THE CROSSROADS BETWEEN SHOULD AND MUST

     The most important decisions in life are sometimes the hardest ones.  People focused on the past will imagine the life they could have had if they had chosen or done something different when given the option.  I believe that I am at a crossroads.  It may not be a Should or Must crossroads as the article mentions, but an important crossroads just the same.
     Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken" has been on a loop in my mind for the last week as the college decision deadline grows closer and closer.  I can relate to it more now as "one traveler" who "stood and looked down one as far as I could to where it bent in the undergrowth."  Robert Frost chose the Must road, a road "less traveled by."  I think I know which road I want to chose, but I am unsure if it is truly the Must road, or a Should road that I have convinced myself is a Must road.
     If I could, like I imagine most people would, I would attempt to turn around and would prefer not to look at the crossroads, not to commit to travel one way over the other.  However, one way traffic on life's main streets prevents me from avoiding hard decisions like the one I am faced with, and even no decision can be counted as a decision.
   

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POST #100!!!! (Pioneer Wagons to Planes)

I am a pretty sentimental person, especially as a senior in high school when I start to realize some experiences will be happening for the last time in high school.  With this in mind, I wanted my 100th post on this blog to be acknowledged; I am also all about the milestones.  This may sound odd, but I didn't want it to go by as another assignment post; I wanted it to be special, so yay! 100th post!  It certainly doesn't seem like that many...

I also will use this post to comment on a thought I had the other day.  I was riding on a shuttle bus from LAX to a hotel, when I marveled at today's technology in the form of transportation.  Yesterday, I woke up in New Jersey, had lunch in New York City, had dinner in New Jersey, and slept in my bed last night in California.  It amazes me that there was a time when it took pioneer families (I'm expressing my childhood memories of reading The Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder series here) months to travel half the distance that I traveled in six hours because today we have planes, and they had wagons drawn by oxen or horses.  In addition, where they needed barrels and a wagon full of supplies, I only needed a water bottle, a package of Nutter Butters, a pair of headphones, and my calculus homework to get me through the flight from Newark to Los Angeles.

Just an insight into my thoughts, something special for the 100th post on my blog.

LOOK AT MY BRAIN

     I think things through for a long time.  When I was little, it used to take me up to an hour to decide if I wanted to spend any of the allowance I had save up on a bracelet or a new toy, even some candy at the movie rental store.  I don't like to make decisions until I have all of the facts and all of my feelings about the choices clearly laid out before me.  For this reason, I wanted my masterpiece to be on genetics so that I could explore whether or not I would be interested in a career in this field before I choose to major in it in college and spend the next four to six years of my life studying the topic.  This just shows how I think an prepare for things in the future.

    My blog shows my creativity and collaboration. I wanted something "clean" as the background, something that wasn't too busy and distracted readers from the content of the blog.  I also loved the idea of including a poem from my favorite poet Emily Dickinson whose location would be ironic on a blog. (It talks about how weird and annoying it must be to have the public know details about your life, which is exactly what happens when a person has a blog like I do).  The collaboration can be seen in my introduction at the top of this blog page. Every person that has followed me from my AP English Literature and Composition course, I have followed them in return, and we comment on each other's posts sometimes to help one another our with grammar mistakes or questions about each other's work.

WHAT ABOUT MY MASTERPIECE?

This past week, I haven't done as much research on my masterpiece topic of genetics as I would have liked to.  I just want to state that I have school for five or more hours and then homework for another four hours, and then I have to fit dinner in there somewhere, not that this is an excuse because I always have time to research a passion, including genetics.  I am just saying; Shakespeare had most of the day every day to work on his masterpieces.  I will divulge that just recently, I read a really intriguing article about some innovations with genetic engineering that I will mention in my masterpiece presentation at the end of the year.

LOVE IS BLIND

When Lady Macbeth hears of the prophecy that Macbeth will become king, she is enthusiastic and wants to kill the king himself.  The audience sees Lady Macbeth as a power hungry individual, while Macbeth, blinded by his love for her thinks that she just wants the best for him, which she convinces him is to become king of Scotland.  The audience sees her planning the visit from the king, and worrying over Macbeth's possible lack of inner strength that he needs in order to murder the king and take the crown for himself with Lady Macbeth at his side.  Macbeth seems meek about confronting the wife whom he loves and standing up to her to say that he doesn't want to kill his cousin who has recently put all of this responsibility, trust, and honor on Macbeth's shoulders by giving him the title of the Thane of Cawdor.

MACBETH ACT I ACTIVE READING NOTES

Act 1 Notes:

There was some glitch because I posted this last week, but it doesn't appear on my blog on the computer, only on my phone.