Happy Monday Morning (Meme)

By Kimberly on 22nd March, 2009

Monday Morning Meme is hosted by WriteFromKaren and is always a set of questions that really get you thinking, and I think that reveal a lot about you to your readers.

This week’s questions are:

If a new medicine were developed that would cure cancer but caused a fatal reaction in one percent of those who took it, would you want it to be released to the public? Why or why not? Do you think we’re close to curing cancer? Have you ever lost someone to cancer? If so, please write a short tribute to that person.

You discover your wonderful one-year-old child is, because of a mix-up at the hospital, not yours. Would you want to exchange the child to try to correct the mistake? Why or why not?

Do you think that the world will be a better or a worse place 100 years from now? Explain your answer, please.

How many pictures do you have on your living room walls? And what are they? (paintings, photographs, sketches, abstract, family, etc). Feel like taking us on a tour of your home? If so, post your video or photos!

And My Answers:

Yes, I think I would want it released, but I would want everyone that considered it to be fully aware of the possible fatal reaction. I think cancer patients are well aware of their situations, and they should be given the option of choosing a cure; however, I do feel that they should be stressed over and over about the possible repercussions and maybe have to go through some type of education course to really know what they are getting into. (No, I’ve not lost someone close to me to cancer)
This is a tough one. Part of me says yes, I’d want MY child – the product of myself and the man I loved, but then I also recognize that there is a lot more to a parent/child relationship than blood or DNA, and I can’t imagine losing “my child” after that first year. To be perfectly honest, I just don’t know on this one.
If we continue as we are, I think it will be worse. I do not feel that we are on the right track, and unless something big happens, I don’t see us turning it around. Our citizens (as a whole – not everyone) seem to think more and more that they are “entitled” to a good life and all these great things and not that they need to get out there and be willing to work for them – even if they must take minimum wage jobs (or even higher paid jobs that they just don’t want) to have the things in life they feel they “deserve.” This becomes obvious early on in the school system when they expect teachers to give them good grades, give them longer to do their work, give them, give them, give them. I’m not sure who is to blame (if anyone) or how to fix it (if it’s possible), but I hate the direction we are going.
My house is covered in family pictures – mostly of my girls. I’m sitting in the dining room right now and looking at 13 pictures. There are even more in my living room. The bathroom is probably the only place in my house picture free. Some of my closer friends joke that my house is “wallpapered” in family pictures.

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