Six days left. I feel like I'm counting down my life, I guess in a sense I am. This is the last time I'll be competing in debate. Today's lesson in progress: making connections to the real world.
First, let me update you all on the work. I finished speeches for amusement park safety, establishing a fair tax, establishing a fair trade policy, reforming sex education, and creating a lunar colony.
Tonight my grandparents came for dinner (the ones that are upset about the tattoo) and it was a little awkward at first. I was trying to avoid the subject, get work done, and watch the race (btw my boy Kasey Khane won his third in a row). And then, it hit me like a brick wall. This is my real life, not some made up legislation I'm working with.
I never realized how many true life situations I could apply to my legislations. Watching my parents struggle every day to give us the life we want can easily be applied to any tax bill. Seeing my dad suffer from his back and my grandma from her arthritis can be about anything involving health care. This has given me a new passion in my work.
I want to truly make a change. I don't want my family to hurt anymore because of how the government is running the show. I want to truly make progress.
As of now my nervous state has progressed, I'm feeling sick after every time I eat (I usually get like that before competition) and I have a pain in my side like someone punched me and it won't go away.
I have much to do, but look out for tomorrow's post.
Road to Vegas Day 2: Dinner Guests
By vern - Posted on June 8th, 2008
It's strange how everyday situations can be applied to so many things. Just like a spider bite, everything offers a lesson about life if we are willing to learn it.
I love abortion. Read more here:
http://progressiveu.org/044921-i-love-abortion-even-if-it-murder
Haha, exactly. It's just odd what can make us realize that.
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Do you find it odd that you are not as strong as you once thought?
Lunar colony???
Are we seriously looking into that. Its kind of neat how we can spread ideas from personal experience to create change.
Did I mention good luck?... Good luck
~T
All truths are easy to understand once discovered; The point is to discover them ~Galileo
Thanks for the good luck comment.
Yes, we apparently really are considering looking into a lunar colony. This resolution was submitted by the Eastern Ohio District and the premise is that we suspend all funding to research on Mars until we establish an economically feasible and self-sustainable lunar colony.
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Do you find it odd that you are not as strong as you once thought?
I would rather see the money go to a lunar colony as well, but some of the research about Mars has proven to be useful for life here on earth. I hate to see all of it stopped. I'd be more in favor of a 20:80 split.
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