Random thoughts.
It has been a long time since I entered anything into this blog. I could complain saying that originally it was a good idea, but even though I had high aspirations of doing something with it writing does not come easy to me. But recently I have come up with by some fleeting and random thoughts on how I might use this medium again. I recall about ten ago, in my forties, I went back to college and attempted to pick up some better writing habits. I remember one of my instructors trying to encourage us in his class to try journaling if possible once a day. This he suggested would help us becoming better writers through daily practice. At that time, I only partially started to exercise this discipline. Now it that has just occurred to me: why not do my journalizing on this blog site. I can enter my random thoughts right here. I doubt that any one will read them but that is ok, after all isn’t this really my goal? If by some odd fate, someone does allow their curiosity to bring them this way, maybe I will get some feed back and positive feed would be welcomed.
So lets see if this entry makes it to the official blog. After all, I still have to post it.
My first random thought--It’s political season and soon we will be voting in the primaries here in California. I’m very confused as tomorrow is Super Tuesday and I will perform my civic duty and cast my vote. This is confusing though because I usually have a good feeling (right or wrong) why I feel strongly for one candidate over the other candidates. This year, however, I don’t have a clue. I’m ambiguous between two candidates. Now one excuse is I usually hear the debates from which I can use as a springboard to ponder different opposing points, and to which I would look further into those areas of interest.
This year, however, I didn’t critique any of the nationalized debates. Why? Seems like they were not on our regularly broadcasted TV stations, and we still haven’t signed up to the Cable or Satellite services that so much of the coverage is found on.
Another random thought stems from reading a relatives email stating how she remembers that when she was back in school a teacher had told her not to tell anyone who you are voting for. So now she has decided not to talk about whom she has decided to vote for. And she says that she doubts that she will be having much interaction with her family for the next eleven months. Seems she has a problem relating to her family on political issues. This seems a little sad for a number of reasons.
Now I would agree that it really is no ones business when it comes to voting and I think that is why they use to have curtains around the polling booth. It is a personal thing, not to mention that politics has a tendency to divide. But does it have to? Seems I often have discourse with many who do not agree with me and in the end we learn something about each other and then agree to disagree.
But after saying this, I do have thoughts regarding how far I would take this. That is, I think ones political position is a very personal thing; I also think there is value in bouncing things around. That is in our diverse American culture it is important and beneficial to respectively work through our perceptions and thoughts as we put them to the test with others perceptions. I have discussed issues and even found myself changing or reconsidering once held precious views, and I know others have reconsidered my position after hearing why I took a certain stances.
Of course I guess change and a challenge can be threatening. For some people, other things may be going on, but that would be another random thought.
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