Most people tend to play it safe when it comes to their style. What's the fun in that? Wearing black tank tops and jeans everyday? Basic straightened shoulder length hair? Grey hoodies with no patterns? Limiting your shopping to only Abercrombie? It's all so boring and overdone. Everywhere you look it's the same styles from the same store. It's the style of safety.
Everyone is different on the inside, so we ought to show just how different we are on the outside. There is no need to be afraid. People will love us as we come, and if they don't they are not worth the time. If someone decides that they don't like us because of the colorful tights on our legs or the feathered hat on our head, we shouldn't bother with them. Do we really want to change who we are just to be accepted? Is that really what is going to make us happy? Friends won't expect us to alter ourselves; they wouldn't want us to either.
So many stores sell unique one of a kind clothing, that is fun to wear. It's so sad that these stores often don't profit well because people are afraid to wear their products. It's time people stop worrying so much about what is "in." To be a true beauty, you have to stand out. And you can't stand out if you just go with the flow. Dare to be bold. Dare to be you.
Monday, June 29, 2009
Saturday, June 27, 2009
four
This blog is not written entirely from my own personal perspective or experience. I pulled most of these ideas from what I've seen in others' lives and from what has been shared with me. Parts of this are written based off of myself trying to look through their eyes.
Loneliness...
Nothing could be quite so painful. Unfortunately it's a pain that we all know far too well. Not many people can say that they haven't spent a night awake until four in the morning all alone in their bedroom. We've all done it. We sit up in bed watching TV, surfing the Internet, blogging, or simply staring at the shadows on the walls. As we do this, we think the same thing as one another: how painful it is to be alone in the blackness of our bedrooms, only lit by the light of our computer and TV, while we know our friends sleep contently.
We fill our lonely void with envy. Everyone becomes jealous of their friends, wishing to be them. But why? Are their lives really so much greater than our own? No. They go through equal amounts of loneliness as we. For all we know, the nights we lie awake in bed, they are as well. Yet we go on telling ourselves that their lives are so great and so much better than our own. For whatever reason they have it made; they are stress free.
All we wind up doing is bashing ourselves. We explain how the world is out to get is; how everyone else is allowed to be loved, but for reasons unknown to us we are not allowed to be loved along with them. "We don't deserve happiness," we say. "Everyone wants us to suffer, and takes merriment in our unbearable trials." We never know why any of this is, but we say it like we know it's true. But the real fact of the matter is that it's false in all of its entirety. In actuality, nothing could be more wrong. Deep in our hearts do we really believe it is possible for the entire world to be that twisted and evil? Luckily, most of us know deep down that it's not, but unfortunately some of us don't. If you take my opinion, those people are the true "twisted" of this world. Those are the people that really need help.
Instead of focusing on how great others have it, we should think more about what we have that maybe they don't. Perhaps we should talk with our friends about our lives. Open up a little. Our friends (who probably lie awake envying us) would be able to tell us what we have that is great in our lives, and all that we should be grateful for. However, none we all refuse to tell them of our secret envy. We know that if our friends knew of our selfish thoughts of suicide and self-deprivation, they would be furious. That is why we keep them tucked away in the back corners of our minds.
Someday this world will crumble. Someday we will die. Someday our loved ones will die. Someday we will be old and arthritic. Someday we will lose our independence. Someday we will truly be alone. Someday we need to stop our selfish thoughts. Someday we need to put an end to our jealousy. And someday we need to realize that our lives are fine, and that the others that we envy may just have it worse than we do ourselves and envy us.
Loneliness...
Nothing could be quite so painful. Unfortunately it's a pain that we all know far too well. Not many people can say that they haven't spent a night awake until four in the morning all alone in their bedroom. We've all done it. We sit up in bed watching TV, surfing the Internet, blogging, or simply staring at the shadows on the walls. As we do this, we think the same thing as one another: how painful it is to be alone in the blackness of our bedrooms, only lit by the light of our computer and TV, while we know our friends sleep contently.
We fill our lonely void with envy. Everyone becomes jealous of their friends, wishing to be them. But why? Are their lives really so much greater than our own? No. They go through equal amounts of loneliness as we. For all we know, the nights we lie awake in bed, they are as well. Yet we go on telling ourselves that their lives are so great and so much better than our own. For whatever reason they have it made; they are stress free.
All we wind up doing is bashing ourselves. We explain how the world is out to get is; how everyone else is allowed to be loved, but for reasons unknown to us we are not allowed to be loved along with them. "We don't deserve happiness," we say. "Everyone wants us to suffer, and takes merriment in our unbearable trials." We never know why any of this is, but we say it like we know it's true. But the real fact of the matter is that it's false in all of its entirety. In actuality, nothing could be more wrong. Deep in our hearts do we really believe it is possible for the entire world to be that twisted and evil? Luckily, most of us know deep down that it's not, but unfortunately some of us don't. If you take my opinion, those people are the true "twisted" of this world. Those are the people that really need help.
Instead of focusing on how great others have it, we should think more about what we have that maybe they don't. Perhaps we should talk with our friends about our lives. Open up a little. Our friends (who probably lie awake envying us) would be able to tell us what we have that is great in our lives, and all that we should be grateful for. However, none we all refuse to tell them of our secret envy. We know that if our friends knew of our selfish thoughts of suicide and self-deprivation, they would be furious. That is why we keep them tucked away in the back corners of our minds.
Someday this world will crumble. Someday we will die. Someday our loved ones will die. Someday we will be old and arthritic. Someday we will lose our independence. Someday we will truly be alone. Someday we need to stop our selfish thoughts. Someday we need to put an end to our jealousy. And someday we need to realize that our lives are fine, and that the others that we envy may just have it worse than we do ourselves and envy us.
Sunday, June 14, 2009
three
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
One of the most true phrases of all time. Because of the truth in this statement, nothing can be ugly. There will always certainly be at least one person that finds something that is generally described as hideous, as beautiful.
Moles, freckles, and fat are almost always described as unsightly. Magazines tell us about which celebrities have gained 5 pounds or have newly found sun damage on their faces. How awful and hateful of those writers. However, what is even more atrocious is that we, the readers, buy into it and believe the hurtful insults within those pages. Society is falling into a slump of only seeing one figure as the proper representation of beauty: the rail thin, flawless complexion, and long goddess hair of someone who is a Victoria's Secret model.
So if this is what beauty is considered, then what about the millions upon millions of people that don't look like this? Are they ugly? According to the entertainment industry, yes they are. Unfortunately, that is the industry that has the greatest impact on people's lives. It is unfair for the media to portray beauty in only one way. It decreases the self-esteem of millions of people. And regardless of whether or not those people wish to listen to media, they cannot escape it. In the world today, around every turn you make you see more of the same: skinny women in bikinis on billboards and flawless skin in a make up ad.
If you were to take my opinion, the entertainment industry is where the true ugly of the world lies. Perhaps the word grotesque would be a more exact description. They brainwash us into all thinking one thing. They want us to all be the same. Slowly, they are turning the world into mental clones. That is the most hideous thing that is to be seen in our age in time; not the people who have chubby bellies, or moles on their bodies, or freckles and blemishes on their faces.
The cruel industry has gotten people to work out an unhealthy amount of hours, starve themselves, throw up consistently, fritter away money on products that don't work, etc, etc. We are all living at the demand of what we consider a higher society in our modernized world. We all think we have come so far, and have reached such heights in equality, but because of this issue with so-called "beauty" we are the same as we have always been. Stop the madness, and step back and look at this glorious world through your own eyes, not the media's.
One of the most true phrases of all time. Because of the truth in this statement, nothing can be ugly. There will always certainly be at least one person that finds something that is generally described as hideous, as beautiful.
Moles, freckles, and fat are almost always described as unsightly. Magazines tell us about which celebrities have gained 5 pounds or have newly found sun damage on their faces. How awful and hateful of those writers. However, what is even more atrocious is that we, the readers, buy into it and believe the hurtful insults within those pages. Society is falling into a slump of only seeing one figure as the proper representation of beauty: the rail thin, flawless complexion, and long goddess hair of someone who is a Victoria's Secret model.
So if this is what beauty is considered, then what about the millions upon millions of people that don't look like this? Are they ugly? According to the entertainment industry, yes they are. Unfortunately, that is the industry that has the greatest impact on people's lives. It is unfair for the media to portray beauty in only one way. It decreases the self-esteem of millions of people. And regardless of whether or not those people wish to listen to media, they cannot escape it. In the world today, around every turn you make you see more of the same: skinny women in bikinis on billboards and flawless skin in a make up ad.
If you were to take my opinion, the entertainment industry is where the true ugly of the world lies. Perhaps the word grotesque would be a more exact description. They brainwash us into all thinking one thing. They want us to all be the same. Slowly, they are turning the world into mental clones. That is the most hideous thing that is to be seen in our age in time; not the people who have chubby bellies, or moles on their bodies, or freckles and blemishes on their faces.
The cruel industry has gotten people to work out an unhealthy amount of hours, starve themselves, throw up consistently, fritter away money on products that don't work, etc, etc. We are all living at the demand of what we consider a higher society in our modernized world. We all think we have come so far, and have reached such heights in equality, but because of this issue with so-called "beauty" we are the same as we have always been. Stop the madness, and step back and look at this glorious world through your own eyes, not the media's.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Two
Fear
You don't know fear until there is a possum in your bedroom when you get home from a happy little night with your boyfriend.
You don't know fear until there is a possum in your bedroom when you get home from a happy little night with your boyfriend.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
One
This entry discusses the hardest thing in this world to understand.
Love: a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person
Love: sexual passion or desire
Above or two dictionary definitions of love, but is either one of them correct? There are over twenty-five different definitions for love in the dictionary. With so much written on love, you would think that people would have a mental grasp on it by now. However, people don't realize that that is impossible. The words love should not even be in dictionaries. The mind has no way of attaining a full comprehension of love. The mind is not even in control when love is present. Love passes control over to the heart.
Observe any man who is infected with the disease of love. He could have once been rational and organized before finding his beloved, but once he found him/her, he lost control. This man now thinks irrationally, is constantly distracted, and is fritting away money and time on one single person. Does he wish to do otherwise? Of course not. When the heart loves, the heart is generous. It gives all that is able to be given. All selfless thoughts and feelings are banished from the entire body.
Love causes a chain reaction of kindness in people. Someone who loves gives all they can. The one who is being loved is loving back. Once that person returns all the love they were orignally given, they give it to everyone else they care for. Those people are now infected with feelings of warmth and being wanted. They most likely spread the feeling to others through random acts of kindness and generosity. It's not long until love and happiness is spread to people all across the world.
So if love creates a domino effect of positivity, then why is the world filled with such immense amounts of hate and sorrow? It's because love is one of the root causes of pain. Sometimes love leads to insanity. Once people have love, they fear losing it. More often than not, love is lost at one point or another, and when it is the ones at loss are devastated. They experience so much pain and anguish, they turn to anger, and lash out at others who are completely innocent. They are jealous of others' happiness, and find comfort in taking it away.
Love is beautiful, but love is also hideious. It creates endless cycles of kindness and care. However it also causes depression and anger once it's gone. No one is to take responsibility in how we feel, it depends on our situation and how love is affecting us in that moment. When love is working in our favor, the world is a gorgeous place that we are so happy to live in. When it works against us, the world is ugly and displeasing in every sense of our minds.
Love is the root of all evil, but love is the root of all merriment. So what are we to do? Banish it from our lives? Or welcome it with open arms? Regardless of what decision you make, you will experience pain, but so long as you are open to love, you will always recieve bliss in the end.
Love: a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person
Love: sexual passion or desire
Above or two dictionary definitions of love, but is either one of them correct? There are over twenty-five different definitions for love in the dictionary. With so much written on love, you would think that people would have a mental grasp on it by now. However, people don't realize that that is impossible. The words love should not even be in dictionaries. The mind has no way of attaining a full comprehension of love. The mind is not even in control when love is present. Love passes control over to the heart.
Observe any man who is infected with the disease of love. He could have once been rational and organized before finding his beloved, but once he found him/her, he lost control. This man now thinks irrationally, is constantly distracted, and is fritting away money and time on one single person. Does he wish to do otherwise? Of course not. When the heart loves, the heart is generous. It gives all that is able to be given. All selfless thoughts and feelings are banished from the entire body.
Love causes a chain reaction of kindness in people. Someone who loves gives all they can. The one who is being loved is loving back. Once that person returns all the love they were orignally given, they give it to everyone else they care for. Those people are now infected with feelings of warmth and being wanted. They most likely spread the feeling to others through random acts of kindness and generosity. It's not long until love and happiness is spread to people all across the world.
So if love creates a domino effect of positivity, then why is the world filled with such immense amounts of hate and sorrow? It's because love is one of the root causes of pain. Sometimes love leads to insanity. Once people have love, they fear losing it. More often than not, love is lost at one point or another, and when it is the ones at loss are devastated. They experience so much pain and anguish, they turn to anger, and lash out at others who are completely innocent. They are jealous of others' happiness, and find comfort in taking it away.
Love is beautiful, but love is also hideious. It creates endless cycles of kindness and care. However it also causes depression and anger once it's gone. No one is to take responsibility in how we feel, it depends on our situation and how love is affecting us in that moment. When love is working in our favor, the world is a gorgeous place that we are so happy to live in. When it works against us, the world is ugly and displeasing in every sense of our minds.
Love is the root of all evil, but love is the root of all merriment. So what are we to do? Banish it from our lives? Or welcome it with open arms? Regardless of what decision you make, you will experience pain, but so long as you are open to love, you will always recieve bliss in the end.
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