"Maybe it's dream and if I scream it'll burst at the seams"
On days like this, I think that "Asleep" by The Album Leaf and "Traffic in the Sky" by Jack Johnson are absolutely perfect.
Today, on the way back from class, one of my freshmen told me that she talks to married foreign men on the internet.
About what? I asked her.
Sex, she tells me, among other things.
I have such a difficult time reminding myself that these students are 19 or 20 and nearly my own age sometimes. I just feel like they're 13 or 14 some days. I want to shake them and tell them no no no no or warn them about other things and I'm just not sure what to do.
And why why why are there people out there like that? What kind of jerk wants to talk about sex with a 19-year old Chinese girl who is just trying to improve her English? As far as she knows, all older married men talk to young single women about sex.
Ugh.
This whole situation just makes me feel so bitter and angry.
The internet is a fabulous tool and obviously something I appreciate having, yet there are times when I think that a good portion of the world would be a whole lot better off without it. Why do people feel the need to corrupt other people?
Where do the people like that even come from?
It's depressing and disheartening.
I guess that's the kind of thing you can find anywhere in the world. No place is immune to it. Why is that?
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"I was born to laugh; I learned to laugh through my tears. I was born to love; I'm gonna learn to love without fear."
-Over the Rhine "Born"
Today, on the way back from class, one of my freshmen told me that she talks to married foreign men on the internet.
About what? I asked her.
Sex, she tells me, among other things.
I have such a difficult time reminding myself that these students are 19 or 20 and nearly my own age sometimes. I just feel like they're 13 or 14 some days. I want to shake them and tell them no no no no or warn them about other things and I'm just not sure what to do.
And why why why are there people out there like that? What kind of jerk wants to talk about sex with a 19-year old Chinese girl who is just trying to improve her English? As far as she knows, all older married men talk to young single women about sex.
Ugh.
This whole situation just makes me feel so bitter and angry.
The internet is a fabulous tool and obviously something I appreciate having, yet there are times when I think that a good portion of the world would be a whole lot better off without it. Why do people feel the need to corrupt other people?
Where do the people like that even come from?
It's depressing and disheartening.
I guess that's the kind of thing you can find anywhere in the world. No place is immune to it. Why is that?
.
.
.
"I was born to laugh; I learned to laugh through my tears. I was born to love; I'm gonna learn to love without fear."
-Over the Rhine "Born"