Nature of Evil

I don't think that people are born evil, like The Omen, rather they learn to be evil from someone, somewhere or from experience. If growing up you experience poverty and you never have anything, you will do anything to acquire what you need. Maybe that's why drug dealing is so attractive to some people. Also, if someone never gets caught stealing when they're younger, maybe just taking lollipops, they might grow up thinking it is okay and progress to stealing cars, stealing purses, and robbing banks. Anger and jealousy can also lead to the engagement in bad deeds. There could be a jealous ex-boyfriend who could resort to violence on the other person. Maybe two people who are angry over a situation they are in and fight each other to release tension. I don't know or see that many people who are essentially evil or started out evil. Hurricane Katrina victims steal and hurt others because they went from having nothing to having even less. I am not condoning these actions. Circumstances can change any one's perspective.

Well, Love is...um

I don't really know what love is or how love comes about. I guess love just happens when it happens. I know I love my parents because of the emotional feeling that comes over me when I am around them or when I miss them. For me, loving my family is a given because they have always been there to help. What makes love complex in my situation is that I don't think that I have truly loved anyone outside my family. I'm not trying to say I'm a pimp, but I have never been in a relationship where deep passion is present. I have good friends, and I like a few people more than a friend, but I haven't been in a relationship more than a year. Maybe that's what it takes. I don't think I will know or experience love until I least expect it later on in life. Or when love has come and gone.
In Song of Solomon, love overpowers most of the characters. In some aspects, love seems like a nagging wife that annoys you to death, but one you will desire for life. No one can live without love because everyone wants to be admired no matter how much they try to fake like they don't care.

I Wish I Knew

So I told my parents that I wanted to be treated like an adult; they laughed and said, "We will when you become one." I didn't understand because I thought I was practically grown up. I have a nice car, a job, everything that I wanted, and I am close to being 18. I came back to my parents and said that I had everything I needed to be an adult. In fact, I had more than many adults have anyway. Mom just said I was a spoiled brat who thought I was grown because of the materials that I had. Well, she was right. The car that I own, or we own, was halfway paid by me from my savings and the other half was split between my parents. I make decent money from my job as a bag boy at Kroger, but not enough to support myself. I guess that's why mom still gives me allowance and tells me to put the rest in savings. Afterwards, I usually spend my allowance on video games and some skateboarding supplies. I guess I really don't posses the belongings that are in my room. I realized that everything I have is not because I am a responsible adult, it is because my parents are. I haven't exactly learned anything from the situation, because its so tempting to buy the latest even though I know I shouldn't. I wanted to anxiously be an adult because of the perks, but I only envisioned the positives of a comfortable lifestyle that two adults worked for. I think I'll be a child for now.