I am young man, some may say cursed, some may call it a blessing, to have the ability to look at the world without a blissful ignorance. Raised to ask questions and be curious about any and everything, at the age of 19 I have found myself throughout my young life reading about the history of this planet we call earth. Looking at the political, racial and religious aspects of the world as we know it today and how some knew of it in its past. Being someone who is not content with keepin my knowledge to myself, I have been an avid writer and speaker since I was a young 1st grader. I have been told that I am an exceptional writer, but I feel that though that may be so, I have much improvement. I, like most of America have ADD borderlining on what seems to be ADHD. So my writing, I have found is sometimes jumbled and veers off course like a half-sleep notetaker. Throughout the years I have made self-analysis of myself and have seen that I basically can not write as fast as my brain is working. This of course has left me frustrated in the past with my writing and at a time I had given up writing all together. This self-discovery and "break" from writing, moved me to the genre of spoken word/freestyling, which enabled me to spew my thoughts out as fast as my mouth could produce words. When I happened upon facebook about a few years ago, my love for writing was renewed. I was able to read the news on the internet and simutaneously write my opinion about the news or any given topic in short bursts to whatever audience felt interested in what I was saying. This wonderful new way of writing helped me and I also believe hindered me. I feel that I will have to be able to transistion from writing short paragraphs at random or short essays to my peers to being able to write long papers on command from an instructor. I feel that I can learn alot from this class and hopefully through my writing others can learn from me. This is my first time actually having a blog, but I feel like I can use this more effectively than a myspace or a facebook (which I deleted both of those sites before I started school) and I can focus entirely on my writing. To end this I would like to acknowledge the proud people of Haiti in their time of need and I hope that we, as Americans and human beings can be sensitive to their plight and help them as much as we can.
:Nile Najee:
