So today’s the day that I’m considered by western civilization to be an adult. It could be the same in eastern civilizations but I don’t know about that so I just won’t make a comment on it. From the time my eyes opened at 8:30 to now, I’ve been constantly bombarded with phone calls and texts congratulating me and wishing me the best which I wholeheartedly appreciate. However, there’s one line that came up in each message too many times for me to not address it. “How do you feel?” To which I replied everytime, “The same way I felt yesterday.” It began to puzzle me. Am I supposed to go through some sort of mystical transformation which completely changes my entire outlook of my life? Maybe it won’t happen until the time today is synchronized EXACTLY to the moment I exited my mom’s womb and took my first breath. I could just be reading too much into a commonly asked question, or I’m gonna be in for the craziest ride of my life later tonight.(Since i was born at nighttime.) Oh boy, now for the rest I’m gonna be in anticipation. This metamorphosis better live up to the hype I made for it literally seconds ago.

I’d like to think of myself as a good writer. When the time comes to write a paper on a subject, I’m able to manage with little to no difficutly whatsoever. That’s also a problem I have. I can only write about a certain subject or in other words, “summarize”. Ever since high school, thesis papers have been the only kind of assignments that have seriously hurt me academically in english. I just can’t seem to grasp the concept of a thesis and how to make one. At this point in writing it’s just weird and honestly it troubles me. It’s like being placed in Calculus without ever having a firm understanding of multiplication. As for progress, I haven’t started yet.

Well it’s finally happened! “It” being me finally remembering to post a blog for today. As it stands now, the first half of my task has been accomplished. The second half would be to actually think of an interesting topic to post and relate it to bioethics. I suppose it can’t be too difficult because if you really think about, anything can be related to bioethics in some way. Take this blog site for instance, there are obvious benefits for students to have such a resource at their disposal as they can freely share their thoughts with others or help each other when someone is in need of an outside source’s opinion on a subject. However, doesn’t that also appear to be a drawback? I might just be over thinking things but doesn’t having the ability to get the opinions of others on a topic diminsh one’s individuality? It’s an odd thought but just bare with me. The last time my class discussed their blog posts, there were some who admitted to checking the posts of others before starting their own to get a sense of what to talk about. Hell, I admit that I’m guilty for doing that before starting this very post before realizing that it’s a “freeblog” or something (I lost my syllabus). Anyway, I think individuality is very important and something everyone should have but being the social creatures that we naturally are, thinking and acting for oneself would seem to go against our nature but I believe that we, as humans, are a very compotent species that are capable of going against our nature. Now I feel like I’m rambling so I guess I’ll finish this post with a quote. Oscar Wilde once said “A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”