Tuesday, October 11, 2005

   Risk
We cover a lot of interesting topics in class sometimes. I guess that's one of the benefits of being an Education major. Heh. In one of my classes we're focusing on Risk-Taking, specifically that of adolescents.

Someone raises his hand and asks, "So what is an example of positive (healthy) risk-taking that doesn't involve a physical risk." The speaker replied immediately: "Relationships, such as asking someone out on a date. Who here has ever been physically injured from asking someone out?" To which the student replies, "I consider that a physical risk." We thought that was funny. So the speaker askes us, why is it that most of us wouldn't be assessive of the act of getting into a car with a drunk driver, yet we are assessive of social situations? It is funny that we rather risk being killed or injured, than being rejected by a love interest.

Then someone blurts out, "IT'S EASIER FOR YOUR BODY TO HEAL THAN YOUR PRIDE!" We all laugh. It's true. =P



She closes with a question we've all heard before: How would you ever know if you don't try?







Death Cab's lyrics are so fucking electricuting. Yeah, I know, "electricuting." =P Or maybe the word I'm looking for is "tantric."

This is the moment that you know
That you told her that you loved her but you don't.
You touch her skin and then you think
That she is beautiful but she don't mean a thing to me.



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Wanted to believe in all the words that I was speaking
As we moved together in the dark
And all the friends that I was telling
And all the playful misspellings
And every bite I gave you left a mark

Tiny vessels oozed into your neck
And formed the bruises
That you said you didn't want to fade
But they did and so did I that day.



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