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Hayley Hill is skating -12:00 pm
My experiences with social networking are very slim. I chose not to have a Myspace or Facebook because I believe them to be a huge waste of time. I would must rather be active or doing something productive with my time. I spend my day at school talking with my friends and hang out with them on the weekends and after school occasionally, so what would I need to talk to them about online? I feel kids just go on there because they are bored and use it as an excuse to not do the things that take energy or thinking. I think it contributes to the laziness of youth and loss of accountability. I think that the internet is a great place for work. It is great for musicians so their music can be reached and heard by a much bigger audience. I don’t think teens have a purpose for chatting online. Not only is everything accessible, but things written or pictures posted can come back years from now to haunt you. I think creativity is wasted to the computer and also inactivity contributes to health problems. I would much rather learn a musical instrument or dance. The only positive aspect of online social networking is rekindling with old friends. I think it’s great to see people you have not seen in years, but from there, I think they

Ritual -Christmas Eve

Every Christmas Eve my family goes back to First Press Pberterian School for church service. My brothers and I all went to pre-school there so we love to go back and see familiar faces. We always get dressed up and drive together to service that we love. It always starts the same; we open with a welcome and then sing traditional Christmas songs. Then we hear a message and we always light candles and they turn off the lights and the candle light lights up the whole room while we sing “Silent Night.” I remember this because my brothers never blow out their candles when they are supposed to and ours are always they last to go out. When I was little, they would call all of the little kids up to the pulpit and I would get so scared and cry and hide behind my mom. I love our tradition of going to church because I don’t get to see my brothers as much as I would like because they travel a lot and I know they will always be there on December 24. Going to church reminds me of being a kid again and how I used to play hangman during the service with my brother Garrett, sometimes we still play it just for old time sake during the service. After service we go around the neighborhood and look at all the Christmas lights and go have donuts.

Versus: Loss of integrity

In my view, the world has changed immensely in the past few decades. Inventors were discovering new ideas that blew us away. Writers and poets inspired people to read and learn and channel creativity. Now I can’t go anywhere without seeing headlines or hearing about the latest celebrity in rehab or divorced, and yet we glorify these people. Most celebrities don’t even go to college and yet people praise them for their status. I think that we need to glorify scholars and people making a real difference in the world. The norms that I grew up with are admiring people who have put hard work into something and have set goals and reached them. A lot of teen aged girls that surround me idolize talentless drug addicted girls who have done nothing for the good of society. Most of the popular singers now lip sync, drown out song with synthesizers, don’t play instruments or write any of their songs. My music taste is different from most seventeen girls. I admire people like Ryan Adams, Mason Jennings, Shocking Blue and older less recognized bands. I think singing for the sake of music and joy is more fulfilling than for the fame and notoriety. I read an article on Ryan Adams once and he said he was angry when his songs got too popular, which is intriguing. He said he does not want people to listen to his songs over and over or only know him for one song he wrote. I admire this perspective because it stays true to who he is and differs from the majority of mindless, meaningless music followers.