My Dash

As Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke once said, "I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state." This statement really applies to my life in more ways than one. As a child, I held a profound sense of self doubt throughout grade school. Call it depression, ADD, or whatever the trend is nowadays, but I constantly thought, "why try? I'll just fail anyway." As I have gotten older and more mature, I have realized that as long as I care, that's all that matters, really. I was certainly not placed on this earth to impress anybody. I do feel, though, that my purpose is to serve others. I simply do so without forgetting self- worth. Confidence is what makes or breaks a person. You could be completely crazy and start preaching about the sky being red. But, as long as you spoke with a spine, people would listen to and agree with you.

Dark Book

This book is rather macabre in its mood and portrayal of death. I don't really know if I like it yet or not. It's like a car wreck. I don't want to look, yet I continue to stare, I even slow down with the intent of seeing the end of it all. Humanity is obsessed with death in that sense. We have a fetish for destruction and harm, and it's a primitive instinct in each and every one of us. Finch has this quality really drawn out in her. So far, she's dealt with rejection, hatred, and prejudice to the point of insaniy, but she still lives each day with the knowledge that we're all going to meet our end eventually, so her life is just a drawn out version of death.

1st Post

I don't know what to write in this first post. I wonder if questions count as a sentence? I think they do. That means that I just used 4 out of 5 required sentences. I guess I'll print this out now to hand in tomorrow.