Instead of My Essay

Yeah, I'm supposed to be working on this Econ essay that Andy just reminded me is due for tomorrow, which I hadn't started, but now I'm here. This is more fun.

Rude v. Having a mind of your own. I wonder sometimes if we've gotten so deep into this whole respecting the opinions of others thing that we're sacrificing our own. For example--what I say in this blog. I mean, when I'm writing, I'm usually going w/ whatever is coming into my head. Being a green, I tend to believe that b/c it came into my head it is correct. So I go w/ it. I agree w/ myself. I probably don't consider all the valid arguments against what I think. Then, when someone reads it and says something to me about it, I always ahve this urge to says something to the effect of "oh, don't take it too seriously, i wasn't really thinking about it, i'm not saying it's write, i kind of think that"--YUCK!!!!! I caught myself wanting to do that just now and I could just hear myself saying...well, to myself..."damn it, do you think this or not" -- regardless of waht whoever I'm talking to thinks. I mean, come on...do you have an opinion or do you want someone else to give it to you.

Okay, here's another classic example. I just wrote that whole little thing on at least taking a side, a position and seeing if you really believe it. Come to some conclusion instead of sitting on the fence. I follow that up w/ this quote, which puts me safely back on the fence. I'm not sure if what I say here can be held as my exact opinon b/c it's unexamined. I'm literally making this up as I go along. I'm just talking. There's a quote that says something to the effect that talking is just the halfway point btwn thinking and taking action and is unfortunately confused for doing either.

I'll leave you w/ that and get back to Econ--Katie