Week Two

I just read the article about Vytorin, and I don't know what I think about it. I don't have much expertise in the PR field or about pharmaceutical companies, so this entry is mostly based on my personal feelings. I just know it made me feel disgusted.

I know there are always two sides, if not more, to a story. I'm just trying to understand this drug company's motives and hope to God that there is more wisdom and information and value to their current advertising tactics than merely bringing in more money.

It makes me so uneasy to read things like this. It makes me sick to think that corporations throw their personal and comapny morals out the window for monetary profit.

This article told me that morals are in the shadows of money, and to one day be a part of something like that scares me. I know that people in those companies know that what they're doing is wrong. I can't imagine that they think otherwise. I wonder if they feel trapped in their own bodies, because i can't imagine any of those people have a clear conscience with this issue.

I refuse to believe that people are heartless. I know that people who have been involved in this cover up have lost sleep and been in a type of emotional turmoil. I just wonder what it's like for them. I wonder how hard it would've been to be stand up and go against the grain, risking their careers and reputation and so forth. I'd like to believe that I would have been that person. I just wonder what's still covered up and what has gone on behind closed doors the past two years.

Week One

I never really think about who I am, I just am. I like writing and thinking about stuff like this, because it allows me to learn about myself. Sometimes I need physical words on paper or a computer screen to come to a realization of things.

No matter what people say, they're always interested in themselves. And although I've known myself for 22 years, I know I still have much I don't know about my aspirations, fears, strengths, weaknesses, etc. I think that's part of the reason I don't have a specific vision of where I see myself going after I graduate. Then again, maybe my unanswered questions are just a part of who I am.

I am an optimist. I try to find the good in people. I believe that life is what you make of it. I think that things are as bad as you make them. I have faith. I think that if you don't have friends, you don't have much of anything else. I know you have to laugh every day of your life to be healthy. I always try to view situations from more than just my perspective, and I don't mind admitting that I'm wrong. I always try to take the high road, but my immaturity still has a voice. I haven't come across much adversity yet in life, but I'm waiting for it. Knowing that, I realize that my ways of thinking about the world will one day be tested.

I guess that the way I see things in life dictates how I handle all of my relationships and dealings. I don't stress too much, or I don't think I do. I know that things will always work themselves out. However, I try to be active in making sure that they will work. It just makes sense that my attributes and personality quirks mirror my decision making process. And it has worked out O.K. for me thus far.