Like most people, some mornings I wake up and feel less than enthusiastic ... in my darkest moments, I even consider throwing in the towel.
I know this sounds silly but I don't know if I want to try anymore
I Feel Like Throwing In The Towel. At this point
I really do feel like I am living in a fish bowl looking out at the outside
There are times when our capacity, abilities and resilience are expanding
How do we take the pieces of the puzzle of our lives and pull them together to create a beautiful, finished landscape
what you believe you deserve. For example, if you find yourself in friendships that you are always on the giving end and have a hard time receiving the same kindness back that you give out, it’s time to ask yourself what you believe about what you deserve
joys we have and pain we learn to conquer – it’s all apart of life’s journey.
Furthermore, 10% of life is what happens to you, while 90% is how you choose to respond to it. When you feel like you’ve failed, it does not have to be final. Keep moving forward, making progress, trying until you see success in every area of your life. Remember every step forward, is a step toward progress
I can't take it anymore, my emotional pain is just too much to bare
I'm suffocating But I'm so scared to tell them what I truly think
the stress is killing my brain and nobody cares.
i'm so scared that I'm practically shaking inside. Nothing good ever comes when it comes to me. I wonder why...does anyone out there love me?
Please, I'm already dying on the inside. It hurts...so bad...
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Dangers of Energy Drinks
Monday, April 30, 2012
The Pharaohs and the Golden Age
The Luxor Hotel Las Vegas with the shape as a pyramid!
The Magician Criss Angel perform his show "beLIEve" at the hotel.
The hotel with the Pharaoh outside and the golden statues
A Pharoah? Or Michael Jackson?
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There is no such thing as coincidence!!
Double or Twin in This Is It or Double AND Twin??
There have been many different and loud rumors about the "This is it", many claim to know there is a double, there is not a double and so on. Here are some pictures to look at and you tell, is this the same person??
Here we have the same pictures but changed position and together. Is that the same person?
The pictures below looks at first sight like the same person, but looking closer there is a difference. The clothes appears to be the same. But again the neck. The one to the left appears to have a slimmer neck. The lips are differenent. Is the chest different also?!?!
In the pictures below we have 2 diferent pictures from the same angle. Looking at eyes, lips and neck. Is that the same person? To me it looks like the one to the left have a slimmer neck and the lips are thinner.
More eyes neck and nose
In the pictures here we see mouth, nose, ear and neck. Are the ears the same??? And the lips?? What about the nose??
Here we have the same pictures but changed position and together. Is that the same person?
The pictures below looks at first sight like the same person, but looking closer there is a difference. The clothes appears to be the same. But again the neck. The one to the left appears to have a slimmer neck. The lips are differenent. Is the chest different also?!?!
This is a picture that have been on twitter lately:
Not looking at the name only at Michael Jackson. It is two different Michael Jackson. Again nose, eyes and lips! There is also a difference in height.
So again, is this one person two or is it three??
If it's more than one who is/are the other/others??
Male or female??
Things are not what they first seems to be. A wig, make up and some practice can make miracles and the illusion is complete.
To be continued......
To be continued......
Sunday, April 29, 2012
judgement on others
So why do we constantly have to pass judgement on others? Why do we have to label others as inferior, even if doing so indirectly? Examples are slavery, (I know this is an old one but its relevant-- the phrase "all men are created equal" was around BEFORE slavery took place), saying that gay people are wrong/immoral etc, immoral by who's standards?
It doesn't seem like we've made very much progress, we've just found other excuses, reasons, rules, and judgments.
My question is why? aren't we supposed to be accepting and loving of all? When you fight against gay rights, or fight that you're religion is the right way and all others are condemned to hell, it just makes you look worse. It makes you look more close-minded, weak, and you act as if you are on a pedestal All the terrible stuff that happens is the result of humans being selfish, weak, and close-minded.
Why can't we DO what we SAY and treat all people as equals, and leave their personal lives out of it
People fear what they do not understand. There is a lot of misinformation about gays, lesbians, and bisexuals. They think that gays, bisexuals, and lesbians will "corrupt people" and that they molest and/or rape members of the same sex
People find lesbians, bisexuals, and gays different and a disgrace to the world. Unfortunately,I do respect all sexualities. I say they are all equal and deserve the rights the have! Please people, what would Jesus do? He would probably respect them and treat them equal. All are accepted into the kingdom of Heaven, including gays, bis, and lesbians. Look upon your actions, you cause others pain and hurt. Do not do that! Each individual should have equal respect. Each person has their own taste and we need to respect that! They are human, but just with a different opinion. They are not "aliens!" We all count as one and deserve that right. Please, don't turn on your own kind. Think about that.
Youth who are gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, transgender, queer or questioning are at a high risk for depression, suicide and homelessness due to being bullied by their peers and/or rejected by their families.
Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland, written by Lewis Carroll, has been part of many children’s lives and seemed like a simple fairy tale, but it goes much deeper than that.
“Alice is engaged in a romance quest for her own identity and growth, for some understanding of logic, rules, the games people play, authority, time, and death
The events that occur in the story actually have a direct correlation with how one grows and progresses through childhood and adolescence.
In the beginning of Alice in Wonderland, Alice daydreams and is unable to pay attention while her mother reads an advanced novel to her. This shows how child-like Alice’s mindset it. She then begins to piece together the perfect world of her own while her imagination runs wild. Later, Alice notices a white rabbit created by her imagination and sparks her curiosity. “Alice follows the rabbit because she is "burning with curiosity." Soon she finds things becoming "curiouser and curiouser,"
It is usually children who have the most curiosity; they are the ones who are always eager to learn more.
Later in the story, she is told the tale of the Curious Oysters by Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum which is about how curiosity can lead to terrible things. This bares a strong resemblance to how adults will often tell children to grow up, destroying a child’s sense of imagination and curiosity. From this deduction, we can assume that Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum symbolize parents and are trying to keep Alice in check.
Later in the book, Alice gets in more trouble because of her curiosity. The white rabbit tells Alice to run into the house to quickly fetch his gloves. While searching for the gloves, she opens a cookie jar only to find a cookie with ‘Eat Me’ written on it. Without thinking twice, she consumes the cookie. “We view children as needing gentle guidance if they are to develop emotionally, intellectually, morally, even physically,”
It becomes apparent that she is still in her childhood stage and needs an adult figure to guide her. There are two very important things that this situation represents.
The first is, again, how curiosity gets one into trouble. She eats the cookie after being told the tale of The Curious Oysters. This shows how a child will disobey a parent after being told it is wrong. By doing this, she demonstrates Kohlberg’s first theory of moral development, stage one of the preconventional level, which states that “right is whatever avoids punishment or gains reward
Because there was no one around, she curiously took a cookie.
There are many occasions where Alice shows her true colors of child-like thinking and confusion. One specific example of this is when Alice first falls down the rabbit hole and is confronted by the door. When she gives herself “some good advice,” she says “For if one drinks much from a bottle marked poison, it is almost certain to disagree with one sooner or later,” the door responds “I beg your pardon,” with a confused look on his face. This occurrence shows the relationship between a young child and an adult because adults are often unable to comprehend the logic of a child. It isn’t until the formal operations stage, at age 11 or 12, that the child is able to “apply logical thought to abstract, verbal, and hypothetical situations,” . Obviously, Alice has not yet achieved this level of thinking.
Shortly after Alice enters Wonderland, she encounters something else that makes no sense to her. When she is extremely wet after being washed to shore, she listens to a dodo bird who tells her to run in a circle with everyone else in order to dry off while the water keeps engulfing them. What he is telling her to do makes no sense whatsoever but she continues to do it anyway. By blindly obeying the adult figure, she exposes her child-like ignorance.
On another occasion, later in the book, Alice is confronted with another confusing situation. “The White King is waiting for his messengers and asks Alice to look along the road to see if they are coming: “I see nobody on the road,” said Alice. “I only wish I had such eyes,” the King remarked in a fretful tone. “To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance too! Why, it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light”,” . This somewhat exemplifies the preoperational stage which includes symbolic function; which means that one thing can stand for another . Apparently, the author is trying to get a point across that “nobody” can stand for a person as well as “nothing.” Again, this portrays the relationship between adults and children, but this time, it seems easier to comprehend for her and makes, surprisingly, more sense than Alice’s previous realization. This shows how she is mentally progressing towards the formal operations stage little by little.
As Alice progresses through her dream, she loses her sense of identity just as most people do when they hit adolescence. “When the Caterpillar asks Alice, "`Who are you,'" and Alice can barely stammer out a reply, "`I--hardly know'" then Carroll is exposing the quintessential vulnerability of the child whose growth and knowledge of self and the world vary so greatly from day to day that a sense of answerable identity becomes highly precarious if not evanescent,” . At this point in the story, Alice has reached an age where she has lost her identity, adolescence.
“In the industrialized world, children must find themselves on their own… they attempt to carve out an identity that is distinct from both the “younger” world being left behind and the “older” world that is still out of range,” . The caterpillar doesn’t ever give her direction and she is now forced to find out who she is on her own. “[She] is rarely aided by the creatures she meets. Whereas in a tale of Grimms or Andersen or John Ruskin, the protagonist's meeting with a helpful bird or beast would signal his or her charity toward the world or nature,” . This crucial evidence shows how, unlike other fairy tales, the story represents a child’s true progression through life, one that paints a picture of how real life functions and how one will have to figure things out on their own.
In sociology, there is a stage which is called transitional adulthood. This is a period where they “find themselves… young adults gradually ease into responsibilities… they become serious,” . By the end of the story, Alice learns to deal with her problems and gains sight of her identity. The queen, who loses her temper and wants to kill Alice, is Alice’s obstacle which finally helps her to become an adult. To leap over this obstacle, she reaches into her pocket to find a mushroom from earlier, eats it, and grows to an enormous size. This most likely represents how she is facing her fear and taking on responsibility or “growing up.”
Alice in Wonderland is a perfect, down-to-earth example of childhood through adolescence. Just as a child’s life is filled with good and bad choices, hers is too. As most do, Alice learns from her experiences and ultimately becomes more mature. Alice in Wonderland has many connections to how one grows and develops from childhood up through adolescence. Alice matures emotionally by how she thinks, how she deals with her problems, and how she perceives different situations, all of which are encompassed in the progression of a child.
“Alice is engaged in a romance quest for her own identity and growth, for some understanding of logic, rules, the games people play, authority, time, and death
The events that occur in the story actually have a direct correlation with how one grows and progresses through childhood and adolescence.
In the beginning of Alice in Wonderland, Alice daydreams and is unable to pay attention while her mother reads an advanced novel to her. This shows how child-like Alice’s mindset it. She then begins to piece together the perfect world of her own while her imagination runs wild. Later, Alice notices a white rabbit created by her imagination and sparks her curiosity. “Alice follows the rabbit because she is "burning with curiosity." Soon she finds things becoming "curiouser and curiouser,"
It is usually children who have the most curiosity; they are the ones who are always eager to learn more.
Later in the book, Alice gets in more trouble because of her curiosity. The white rabbit tells Alice to run into the house to quickly fetch his gloves. While searching for the gloves, she opens a cookie jar only to find a cookie with ‘Eat Me’ written on it. Without thinking twice, she consumes the cookie. “We view children as needing gentle guidance if they are to develop emotionally, intellectually, morally, even physically,”
It becomes apparent that she is still in her childhood stage and needs an adult figure to guide her. There are two very important things that this situation represents.
The first is, again, how curiosity gets one into trouble. She eats the cookie after being told the tale of The Curious Oysters. This shows how a child will disobey a parent after being told it is wrong. By doing this, she demonstrates Kohlberg’s first theory of moral development, stage one of the preconventional level, which states that “right is whatever avoids punishment or gains reward
Because there was no one around, she curiously took a cookie.
There are many occasions where Alice shows her true colors of child-like thinking and confusion. One specific example of this is when Alice first falls down the rabbit hole and is confronted by the door. When she gives herself “some good advice,” she says “For if one drinks much from a bottle marked poison, it is almost certain to disagree with one sooner or later,” the door responds “I beg your pardon,” with a confused look on his face. This occurrence shows the relationship between a young child and an adult because adults are often unable to comprehend the logic of a child. It isn’t until the formal operations stage, at age 11 or 12, that the child is able to “apply logical thought to abstract, verbal, and hypothetical situations,” . Obviously, Alice has not yet achieved this level of thinking.
On another occasion, later in the book, Alice is confronted with another confusing situation. “The White King is waiting for his messengers and asks Alice to look along the road to see if they are coming: “I see nobody on the road,” said Alice. “I only wish I had such eyes,” the King remarked in a fretful tone. “To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance too! Why, it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light”,” . This somewhat exemplifies the preoperational stage which includes symbolic function; which means that one thing can stand for another . Apparently, the author is trying to get a point across that “nobody” can stand for a person as well as “nothing.” Again, this portrays the relationship between adults and children, but this time, it seems easier to comprehend for her and makes, surprisingly, more sense than Alice’s previous realization. This shows how she is mentally progressing towards the formal operations stage little by little.
As Alice progresses through her dream, she loses her sense of identity just as most people do when they hit adolescence. “When the Caterpillar asks Alice, "`Who are you,'" and Alice can barely stammer out a reply, "`I--hardly know'" then Carroll is exposing the quintessential vulnerability of the child whose growth and knowledge of self and the world vary so greatly from day to day that a sense of answerable identity becomes highly precarious if not evanescent,” . At this point in the story, Alice has reached an age where she has lost her identity, adolescence.
“In the industrialized world, children must find themselves on their own… they attempt to carve out an identity that is distinct from both the “younger” world being left behind and the “older” world that is still out of range,” . The caterpillar doesn’t ever give her direction and she is now forced to find out who she is on her own. “[She] is rarely aided by the creatures she meets. Whereas in a tale of Grimms or Andersen or John Ruskin, the protagonist's meeting with a helpful bird or beast would signal his or her charity toward the world or nature,” . This crucial evidence shows how, unlike other fairy tales, the story represents a child’s true progression through life, one that paints a picture of how real life functions and how one will have to figure things out on their own.
In sociology, there is a stage which is called transitional adulthood. This is a period where they “find themselves… young adults gradually ease into responsibilities… they become serious,” . By the end of the story, Alice learns to deal with her problems and gains sight of her identity. The queen, who loses her temper and wants to kill Alice, is Alice’s obstacle which finally helps her to become an adult. To leap over this obstacle, she reaches into her pocket to find a mushroom from earlier, eats it, and grows to an enormous size. This most likely represents how she is facing her fear and taking on responsibility or “growing up.”
Alice in Wonderland is a perfect, down-to-earth example of childhood through adolescence. Just as a child’s life is filled with good and bad choices, hers is too. As most do, Alice learns from her experiences and ultimately becomes more mature. Alice in Wonderland has many connections to how one grows and develops from childhood up through adolescence. Alice matures emotionally by how she thinks, how she deals with her problems, and how she perceives different situations, all of which are encompassed in the progression of a child.
The Dangers of Huffing
Recently, there have been serveral deaths of young teens after inhaing the chemical diflouroethane from a popular computer cleaning spray, known as Dust-Off. Falcon the manufacturere of the product, labels cans with conspicuous warnings about misuse of the product. It product Dust-Off itself is not the source of the problem, its only one example of hundreds of common household products with the potentioal to be abused by inhalant abusers.
Inhalant abuse, known as huffing, is the intentional inhalation of chemical vapors to attain a mental "high", or euphoric effect. A wide variety of substances, including many common household products are abused by huffers. The primary population of abusers are children between 12 to 17. Inhalants produce an effect that may be similar to alcohol intoxication.
Symptoms can include: drowsiness, lightheadedness. loss of inhibition, dizziness,, hallucinations or delusions and impaired judgment. Long term effects can include: depression, inattentiveness. lack of coordination, irritability and weakness, and finally brain damage or death.
There are over 500 deaths per year from huffing products, in the United States alone. These products are easily purchased by anyone at a local store. Thus making them a serious potential death trap for our children. Why is the government allowing these products to be sold with the already clarified dangers of them? Shouldn't they be developing an alternative to these products?
Our children only get once chance at life. Lets make their lives count!
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