Inner Dialogue

I've had the chance to share a couple of things with one of my newer students in the last couple of days. He is a thoughtful young man who lives just a few miles down the road. I sort of knew him through MySpace because he was on the top friends list of most of my other students. He was away at school but came home this semester and ended up in my robotics class. It's been a pleasure to get to know him.

So tonight we ended up chatting about politics. It started when he told me about the BudLight Apology-bot message he sent to his mom. I'm a pro at playing devil's advocate, regardless of which side of the fence I am sitting on, so without giving away my personal position, we started discussing the current president. The other day I had shared with him my life lesson #1: Accept people for who they are, not who you want them to be. Tonight he got #2: just because someone doesn't agree with your world view doesn't make them evil or bad, it just makes them different. That led to a very, very good discussion on current politics. I love being able to talk about something as potentially inflamatory as politics with someone who knows how to be cool, rational, and intelligent in their arguments. It was a fun chat that ended like this:

DK (8:14) good discussion, btw... nice to do it with someone who can think intelligently
BF (8:14) thanks I feel the same way. they are always a educational experiences
DK (8:15) that's what we're here for ... if you aren't always learning something, what's the point?
BF (8:15) exactumundo