Giving

It is the time of the year to be giving. You should always be thinking about giving but I guess this is the time that is happens more frequently. Giving is not only a nice thing to do but it is also very rewarding. Annually we always go through our clothes and get rid of some things that we don't like anymore and take it to the Salvation Army. It is very cool to know that you are donating these things that will be given to people less fortunate than you or I. Giving can be a hard thing because we are humans and we always think about ourselves usually and not about someone else. There are millions of homeless people throughout the world or maybe it is someone that can't afford a coat. Giving doesn't have to be hundreds of dollars given to an organization, it just can be something as simple as a can of soup. Every little thing adds up. This is what giving is and means to me.

Hastings Swim Meet

This weekend I had a swim meet in Hastings. There were sooo many people there is such a small space that I thought the building would blow up. Literally, you could not find an open place in the pool just to jump in to warm up. The meet took forever. I never thought that today would come. Nine hours of pure boredom and nervousness. It was a fun meet though because I got to be with some friends that I don't get to see very often. We tried to pass time by napping, running around, laughing, but nothing really worked. My times from the meet were alright. I could have done better. But I sure am glad that it is over with. I have never seen soo many people before. It would have helped if we had an eight lane pool instead of a six lane pool, but you have to deal with what you have. It would have been even better if the swim meet was at the University of Minnesota. But all in all, you have to do what you have to do, show up, and swim your best.

Hope

Hope is the feeling that events will turn out for the best. Hope is difficult to have in hard times but still is what holds us together in difficult situations. Before I read the book "Night", I really didn't have a very broad meaning of hope. For example, when I was hoping for something, I would hope that it would stop raining so that I could go outside and play but in "Night", you are hoping for life. You are hoping that the cooks might drop some potato skins on the floor so that you can sneak in and diminish your quench for food for just a second or for the guards not to see you eating snow off of the backs of a fellow mate just to relieve your dry throat. After reading the book, I now know that hope is not just wishing the rain would stop, but is a matter of coping with life and death.

Video Games

Video games are overrated. I agree they are fun to some point, but then they get boring. We don't have a PS3 or an XBox360, we just have a Wii. When our basement is finished from being remodeled, we are going to get a PS3 in our theatre room. I'm excited for it but never will I become obsessed with it. I like it for the times when I get bored and to play it with people when they come over. Video game obsession causes people to receive bad games and people that always play them, I'm sorry, but are a "no life". There are soooo many other things that you can be doing instead of sitting inside on your butt playing video games all day. Video games are just there for when you get soo bored you can't do anything else that you have to resort to them. This is my opinion of video games.

Adaptation

Adaptation is when you make something suitable to the current conditions. Everyone adapts. Us as humans always want everything to be good or perfect so we change things to make them what we want them to be which is adaptation. This is not always such a good thing because it can get us into trouble or lead to lying, cheating, etc. For example in the book "Night" by Elie Wiezel the Jews from Sighet were always trying to make things seem like they were "ok". They forced them to wear the "Star of David" which shows that they are a Jew and impure. They adapted to the situation and said that it was just a stupid little star and that it wasn't lethal. It's in our nature that we want to make everything what we want things to be and we just need to deal with it, not everything is going to be perfect, and we need to realize that.

Humanity

Humanity is the quality of being humane or the act of being kind. We are blessed to be humans. Think of all the other millions of species in this world and you are a human . . . that is amazing! So sense we are so lucky to be a human . . . we should act like a human not an animal. My definition of acting like a human would be being respectful all of the time. Like cleaning up something without being told to or opening the door for an elderly woman. Another area in which we should act humane is in the category of emotions. Emotions can be a huge struggle in our daily lives and we need to learn how to handle them in a humane way. Animal's way of solving emotions is fighting because they can't communicate. We are lucky to be able to talk to each other in way that we can understand each other. So my whole point of this blog entry about humanity is that we are soo lucky to be humans and we should act like them.