My Anti Drug

I have many things that keep me sane and happy. I love to scrapbook because it takes a lot of creativity in which I am pretty good at. I first started to scrapbook in 8th grade and now I have a scrapbook for each year of high school. I feel that when I am scrapbooking I am reminiscing the past and all there is are happy, fun, and crazy memories. Behind scrapbooking I love to remember the good times and that is what helps me stay happy and pulls me away from reality and keeps me in the past for just a few minutes. I see scrapbooking as something a child does and I like that feeling of being young and wild and having no responsibilities, simply to be free. Recently I haven't worked on my scrapbooks due to senior events and college obligations. I really need to start that up again because I'm starting to lose my mind again. Just an hour of scrapbooking will do so much to my mood.

An Inconvenient Truth

I've known of the issue of climate change for a few years now but didn't know enough to actually frighten me. Listening and seeing Al Gore do his presentation was moving and shocked me every single minute. The one thing that stood out to me the most was the melting of the glaciers and the sea level rising. Seeing the before and after photos of glacier lakes and glaciers in the Arctic from years ago and now scared me. The harm and danger we are doing to earth, our only earth, is unbelievable because why would we kill ourselves like that? The thing that worried me the most are the sea levels rising since the glaciers were melting off, was because of the graphic image of the future and what can potentially happen to cities and countries all over the world. It gets me mad that the government is not taking this issue more seriously as to terrorism is to the U.S. Climate change is an issue for everyone on this planet. I admit that I'm no hard core activist of climate change but I do what I can do. When I first found out about California being in a drought I was furious that my parents would water the grass every 2 days! I would be proud if our grass was yellow instead of green because that means I am helping in anyway I can.