My Confusion and I

Life isn't fair I've been told repeatedly but at the same time people have taught me to treat everyone the same. "Treat others like you would want to be treated" they have told me and young and naive as I've been I have tried to live like that even though the people around me haven't. I'm that kind of person that do want to help other people and give everyone a chance but sometimes I feel that I should be allowed to think someone's opinion is strange and slightly wrong even though I strongly believe that opinions can't be wrong. Being political correct is something that seems to be more and more important everyday. We aren't allowed to use any words that could be considered offensive or make a joke that someone might find insulting because we need to make sure that everyone is equal. But why do we have to make everyone believe we're equal? After all we all know it's not true and being politically correct won't make us any more eq...

I started this summer not knowing what I was getting myself into. I was prepared for a summer doing an internship where I could come and go as I wanted and once I was done with the internship I was going to move on to my next project and leave the internship behind and barely look back, like I did with my internship last summer but I soon realised that wasn't what this internship was about. I decided that doing an internship within Magen David Adom's international department would be a good idea since I am a volunteer and MDA is an organisation I care a lot about but I never knew there were so much more to the organisation than the ambulances and blood donations. I quickly realised, by being in their office and discussing important topics about how to make progress within MDA, that there is a lot more I can do as a volunteer than just being in the ambulance. I know it sounds very cliché but it's true, they do need our help and they also want it. The people in the office qui...