What I Was Looking For

As I sat down and started to read several student blogs, I became overwhelmed with all the well thought out extremely profound blogs I found. Of course, I started to stress a little, or maybe a lot. Who knows? That is just me. After I finally calmed down, I found the three perfect blogs that I had been stressing so much over trying to find. So thankfully, I finally found what I had been looking for.

In Drew’s blog Greater Omaha, which is based on one of his favorite songs, he talks about things that hardly ever catch the average person’s attention. When he speaks of the potholes in the road that his younger sister brings to his attention, he expresses a sense of wonder in how he had never actually seen what he had driven over at least twice a day since he could drive. Drew also has a great use of metaphors that he uses to relate the everyday normal things we see but do not really notice to certain aspects of our lives that we do not really notice either. When he relates driving over the potholes in his road to a video game and a action movie, the realization that the video game and the action movie are not really real and driving over the potholes is real should come to mind. He uses this and tweaks it in a way that makes people realize that we should pay more attention to what we are doing in life, because it will make a difference in the long-run. When Drew states that divorce is “a disease that is dissolving almost half America’s marriages and families,” once again he reaches out and grabs a person’s heart and makes them really realize what he is talking about. He certainly made me realize and feel the heartache that the disease of divorce has on way too many people in America. By reading the heartfelt writing of Drew in the Greater Omaha blog, I felt his emotions of the subjects that he wrote about jump right of the page and into my heart. His writing has left me with a sense of wonder and amazement at how a person can formulate words to fit into sentences so emotionally and heart-touching.

Although at first I had a bit of trouble figuring out my way around JM’s blog titled iThink, I finally figured it out and discovered what was hidden inside. I came to find that JM was a very straight forward, “this is the was it is suppose to be” person. In reading about his thoughts on abortion and the Mifeprex drug, I quickly discovered that he had strong feelings that there should be no abortion what so ever, and that was all within the first two sentences. He also speaks his mind when stating that it should be the parents that punish their kids for the indecent pictures and language they put and use on the internet sites, such as Facebook, instead of their school principals. JM definitely does not mess around when it comes to saying what he believes. When I read about the uncensored television “slip-ups” JM commented on, I knew exactly what he meant. Some indecent people these days do not have the respect for others that they should have. In no way was he afraid to comment that John McCain’s age just means experience, and that Barack Obama’s age meant inexperience. JM’s well thought out ideas and views on the hot issues that face our world today are what more younger people should think about to make our society better in the years to come.

When I read Halli’s blog entitled The Hamster Cage, I saw that she could be easily perceived as very sensitive. She expresses her compassionate feelings toward animals by telling how they have to skin the animals to get their fur that we end up wearing. Halli explains this in a way that makes me just want to go find those horrible people that skinned those poor little innocent animals and give them a piece of my little mind. As she talks about the “misunderstood land” of Africa, she expresses her sadness for all of the people that are affected by the diseases that have so harshly spread across the continent. Despite the diseases that lurk in the continent of Africa today, Halli says she wants to go to Africa because it is her favorite place on Earth. Halli seems to be an extremely compassionate person filled with a loving sensitivity towards animals and human beings. Since Halli has a great love for music, she feels that everyone should show their own unique personality in the songs that they write. Hallie is all about the feelings of people and how she feels about them.

Every blog I read made me feel a different feeling. In reading these particular three blogs, I experienced the feelings of wonder, seriousness, and sadness. I hope that I can take a situation and the way it makes me feel and put it into wonderful emotional words to make a another person feel the way I am feeling.

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