The Song that sums up my journey over the last few weeks!

Normally, I’m not one to relate songs to my feelings and make connections to my emotions through music.  However, over this trialsome time in my life (these last 3 weeks) I needed something to recapitulate my sentiments.  Instead of taking this song at face value, I’ve searched for a deeper meaning. 

 

Additionally, I’ve subsituted my life aspirations and most passionate goals for the guy Leona Lewis refers to in this song.

 

Better in Time

 

“It’s been the longest winter without you
I didn’t know where to turn to
See somehow I can’t forget you
After all that we’ve been through

Going coming thought I heard a knock
Who’s there no one
Thinking that I deserve it
Now I realize that I really didn’t know
If you didn’t notice you mean everything
Quickly I’m learning to love again
All I know is I’ma be ok

[Chorus:]
Thought I couldn’t live without you
It’s gonna hurt when it heals too
It’ll all get better in time
And even though I really love you
I’m gonna smile cause I deserve to
It’ll all get better in time

I couldn’t turn on the TV
Without something there to remind me
Was it all that easy
To just put aside your feelings

If I’m dreaming don’t wanna laugh
Hurt my feelings but that’s the path
I believe in
And I know that time will heal it
If you didn’t notice boy you meant everything
Quickly I’m learning to love again
All I know is I’ma be ok

[Chorus:]
Thought I couldn’t live without you
It’s gonna hurt when it heals too
It’ll all get better in time
And even though I really love you
I’m gonna smile cause I deserve to
It’ll all get better in time

Since there’s no more you and me
It’s time I let you go
So I can be free
And live my life how it should be
No matter how hard it is I’ll be fine without you
Yes I will

[Chorus: x2]
Thought I couldn’t live without you
It’s gonna hurt when it heals too
It’ll all get better in time
And even though I really love you
I’m gonna smile cause I deserve to
It’ll all get better in time”

First College English Writing Assigment

I was asked to write a brief response to the following statement.  Of course my definitition of brief is clearly much more conclusive than everyone else’s, so just roll with it!

The United States does not have required military service; on the other hand, many other countries across the world require at least a year’s service to the state.  Should the United States institute a similar practice? Why or why not? Use specific examples and reasons to justify your response.

 

The government should not mandate nor require any such service to one’s country or state.  It isn’t the government’s place to require citizens to serve their community because no where explicitly in the constitution does it specify that the government should regulate such service. Ergo, the government has no jurisdiction in such a matter.  Once the government assumes it has the authority to demand military service where does it stop?  And why should anyone fight and potentially die for a cause they don’t believe in?  Is that not a violation of an individual’s constitutional rights in terms of free cogitation, inquiry, and speech?

 

Military service should be something that individuals specifically seek to engage in and view as a privilege not a requisition.  Incentive is created by national pride and one’s own personal obligation to devote their time and self to the greatness of their country.  One of the biggest reasons our military is so successful and strong is because it’s strictly volunteer-based.  If one were to even contemplate stripping this imperative piece of the military away it would be detrimental to society as a whole.  I personally don’t want people fighting for me when they don’t feel fervor for the cause. 

 

Former presidential candidate and U.S. Senator John Kerry said in 2004,

Education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. And if you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.

This degrading statement, which Kerry jocularly claimed was a ‘botched joke’, inferred that those who serve in the military are somehow subservient in intellectual capacity.  Now if Kerry had any sort of understanding of statistics or the fact that almost all military servicemen and women have well over a high school diploma he may not have made such a statement, but then again his political identification has never been overly anxious to support our military. 

 

In conclusion, a mandated military service would impose a serious detriment to our national defense system, which is exceedingly important now that we are in a time of war.  I have full faith in the volunteer-based military system we have now because it’s actually winning wars.  Whereas, when a draft was instituted (by Democrats!) we lost a war we could have won and our troops, many of whom did not feel inclined to serve were demoralized by fellow Americans.  Let Vietnam serve as the prime example as to why mandated military service is a colossal failure.

Upon arrival at CUA, I discovered…

I LOVE COLLEGE!