Postception

Honestly, trying to figure out two people to pick posts from is sort of difficult.  There is a good bit of the class that is behind in their posts, limiting my ability to see their view on some of the topics. 

The first person I'll talk about is Will, who I've known fairly well since elementary school.  Out of all the topics a World lit class talks about, religion is always the one I like to shy away from.  I have very little ties to religion and only stepped into a church for my first time last year for an extra credit opportunity for my music app class and for a band concert last year.  I've never been religious, but I've always tried to be respectful to my friends who are on the opposite side of the religion spectrum from me.  I have had a few moments of accidental offensiveness when it came to certain friend's religion and I'd prefer not to have that experience repeat to people I barely know (the one I have in mind: i apologized afterwards and we were cool, but it still made me feel terrible).  Anytime Will brings up religion in his blog, he makes it seem easy to understand and easy to see the affect it has on his outlook of life.  He says in his Nov 6th post how "God's blessings are the beauty in my life" which illustrates to me the magnitude God and religion has on his life for the better (plus, we both play the drums, that's always cool).

  The second person I want to include in this is Aubrey, who I only really have known/interacted with from one random project from this class.  Her blogs take the purpose of everything to a different level. I can identify with some aspects of her, like having religion being abundantly around your life but not being religious or which ethics are important for a president. She essentially uses it as a tell-all, which I find very brave and shows strength.  I originally was going to use this thing as an outlet for some of the personal stuff that did/is going on in my life, but I never really had the courage to post about my issues and negative things that have gone on in my life to (essentially) 20+ strangers, two relatively new friends and two friends I go fairly far back with.  I commend her for being able to be so open with those parts of her life.  She said in a recount of her 2014 that "being numb was much better than dealing with my life" which I certainly have days that I can identify with that in some ways.  I just felt(/feel) like I was wasting away, not achieving what I wanted or even feel like I was on the right path to make the dream accomplished (which it does not help when my main dream has a time limit on it.