That's what botox is for

This unit or past month or so has probably been my favorite. I really enjoyed the second go around of dorian gray and liked Dr. Faustus. It was a good month in the difficult ap english class of mrs. Burnett;)

Quickly we are to say we wouldn't sell our soul for anything. But I truly doubt that most of us wouldn't, if like Bob Barker used to say, "the price is right".

And furthermore, when I think about it, do we not sell our souls everyday? Not to the extent of Dr. Faustus, but we do undermine our morals and standards for what we want. Anyone who says they don't slip up sometimes is lying. So what is the price to truly sell your soul.

I am reminded of The Fountainhead and how Peter Keating said he would sell his soul for Howard Roark's help on a project. The response of Roark was this:
"To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul---- would you understand why that's much harder?"

This excellent quote is very telling of humans. We always compromise our beliefs for our wants, even with trivial things in life. And I agree with Roark, it would be way more difficult to not do it.

In trying to figure out what I would sell my soul for, I really struggled. I believe that there is a heaven and he'll and that I will spend eternity, as hard as it is to fathom, in the first of those places. Based on my faith, there is nothing that I can think of that I would trade for if I had to spend all of eternity in hell.

So I tried to think of what others would want or have happen to sell their souls. If I had children and a wife and either I or them had to go to he'll, I would sacrifice myself for them. Just as I would for my family now. It is such a stretch off of the real world that it is hard for me to imagine or think of it even happening.

But I certainly would not do it for 3 wishes or to look young for the rest of my life. Plus, that's what botox is for.

Never Satisfied

Before I or you get into my blog, I would like for you to go to this web link. Check out all the answers because there are some good ones. My personal favorites are the first best one, the mate one, and the one that says" you saying that can disatisfy a woman".
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Alright Mrs. Burnett, so if you are still reading this I assume you didn't punch, kick, or hit your computer. I was just looking for stuff and came across that. In all honesty there are SOME women that are never satisfied. But there are also men like that.

Ex. "Honey, can you pass me the chips". For the 13th time.

Just got a promotion. "Why did Johnson get $3 than me"

The man who constantly complains about how his wife doesn't cut his sandwich in triangles.

So it does go both ways. There are men and women who are never satisfied. And to be completely honest, in some cases that is not a problem. For me personally I wish I wasn't so easy to satisfy in some ways. A great personal example takes place in school. For years my dad has been trying to get me to work out and I've always just blown him off. BECAUSE I was satisfied with my physique or lack there of. I've always been athletic and played sports, but I never got into the whole lifting and strengthening thing. But finally I discovered a course at OAHS called Athletic Conditioning (AC), and decided I am tired of being satisfied with my scrawny body. I started it at the beginning of the second semester and it has changed my attitude towards MYSELF. No longer am I satisfied with being able to bench ____, I want to bench _____(+ more lbs). And you know what, I am happy with not being satisfied, because it will make me stronger. And by the end of the year even though I will be way more in shape and way stronger than I've ever been, I hope I am not satisfied. Because then I will have that motivation to keep lifting. And that's not to say I wont be proud of myself, I will just want more. You're probably wondering how in the world is this kid going to tie in weight lifting to Virginia Wolffe and the whole gender studies thing. So here you go.

If women as a whole were satisfied with their situation from 100, 50, even 25 years ago, men would still be the dominant working people while woman always stayed at home. Just like I am not satisfied and it will make me stronger, women not being satisfied makes them stronger. Since when did fighting for what you believed in become wrong. I gain from not being satisfied, and so do women. Now I don’t think women should go out tomorrow and revolt and say their not satisfied and try and become the dominant gender and opress men, but until true equality is met, I see nothing wrong with not being satisfied.

I am trying hard to understand that kid and where he was coming from. The only thing I might agree with him on is the complaining thing. Maybe it's just the fact that we are coddled and spoiled, but there is a complaining problem with women and men, but mainly teenagers. What I mean is that a kid can't just be satisfied with 3 new video games or sneakers or scarves?, heshe needs another one. But in no way is that just women, it is a young thing in general.

So as we reach the final paragraph of by blog, I hope you were pickin up what I was puttin down. If you are confused by my hodgepodge of rambling here is a summary. There are always those of both gender who will never be satisfied. However not being satisfied with somethings is good and okay, because it can make you or your gender or race stronger and more valued. And btw Virginia was not boring at all. I liked her openness and frankness about her thoughts. She was very blunt and said what she felt, which had to have been hard at the time.