love

Why is it that all people think that they are in love with their significant other within the first week that they start dating. They do not even know the person enough to be in love with them. It can take years for two people to love each other. Granted their are feelings involved when you are in a relationship, but how do you know that that is what love is? You think that you are in love with someone and then once they do something wrong you automatically stop loving them. True love never ends. You will always have feelings for that person even if you do not want to. This is one of my biggest pet peeves. I do not know where they are in their relationship but I can almost gaurentee that they are not in love. I have dated people for weeks and we were not in love with each other. Everybody has a different sense in feelings. Maybe they can be in love in a week. I do not believe in love at first sight but some people may. Why I think of love at first sight I think of just looking at someone. It takes way more than looks to actually love someone. If you are in love with their looks you should not be in love with that person. Looks can help but the personality is the key. I think that some people that are not attrative are the best looking. Personality makes up for the not so good looks. I do not see how you can fall in love at first sight. Maybe im not the hopeless romantic I always thought I was.

Expectations

Why do parents have such high expectations for their children? They want them to do everything their way: receive high grades, play the sports they played, be in every extra-curricular activity that will help them get into the higher colleges. The kids get so stressed out that they cannot take it. If they do bad at the sport they play they pressure them into doing it right until they do not want to play anymore. They turn their kids out of a passion that they used to have. If they get an A- they make them fix it until they get an A. Sometimes it is nearly impossible to get an A on an assignment. The teacher/professor may not be a great teacher and the tests could be extremely difficult making it nearly impossible to pass, expecially when the teacher says that no one has gotten over a B on any of his tests in the past forty years. One little mistake and their relationship is over. They treat them like animals no matter how hard they try to become what they want them to be. It amazes me how some parents can have no respect for their children. They show no love for them and only show them respect when they do good. All people want is to love and to be loved in return. With parents who do not show them love they might not be able to show love to someone else or even their kids when they get older. They will treat them the same way they were treated as a child. People need to show compassion and love to their children even in their hard times in life.

Halloween

So yesterday was Halloween and it had me thinking about why we actually celebrate the holiday. Growing up in school you always did crafts dealing with pumpkins or witches, you always carved pumpkins to put outside as Halloween decorations, and you dress up as someone you have always wanted to be year after year to walk around and get tons of candy that is bad for you. After you collect your candy you go home and sort it all out and pick out the candy that you don't want and try to find someone to give it to. I never remember actually learning about the meaning of Halloween and why we celebrate it.

As I research what Halloween is about I have found many interesting details. Halloween actually means the day before All Hallows Day, a Catholic holiday commemorating Christian saints. It goes farther back to Ireland where it is known as Samhain the day that ends summer and starts winter. We wear costumes because of the medival practices of mumming where they wore costumes, sang, and went door to door praying for the dead in exchange for treats.

The history of Halloween seems interesting to me. Instead of going door to door praying for the dead we go door to door asking for candy. How did it go from praying to candy? It all seems mysterious about why we celebrate Halloween.