Dating: What's the Point?

I think that dating is a necessary perhaps sometimes being evil, but always important. I think that if you do not date that you are more likely to get a divorce than people who have dated and fought and really dealt with each other for sometime before making the ultimate commitment. I think the majority of my peers and "contemporaries" do not always date to find their life partner but because it is something to do. Although between the two I would always prefer to date before I commit to a marriage. The "hook-up" culture in schools is some what of an epidemic or a vicious circle that people participate in to fit in and everyone eventually gets involved with it at some point. When our generation cannot hide behind a screen they tend to hide behind anything they can find including drugs, alcohol, peer pressure, or even a desperate desire to just fit in. We as a group of people need to step out from behind our screens without the help of anything else and have a conversation together, in person, face to face.

Gender and Dating Relationships

I think that much of society is not necessarily tradition but lack of change. The man has always proposed why she the woman do that now. People hate change, we are creatures of habit and that means following old out-dated "traditions".
I agree with the comment there is no talk about a man being the provided and maybe the woman staying at home with the children. It is just expected because as creatures of habit, that is the way it has always been.
As for my family my dad proposed to my mom and for many years after their first child my mom stayed home with her kids. My dad has always been the number one provider. Although I don't think they did it this way based on tradition they also didn't break this path.

America the Beautiful

In the beginning Gerren was a happy fifteen year old girl who just loved to model. But by the end of her career at eighteen Gerren was unhappy and insecure about her body. Her mother helped her get out of the business and love yourself again. 

American society has made it hard for young women to be happy with themselves. I personally accept myself as a beautiful young women who is happy with herself and always will be, no matter what other people or society says is important.

Becoming Me

Vocation and success to me had always been what I will become and how good I am at it. But now I see that it is what I already am and how much I love to be me. My vocation can be religious or not but it must be me. I need to do something that reveals my true self.
I agree that it takes a long time to become yourself. Because in a way you are always you but it also requires many heart-to-hearts with yourself to be happy being you. This journey takes a long time because it is called life. Life is not meant to be short but when it is, that person is often already completed their journey and God knows it. Life is a journey because it takes experience and mistakes, falling and getting back up to become who we are. Through life we solidify ourselves to the world showing it that this is me, Emma Thompson and I am going to be myself whoever that is.