Crash

Sometimes we feel so lonely and isolated that we just crash into each other. In our deepest times of despair we find who we really are by seeing how we behave. For instance, in the movie Crash the man of middle-eastern descent was so angry because his store was ruined that he went to kill this one man who tried to explain to him that he needed to replace his car door. While it didn't work out he resorted to violence in his darkest hour, and blamed someone who really didn't do anything to harm him. I don't like to make generalizations, but the man's true colors is that he is a violent human being. Luckily there were no bullets in the gun but blanks so everyone turned out alright. At the moment before the blank was shot however, as the daughter was running out to her father both the eyes of the middle-eastern man and the innocent one collided, and that's when they had they're collision. They had crashed into each other, and although it was a dramatic moment they didn't feel so lonely.
Adieu!
~Jessie <3

Race

Going into this week on standardized tests and college applications I identified myself as white. However, it has become clear to me that I'm more than that. While I am so pale that people look to me as being white, not only are there different shades of white, there are also white people all over the world. So it's kind of weird that people think of me as white when in reality they don't know what my roots are.
Everyone says that there are certain traits of Jews. The have big noses, they like to bargain, and they have thick black hair. However, the only thing that identifies me as Jewish is my hair. Everything else about me can pass as another religion, or in some cases race. I have passed as being Irish before ( I have lots of freckles and burn easily) and also have passed for being German (that was once and I'm pretty sure that person was mentally ill). The point of it is that while I have learned that my race is now "other" on these forms as I am a Jew, I can be identified any way I choose. We all can. This is the big issue. The world is having a huge identity crisis as we speak.
Maybe it's time not to take race into account. After all, we're all people and unless we share the world peacefully with one-another we will probably lead to the end of it.

Yours Truly,
Jessie <3