Judgments

As I aimlessly surf channels on my TV on another mundane afternoon wondering what I should write about I stop on the show Friends.  I have never really watched it but a lot of my friends love it and since there is nothing else on I decide to give it a chance.  In this episode one character judges a person based on their first impression and gets a negative impression of them.  Like every sitcom the judgment turns out to be 100% wrong and the guy was a great person.  This is an issue that we see everyday walking to class and it needs to be changed.

            Why do we judge people?  What makes someone better or worse than us?  Is it the their clothes, hair, accessories, demeanor?  Even worse is that their skin color, physical shape?  Whatever the reason may be it is grossly wrong.  I can say I am guilty of judging people but when I do I am quick to tell myself to throw away that judgment.  If everyone was the same the world would be a boring place to live.  I love seeing different people and how they approach and live life.  One of my best friends is a kid named Matt Lidel.  I had classes with him in the past but had never really talked because I had judged him based on his appearance.  I was assigned to do a project with him and say I wasn’t bummed would be a lie.  We awkwardly talked about the assignment until he cracked a joke that was hysterical.  As we talked more I realized how much I liked his personality and just who he was.  We hung out more and more and became extremely close.  My friends had judged him just like me so I decided to introduce him to my friends.  They soon came to the same conclusion that he was a great person.  People need to accept people for who they are and not judge anyone.  

Become Involved

In relation to what Charisma recently posted about the Kony video (which I assume everyone knows about by now) I reflected how little I know about the international community.  I feel like majority of U.S. citizens are not fully aware of many horrific incidents that happen in different countries.  Most people have the notion that if it does not affect me why should I care?  I can say I have been guilty of this ideal and it is something I would like to change and encourage many other people to change.  We live in a global community and we should care when a fellow human is being wrongly mistreated.  We need to support fellow humans because it is morally right.  We are blessed to live in a beautiful country and take that for granted.  We need to come to the aid of fellow brothers and sisters.  

There are several things that I feel could be changed with our society that could help draw attention to awful incidents throughout the world.  There are events going throughout the world that are morally wrong and little attention is brought to them.  The news has become rating driven and they have forgotten their duty to bring people the news.  Instead of covering more newsworthy material they are more concerned with entertaining the viewer.  This is wrong on both parties.  Viewers should want to be informed of affairs throughout the world and the news companies should give the people the news they deserve.  Also, people need to be more active with the news.  People need to sit down and watch the news or read the newspaper and become aware of events throughout the world.  A more engaged and informed population can only lead to positive outcomes for civil engagement.  It will bring attention to issues that need to be addressed immediately instead of decades later.  The Kony video brought attention to horrific violence in Uganda that had been going on for decades.  We as a society need to become more involved in the world community to lead to a better world.      

Game Change

Over our past spring break that was limited to many memorable moments I had difficulty coming up with what my most memorable moment was.  It took awhile until I came to the conclusion that watching the HBO movie Game Change was my highlight.  As sad as it is that watching a movie was most memorable moment I thoroughly enjoyed this movie.  Game Change covers the 2008 presidential election and is based on the book Game Change written by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin.  The movie focuses on the Republican Party and especially Sarah Palin.  The movie starts with the Republican Party running through possible Vice Presidential candidates for John McCain.  They run through many well-known names but none of them are sticking.  They know they need a candidate to match the momentum that Barack Obama had been generating.  They stumbled across Palin and some thought it was the ideal pick while others not as much. After the selection the advisors would soon realize how little she knew about a variety of different political issues and how uncontrollable she was. 

            Some thought the movie was supposed to show how Palin was put in unfair position and show sympathy towards her.  I feel as though the movie completely bashed Palin and showed how truly crazy she is.  Palin I will admit was put in a difficult position and blame McCain’s advisors for doing that but there was no way they could expect how little she knew.  Not knowing what the Fed was and not knowing why there are two different Koreas is stuff you learn in high school.  The movie shows Palin constantly battling and ignoring all of her advisors and anyone trying to help her.  Towards the end she seems more concerned about her image than that of the Republican Party.  This selfish and wild attitude from Palin has dragged the Republican Party into the complete mess it has now.  Palin was the wrong choice from the beginning and it is a decision that still haunts the Republican Party.      

Fan Videos

The homemade fan music video crave lingered with me after class so I decided to look for more videos.  I was surprised to find that an overwhelming amount of the videos I found incorporated an Owl City song.  This was the same artist we saw in the fan made video with the little owl using the song “Fireflies.”  To be honest Owl City is not my cup of tea and I really hated the song “Fireflies” but I put that aside and watched some of the videos.  Some definitely stood out over others but this particular video stood out the most.  This song uses the song “Vanilla Twilight” and like we saw in the video in class it also one some sort of competition.

To be honest I like this video a lot along with the music video we saw in class.  I was a little confused to find myself enjoying to homemade music videos of a group I really don’t like.  I thought to myself what made these two music videos so enjoyable.  The singer’s voice, Adam Young, as we mentioned in class has almost of a childish aspect to it.  That voice I think adds to why I was so interested because it seems so innocent and almost fun.  Now his voice alone does not interest me at all to the music he makes but along with the videos it added something.  Both videos were honestly just so cute which makes it for me.  Along with the voice the videos are so childish and honestly so cute.  Both the videos incorporate a story of love that adds to the connection that people have to them.  Everyone has had some sort of affection towards another and the videos being so childish it reminded me of my first little crush.  It plays on the innocence of love and just puts a smile on everyone’s face.