Monday, December 6, 2010

Music cures everything


I personally love music. I think it can either calm the soul or just get your anger out depending on what you listen to. Music is great for dancing with friends or just even sitting at home listening to music. It allows you to escape from the crazy life you live and just relax and enjoy some good music. Music comes from all different cultures but we all enjoy music just like other cultures would. I think this is great and gives us plenty of ideas for our music and also allows us to listen and learn what other cultures enjoy. I have a tattoo of a treble clef with a peace sign in the middle and a necklace that my sister got me for christmas that means a lot to me because I enjoy music very much so. People constantly ask me oh do you play? Then they get all offended that I do not play but I have a tattoo and an expensive treble clef necklace. Like I do not understand why I must play something to love music. I enjoy and get very into music just because I do not play does not mean that I cant enjoy it as much as someone who would.

everybody cheats?

Why do we cheat? A man and a woman in the perfect relationship aka the perfect couple but are they really? He’s tall dark and handsome and a perfect gentleman. He is her dream man, the kind of man you marry. He’s charming, funny, smart, sensitive, understanding and has great smile. And to top it all of the parents love him. She’s even better. She got a cute face and a nice body, not to big and not to small. She’s just the right height and just the right weight. She the kind of girl you see and you just know. Every fiber of your being reacts to her like she came from you and made just for your. She understands you more than any of your boys ever could and brings out a side of you you never knew you had. She the kind of girl you bring home 2 mama. 2 perfect to be true right? That’s because it is. Both of these people are cheating every chance they get. They love each other and would die if they ever lost each other but that doesn’t stop them. Maybe most of us know people like this or have been in a situation similar to this ourselves. So perfect that you know something has to be wrong and your not sure if you want to know or not. Idk y but almost everybody cheats. Men get the bad rep as the ones most likely to cheat and that’s well deserved but that’s just cuz women know how not to get caught. When a man cheat its in the heat of the moment its all lust and passion, but when a woman cheats its emotional and that’s so much worst I think. But why do we do it? Can anybody tell me why enough is never good enough?

poor mans sport

So sometime last week FIFA announced that the world cup was going to Russia and the Qatar. This will be the first time either country will host the event. It’s a pretty big deal seeing how this is the first time it will reach eastern Europe and Qatar will be the first middle eastern country to host. This aligns with FIFAs goal of taking soccer all over the world. In things like this there always a winner and a loser and the biggest loser of this decision was the US. For the last couple years the US has been making preparation to make a bid to FIFA to hold the world cup, and many involved felt like this was their year. Their bid was flawless so many were surprised when they didn’t receive the event and some called it an outrage. But was it really an outrage? I don’t think so, not one bit. Soccer may be the world most popular sport but it might just be the US least popular sport. Why that is I don’t know, but I can tell you why the rest of the world loves soccer. Soccer is a poor mans sport. To play a competitive game of soccer all you need is something to kick and makers for the goal. I’ve played soccer with water bottles, balled up paper, shoes, and even rocks. It doesn’t take much to enjoy the wonders of soccer. And kid growing up anywhere can always find something to kick. No matter the circumstances. So whether your growing up in a village, in the desert, or in a city you can always get 2 enjoy the magic of the original football knowing the game is played the same no matter where you go and always hoping that one day you’ll get the chance to represent your country on the world stage and show out.

i love the way you talk

For as long as I can remember I’ve had an obsession with languages and accents. I love all the different ways people manipulate their mouths while speaking a specific languages. I love all the dialect of any certain language. But mostly, I love how 2 people can be speaking the exact same language but sound completely different. I can speak 3 different languages so I guess that’s where my appreciation of all these comes from. I’ve heard just about every accent there is when some speaks English. I’ve heard country girls with accent so thick that when they said corn it sounded like cone. I’ve heard French girls speaking English 2, they talk like they’re speaking French but English words are coming out. They don’t understand that they have to change the way they move their tongues in their mouths in order to pronounce al the words correctly. British girls might have the best accent there is. They all sound so cute and I don’t know what is it about their accents but they be getting me. The only thing that might come close to a British accent is a Jamaican accent. My girl friend Jamaica and she got an accent for days. I’ve been with her for over a year and still sometimes I be like what? What are you saying? So they speak patwa (Jamaican Creole) over there but all of them can also speak Standard English cuz they have to speak it in school. But its still crazy when they speak standard English, off the bad you’ll notice they don’t use “h” or “th”. How sounds like ow and them and the sounds like dem and da. I think it’s tough though. I spent my last 2 summers in Jamaica so I understand how they talk and I can even talk to like them. But I still find it incredible that based on where you live even if you speak the same language you’re almost guaranteed to sound different. Like you got the New York accent, the southern accent, the Cali accent and the New England accent. And if you want to keep it local you got the dc accent and the Baltimore accent.

winter blows

So I’m from a place where there 2 seasons instead of 4. Out here yall got spring, summer, fall, and winter. Throughout the year yall weather is all over the place: From freezing, to cool, to hot, to endless rain. Where I’m from we got the wet season and the dry season. No matter the season, it’s always hot, like really hot. One season just happens to have a little more rain than the other. I group up in that type of weather for the first 8 years of my life and that’s what my body is trained to handle. Like below 70 degrees to me is freezing, not chilly but freezing. So you can imagine how crazy winter has to be for me. I hate winter and I don’t know why anybody could love it. What kind of person likes the cold? I swear God messed up when he made winter. My life during winter time is like hell. I’m always sick no matter how much I cover up, I don’t go outside, I got heaters all over the house, and the heat blasting at the same time. The average temperature at my house during winter time is like 85 degrees we can even see outside through the glass for real. What made me really hate winter though was snow. My first winter here it snowed on Christmas and that’s was my first time seeing snow. I didn’t know anything about it except what I saw in the movies. I knew it would be cold but I didn’t know how cold. I swear playing in that snow made that Christmas the worst day of my life. I went out there with layers and a layer of clothes thinking I was good. Boy was I wrong. I haven’t been out in the snow since then and that’s was like 10 years ago… I hate winter so much that I cant even live out here as soon as I can, I’m moving to a place down south or out the country… no joke.

Is this our future?

Ive noticed lately that a huge number of people in their mid 20's and younger seem to have a huge sense of self entitlement. They believe that they should work less, get paid more and have no repercussions to their actions. As an example, I went back for career training into a new job and was in class with people who had just joined the military. Their blatant disregard for the rules and the disrespect they showed their superiors was disgusting. They seemed to think that just because they were there that it was enough. They did less and expected more. It wasn't just in the military that I saw this change. When I got out and started working at a hospital, there were younger receptionists that kept complaining about raises but believed work was more a time to socialize and flirt rather than actually do their job.

Now I'm not trying to say that this is every person in their mid 20's or earlier because there are exceptions to every rule but its slightly alarming to see so many young adults acting like this. Where have we gone wrong in showing our children the value of integrity and hard work? Hopefully as they grow up, they will grow out of this phase and start acting like a true, functional adult. Maybe this is just another side effect of the fact that people seem to start their careers and families much later in life.

Friday, December 3, 2010

Do you feel our Criminal Justice System is strict enough

In my opinion, i feel that the criminal justice system plays a huge role in our society. Having a brother as a police officer i hear all about our court systems and how they are not strict on enforcing punnishment. Citizens are required to go to court after being issued a citation from as minor as a traffic violation to as high as felony cases involving rapes and murders. From what i have seen and heard our court systems do not enforce strict punnishment creating many problems. Illeged criminals get off on minor charges and are let back into the society with as little as a fine to pay. I feel that our criminal justice system needs to be much stricter in enforcing punnishment, so that offenders do not become repeating offenders and cause a threat to our socity. What do you think should be changed to enforce greater punnishment on illeged criminals, and minor offenders.