For a long time, I boasted that I didn't care about what anyone else thought of me. And for a while, I even believed that about myself.

However, I realized at some point in the last year that I used that as an excuse to do whatever I wanted. It allowed me to a bitch, guilt-free.

It allowed me to criticize people for faults I embody more than they do. It allowed me to cultivate a very negative pessimistic view of the world. It allowed me to trick myself into thinking I was actually better than some of my peers.

But I do care what people think. The opinions of the people whom I respect are important to me.
Mostly because I don't want to be that girl that people dislike.

This does not have so much to do with my reputation as it does my effect on others.

We affect everyone we interact with everyday. I would much rather leave a positive effect than a negative one; I would rather make someone feel good about themselves or make their day just a little more tolerable than throw them into anger and self-doubt.


I'm sorry.

disgusting.

If you are a fan of Twilight but would like to see the other side of the argument (i.e. Twilight sucks):
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=23094573385&ref=nf#/topic.php?uid=23094573385&topic=6060

If you haven't read, don't like, or like Twilight but can accept criticism:
http://community.livejournal.com/mspaint_lolz/32606.html#cutid1

Hearing Twilight compared to Harry Potter and even Nancy Drew makes me sick to my stomach. Sure, teenage girls are reading. Doesn't it matter WHAT they're reading?

As a high school student, I understand that typically kids don't read. I don't have much time to pick up a book, and a series that has thousands of teenagers reading in their very limited free time must be good, right? However, Twilight fails miserably. Maybe if it was original, written well, had characters with personalities, and/or had a plot, reading the book would actually be beneficial to teenagers. Ughughugh.

If you haven't read the series, I highly recommend NOT reading it. It's honestly a waste of time and money, unless you like reading fan-fiction fluff that's taken from dozens of different books and movies.

DON'T YOU DARE COMPARE THE SERIES TO ANY OF THE HARRY POTTER BOOKS. YOU MUST BE AN IMBECILE TO EVEN THINK THAT THEY'RE IN THE LEAST BIT SIMILAR.

ugh realism.

To limit the salary of the business men in charge is to lower the interest, loyalty, and work ethic of these business men.
To lower the interest, loyalty, and work ethic is to decrease the overall profit.
To decrease profit is to limit the money spent on employing workers.
To limit the budget is to fire the workers in lower branches of the corporation.
To fire workers is to destroy the middle class.
To destroy the middle class is to destroy the economy.
To destroy the economy is to destroy society.
To destroy society is to destroy the government.