proud to be a virgin!

while the sound of riverdance music blares through my speakers, i write. let's cut the dramatics, shall we? haha. was awaken by my dad at 7:10am. he reminded me i had to go to the doctor's office today. my mom clearly stated yesterday, i was allowed to sleep until 8. so i groaned and closed my eyes again. an hour and five minutes later i rose from my bed and quickly changed my clothes. if i went downstairs in my pj's my mom would have rushed me. so, changing into a tube top and jeans i followed my hungry-eyed fat cats, smokey and starlight, down the stairs to the basement. finished feeding them, i moved onto the small 8 pounder, savannah. battling my dog to get out of the way of the door, i finished feeding and letting savannah go outside to roam the countryside. cleaning myself up and grabbing a bagel, my mom and i headed to princeton to the doctor's.
physical, blood work, hpv cervical shot, and meningococcal shot. what struck me as odd though is my doctor talked to me about the hpv shot and said it was even given to girls as young as 9 yrs old. 9 year-olds being sexually active?? this was a shock to me. i am 17 yrs old and have never kissed a guy! these girls are in what? 4th 5th grade, and they're sexually active. having sex. being with a guy and having sexual relations. it's so sad.
i can only ask myself what is this world coming to? what will my children have to face when they're my age and even younger? all these new diseases are coming to light and thankfully, some have vaccines. but what about the ones that can't be treated? what then? what are we supposed to do? and i know some don't think it's a big deal that people are out there having sex. "it's their right, their decision, their life." yes, but what if they catch a disease and become pregnant. that baby has a high chance of contracting the same disease. when they grow up they can pass it on to someone else and then to someone else. do you see how the cycle starts? just because someone couldn't keep their emotions under control and they're legs closed. i know i can't change the entire world, that will have to wait another day (haha). but for now i can stress that having sex out of the protection of marriage is wrong and detrimental to the physical and emotional states of its participants. i can not stress enough to try all you can to abstain from having sex. yes, people think it's more fun but why have fun if it can be deadly? i'd rather have fun knowing i can't get hurt in any way then to risk having the experience (which may be pleasurable at the moment) and getting hurt for years and years to come.


so now from the hpv vaccine my muscle kind of hurts. gonna eat something, heading to the store, hopefully can buy josh groban's cd closer. woo! need some new/old music from him and perhaps i will buy a new purse. i'm sick of this Guess one, even though it's fabulous, time for a change =). going to youth group later on with jill.