topic arises I will speak on it, but when we discuss things I am not real knowledgable in I let other people that are talk.  I love that our class can talk about things from all angles.  I know for me, I feel that I learn something new whether it is a random topic or one from the readings.

On Wednesday, the topic of homosexuality came up.  We have people all over the spectrum on how they feel about this.  I personally think that makes for a better discussion, but that may just be me.  I used to think I was pretty set in what I thought, but listening to everyone tell their opinions i began to see things from other points of view.  I began to think if I ever had a family member tell me they were gay I wouldn’t love them any less, and I surely wouldn’t want other people to treat them differently because of it.  When people voice their opinion I may feel that they are retarded for thinking that, but then again I have to take into consideration how they were brought up and what enviroment they live in.  That has a huge effect on people’s perspectives. 

I’m not saying that everyone is going to take things the way I do or that I will always change my opinion, but I can honestly say that I will start to take everything into account when forming an opinion on a topic.  We have only been in class for 2 weeks and I feel that I have learned many new things and reconsidered the judgements that I have made about people.  I am hoping to learn much more from all my classmates and our teacher through our in class discussions.

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