TOO BROAD?

Cultural Studies is a HUGE topic! When I first became interested in this topic for this blog this year I don't think I realized how broad of a term it really is...

Ever since I was a young girl people have just fascinated me. They way they act, treat others and change. How humans can adapt and learn. I enjoy observing them. Over a series of weeks I've been observing people actions towards me. It's so interesting that every one's mood reflected there actions. This is just a an observation, no significance but it intrigued me. I believe that I need to understand the different areas of this broad topic, specify what I want and reevaluate what I understand "cultural studies" is. I want to know so much but with not enough time on my hands. Well, at least in this class. I wonder if in my future will this travel with me? Will I learn so much about humans they disgust me? How can it be that we "humans" have lived together for so long? Will history repeat itself again? I question myself, my actions, my thoughts and emotions and wonder if others are thinking that same or can relate. I wonder if "Americans," meaning all persons living within America, realize if they over-use EVERYTHING!!!! So many questions, I feel lost now.

Through out history all evidence points to history repeating itself over and over again. It seems every-time we try something new we always end up in the same place. If you look around us now and a decade ago and a century ago, you see we are always in some sort of War depending on if it's Civil or International. We strive on grief it seems? As if it ignites this giant burner and sends an instant message of shock to every inch. We fight, become allies, then fight and become allies with another. Countries are not loyal. If you were not able to fight you were essentially just captured and taken over. If you look at origins of people, you see not many people only come from one place. Over all these millions of years people have traveled, conquered or were extinct, repeatedly. They never learn. We never learn. We let the same thing happen all the time. " I'm not going to do this." Yet the next day you catch yourself eating that bag of Hot Cheetos again. It's never ending and I believe it will be so forever more. We have made it this far together, why not end on a good note and STOP all this violence. We have created a bad habit, one which is not easily broken. "It's better to learn a good habit first then to ever have to learn how to replace your bad habit with a good one." (-unknown) I just worry, science is so intense these days, I just see us blowing each other up and it's scary to think. One day your laughing the next your gone, puts your head through the wringer. We must truly strive to understand one another and realize history is repeating itself again.

In today's society I believe most people are different. There is so much diversity in the World. We may all be 99.9% the same but, our belief systems range from a ultimate high to an extremely low. We may be thinking similarly but about opposite ideas. I just question myself and what I do and compare it to another. I like to see how we add up. A lot of others are very similar to me. In high school, life is "pretty rough." (joking) In reality it's difficult, at least socially. Others students throughout the school and I have began expressing our feeling to each other. How can we think such similar things and not be friends. We talk about judgement. People lay this upon of grounds so hard at RFHS it seem. Not necessarily with stereotypes but in cliques. It's interesting to begin to understand the brain of a teenager as well as of a young adult. I hope to learn more as my life continues.

As for the future, I assume can wait, "I mean it is the future." No one knows! We all can dream though, and hope. Stay positive and look in the past to help us create a future. Know our faults and accomplishments and learn to hold ourselves with pride. I believe the future holds great things for humans, it's just a matter of surviving other humans to reach the ultimate prize. It's funny how we have to beat ourselves. We are all 99.9% the same. Maybe that's it?! Humans around the World do not realize this. Perhaps they are so blind to judgement and stereotypes that they are unable to see what is right in front of there faces. We need to just learn we are not so different after all.