Cancer

I've always wondered why people with family members that were ill with cancer will often shave there heads? I understand chemo therapy and know why a cancer patients hair falls out. But why willingly suffer if you don't have cancer?
Family members could see it as a brown nosing opportunity, but, if you're going to do something huge like shaving off your hair it's gotta be for a better reason than that! People are just trying to put themselves into the cancer patients shoes. They understand how it must feel to have no control over your heads temperature and look. It's the ultimate fashion sacrifice.
Today I finally totally understand why. Christmas Day. My Grandma has cancer and today she was really sick again. She was talking to us about how it was hard without hair because its much colder and that hair is like a natural Bennie. As she said this I finally truly understood why shaving your head is something you would want to do.
So, I just drove the short distance to my house from my Grandparents for a big Christmas surprise. I'm about to shave my head and then drive back to my Grandparents to show my support for my awesome Grandma.

Labeling

As of recent we have been talking quite a bit in my Honors English class about labels. They are all around us and there's no way to avoid them. One of the biggest ones is that of a bank geek. I was wondering how the band students received such a label and it led me on quite a chain of labels; ultimately ending with "Band Geek."
I thought of the studies showing that those directly involved with music tend to be much more successful in the classroom. Then I wondered why people that were smart like this were looked down upon. It's probably that the "popular" kids feel kind of threatened by these music playing 4.0 students. Some students just don't understand geeks and when you don't know much about something it's a natural tendency to fear it.
So I concluded that fear is the root supporting all labels. It's the minds way of protecting yourself. If you are rapped by a Hispanic then everything you see someone of a Hispanic ethnicity you are going to associate them with your bad feelings/memory's of the rape. I know that that is an extreme example, but the concept holds true to all labels and subjects. Labels aren't necessarily bad unless a person takes it too far publicly. It's a defense mechanism. If you don't agree with my concept then you can just label me as stubborn and hard headed and I'll label you as narrow-minded.

Gun Control

Some politicians use very emotionally charged issues to gain votes. Many have used the issue of Gun control to promote that they believe in the safety and well-being of the citizens. Why would they support such a position and does this really increase votes?
In my personal experiences I've found two key things to communicating with people in an effective manner to sway them to support you: 1) Please them by any means necessary, agree with them no matter what. If they aren't 100% sure on what they think about something make the choice for them. 2) When caught in a difficult situation where you are asked to speak about a topic you know little about or don't have strong feelings about then use a super charged personal experience. This is very wrong, but ultimately very effective. Even if it's a complete lie it works.
So by using stories of people that have had family/friends killed by a gun shot wound politicians are able to win votes because of the sympathy factor. But, what they don't realize is that there are many more red-neck hunters, than quiet city folk that haven't touched a gun in their entire life. The message is sent to the quiet city residents and accepted, while the message is sent to the country bumpkins and totally rejected. Causing an uproar of people saying "Guns don't kill people, people kill people with guns."
I agree that something should be done to reduce the number of fatal gun shot wounds, but not by completely banning gun use. Instead of being lazy and just cutting off the infected arm politicians should instead be trying to medicate it, using removal as a last resort. They should set up gun awareness programs, gun laws and restrictions, crime prevention squads, etc. Sending a message of how bad the misuse of guns can be.

What girls want

Over time I have come to realize with a surety, that there is pretty much only one thing a girl really wants in man. Females may say there's not only one attribute they look for in a guy, but even if they don't realize it there really is only one thing. All you need to do to wrap a girl around your finger is.... just listen to her talk. Even if it's for hours and hours and you fight to stay awake and wonder if it'll even be worth it. Just remember that it"it'll be worth it in the future.