Wednesday, November 25, 2009
appearance
Sunday, November 22, 2009
skillz
Friday, November 13, 2009
women & girls
Sunday, November 1, 2009
halloween
Friday, October 30, 2009
losing meaning
It’s ironic how the two words that have lost the most significance are the two strongest emotions that a person is capable of feeling. Love and hate. People loosely throw them around as often as they throw around any other emotion it seems as though there is no in between, its either on one extreme or the other. You hear people saying “oh my God I love that!” or expressing their love to people they have only met once in their life. And on the other hand you hear people saying how much they hate someone they have never even met or how much they hate that particular flavor of ice cream. words that once used to mean so much now mean barely anything to people. I'm not sure if its because people use them so frequently that they have lost their meaning or if it is because they lost their meaning that people use them so frequently (although the first explanation makes more sense) but the point is that its sad. you dont have a word to express emotions anymore unless you are one of the few people who dont overuse it. but even then you cant be sure that your "significant other" or whoever your talking to will understand the significance that you peg behind this word, be it hate or love. I guess it doesnt help either that these are two pretty undefinable words and even though the dictionary tries to define them, everyone has their own definition that sill holds valid because frankly you cant define emotions. they are something to be felt, not told. but even if you did want to tell you dont have the words anymore. thanks modern society for finding yet another way to fuck up people's relationships.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
freckles
Have you ever noticed that lately children don’t have freckles anymore??
Think about it, when was the last time that you saw a child under the age of say 10 years with freckles? It’s not only the redheads that are dying out but so are freckled children, but that doesn’t have so much to do with genetics. That has more to do with modernization.
So I have composed some theories on the reasons for the loss of freckles:
Theory 1: Children spend way too much time inside. This kind of ties into child obesity also but that’s a different topic. Children don’t play outside as much as they used to before all the fancy video games and everything came along. They think ‘why go outside and run around in a field when I can play video games or WEBKINZ,’ which is apparently the newest big thing among children although technically it’s just a rip off of neopets. It’s not only the children though, im not criticizing parenting styles but sometimes it’s hard to balance your life with children and the TV gives you that much needed short break to get some of that work done or even just to kick back and relax. So you plop your kids down in front of the electronic nanny. It’s ok every now and then but you know you have a problem when your kids prefer that over anything else. But I guess its not only the electronics’ fault though, although that does have a lot to do with it considering that to a child today, their favorite TV show seems much more appealing than running around in a field. But even that is hard to come across. There’s a lack of outside places for kids to play. Parks and playgrounds have been transformed and instead we have parking lots and skyscrapers or office buildings. Even though that might be helpful when your looking for a spot to park your car or a nice building to work in…but children are not welcome in either of those places, after all would you want your kid running around in a parking lot? I guess grey is the new green.
Theory 2: overprotective parents. Which further divides into 2 subtopics. First, no child goes outside in the summer, and even in the winter now, without sunscreen. And of course it has to be over at least SPF 30 , and that’s on the low end, and especially on their faces. Everyone is so worried about skin cancer and cancer in general which granted is not something that you should take lightly because it is a serious thing, but a lighter sunscreen or maybe even a little time in the sun without sunscreen would not kill you. Lets not get too crazy though because enough just might if you have bad luck.
Second, parents don’t let their children get hurt anymore. God forbid they need to take out a band-aid or that their child shed a drop of blood. Now I know I’m not a parent but you cant baby them that much after they are literally babies. Having reached maybe 4 years old you have to let them get hurt and you have to let them experiment. They can handle it and they have to learn somehow. Besides, your skin heals! Your body is prepared to fix the little things, maybe it will hurt for a few days or even a few minutes but its not that big of a deal. It will happen eventually so you might as well be there when it happens to take care of it. Besides, at that age scars are cool. I’m not saying let your kid do crazy things and end you both up in the ER but let them climb a tree if they want to! Hell, let them fall out of the tree. You know the lesson will get across that way. Yes there may be hospital bills, but again, casts are even cooler than scars to kids, and don’t you want your kid to be happy?
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
in vino veritas (misspelled??)
I realized that I have severely fallen behind in my blog posting. If you go back to the very first post, I promise to try and post at least every day…that did not happen. Sorry to my very very few readers. Thanks for sticking around (if you still are)
So right now im sitting in history class writing this on a word document in case my teacher comes around, this way it looks like im taking notes…which of course im not. But good news is im recording this class so if I want to (which I don’t) I can go back and listen to it whenever I want. Clever huh?
Anyways moving on from that because obviously if your reading this you have better things to do than listen to me talk about my history class. also, sorry for the bad quality of writing, i seem to have temporarily lost my mojo/topics to discuss/junior year is working me hard so heres what i came up with with the little bit of my brain that has not been fried to insanity.
So today’s topic is: speak the truth
It’s interesting how people only speak the whole truth when they are… lets say not quite themselves to put It nicely. If your not picking up on it, people only speak the whole truth completely uninhibited for a few reasons:
- they are completely drunk
- they are really high on something
- they are talking in their sleep
- a situation has reached the point where something really just has to be done
reason 1 and 2 kinda go together though seeing as both mess with your ability to make decisions that you may consider right or perhaps even morally sound while you are sober. but then again all of them are kinda similar except number 4, thats the one where you really have to be in your right mind OR you could be driven to the point of insanity by something...so all of them involve some sort of mental setback.
anyways, a lot of people say that the truth hurts, and although thats true (granted not all truths are bad) dont you think that if someone has been lying to your face would hurt you even more if/when you found out?
example, a group of people who you think are your friends have actually been just pretending to like you and actually trash talk you behind your back.
the lie: that you are their friend
the truth: that you are not their friend and they hate you/are annoyed by you
in this situation the lie is hurting you more because you are under the impression that you have a nice group of friends but thats not the reality. if they just told you the truth you could stop living a lie and get a new group of friends who actually like you! you would be much happier come 20 years when you go to invite all your friends to your wedding and the few people who do come are only there because theres an open bar. even a simpler example of like you have B.O and nobody tells you, the lie of omission is hurting you more than a simple "you smell bad" would cost you. i think the main point is that your not sparing people by lying to them, your hurting them more. Besides, whats the worst thing you could say to them??
Also check this out. Its my godmother/cousin’s blog http://rubsomeoatmealonit.blogspot.com/ its some pretty kick ass blog material, clearly the blog writing genetics were not passed onto me. Oh well, I do what I can.
