Writer's Block May Be a Good Thing

I have been wondering lately about the importance of having writer's block. I know that my sound odd, because writer's block is nothing anyone wants to get. I had it recently though and when you get writer's block you think about weird things, but I went beyond that and thought about why we get this thing that causes us to think about weird things. I think writer's block may be just as importance as being able to write well and smoothly. Without writer's block everyone would write to their full extent all the time and always think of themselves as a good author, but in reality they may not be. Not until you have writer's block do you realize how bad or good of a writer you really are.

Recently I lost my favorite pen and was looking frantically for it. I searched all over the house, under and on top of everything in sight, but could not find it. A few days later I discovered the pen on my dresser, probably where I had left it. I did not realize how much I actually liked that pen until the day I lost it and in the same way no one knows how great writing is until they feel they have lost the ability to do it; this being writer's block.

Writer's block is basically when you sit down to write a paper or a short essay and nothing comes to you. You find your mind as good as blank and can not think of one thing to write down that would do you any good. Whenever this happens to me I simply start writing anything I can trying very hard to remedy it and sometimes it helps and sometimes it doesn't. I am not the only one that gets writer block though, everyone does and everyone has the same potential to writing well as I do. So maybe you are suppose to have writer's block. It is part of life like getting ht hiccups or sneezing. It just happens and to everyone. It is normal and doesn’t have an instant remedy for it, but it does go away, although it comes again later. That you can count on.

My point is that writer’s block is normal and maybe even beneficial, although I have no scientific proof of any kind, but anything is possible. Having writer's block always leaves me thankful for my writing when I am able to write. Without writer's block I would probably never appreciate my essays and poems, because it would be simple for me to write some more whenever I want to. Writer’s block is what makes English class a challenge and in turn what makes life a challenge, because life practically revolves around writing things down, or typing them as the case may be now a day. So next time you encounter writer's block don't get frustrated just remember how much more your writings will mean to you after you have gotten them down, because you have had those moments in your mind, blocking your creativity.

My Confrontation with a Stereotype

I have a friend, who will remain nameless, who has discussed certain issues with me in this past presidential election. These issues include abortion, gay marriage, and many other controversial things. When we began our conversation of these issues I realized how liberal he was, but didn’t think twice knowing everyone has their own views and I should accept that since I do too. My friend went on about a woman’s right to choose and about any person’s right to choose whether want to marry someone of the opposite sex or not. I listened closely and waited my turn to state my opinions knowing there was no rush as long as I did get my say in the end. Turns out he had to run and eat dinner with his family, so he got off the phone and I felt gypped, because I truly do have completely different views than him and thought he should at least hear my side as well.

The next day I spoke with my friend again and there was no family interruption. It was on the phone again and as he began to pick up on the previous day’s discussion I interrupted his statement by asking, may I have a turn? He seemed very surprised and said, “Well I already know what you are going to say.” This in turn shocked me, because I thought being the so called liberal he is that he would have respect for other people views as well as his own, but according to this question he only wanted his to be spoken. I felt like I didn’t even know him and wanted an explanation. As he responded to my needing an explanation he said, “oh, I am sorry if I offended you it is just that you are a Christian and well you all have the same standings and beliefs and I’ve heard it a hundred times, so there was really no need for you to take the time to state your opinion on the subjects.” There it was, as plain as anything I’ve ever been told, I was a stereotype.

IN response to this comment, I told him everything I knew about abortion and gay marriage and why it was wrong, both in a secular view and biblical. I don’t know if I actually proved his stereotype wrong, but I hope so. I still can not believe my friend would lump me in with a group instead of counting me as one individual person. Not all Christian do have the same views and I know of many that differ on these two main issues. There is always the question of what if the girl was raped when it comes to abortion and for gay marriage there is the Episcopalian church with a homosexual minister. This all does not make these people bad who believe this, but they see things differently and in my views not accordance with God. My friend almost fainted when I told him of the Episcopalian minister. My friend apparently doesn’t listen to much news, because many people know that and therefore is not informed enough to be debating much, but he still hurt me by saying I was like every other Christian. Doesn’t he think I can think for myself? This disappoints me and I hope this shows how wrong stereotypes are. I can’t name one that is right and I hope eventually everyone, including my friend, will get past them all, if that is even possible.

Parents not watching their kids

A woman came into my work today just to buy a card, but did not bother looking after her son while she was shopping. This boy of her's could not have been more than five years old and he was running around like he owned the world. This aggravated me quite a lot, because I knew he would break something, especially with all the breakable things around; I work at Hallmark. The woman shopped and finally found a card got her child and I rang her out. I was very polite and smiled as she paid for her item and I handed her it in a bag with the receipt. Once she left though my co-worker went to see what damage her son had done. He had taken 4 items that had blue bows on them and ripped each individual bow off one by one. He also knocked down a pile of at least 20 cards, all for us to pick up and hopefully find their correct places again.

People like this woman need to keep a closer watch on their children. Taking care of your own kid is a sign of good parenthood and respect to others and their property. Everyone should practice this if we want to have a helpful and better world. I say better world, because monitoring your children needs to start young or when they get older those children with the lack of supervision are going to be the ones spray painting buildings and getting into all sorts of trouble.

A worse scenario happened than what took place at my work at a beauty salon not too long ago. There was a mother in there getting her hair done and she had not one, not two, but eight children in there with her, all her's. These kids ranged from the ages of 1 to 10. Most of them were under seven. I don't care how many children you have; they can at least be well behaved or looking after each other. All of these children, including the older ones, were running around the beauty salon knocking over shampoo bottles, buckets of combs, and making a mess of the waiting room magazines. I am surprised the people there did not throw the woman and her children out, but I am sure they felt as helpless as I did when that young boy came in a wrecked all our hard work with the mother having no regard to what he was doing.

One thing is for sure I will look after my kids, if I ever have any. If I had been the beauty salon mother I would have brought a friend with me or a neighbor, anyone, to at least look after a few of the children. Besides, if you can’t afford a babysitter then you probably should be affording to get your hair done, especially since afterwards you are just going to be running around chasing after children all day and messing it up constantly. The woman at Hallmark on the other hand had a stroller for her about 4 year old son and could have kept him in it or something. Parents just need to watch their children; after all, that is their life responsibility that comes with being a parent.