Doubt and Fear

Have you ever wanted to speak to this guy/girl but were so scared that they wouldn't like you? Have you ever wondered if they felt the same way about you?

Have you ever doubted your belonging within a group of people? Or felt like somehow they didn't want you around?

Our feelings of doubt and fear stem from a feeling of inadequacy - we're not good enough so they couldn't, wouldn't, or don't like us... Once this thought reaches your head you withdraw, preferring to be alone than with people who don't/wouldn't want you. Well, I've felt this way before. I still feel this way often.

This thought, this feeling of inadequacy, has no merit at all. It doesn't make you a better person, it makes you a fearful person, a doubtful person. It doesn't improve on anything, rather it works backwards. What you've worked hard to achieve, putting yourself out there, slides to the back burner and you're back at square one.

As well, this feeling of being not good enough is not real, it's all in your mind. You are adequate, and until someone explicitly tells you, "I don't like you," you have every right and every reason to believe that they do like you and that they do want you around.

Don't let doubt or fear stop you from pursuing anything or anyone that you want to.  

Procrastination

I'm working on an essay.

I want to get all of my readings done today.

I'm giving a college tour tomorrow.

Halloween is coming up.

Midterms are coming up.

I can't wait until Christmas.

Religion and Politics

Students who study political science in university tend to be far leaning leftists who are all for feminism, multiculturalism, legalizing marijuana, and gay rights. Some of the ones I've encountered are atheists. They are often logical and fervent in their beliefs. Political science students are against every oppression known to man - especially ignorance.

As a student who is both a devout Catholic and a political thinker, I don't think that the Church's teachings clash with all of the views of hardcore liberals - but they do clash with some. For example the "freedom" that radical feminists search for - including the use of birth control and abortions (funded by tax payer's money) out rightly goes against the Church's teachings about the sanctity of life before birth. I've touched on this already in another pro-life article, but the sanctity of life also extends to the issues of assisted suicide (or as those who are proponents of such discretion call it, "dying with dignity"), and euthanasia. I believe, as a Catholic, that only God can give life and be the one to take it away.

So, why didn't I go into religion as a major? Why did I choose political science? As deeply fulfilling as religion is in my life, political science really piqued my interest in international relations and political philosophy. I am most interested in studying how applicable politics can be in life and how political theories affect and influence the world around us.