When Harry Met Sally

When Harry Met Sally is an incredibly amazing romantic comedy staring Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan. It depicts their lives and their struggle between hating each other, friendship, and love. The main focus of this movie is the idea that Harry has, that men and women can never be friends. He believes this because love and other feeling will get in the way. He thinks that no matter what, he cannot be friends with an attractive woman, because he thinks he can never like them as just a friend.

I was immediately put off by that theory. I thought to myself as I sat on my couch snuggled in a blanket eating popcorn, ‘I have plenty of guys, that are friends.’ However, through watching the movie I saw that Harry and Sally, although constantly trying to be ‘just friends’ and ignore their other feelings, were meant to be together. And in the end, well I might ruin the ending here, but it’s just like every romantic comedy in the end, they end up together in love.

After the movie ends I think to myself, ‘well its just a movie;’ but is it? Can men and women truly be just friends? I think even further to the chemistry of our bodies. What is love, really, chemically? Isn’t it just a bunch of chemical reactions in your brain releasing different endorphins and neurotransmitters?

But I tend to think of myself as an optimist rather than a pessimist. And I think love and friendship both come down to faith. Its like what Noah says in The Notebook, “Science can only take you so far.” You’ve got to trust yourself and your instincts and you truly will find friendship and love in your life. It does not matter if it is a man and a woman; it is completely possible for them to be great friends or in love, it just depends.

Trusting China

In reading the New York Times online, I came across an editorial called: China’s Baby Formula Scandal.  (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/20/opinion/20sat2.html)  This article explains that we have not only had problems in the past with China having lead in products such as baby toys and dog food.  It also emphasizes the newly discovered sin of the Chinese manufacturing companies: contaminated baby milk powder.

It is honestly outrageous, the irresponsibility of Chinese companies to not fully check a product, especially one that is fed to infants.  Luckily this product never made its way to the United States, however, it devastatingly killed many babies is China and injured many more.  It amazes me the amount of times we hear about lead-ridden products on the markets, making people ill or even killing them, and China still can’t guarantee safe products.  It should be the duty of China’s government to ensure that the merchandise these companies are producing are harmless, however, they have yet to show their capability to do so.

Yet, maybe this is not all China’s fault.  Maybe we, as consumers, are a part of the problem.  We continuously demand more, cheap goods.  And the best way to do that is by importing from China.  The only real way to fix this issue is to boycott China’s products.  Can we even trust them anyways?  They have contaminated our children’s toys and poisoned our pets, what is next?  Poison our infants?  No.  Americans need to stop buying the cheap toys that have ‘made in China,’ inscribed in them, which all have the potential of causing damage.  That’s the whole point; we never know what where or when could be harmful.  But we do know that China is not a reliable source for safe goods for America. 

Enlightened by the discovery of a new lead contaminated product, I realize now that the chance is not worth it and the likelihood of China changing soon is low.  Americans must check the ‘made in’ label to ensure their own and their family’s safety.  Although China is growing quite rapidly, it is still not safe to trust China.