I came back from a meeting today about the student newspaper at my university - The Boar. It made me SO excited about it. I'm going to write for them, and yes, it will be awesome. The people there seem brilliant fun, and it made me genuinley happy, I walked out of there with a smile on my face.
I don't know why the news and current affairs is so appealing to me... but I love it. I love reading the paper, I love watching the news, debates, anything and everything that gets people talking. People are brilliant, quite underestimated.
Politics affects everyone, whether you like it or not... The books I've just started reading for my course say just that - politics is people talking. I love that image. I love talking. I love the pyschology of it all - how we think, why we think it, what we're all doing here in the first place.
There is not a single thing I don't want to talk about, in the sense that everything, even controversial issues, hold interesting and valued opinions, which really, means we should talk about them more.
Maybe that's why I talk so quickly - I have so much to say, and so little time to say it in. I like listening to people too, don't get me wrong, if it was all my opinion it would be very dull. Other people, other opinions and thoughts make it interesting, make it vibrant, passionate, colourful. If we all loved the same things, the world would be a terrible place to live.
I want to get out there and write about it, talk about it, meet people, make things better. To help. That's got to be a good thing.
