A Glimpse At My Life

When I sat down to write this blog, I was not entirely sure what to write about. But, now that I have had some time to think about it, I will tell you all about my life up until this point.

I was born in Macon, Georgia and lived there for twelve years. I have two sisters and 3 brothers. The first five years of my life, my mom was married to my dad. They divorced when I was five and my mom remarried about two years after that. My new step dad was in the Air Force and in 1992, there were cut backs in the Air Force and he was let go. He worked odd jobs for about two or three years just to support us. By that time, my mom and step dad had a baby named Rachel. He worked as a car salesman, at the post office, and as a manager at Waffle House. I admire him greatly for the sacrifices he made for our family.

In January of 1996, we moved to Goldsboro, North Carolina so that my step dad could begin a job working in the Air Force again at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base. I was devastated. I did not want to leave the friends and the only home that I had ever known. It took a few months, but I became adjusted and life was great. My little brother, Kevin, was born then and there were now six of us in my family. We lived in Goldsboro, NC until I was fifteen years old. My step dad was getting transferred again, and this time we were going back to Georgia. I should have been excited because I was going to get to see all of my old friends and I have family that live there, but I liked my life in North Carolina.

We moved to Warner Robins, Georgia in 2000. My step dad said that by moving here, he would not have to be gone as much and that we would be here for at least three years. My parents bought a house and painted everything to their liking. Five months after moving into our house, he got orders to move to San Antonio, Texas. I would now be enrolling in my third high school and starting over yet again.

Moving to San Antonio, Texas defined me in a way. I was a lot closer to my family because we moved to a place where everyone was unfamiliar. The town that we lived in was unlike anything I had ever seen and the people were different as well. We only had each other to support until we could maintain friendships. That was hard to do because I was “the weird girl from Georgia who talked funny”. There were a lot more things to do in San Antonio than there were in Warner Robins so we too advantage of that. We went camping, hiking, and skiing a lot during the first couple of years there.

I graduated high school in 2002 and promptly made my exit out of my family’s house. I just needed that freedom and to experience things on my own. I moved to Lubbock, Texas, which is about six hours northwest of San Antonio. The year that I lived there was one of the best experiences of my life. Sure, I was a poor, starving college student, but I was doing it on my own. After a year of living in Lubbock, I decided to move back to Warner Robins, the black hole, and be closer to my dad’s side of the family. His parents are still alive and live here along with his brother and sister and all of there children. I started going to school and working at Blockbuster Video.

In January of 2005 I met the most amazing guy ever. His name is RJ and we have been dating for a little over 2 years now. He is everything to me. He makes me what I am. I get butterflies just thinking that I am going to get to see him when I get home from work. I know that this sounds silly, but it’s true. He is my soul mate, I love him to death and I would not trade him for anything in this world.

I hope that this gives you a little insight into my quirky world.

Love and Murder

Topic: Guilty As Charged, But?

To take someone’s life is regardless of who that person is, is immoral. Mr. Gilbert did not want his wife to suffer anymore and while that was a very noble act on his part, it is still wrong. Who can vouch for him other than his now dead wife? No one really knows if she said that she wanted to die or not.

I believe that his conviction of guilty was right. If he was granted freedom, then that would have shown other people that it is okay to just go around killing other people if they say it is okay. What would our world come to? There are thousands of people dying of Alzheimer’s this very minute and I’m sure that they feel like dying every day, but I don’t believe that they would want that burden to fall into the hands of someone that loved them. I know that I could not kill someone that I loved even if they asked me to.

Mr. Gilbert claimed that his wife told him that she wanted to die. It now comes down to the he said she said controversy. But Mrs. Gilbert is not alive to give her recounts of how it actually happed so we could not use her as a witness. Instead of killing her, Mr. Gilbert could have just been with her everyday to show his love and compassion. She may not have known that he was in the room. But sometimes just being in the room puts the Alzheimer’s patient at ease.

I don’t think that our laws were put into place for such instances as this. Our laws state that you cannot kill another person and get away with it. But, according to Mr. Gilbert, he was just following his wife’s last wish. Our laws are very black and white. There is not a lot of room for gray area. This is definitely a gray area issue. I think that this whole issue could have been avoided if Mrs. Gilbert had just done it herself, and not involved her husband at all.