I think we all have little topics we are intrigued by. For me it's stratification. Stratification has occupied my mind for four or five years. My earliest recollection of developing a deeper opinion on the topic dates back to when I was nineteen. I lived with an individual who thought differently than I did about how to assess the value of other people. In this mentality, an individual's value seemed to be based on a coordinating outfit, an expensive purse, money, cars, and physical beauty. Although I disagreed with the perspective that value could be assigned to someone on these factors, for the first time in my life I understood how someone else could come to the conclusion that value was based on something external to character. The more time I spent with my roommate, the more I saw into this paradigm. I had never seen into another vantage point with so much depth before. I began to understand this thought process, and yet I couldn't agree with it, and I still don't.

I'm not saying that what I think is law, but since this is my blog, here's my soap box on stratification (actually it's only a small portion of it). Let's love people on merits of character. Appreciate the paint, but leave the bulk of importance on the integrity of a structure. Here's my dating plug--guys, when you're on dates don't show off what you are going to do for work, whom you are related to, or how much money you have. Those factors shouldn't have any bearing on whether a girl would like you any more or any less than she naturally does. And why should it? If I were a guy, I wouldn't want a girl that would be impressed or unimpressed by insignificant factors. Hmmm . . . I could go on forever; that's all for tonight.