Lauren+A's+Op-Ed+Article

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When Mr. Geib first gave us this assignment, I had about a million topics going through my head of what I could talk about. As I went through each one, I decided that my topics would either offend people or that it just annoyed me for no particular reason. Then I thought, what's the point of a rant or muckraker opinion? Because all it seems to me is pointlessly complaining about something that is not going to change. Why waste our time just ranting about nonsense?

My first Idea was to talk about ASB. I didn't like the fact that they get priority when it comes to things like being a FIRE leader and applying for the Junior Honor Court. They accept the people who are already involved in the school first, giving the people who want to get more involved in the school a lesser chance. Im not going to lie, When I learned that last year a lot of the Honor Court kids were picked just because of the fact that they were in ASB, it kind of made me mad. I was all ready to rant on about this unfair advantage that ASB had when I realized, what is complaining about this almost stupid topic going to change about the way things are? I was discouraged to even fill out the application at first and just wanted to complain how it wasn't fair. After writing this I'm going to fill one out the best I can and if I am not good enough for the job, then that's life. I'm not giving up or complaining about it, I'm putting in my best effort and whatever comes out of it is for the better.

I know that the easiest thing to do sometimes is to complain about things we don't like or disagree with. I do it all the time. But I guess what I am saying is that ranting isn't doing any good and we can never fully understand another person's opinions unless we have experience what they have throughout their life.

I know I'm being a big hypocrite (which was also one of the topics that I was going to talk about). I mean, I'm basically complaining about complaining. But I don't usually like just going off into rants or when other people do. It all just seems pointless to me. Even though I don't like it, I let people have their opinions without loading mine and even rant if they want to (because sometimes it just feels good to complain) But I guess what my biggest problem with rants is how it is going to impact you and the people reading it. Rants to me usually impact people in a negative way or don't do anything at all and that is why I think they are pointless.