What we need to do is follow the example of the little boy in Africa and learn to enjoy life without so many unnecessary items. But what true satisfaction can these things give us? We keep spending our money on the "best," only to have it be outdated within the year. They want the fancy car, big house, newest technology, and so on. In general, people are quite taken with the idea of having the best material possessions. he ran through the living room in his cowboy suit brandishing toy guns, then ran out into the yard and drove his plastic car around a toy filling station, came back in and colored with his magic markers, changed into his Ninja eye patch and cape, and the cried that he was bored and needed something to do"(163).Īt some level I've always known that most people (at least in America) seem to have far more material possessions than they need, but I've never quite seen it with such clarity. Immediately after relating this memory to the reader Shaffer writes, "I can't help thinking of a three-year-old boy I knew in California. Just a moment ago I read a passage in which Shaffer speaks of a little boy in Africa who entertains himself by playing in a muddy yard for hours on end. It's about Shaffer's "wandering" through Africa and her observations of the land and people. Somebody's Heart Is Burning by Tanya Shaffer. (And to answer the unspoken question, yes, I even considered using this.)įor several months now I have been reading this book. Well, I suppose I had better get on with it and write my plog. Well, that's just not going to happen tonight now is it? Fiddlesticks. Why is that? I suppose it could be the notion that because there are no limitations one must pick something fantastically interesting to write about. The possibilities are endless, yet for some reason that makes the challenge of coming up with a good topic all the more challenging. Let alone to be able to define the subject and verb of each sentence. What in the world am I going to write about? Midnight is far too late of a time for my mind to come up with any decent subject. The topic of the first "plog" is anything. The problem is that I have to write "plogs" (basically like a blog but not online). You may then ask "what's the problem?" Well, that is quite easily answered. My grammar is nowhere up to par as far as becoming a journalist is concerned. It is titled "Grammar for Communications." Now, this is a class I most definitely need.
The point is that because of the aforementioned thought, I have decided to take a journalism class. That, however, is not the point of this blog. After much thought and consideration I have decided to possibly major in Journalism.
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