Leaping to Conclusions

Your given 2 lines of text that describe someone. Your then forced to make a decision about that persons fate, do they live or die? Is that person worth keeping even if they may hinder your own survival odds? Since there is only those 2 lines of description, assumptions are made extremely quickly. would you choose to save a Nobel Prize Winner over a pregnant cheerleader? There is one example of an hard decision. but here's an easier one: do you exile a Draft evader / drug dealer or a college student? That decision ight seem easy right off the bat, as the assumption is made that the drug dealer/draft-dodger is a bad person. What we need to think about is maybe that "bad" person may not have had the opportunities given to him that the college student has. Maybe he will turn his life around and become a great scientist. This society needs to stop jumping to conclusions and assuming the worst about people. all these "maybe's" and the drug dealer turned scientist may be far-fetched, but you never know what can happen. Next time you realize you are making assumptions about someone, take a step back, and think about it, and take the time to give them a chance. What your assuming might be completely wrong if you just got to know the person.

Intro

Let me begin this blog by telling you a bit about myself. My life isn’t very difficult to unravel, as I am a very focused person who is working towards one goal: to become an Officer in the United States Marine Corps, and I will do whatever it takes to get there. The Marine Corps is a huge part of my life, and I train with the Marine Recruiters and other potential marines like myself at least once a week.  Besides the Marines and college stuff (to me they are one and the same – I'm applying for an NROTC Marine Option scholarship as well as to the United States Naval Academy), the other influences in my life are my friends, family, and my girlfriend. If you combine those four, you have 100% of my free time accounted for. I am what you could call the typical suburban teenager, besides the whole military thing. I have gotten an education for a top-notch school (I will leave it at that), and I am going to college, and -surprise - I have an iPhone.