Stop Texting So Much and Look in Front of You

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“Hey, what’s up?” is a typical text message intro. You usually get it while you’re at home, doing chores, or somewhere really important. It’s the medium where you can reply without having to move your lips or disrupt everyone. To many, it’s the new thing, but to me, I think otherwise. I definitely do think it is convenient for when you can’t talk, but I also think it’s one of the most impersonal things ever. Some of you will say, well not talking in person is impersonal, but, texting goes to the point where someone you don’t even know can start up and engage in a conversation with you.

Personally, I do hate texting for many reason, one of them being that I can’t type fast enough and the other being that I get charged for every message sent. Recently, there has been someone who texted me, basically trying to encourage me to ask them to hang out. I would not have a problem calling back to talk and set up a hang out date, but this person, was someone I didn’t even know all that well. It was just a little creepy for me to get a text saying that I like doing something, when in fact, I don’t.

Aside from the creeper that sent me the text, I believe that the growing number of deaths is actually increasing from continual cell phone use. I constantly see teenagers and adults texting while driving- you know that let’s balance the steering wheel while we text with both hands. To me as a driver on the road, I get freaked out when people start to veer on the road in my lane. It used to frustrate me so much that I yelled at people. Now, I only honk and give them the finger.

I’m lucky in these instances, but my mom on the other hand was hit by a driver on his cellphone back in 2006. It’s just a shame that people can’t just put down the phone and focus on what they need to do. Not only on the roads, but also on the sidewalks. Girls on their phone texting as if they were reporting a story or something. They concentrate on it so much that the next thing that happens is that they slam right into someone or something.

All I have to say is get off your phone for one minute and look around you. If you have a lot to say, find a private place and talk with that person. There is nothing worse than your own text being used against you.

Let’s Not Impeach Obama and Say We Did

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been hearing a lot of mumbo-jumbo about impeaching Obama and bringing someone else in. Republicans criticize his decision to close Guantanamo Bay as a campaign promise and say it’s going to bring in more terrorism, etc.

I’m not very much into politics, but I do try to stay caught up on some subjects. The fact of the matter is that this nation is a nation living off of circulating debt. We pretend like our GDP has increased over the past years, but the fact of the matter is we are just borrowing more and more and adding on to our deficit. Guantanamo Bay was another prime example of money used towards the captivity of international terrorists, criminals, etc.-call them what you will.

Why is it that the U.S. is one of the only countries to offer billions of dollars in aids annually, yet we receive nothing in return? I agree that it is the top of the list to have world peace and harmony, but when do we draw the line to our own fiscal responsibilities.

With an economy that has withered away and has shown a substantial rise in unemployment, it was only a matter of time where we would have to cut back on some things, one of them including the support of Guantanamo Bay.

CHANGE- as we all strongly want- cannot be attained over night. Knowing that Obama was sworn in just recently assures me that after these few weeks, he has committed to his promises and has a plan worked out. Even if he doesn’t have a plan worked out, it will be good to see the outcome of our actions in these coming months.