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My mom took a critical thinking class a few years ago. She comes back to her textbook often, and the subject of "critical thinking" comes up all the time. We seem to argue more and more each year and she's always trying to get me to read this book. I don't know why I find it so horrible, but I do. Maybe it's just me being stubborn, I don't know. I feel like I can hold a conversation and have a good discussion with most everyone, but for some reason with her I just get so defensive. I feel badly that I drive her crazy. Well, that we drive each other crazy. Anyway, I'm getting off topic. The point is, that she finally got me to read 3 pages of the book this morning because we'd just had a bad conversation. So, I read the pages and tried to have the conversation with her again and I went and screwed it up within 3 minutes. Jeesh. I just don't learn. Maybe it's cause she's my mom and I'm too hard on her, I don't know. Maybe I want things to be how they are not and I'm not letting it go, I just don't know. But, every time I come home I tell myself that I'm going to be a good, nice person to her and I go and screw it up within a day. Okay, now that that's off my chest, I'm going to go out and attempt a normal conversation yet again.