Simplicty

I think we miss out when we only seek to have fun experiences because real growth occurs in any new experience period.

07042009

You protest, signs in flights

That there is no need for us to fight

You're assured your family is in safe arms

Only because soldiers for your sake, bare arms

The value of your rights are far from free

You ungratefully steal them from the soldiers who fight bravely

A true patriot waves the American flag

symbolizing we have not turn our backs

Signs Down, March On

Live Peace, Then It Will Live On

Our Generation

I have found the youth of America so blind of the magnitude of the events going on within our own history. From the falling of our Twin Towers as the only attack on US mainland soil to the Iraq War on Terrorism peaking at nearly a decade of struggle. 200 years after President Abraham Lincoln took a stand for the liberation of minorities, our new President Barack Obama has stepped to the throne to complete Lincoln's dream. The evolution of technology has given us clear perspective of The Iranian Revolution as passionate teenagers fighting for political reform. Our generation has seen the country in a few short years completely revolutionize. As we take a more prominent stance in guiding our future, it is important to remember the changes we want our children to speak of and be brought up under.

Emotions

Like almost any other young girl, I look at my father as being one of the most wise men that I know. Growing up, my father always told me to never play with anyone's emotions, no matter the situation. When I was younger, to me that meant no taunting on the playgrounds after school but as I'm experiencing life more, I'm beginning to see the power of what he was trying to teach me.
Emotions are much like the switchboard for the actions of any man. With a few warps and changes in the settings, a man can be guided and cornered to do and feel the most pleasurable or most awful of feelings. Great persuasive speakers all through history have first identified the emotional state of their audience and followed by delivering the setting changes that are desired.
This has always been on my mind until I realized that in our most personal of relationships, only the emotions which are offered out in the open can be altered. These relationships include professional,domestic, romantic, platonic, etc. relationships we create our whole lives. An entire switchboard of emotions are to be made available to all the paths that we cross in life. By the end of our lives, we would be lucky to even have a small remnant left of ourselves if that was the case. If we make specific emotions unavailable and untouchable, we further reinforce their safety.


Bad picture, but Hibachi bar was great!

Tick Tock

Time is often a forgotten part of our decisions and viewpoints in
life. Time is more than blank moments of life. At any moment over the
span of time, life is happening and thoughts are forming. In that same
time there is the potential to move, intentionally or not. No one has
to touch or speak to you to influence you, your mind simply must pick up
bits of information that you observe. It's foolishness to dispose of
time thinking it has no value as long as it's seemingly empty.
Time can be our worst nightmares, as well. When our determination has eyes set on a desired destination, time can be your nemesis. Always
constant, time will never bend in your favor. It keeps equal game hovered over us all.
Karma uses time to sting us for growth. It's never hard to keep your
lips sealed together in trying times, but we struggle to sit patiently
as time ticks away.

Companions

Occasionally I get a chance to browse through my previous entries and being that I started this blog in 2007, I can see the mental growth that I has developed.
Passion creates satisfaction in our lives and even better, a comfort zone. Not all comfort zones can be negative, it still can give the drive to push for more. That 'more' we strive for is just found in an area our hearts are committed to. We begin to strive whole heartedly with the anticipation of success and happiness rather than the fear of failure. When you get to the point that you are afraid of letting your happiness slip through your fingers after a taste of its satisfaction, you find yourself in a dangerous place. To fear the one thing that gives you satisfaction the most, is followed by a collapse in our drive to move in life. Men grow weary and time gets long, but in these events, the role of companionship comes alive.
Our companions are not to be our clutch in bad spirits but to be our wind when we have forgotten there is a world to discover. Friendships are not to blow us chaotically down a road, they are to lift us as we spread our own wings.

The world has forgotten true companionship in all the many forms that they come in. Friendship is deteriorating and in its place is rising network association. When more than half of American marriage end in failure, we refuse to see what we have molded companionship to be in the past. As friends barter each other in return for temporary financial gain, do not be surprised to see their bloodshed on the corners of your hometown. When your neighbor is an attractive face void of human emotion, no one can complain any longer of being used. Humans use and take for granted. Its become our culture. Finding someone where you can have connection in an intimate and genuine manner has become a fairytale. (Intimacy is not sex, but a close emotional interaction with another person).

Free Writing

Freehand Assignment (March 23, 2009)

What good is the wait and pricey airline ticket if you forget the sky and never take a glimpse at it.
What good is the culture of a far foreign land if you see its men as immigrants and not as fellow man.
Setting aside all the stereotypes that Ive previously learned, I will take my time to watch the world turn.
How can I expect to fully understand who I am if I never stop to consider my fellow man...
As much more than a color, shape or size? Id much rather be looked at straight in the eyes
I want people to see the heart MLK described, then everyone will see what I am trying to make of my life.