Exposure to the Elements

So another week has come and gone. Starting a new semester at school usually causes one to take time and reflect about a few things. So I just started back up at school here in BYU Idaho and have been doing just that. Still early in my college career I am uncertain as to what exactly I am going to do with my life. Not very productive, but It's an important decision to make, I don't want to rush it. So here I am, at school, studying, struggling. Everyone says "follow your dreams" but then when you say what you want to do they say "oh...what are you going to do with that?" Because for crying out loud dreams don't make money. Odds are I probably won't be famous, and I probably won't be making millions of dollar every year. So then here I am thinking of realistic things I could do for a living that I would enjoy. The things that make money, I don't want to do. The things that I want to do don't make money. Yet I want a family, I want a big family, but those cost money. So what to do?

We live in a complicated world. I want to be able to provide for my kids, and the way the world is going, that could be harder and harder. It's going to be a time where teaching them proper values will be more difficult than ever. I was lucky, I was home schooled till I was 10 so I got proper values taught to me without out interference. Now I am not necessarily saying all should home school their kids. It just happened to work with me. I did go to public school from the time I was 10 till 18 so I got the full high school middle school experience as well. Jesus said that we should be in the world but not of the world and I agree with that wholeheartedly. To just shut your kids out and deny them contact with the evils of the world could be risky and dangerous. They need to understand what is out there, not just be exposed to one opinion. Then again we don't also want to just throw them in the midst of evil and not warn them or prepare them for what they will find, that's a little messed up.

I digress. The point I'm making here is that the world is troubled, yet we all can stay true to our values, Generally speaking most people believe in the importance of family and morals. It's just the media that corrupts that idea. From my Family Relations class I have learned that we need to be exposed to studies and information out there about the family. Ignorance is bad. As we stay exposed to these things we can have strong families as we use our critical thinking to understand and make our own opinions about it all.

Introductions

First things first I feel the need to introduce myself, out of a sense of common courtesy if for no other reason. I am your average 20 year old male from the United States of America. I grew up in a military household which, to some, means an insane amount of discipline whereas for me it meant a lot of moving (not that I wasn't disciplined I just wouldn't call it insane amounts, that sounds too excessive for my liking). We moved on average about every two years or so. I lived all across the U.S. and even spent some time overseas in the Middle East. It was a tremendous childhood that taught me a lot about myself and the world. Being so nomadic while also being home-schooled for the first 4 years of my official schooling sort of forced my family to draw inward and gain strength from each other. My family is very important to me.
I have always had a gift at understanding the way people work. I haven't always realized it but over time I've come to notice it more and more. I enjoy trying to understand people and why they do what they do. I look for commonalities between people and things. It is here in this blog that I wish to speak about some of the things that cross my mind. I enjoy making the complex things of this world a little more simple for all of us. It helps things make more sense and avoid unnecessary stress. I will be sharing my thoughts on things about people, family, current events, etc. I hope you can find my thoughts useful and entertaining.