Acorn

Issue date: 2/15/08 Section: Opinion

Media Credit: Kelsi Bitgood

Almost a year ago, I learned that my heart pumps extra beats. Upon hearing this, most people will look at me sadly and say, "I'm sorry." I quickly correct them and say that there's nothing to apologize for.

Slight heart arrhythmias are actually fairly common and relatively harmless if taken care of. More importantly, I feel like this slight deformity suits me extremely well. I like to think that my overactive heart is what causes me to be as passionate of an individual as I am.

I rarely talk about my love life to the public, but since this week is Valentine's Day, I will. Actually, I think I might have just lied to the entire Drew community. I do talk about my love life to the public. Quite frequently actually.

By this point, most of you reading this are asking yourselves when this has ever happened. Certainly I have never published an article about my dating preferences or romantic life. Well, usually I only get to talk about my love life in terms of politics. When it comes to my actual love life though, not too many people want to hear it.

That's interesting, because I certainly read and hear enough about other people's dating lives. There's a thousand radio songs, commercials, and products around Valentine's Day that focus on the subject of romance. Such things typically focuses entirely on funny stereotypes of men and women and makes little reference to or completely glances over the fact that there even are same-sex relationships.

Don't worry, Drew University. I'm not upset. In fact, as most people will tell you, I'm one of the biggest proponents of cheesy, gushy feel-good things.

Rest assured that I completely support the Valentine's Day mushiness.

I just wish at times when I talk about my own dating life, that it didn't have to have an underlying context of some political debate.

Over the years, I have commented much on the fact that America has politicized love and the concept of human compassion.

We are taught to think in terms of conservative and liberal. In truth, even here on our own campus there's little distinction between the conservative students and the liberal students.

Many of the so-called conservatives here seem to party hard, drink, and engage in pre-marital sexual relations pretty frequently - all things that their political affiliation condemns. The liberal students at the school are no different.

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