Blogging is really distracting me from my homework, and now I realize why I stopped for a while. I am going to try blogging almost every day, except for weekends. Anyway, today was an early release day, at which we got out of school at 12:10 instead of 2:30. My friends and I walked from school to Souplantation. Souplantation is the place to go if you want to get obese quickly. The only thing that I trusted to be at least healthy in a tiny way was the salad at the beginning of the buffet. After that, it's cheesy bread, mac n' cheese, ice cream, and muffins. After not eating all day, it was delicious, but eating there just makes me feel like I'm starting to gain so much weight... I have a friend who is not afraid to speak her mind. Who doesn't? Actually, I have two of these friends..joy right? Sometimes it isn't pretty when there's tension. I am all for speaking up about what you think, and not holding back, but today one of my friends was being really racist pertaining to Muslims. I respect her opinion, however; you can't just scream things out in a public place like that. Everyone in our section of the restaurant was staring at us while she was going on her rant, and I felt really embarrassed. I've had a friend like this for a while, so I'm used to it, but now I have two friends like this. Although I love them both, it's hard sometimes to be around people that..aren't afraid to get noticed. I'm totally okay with getting noticed too, but it's the way that we got noticed today that I didn't enjoy. I could feel eyes on my back burning deep holes into my morals. Now, my friend isn't a hardcore racist, but I wanted to just stand up and apologize to everyone in that room. Not only were there children, but the possibility of there being a Muslim present made me sink inside. I'm not making an attack on my friend, I'm just starting to question society. Is it wrong that sometimes I want people to keep their opinions to themselves? Is it wrong that people judge you if have an opinion about something? Is society turning weak? Sometimes I wonder whether the fact that everybody is now so judgmental has been a fact for a long time. My dad complains all the time about how people take things too seriously nowadays. Maybe if people would teach about respecting one another's opinions and not to be so judgmental all the time, things would be better. We might have less wars if people could realize that your beliefs are your beliefs. Maybe if people learned to not care about what other people are saying, fighting would be less common. Think about it, when you hear that someone that you know smokes marijuana for the first time, doesn't your view on that person change? Whether for better or worse, you now have a different perspective of that person in your mind. I think that is wrong, and the fact that society is turning us this way makes me angry. Most of the wars going on today are focused on disputes in beliefs, and if people had it in their minds that doing something different or being someone different is okay, these wars could cease. I don't have any problems with any religion, seeing as I'm not religious myself, and I don't understand why people could hate another group of people as much as they do. Don't even get me started on gay rights. I just hope that one day respect and understanding will be taught alongside academics. Ha, we blame society but we are society. How do I end up going so much off-topic?
More Later.