I don't really know why I'm writing this. Maybe just to get it off my chest. I don't believe that this will actually be read by anyone other than myself so yeah. but in light of that someone may read it, so i won't use names, or specifics. I know this is sounding like it will just be a whole lot of rambling about annoyances and bitchiness about certain people i tend to dislike at the moment, though its not, its more about various people's views and outlooks, and certain things in society, and within the society that I reside in, and occasionally the thoughts that I have surrounding certain issues, to which i feel helpless and powerless, and can do nothing but pray about these things and that God will listen, and has been and is and will be working to help these issues and make them right in his view, and so that his image for the world will be as right as it can be with sin still in this world and contaminating it. But anyway, I'm certainly getting off topic.Where to start, where to start? I know. Recently, quite a bit has been frustrating and annoying me and making me quite angry, to tell the truth. Some people and their actions towards things that have been offered up to them to be something that will help them, not only personally, but also academically, they seem to be just making a complete joke about it, mocking it and refusing to participate, because apparently its against what they believe in! (I think I'm merging two problems together). They are both within the area that I am studying in, though two different topics.
Another topic of annoyances is the constant closed-mindedness of people around me, that refuse to do things because it contradicts their "religion" and their beliefs. Who could've thought that a whispered prayer to a worry doll for instance could spark so much controversy?? and people will not bare to listen to the argument that this is a new experience and just because they see it not as a prayer to God, but as a prayer to another god of their own religion they refuse to at least try it for experience sake. I mean I would believe that I'm open for new experiences and even though I wouldn't necessarily do this on a regular basis (as in I wouldn't regularly tell this worry doll a worry just so as I can sleep better), though some people stick to their experiences and what they know just to keep them comfortable. MY argument to these closed-minded people, is that children cannot neccesarily picture God as a concrete idea/image so they do not necessarily just in their nature to talk/pray to something that cannot define as something they can know to exist or something solid that they can hold, therefore, they talk to these worry dolls as a process of talking to God, as most of the Guatemalan population is Christian or Protestant. so yeah. Today, in one of my lectures, we used worry dolls, to represent the meaning of meeting children where they are at, not bringing them to where you're at, and we were told to each say a worry to these worry dolls, I was willing to try it because I'm open to new experiences, though the rest of my table almost slandered it, saying it was against their beliefs and so I was rather offended by my tables reaction.
Um. another thing I'm rather annoyed by at the moment is the constant competition that seems to be going on between a few people and myself. It seems like every time we converse, that everything I say, they have something bigger, better, stronger, faster, even worse than whatever I'm talking about, be it a situation, an object or a person. Its so annoying. ITS NOT A FREAKIN COMPETITION!
Yeah. Well in one of my lectures, the topic of poverty seems to be brought forth in every lecture. It gets me frustrated because I want to do something about it, but I feel like I can't do anything about it, well nothing that will make any sort of difference anyway! Yeah. I get annoyed at the fact that other people seem to not care about this issue, and just seem not interested and complacent about it, whereas I'm passionate about it.
I hate that people hate multiculturalism in todays society, even though on reflection with a dear friend today, it would seem that we are one-dimensional without the different cultures adding to our story and adding to the colour and diversity of Australia. Without the thousands of years of history from countries that different people have when they come here, we have only had about 100 years of white history in Australia, which in my mind, makes us one-dimensional, because we have a bit of a "naivety" about us when it comes to certain things, that we don't have any prior knowledge about because of our lack of history. We are slowly getting more knowledge in some areas and less "naive" because we know some of the things that have happened in other cultures history, which we can learn from.
yeah i guess this ends my long and arduous ranting on things that annoy me. I hope this hasn't offended anyone (if anyone has read this) and I hope this adds to your thoughts, or reflections. If you have any questions. feel free to ask!!
I kinda feel better!
Cheerio
Jess
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