Thanks for the input last time.

I promise that soon there will be a real post where I say something myself, but right now I have another question. Not a controversial one this time, more of the type you'd hear in Philosophy 101 I guess, but just bear with me.

Where is the point where you shouldn't forgive somebody?

Should abortion be legal?

Why/why not?

Go ahead, argue about it, bite each other's heads off, sumo wrestle, whatever you want.

Happy Valentine's Day.

I have no position, opinion, rant, rave, or anything else along those lines to offer on this holiday, because I think we've all heard more than enough by now. But I figured I would say it anyways. A real update will come....one day.

okay, so.

I haven't fallen off the face of the earth. Although I'm not insulting enough to pretend that it really made a difference to any of your lives as to whether or not I updated this, I apologize anyhow.

With that being said, I don't really have a specific topic in mind so I'm just going to wing it, kind of like how I did with nearly every single midterm.

So do you know what's frustrating to me? People who can't make up their minds. It's not really their fault most of the time, but the way I enjoy seeing it is that it's not my fault that I was born with my mother's patience. Now a few of you I'm going to assume have WILD & CRAZY imaginations and will get suspicious whenever I use a real-life situation featuring real-life people as an example to explain what I'm talking about. You know. "Could that be me or somebody I know who this anonymous weirdo is writing about?" Well I assure you that the following is definitely not about a single person who will ever see this.

With that being said, I know a girl who is a freshman in high school and can't seem to make up her mind about whether or not she's madly deeply in love with so-and-so, or whether she thinks that he's a jerk who she wants to cease existence immediately. Let me tell you, after awhile you get tired of reading all the sad, heartbroken lyrics out of a person's profile on AIM. Is it even possible to have your heart broken when you were never even with someone?

I think it is, but only when you allow yourself to get extremely emotionally attached to a person without knowing just where you stand. I don't think that's the smartest thing to do, really, as far as I'm concerned it's a bad idea. Some people will disagree with me. That's fine, that's really just a subject that doesn't concern anybody apart from the individual. But there's my opinion for you. This entire paragraph really has nothing to do with what I first began writing about at all. Back to the point of the matter.

Okay, so. I think my point really is that indecisive people are frustrating. How do you handle someone who wants something one day and something completely different next week? Oh I don't know. Just let them be, maybe. I think a lot of them are determined to be unhappy. You know this reminds me of a story!

Everyone likes stories.
I think. Alright so anyway.

This is actually fiction that I've been reading recently, but it's strictly based on reality. No need to ask for the name of the book, a friend of mine wrote it. The basic storyline was that there was this girl. One of those types of girls that's very hard to find, very pretty and smart yet doesn't flaunt it, with an extremely likeable personality. She had a boyfriend but he got jealous of her for talking to other boys who she'd always been friends with. It was a pretty severe case of jealousy and she wound up breaking it off. After a bit of time she winds up dating another guy instead, and go figure, it was one of those male friends of hers that her ex-boyfriend always got so huffy over. They used to have conversations back when she was with this other boy about how stupid and pathetic his jealousy was, not to mention wildly unfounded. So this girl and her new boyfriend wound up being pretty serious, fell madly in love and all that nice jazz. Fast-forward several months. The girl doesn't hold grudges, comes with the territory of being a good person apparently. So she's back on good terms with her ex, they're extremely platonic terms and they're not even close friends or anything like that. Her current boyfriend completely hates this and is constantly paranoid that she's going to leave him to go back to her ex. I'd have to add that this boy has an extremely unbalanced emotional state. No matter how many times she sincerely tells him she loves him and has no interest at all in leaving him, his paranoia still lingers. He starts getting upset with her over small, stupid things. She tries to make the best of it, smiles and tries to coax him out of his nasty mood swings, but he won't budge. Refuses to talk to her when she does the smallest unintentional thing to displease him, ignores her attempts to talk about it, storms out of the room angrily without a good-bye when coincidentally her ex enters and comes over to chat a bit with her since it looks like she could use the company her boyfriend is refusing to give her.

She cries every night and can't understand why her boyfriend who only eight months ago would joke with her about how ridiculous her ex's jealousy was, has now become exactly the same.

Maybe it's a curse that attractive people with amazing personalities and intelligence are cursed with. They're so hard to find that once someone actually does find somebody like that, they're so amazed by their own luck that they believe it's too good to be true. They're just waiting for fate to screw them over and make them a living breathing punch line. Maybe this is part of the reason why so few people have any luck holding onto a good relationship anymore. Once you start to doubt something it's all downhill from there.

I'll add that this boy was very.... emotional. Which just proves that no matter how attractive they may be to you, when you come across people like this, your best chance is to compliment them on how nicely their studded belt accentuates their slim waist and move on.

Wow. Long enough for you? Well I suppose it was making up for lost time.

Oh wow. Kind of been a little while. Sorry. Ah, and I was pretty much terrible at responding to comments on the last entry. Which makes me feel like a bad bad anonymous person because the whole time I've had this site up I've done my best to answer all the comments I receive. So if you commented last time and I never got back to you, my apologies. I'll be better this time. Hopefully.

Alright. So lately, what I've been considering is the difference between the way people act online and in person. The Internet is kind of funny that way. It's become a social tool in our generation. No longer do people have to worry about the awkwardness of being forced to actually get to know a person face-to-face. People who barely ever speak in school leave each other comments on xanga. Kids who have never spoken to each other in person in their entire lives and have no intention to start doing so add each other to their friend lists on myspace just to raise their friend count a little bit higher. Some people will IM each other every day but barely even look at each other when they pass by one another in the hallways.

Although sometimes there are exceptions. Sometimes kids who first begin talking over the Internet actually do make an effort to get to know each other as in the person, not the words you see from them on a screen. Sometimes.

hmm. I don't know. What do you guys think? Give me some input on this particular topic. Using the Internet as a social tool to interact with people you don't speak with in person- good or bad?