Contemplative.

I just read a blog--and old one, one that is not applicable now--of a college friend who is very, very different from me. She wrote that she's "back to hating men" and their "lack of control," their "lustful stares" and their "selfishness." My first thought was one of disbelief and shock: What kind of men have YOU been hanging around??

It's still so incredible to me that some of my friends and even my sister think at times that there are ONLY men in the world like that. All of the men I know are decent men, and the man I am engaged to is a decent man. I just don't understand how people like my friend and my sister only encounter men like my friend describes in her blog. It's honestly incredible to me.

This is making me think of the pain in the world again and how disturbing it is. And I have friends like that who think of it as just normal... Normal? Pain like this canNOT be just normal.

And I am amazed again at how differently I have grown up than some of my friends and my sister, and how in the end it's all about choice. I wrote a really good entry about that a while ago: Choice. It's still insightful to me when I think about it.

But truly...It is amazing and incredible to me how two people can grow up so differently and how much it affects their worldview. I'm still shaking my head in disbelief.

-Stephanie

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