Here goes conviction...

I'm not a liberal.  Or a conservative.  I'm only slightly religious, but won't ever really shake sunday school morals.  I believe in loyalty, family, and art of every medium.  Oh, and coffee.  Above all, I believe in learning, and in never closing doors.  In the end, I'm still figuring it out.  But let's be honest... Aren't we all? 

Growing up, my parents were deep rooted Repubs.  I went through phases of passionately defending their opinions and then rejecting them on the same level.  Now, a college student three states away from home, my foremost objective is to find an entirely independent identity.  So I've been thinking a lot, discovering which aspects of society, and even humanity, are most important to me.  The first step is to shape an opinion, to take a position.  My new personal resolution is to no longer stand in the middle, because where's the integrity in that? And how can one possibly contribute to the world with no integrity? I'm not quite a Kantian, but I do agree when Kant pushes an individual to claim control of their own intrinsic property by deciding on a personal moral law.  With any true conviction, one must believe in this law enough to make it universal.  Okay, so maybe I am a Kantian.  


I won't claim to have any authority to shape universal law, but I will offer an explanation as to how I shape my own.  Hopefully, my words will help you do the same.