A Farewell

Hasta la Vista. Adeus. Au Revoir. Arrivederci. Auf Wiedersehen. Tot ziens. Totsiens. Sayōnara. Zài jiàn. Goodbye. No matter what language you say it in, goodbyes “express good wishes when parting.” Well, this is the last time I’ll be blogging, at least for now, so I’ll be parting from all my avid readers out there.

This blog started as a class project. The class was told to write a blog on a debated issue that they felt passionate about. I feel passionate about quite a few things, so that was the hardest part. I could argue about women’s or gay rights, that is a never-ending debate. But that’s so hard to support and to write about for so long. Oh, I could write about child prostitution in less-developed countries! But that would make me so upset all the time and I wouldn’t have too many new things to write about. My professor suggested some others I was already thinking about, but that wouldn’t be creative. So, it was in the midst of this crisis that I arrived at the vaccination debate.

The first time I heard about the vaccination debate was my junior year of high school at an academic camp at Duke University. My Genetics class was about to be thrown to the Philosophy class, so our instructor had us practice debating skills. She introduced the vaccine debate and, to my surprise, someone in the course actually opposed them. Up until that point, I had never realized that vaccines were debatable.

So, two years after, I took it upon myself to argue as I was unprepared to that day. With legitimate evidence backed by science and history. I hope that my blog has either helped inform you so that you can make your own decisions or convinced you that vaccines are not the devil. I leave you with what may be the only quote on the internet about goodbyes that has nothing to do with relationships.

“History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.'”

-Eduardo Galeano