Gotta tell them that we love them while we got the chance to say

Live like we're dying-Kris Allen

Alright, so it's approximately 11:24 pm and I'm taking a break from studying for the ACT, so I decided to post something else. I definitely do my best thinking when most people are asleep, so if this post gets too philosophical, blame the late night.

The title of this post is actually one of my favorite lyrics from my absolute favorite song. But when I was listening to this song and actually listening to my lyrics, I realized that I didn't agree with one of them. In the very beginning of the song, Kris Allen sings, "How come we don't say I love you enough?" But that's absolutely wrong. In fact, I think we say I love you too much.

I'll draw upon my own experiences as a high schooler for this one. Many times throughout the school day, I'll hear someone say, "Love ya!" or "You're amazing, I love you, " or even, "I hate you. JK, I love you." Before I begin my rant on how "I hate you" is also over-used, I would like to say this: "I love you," when said truly and honestly, is one of deepest things that one can ever say. To be in love is one of the greatest things in life, and I love you is a part of that. To hear people throw around this phrase is something that's a little bit sad. People have forgotten what it's like to actually be in love, so they throw the phrase around, testing people, seeing other people's reactions, hoping that one day, someone will say it in the full sense of the phrase. to them. and only to them.

I can't say that I'm not guilty of saying "I love you" too lightly, in fact, I'm probably guilty of doing everything that I've said in the last paragraph. But what I can say for sure is that I'm going to go listen to "Live like we're dying" by Kris Allen.

WAMUNC experiences

WAMUNC- Washington Area MUN conference

March 25th-28th, 2010

Alright, so first of, let me start by saying that WAMUNC was amazing. It was definitely one of the more fun conferences that our school goes to, and the people that I met were some of the most intelligent but fun people that I met. To me, WAMUNC was more than an MUN conference, for the 4 days that we were there, I learned something about life. It's clichéd, isn't it? That I went somewhere for one purpose (academic) and came out achieving another.

Somewhere in between committee sessions, our excursion to the Taiwanese Embassy, and just chilling with my own club, I realized this: we (high schoolers) tend to think that high school=universe. Instead of thinking that high school is a microcosm of what occurs in the "real world", we believe that high school is everything-that everything and everyone that's important and that exists goes to the high school that we go to. Which is wrong. Completely, utterly, truly wrong. The friends that I made at WAMUNC don't go to my school. In fact, they're not even in my state. If you had told me a month ago that I would make friends at WAMUNC, and maybe even become good friends with some of them, I would have called you a liar. But it's true. My WAMUNC buddies have truly become an integral part of my life. When I login to my Gmail or Facebook, it's their emails, their notifications, and their messages that I tend to. You may say that I'm going through a "withdrawal" from WAMUNC (it's been known to happen). You could be right. I can't tell you right now. But what I can tell you is that I'm going to check my Gmail right now to see if they commented on my wall post.

First time using blog ever

Hey,

alright so this is the first time I've ever used a blog, and so I'm still kind of confused about the purpose of one. Are they used for entertaining? to rant about someone/something? to philosophize about something or another? This blog will probably be used to do all of these things at one point or another; hopefully more of the first and the third, and less of the second, but we'll see.