Tuesday, July 27, 2010

A mirror or a image

Why is that whenever I look in the mirror I immediately check my face over. I find one thing I don't like about my features, and all a sudden  all I can focus on is that one thing. All I can think about is how that everyone is going to notice that I have a pimple or that I have slight shadow. But lately I've been asking myself "Why should I care what they think?". Now I'm seriously thinking about and it's true, Why should I care?! It's not like what these few people thing is going make my life go into a pit of despair if they don't like how my hair looks! So why care?! I care because there are people I'd like to impress but now I don't care about the rest. If you're going to judge someone on how they dress or look on one occasion then maybe you don't deserve to have me as a friend or even an acquaintance. Why is it that we constantly put ourselves deown because some media loving magazine says that this is out and this is in!? Why can't people just throw what they want on and still be the same person why do people have to change to be "IN", to be honest if what they show is "IN" I'd quite rather be Out! You watch these "Olay" commercials and there's these people that are always so skinny and no acne and no scars, and then they have the boldness to say "Love the skin you're in!"!??! What do they think these commercials make you feel you look at the people in the commercial and say "Hey I want to be perfect like that!" but their motto is love your own skin. If you ask me it's just a huge contradiction! So who cares what people look at you like jut look back at them and send them love because it's them who need the pity. I don't care if my hair's a little off! It's them who is going to be worrying all the time what others think and ruining there time! So relax and just go with the flow be mellow and compassionate. 

-Jon

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Paths of life.

Most people have choices they need to make. These choices can be as small as should I eat breakfast or should I walk into school today and be good? But there are the harder ones like "What religion should I be?" "Should I ask out that girl/guy that I have been in love since grade seven?". These choices can be scary sometimes even terrifying, but yet we are faced with them constantly. These life changing, dream making choices. But what do some of us do? We turn and run as fast as we can! We look everywhere for a place we can hide. But these choices are like the most talented hunters to ever be in reality. Eventually they find you no matter what you do these choices will find you, because if it's a choice we think is worth hiding from it is a choice that we must really have to make.
But why hide from choices?! Why try to avoid the one thing in life that we have the freedom to change. Why avoid one thing we can actually control unlike the weather or the time or the state of other people's minds? Why give away our own freewill? Because we're scarred we'll make the wrong choice? Well how are you going to know which choice is wrong if you never take a chance to find out?! How can you live the rest of your long life not knowing what would happen if you had of made this choice? What would have happened had I told them this.  You live in these shadows whenever you don't make a choice. Sometimes, yeah you will regret a choice but in the words of a song it says "There's only us, only this. Forget regret or life is your's to miss". These lyrics are so true! You can't be afraid to take a chance at something, because life can be changed or even taken at any moment. Any moment a truck or a tiger could burtt through your wall and you'd be gone. What happens then? The one thing you always wondered "What if?" about will never be answered!

So go out on a limb! Try something you've been wanting to for a long time or just try something new.

Thursday, July 8, 2010

No matter what, It does matter

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, a man with wisdom beyond what some can imagine. He may not have been smart or a genius but he was wise. 

 But when I was watching a movie today it mentioned a quote. Robert Pattinson he said "Gandhi once said that whatever you do in life will be insignificant but it is very important that you do it.." 

Gandhi was assassinated after all his life of trying to conduct peace and harmony he was killed by the one thing he hated in the world. Violence. Gandhi on the other hand did so much in his life that some people would say "Well Gandhi can say this because everything he did actually did matter waht can I do that matters!?". Well first of all yeah he did some VERY important things but so can you! So maybe you won't end a war or reign over a country and change the worlds view of set country; but maybe, just maybe you'll do something important even if it's saying hello to a person who seems lonely or offering your jacket to someone who is cold, maybe even giving a dollar to someone who needs it more then you do! But the point is anything can make the difference. So why not make it count? Why not try your best to make the things that you do that will be important be important in a good way not a bad one. Remember sometimes it's easier to save a life then you think.

Sunday, July 4, 2010

Walls

Everyday most of us are hurt by someone. Whether it's as simple as someone telling us we're wrong or as harsh as telling someone they are horrible and should die, or breaking up with them. But because of these things we put up what some people call walls. 
I guess some of them can be called walls. But hey some can be called fences like being timid to be weird because someone said it's weird to weird (what's up with that?!) but what about the ones that are from real hurts like someone you care about lying to you or finding out that the person you thought you could trust more then anyone in this world has been lying to you your whole relationship? What then? Should we call these gigantic walls we put up around or emotion castles? Maybe fortifications? Or maybe a bomb shelter. Call it what you may but we all have them.
These things are our most insecure thoughts. Maybe thoughts of "Oh I'm not good enough for him/her!" or "Why can't I be like everyone else?!". Why do we think these things?! Is it because most people now in today's times think that it's not cool or not right for people to think for themselves and want everyone to have the same images in their minds about how people should be?! But if ask me we are a generation that is letting self purpose die, we constantly put down people for being themselves and say everyone should be a certain way! You know what I say to the people saying that?! I say "Well have fun being a bunch of clones who can't be free". Please help yourself and dare to be different, because if you don't you will regret it.

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Tick, Tick, Tick

Most people think of a clock; maybe even a watch when they hear or read the words "Tick, Tick, Tick". But to me it's something so much more then that. It's the pass of time, the beat of my heart the thing that reminds me that I'm not dead to be truthful. Wake up in the morning and the first thing I do is ask "am I dead" I hear the tick and I know I am not.Sometimes I curse the fact that I was born a cripple. Maybe not something that everyone can notice but something that truly does effect my life greatly. But I also love it because it's sets me apart from all the clones of today society. I mean what have we come to when being yourself is something you get beat up for?! What happens when a boy or girl comes to school dressed in a way they like?! They get made fun of and picked on. Even harassed to the pint that they take their own life?! Is this what WE want. Because it surely isn't what I want. I wish that when I was younger I wasn't picked on until I was on the verge of tears! Maybe I wouldn't be the way I am today. But one thing I'm glad did happen was that I took a lesson from it. I have done my best in life to treat people the way I should. Yes I have messed up on very many occasions. But I also have made many people just that much happier by being a kind person and maybe saying a gentle word to them. So why can't we all do it?! Why can't it be a time when everyone treats people right and gives respect to those that need it the most. If you read this tell someone something today that will make them feel better, even if it's just a simple "Hi. I'm so glad I have you as a friend"; for someone it may be the difference between life and death. Because I know on more then one occasion it was for me...

Bible thumping: Sometimes it helps

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you"<><> I wish more people would live by these words. Sure some people say "Oh hey that's from the bible I'm not some bible thumping hypocrite who thinks he's better then everyone else so why should I listen to that?!". But Really if you took the words into considerations you would see it's so much more then a sentence. If everyone treated people how they themselves would want to be treated, wouldn't we all be better off? We wouldn't have girls looking at themselves and thinking how ugly they are when in truth they are beautiful, we wouldn't have people committing suicide everyday in our country even in our province. If people tried a little harder I'm sure we could make the difference.