What I want from english 1101

I took the morning English 1101 class before I started working nights. So by the time classes rolled around I was ending my day with English while most people were starting theirs. I think this sets the backdrop for my starting this blog with an apology: I am way too hyped up on caffiene at the moment to think strait. Unfortuneatly, it’s the only way I can stay awake. I’ll try and promise you that I will stay on toppic.

English has always been one of my weakest subjects that I’ve held the most interest in. I’m a completely abstract person. I’m good at math and I can’t draw a stick figure. What most people don’t think about, is that this makes it very hard to transform my thoughts into words. I’ve always held the act of expressing exactly what I’m thinking or feeling in the highest regard. Because many of the people around me speak or read English, this means that English is an important tool for something I really care about. It has two major examples of where I think it becomes shockingly important, the professional and the personal side of life.

In my professional life it becomes very important to describe my thoughts and ideas in an effective way. An idea can never become great unless people know about it. It has been said that everone has a million dollar idea at least five times a month. If that were true, then why don’t we have more millionares? The simple answer is that people fail to comunicate these ideas. Another side of that is that you’ll never get help building your ideas into reality if you can’t express them properly to team mates.

On the flip side of life, the personal side, English becomes important for different reasons. If a friend is down in out, it’s very important to know how to express you care. There are simple words for this that we say every day, but all of those drive me crazy. Why would they drive me nuts? They aren’t personal. I need people to know that I care, not that I feel it’s politically correct for me to care in their situation. Of course, on the darker side I’d need to let people know exactly how I find their behavior distasteful and how I’d like it to change. Hopefully, making both our lives better.

So to answer the original topic, I’d really like English to make my life better. That’s the only criteria I really have for it. If I have to wait until I’m 64 for it to come in handy, I’m cool with that.