After reading “Is Art a Waste of Time” by Rhy Southan for the second time, I have learned a few things about myself. I have learned that I am very passionate about the arts without even knowing it. I always knew that I respected and enjoyed the arts, however, I didn’t participate in them as much as you might think I would after reading my first blog post. I have also learned that I am very stubborn and have almost a tunnel vision towards Southan’s essay. While I was reading it for the second time I noticed that just like the first time, I found myself getting angrier and angrier. I have no patience for people like the EA’s. I am all for helping people in poverty and helping trying to end it ,but I don’t think it has to come down to what they are doing. The EA’s are not even paying attention to their own message! They are trying to make people happy, that is their goal, by helping them. They are devoting their lives as much as they can towards helping people in poverty. They want to give money and aid them because in the end, those people will be happier if they had a little more in their pocket. It is a lot of it, but population in poverty is defiantly not 100% of the world! There are other people that need happiness on this planet, including themselves. Hats off to them if what they’re doing is what truly makes them happy, go ham at it, but that is not the entire world’s hobby. People do what they love and that is what makes them happy. For some people it is art. Those people are allowed to devote as much time to making art as the EA’s spend helping people in poverty. When I was glossing the text I just found more reasons to be angry and not like the EA’S. For example, while glossing the text I came across the word “lucrative”. After finding out on Dictionary dot com (http://www.dictionary.com/browse/lucrative) that it means “money making”, I re-read the sentence. It was in the first paragraph on page 437 of Rhy’s essay. In this paragraph it was talking about the replacement factor of the EA’s. Basically it says, if you’re not in a “lucrative” business or job, then you might as well not be helping the EA’s at all.  I become furious after reading this, a familiar feeling, and continue to hold my same opinion towards them. Glossing the text served as great kindling for the fire of hatred I have towards the EA’s. It helped me more understand words I didn’t know prior, and had me reaching new levels of hate for this organization. People are still good people as long as they are doing good. Good shouldn’t be measured, because every penny counts and a little good is better than none at all.