Respect!
So I'm experiencing this new thing called respect, and it's fuckin great!
It probably happened before, but I just didn't notice it because of my self-image at the time. I'm accomplishing things. Good grades. Leadership in an activist group. Sam, Hunter, and I tabled for SDS today and had out the petition for affordable textbooks. We got about thirty signatures/e-mails while we were tabling, another 15 or so when I announced the petition in my Environmental Geology class. 21 people (yes that's almost half) checked the yes box to receive further e-mails from NoVA-SDS, and three of them had exclamation points. People were really listening while I was talking, and it was really cool. I'm glad my enthusiasm carries across.
Sam got on my nerves a bit today. We started talking about God and religion and spirituality and he went into closed minded debate mode right away. I'm not trying to convince the dude to believe in a higher power by any means, but he kept raising his voice and interrupting me. Annoying as fuck, but I tried to remember that I did sort of the same thing when I was 19. Now I know what parents of teenagers deal with lol. I'm going to assume he will still annoy me from time to time, but I invited him to a DC-SDS meeting so maybe he can understand more of the culture that I'm trying to keep among us.
Day was good.
~Sal
It probably happened before, but I just didn't notice it because of my self-image at the time. I'm accomplishing things. Good grades. Leadership in an activist group. Sam, Hunter, and I tabled for SDS today and had out the petition for affordable textbooks. We got about thirty signatures/e-mails while we were tabling, another 15 or so when I announced the petition in my Environmental Geology class. 21 people (yes that's almost half) checked the yes box to receive further e-mails from NoVA-SDS, and three of them had exclamation points. People were really listening while I was talking, and it was really cool. I'm glad my enthusiasm carries across.
Sam got on my nerves a bit today. We started talking about God and religion and spirituality and he went into closed minded debate mode right away. I'm not trying to convince the dude to believe in a higher power by any means, but he kept raising his voice and interrupting me. Annoying as fuck, but I tried to remember that I did sort of the same thing when I was 19. Now I know what parents of teenagers deal with lol. I'm going to assume he will still annoy me from time to time, but I invited him to a DC-SDS meeting so maybe he can understand more of the culture that I'm trying to keep among us.
Day was good.
~Sal