The Irony in Life

I actually wrote this last night and my computer wasn't on, so I had to use old-fashioned paper. My hand hurt a little afterwards. :)

Have you ever had something that just kept cropping up, that made you think "well that's ironic" ? Lately it's been like that for me with the subject of religion. Anything having to do with religion seems to keep surfaces at the most random times. First, I get assigned a project for WHAP on Hindu and when I told my mom about it, she says "oh here, I have a book on world religions" and it turns out there's 65 pages on Hinduism! Then, I was watching Kid Nation and the whole episode was about how the town should hold religious ceremonies and stuff, encompassing all religions (it was pretty interesting). Then during commercials, I tried to read ch. 7 ('tried' being the operative word), and the intro was talking about Rome and how it was split by religion. On top of that, lately I've been trying to go to church, but every opportunity I get, I end up not going for various (and sometimes not very good) reasons. I find that really, really weird and crazy and interesting, but mostly just ironic.

Also, (I wanted to mention this part a while ago, but didn't get a chance):
There's this club, First Priority, at our school. I knew of it from last year, but hadn't heard yet about when it would start this year or if it was something worth trying. I was talking to my friend, at lunch, who said she had heard from someone that it wasn't that great. Then at the end of sixth period, on the announcements came on, and right on cue, they say there was to be meeting that Wed. (I think it was Wed.). I just thought, "well that's cool, I was wondering about it." The bell rang and as I was walking down the stairs, ironically, I saw a sign: "First Priority meeting on Wed." That was just too weird to be another coincidence. Maybe it was a sign. You never know.

~vanessa

P.S. will be continued in next blog