Some thoughts on facial hair...

I really really really don't want to write this essay on a presentation I did in The Art of Persuasion. I had to give reasons why Barack Obama's Inauguration Address was of an influential nature. Though I LOVED creating and presenting my findings I can't stand this two thousand word paper I now have to write. Factor in the test for E-Commerce, another essay for Globalization of World Politics, assignments I have neglected to do for Corporate Environmental Management and that I will be taking two weeks away from school to drink heavily in Ireland and frolic amongst the pyramids of Egypt I am much more inclined to write a blog post about this than actually do something about it. My behaviour seems weird to me because of all the e-books I've been skimming over on how to be more disciplined, and focus on tasks, and commit to the finished product, and self-motivation blah blah blah that I'm not able to push myself through, jack myself up, and get this shit over with so I can focus on more important things, like friends and Slovenian blueberry liquor and Jim Rohn videos (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2AyudSJl_s&feature=related). Its not so much that I'm not learning, I am, or that I don't like learning, I do, its more that I don't want to waste time doing stupid stuff. I honestly feel like I gain more out of it by putting it into a blog post. Perhaps this will be homework of the future. Perhaps its not so much the information you retain but how much you let that information shape your opinion of things, your attitude toward life, and the impact of those things you are taught on your feelings that is really important. Really though, I'm just trying to justify writing a blog post when I should be working diligently on a couple reports that will be skimmed over, and marked half-heartedly for a report card that means absolutely nothing.

It took this presentation though to make me really believe in Barack Obama's "Yes we can" gambit. The words in his Inauguration speech were chosen very deliberately to evoke emotions in his audience at home and around the world to the real and imposing challenges facing everyone today. There were many things that, after studying it, I really appreciated but my favourite excerpt would have to be his little bit where speaking of the young age of America, he says, "...in the words of Scripture, the time has come to put aside childish things." To juxtapose Borat: Wa-wa-wee-wa! Obama basically just slandered... no, umm... disciplined the behaviour of the entire American populace and used God to do it. It says more than just You have been immature but that This behaviour is no longer acceptable and will not be tolerated anymore. To me, that's just awesome. It's more uplifting than it is demeaning and I believe it is exactly what the world needs to hear and what it wants to hear. In a world where so much is changing so fast (if you don't believe me, check this vid out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9Wu2kWwSY) I do think its time for everyone to buck up and grow some facial hair, figuratively speaking (though for the last couple weeks I've taken this literally). I guess you could say he's persuaded me. And for those who might be wondering, the beard is staying.