When one of my political science professors bestowed a quarter long project to our class, I initially groaned with contempt. Start a political blog. I know, a blog, how hard could that be? Keeping a blog that involves politics can, however, be challenging. The guidelines were to write 5 times a week including links, photos and getting comments. Writing a blog involves time, research and interest. Being a full-time student who worked 30 hours plus, time was always an issue. Writing five times a week about current events in politics was pretty difficult but became easier as time went on. The presidential primaries were full force at the time I started my blog which gave me all the ammo I needed to keep up to date on politics. All in all, I think the blog was one of the best projects I was given in college. A year later, I look back on my blog and realize that I wish I had kept up on it. I used to pride myself on being knowledgeable on what is going on in the world. And while not completely clueless, I still feel like I should know more about what is going on.
This leads me to why I decided to write in my blog again. I want an outlet. While I know getting blog followers is difficult, I am not blogging for followers, I am blogging for myself. Politics are not going to be my main subject for discussion but I will include some stories that I feel drawn to. I primarily want to speak my mind. Generally, those who know me would tell you I am not the most open person. I find that writing is a more productive form of expression. Not only can I think about what I want to say, but I can delete or explain the "thoughts" that might be harder to write about. I also feel uncomfortable talking about politics face to face because it causes tension between the best of friends. Especially when both parties "know" that they are right. Everyone is right in their own mind. I mean, being right is a matter of speculation. What is right? It varies from person to person, which makes it hard to quantify. So for arguments sake, I am going to post how I feel. Whether correct or not, it is all my honest opinion and/or true experiences.
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