Why is it that we ALWAYS take things OUT. We always take the downside of things.
"Almost Never" "Almost Always" they SOUND opposite but what do they have in common? Almost Never means, MOSTLY NEVER, almost Always, means MOSTLY always, but we always take into account the NEVER. As if it has a chance to be never.
We live in such a defeatist society now. Many people say "I'm sorry" after everything they do, I catch myself doing it sometimes without thought. We put on our masks when we wake up in the morning, so that nobody can see our tender flesh, and then when we dive into the wonderful world of technology we take off the mask to put a new one on, and we go be defeated online. Everything is "I can't do it" instead of "Let's go do it."
People think they aren't good enough to go do things anymore. We are told that throughout life we will find a person we love, and they will break our heart. That we will get hurt by somebody close to us. That we will get in trouble. That we will have a job we don't like. And although this is true, what do we expect it to be?
That's where television and media comes in. Our emotions react, not only to the people around us, but to the world around us. We see people on Jersey Shore and Real Housewives, who are rich and famous, and get to do anything they wan't, and if we don't have that life we are losers. And then we are told that we will most likely never GET that life, so we refuse to do anything about anything, more in apathy than fear.
In the medieval ages, people went into the woods with a sword, and hunted things that could kill them. In the west they did the same, only on horses, and all throughout time we have had action and adventure, but now nobody goes anywhere. Life has been turned into an M. Night Shyamalan
film, where nothing happens until the end where we get disappointed after we were promised so much more, and one out of a billion times, it actually works, we get what we wanted, but deep down we know it's not as good as what we could have had.
I saw a kid on youtube who got in a fight in a store, and some people gawked, the man he was fighting had threatened his life for how close they stood in each other in a store, and the store clerk kicked the KID out. Not the man with a gun, the kid who was getting picked on. And it's sad that people kill themselves because they are scared to be defeated again. They have said too many "I'm sorry"'s.
The worst part of it all is, if we AREN'T defeatist, the defeatists gang up against us. They try and make us like them. Optimism is a rare thing, and you can only achieve it if you are willing to accept the failure, not dwell on it. The sooner we let go we can grab onto another stone, and keep climbing, but until then we are at the bottom, getting eaten by the waves of look-alike fish.
So how do we fix it? Can we? Yes we can. We have to give more respect. More compliments. More help. More compassion. We have to let people know that even though they may have failed, we know they tried, and if they try again they can get it. Since when was a plastic train smarter than 90% of the population? "I think I can, I think I can"
As long as we give people compliments, and let them know that life is something to be ENJOYED and something to be SHARED and something that we shouldn't be ashamed of doing, we can go on those adventures, we can stand up to our neighbors, and we will not end up like "Planet of the Apes"
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Thursday, May 5, 2011
5 reasons I hate 1 thing about millions of people.
So I am completing school soon. I graduate High School this June, and soon I go in for my senior luncheon. Now I am told, that when I go in, they will ask me questions about the school, what I liked, and didn't like, and what would I have changed
The thing that annoys me most about the school system of Eastern Maine, is the IDIOTS who think it's okay to go out in public with their freakin' pajamas. I was talking to somebody this morning and the conversation looked like this:
Them: "Guess what?"
Me (Generally curious, and eliminating the 'what' to be anything cool like 'I am typing this inside of an elefants stomach', or anything interesting to that effect, asked...) : "What?"
Them: "I am wearing my PJs to school."
Me: "No you aren't."
A very tactful move on my part seeing as it allowed me to authorize my incredibly reasonable solution on a modern day form of laziness to an otherwise unreasonable person (As proven by the fact they were planning on wearing pajamas out in public)
If I have any followers who DO wear PJs in public I feel this blog is especially important for you and you should pay attention to my reasons as to why not to do it. It could save your life someday.
Number 1: It's freaking lazy. Are you telling me, that you got up in the morning, pulled yourself out of bed, brushed your teeth, did your hair, put on makeup *Because I noticed primarily girls do it*, text a bit, eat breakfast, take a shower, chat on facebook, and then wait for the bus, and then leave to school, spend 8 hours in a place where you can sign out and go to the bathroom, and every 40 minutes you get 3 minutes to do anything you wish, and at a couple times in the day you get 20-30 minutes, and in all that time you are unable to change into a pair of pants? I rest my case. It's freaking lazy. I saw a girl come into school LATE and she was still wearing her PJ's. She took EXTRA TIME to be lazy. She had to literally PUT TIME ASIDE and save it, to be lazy. If I walked into her house while she was there, saw a big block in her living room asked "What the fuck is that" She would say "Oh, that's all the time I have today to be lazy." I guess as you get older you get less and less of that time, and your box gets smaller as life starts kicking it in, but then can you explain to me why even without that time to be lazy, you rarely see full grown adults walking around in PJ's? Oh wait, you do. Even so, you see less than you do high school students. So stop being lazy.
Number 2: It's nasty. Okay, so you just spent ALL NIGHT, writing, sweating, crawling around, perhaps you had sex, dropped some toothpaste on it, masturbated, let juices flow that when conscious, are subconsciously not flowing, and then you go out the next day in that shit? Gross. Also, I am not sure why, but it seems that even if you put on deodorant before bed, it is still worn off by the morning, so you even have stinky armpit on it. It's nasty, it's unsanitary, and I don't care how much fake face you slab on in the morning, you little Salvador Dalis, it's still nasty, and I refuse to touch you if you don't keep up with basic hygiene of changing your clothes.
Number 3: Is it that hard to follow rules? I mean, UNDERWEAR goes UNDER your clothing, you think SLEEPWEAR, and NIGHTWEAR, would go on when you are SLEEPING, or at NIGHT. But we don't. I mean it's stupid, you are wearing sleepwear, and nightwear, when you are awake...during the day. And they only make PJ pants as a modesty thing, because nobody wants to see their mother in their underwear. So we make nightwear, to cover up the things we don't want anybody else seeing. What's the next big fashion trend? Modesty blankets like the ones that pregnant woman use to publicly breast feed? I mean seriously, it's a pair of MODESTY PANTS, so you follow the rules, you use them for their intended purpose and then you die knowing you weren't looking like an idiot.
Number 4: Pajama Jeans. I saw these on a commercial, and wanted to shoot myself in the face to relieve the pain. It was stupid. Why would you do that? Now we need a reason to justify using an item as it's not intended, in a gross, nasty, unhygienic way. We want people to get AWAY with it. And if that's not the most recent thing in fashion, lets put on UGGS. You ladies know what I mean. Caveman boots. Those boots that were "So 4billion years ago". And you wear those with the pajama pants. I mean, whenever i look at girls walking around in a "UMAINE" hoodie, with pajamas with little frogs on them, and UGG boots, I imagine I am sitting through a Terry Gilliam film, and I am looking for the next thing to jump out and attempt to kill me.
Number 5: Sometimes I imagine I am in the future. I am a parent and I am looking through a "COSMOPOLITAN" magazine *because I will probably be married and forced to read them* and there is an article in there about "Old Fashion Styles that you wouldn't BELIEVE" and in it, would be a lady with a hoodie, pajama bottoms, and UGG boots.
So I suppose that is my biggest pet peeve, even if it has nothing to do with the school system, I really think we should put a hygiene policy in the school dress code. So I suppose that's about it for today. Next time my friends, and remember, stay clean! (:
The thing that annoys me most about the school system of Eastern Maine, is the IDIOTS who think it's okay to go out in public with their freakin' pajamas. I was talking to somebody this morning and the conversation looked like this:
Them: "Guess what?"
Me (Generally curious, and eliminating the 'what' to be anything cool like 'I am typing this inside of an elefants stomach', or anything interesting to that effect, asked...) : "What?"
Them: "I am wearing my PJs to school."
Me: "No you aren't."
A very tactful move on my part seeing as it allowed me to authorize my incredibly reasonable solution on a modern day form of laziness to an otherwise unreasonable person (As proven by the fact they were planning on wearing pajamas out in public)
If I have any followers who DO wear PJs in public I feel this blog is especially important for you and you should pay attention to my reasons as to why not to do it. It could save your life someday.
Number 1: It's freaking lazy. Are you telling me, that you got up in the morning, pulled yourself out of bed, brushed your teeth, did your hair, put on makeup *Because I noticed primarily girls do it*, text a bit, eat breakfast, take a shower, chat on facebook, and then wait for the bus, and then leave to school, spend 8 hours in a place where you can sign out and go to the bathroom, and every 40 minutes you get 3 minutes to do anything you wish, and at a couple times in the day you get 20-30 minutes, and in all that time you are unable to change into a pair of pants? I rest my case. It's freaking lazy. I saw a girl come into school LATE and she was still wearing her PJ's. She took EXTRA TIME to be lazy. She had to literally PUT TIME ASIDE and save it, to be lazy. If I walked into her house while she was there, saw a big block in her living room asked "What the fuck is that" She would say "Oh, that's all the time I have today to be lazy." I guess as you get older you get less and less of that time, and your box gets smaller as life starts kicking it in, but then can you explain to me why even without that time to be lazy, you rarely see full grown adults walking around in PJ's? Oh wait, you do. Even so, you see less than you do high school students. So stop being lazy.
Number 2: It's nasty. Okay, so you just spent ALL NIGHT, writing, sweating, crawling around, perhaps you had sex, dropped some toothpaste on it, masturbated, let juices flow that when conscious, are subconsciously not flowing, and then you go out the next day in that shit? Gross. Also, I am not sure why, but it seems that even if you put on deodorant before bed, it is still worn off by the morning, so you even have stinky armpit on it. It's nasty, it's unsanitary, and I don't care how much fake face you slab on in the morning, you little Salvador Dalis, it's still nasty, and I refuse to touch you if you don't keep up with basic hygiene of changing your clothes.
Number 3: Is it that hard to follow rules? I mean, UNDERWEAR goes UNDER your clothing, you think SLEEPWEAR, and NIGHTWEAR, would go on when you are SLEEPING, or at NIGHT. But we don't. I mean it's stupid, you are wearing sleepwear, and nightwear, when you are awake...during the day. And they only make PJ pants as a modesty thing, because nobody wants to see their mother in their underwear. So we make nightwear, to cover up the things we don't want anybody else seeing. What's the next big fashion trend? Modesty blankets like the ones that pregnant woman use to publicly breast feed? I mean seriously, it's a pair of MODESTY PANTS, so you follow the rules, you use them for their intended purpose and then you die knowing you weren't looking like an idiot.
Number 4: Pajama Jeans. I saw these on a commercial, and wanted to shoot myself in the face to relieve the pain. It was stupid. Why would you do that? Now we need a reason to justify using an item as it's not intended, in a gross, nasty, unhygienic way. We want people to get AWAY with it. And if that's not the most recent thing in fashion, lets put on UGGS. You ladies know what I mean. Caveman boots. Those boots that were "So 4billion years ago". And you wear those with the pajama pants. I mean, whenever i look at girls walking around in a "UMAINE" hoodie, with pajamas with little frogs on them, and UGG boots, I imagine I am sitting through a Terry Gilliam film, and I am looking for the next thing to jump out and attempt to kill me.
Number 5: Sometimes I imagine I am in the future. I am a parent and I am looking through a "COSMOPOLITAN" magazine *because I will probably be married and forced to read them* and there is an article in there about "Old Fashion Styles that you wouldn't BELIEVE" and in it, would be a lady with a hoodie, pajama bottoms, and UGG boots.
So I suppose that is my biggest pet peeve, even if it has nothing to do with the school system, I really think we should put a hygiene policy in the school dress code. So I suppose that's about it for today. Next time my friends, and remember, stay clean! (:
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Blog 1: This World's Not Big Enough For The One Of Me
So let me tell you a little bit about myself and why I want to do this blog. That should be a fairly generic and good first blog, but for my first time I won't go for anything special.
My name is Timothy Pitts, and I was born and raised in Maine. Maine is a cold, baron State in the USA where the only thing larger than the population of people, is the population of trees. Imagine, growing up in a state were you have no billboards, firework shops, large lights and memorable buildings, in fact I don't think we have a building that goes up to 15 floors, and even if we do I can't imagine we have more than a handful.
A place like this is sure to leave a childhood of quiet, thinkable serenity. The upside is its a great place to raise children. It's quiet, the people are mostly nice, as long as you can live to sleeping to the sounds of nature no matter where you are, and the constant cold. The downside is the maturity level. Most people who come out of Maine have a low maturity level. *Keep in mind this is a bias view. I am from Eastern Maine, and we are close to Southern Maine.* Southern Maine has many immature students from what I have seen. I have been down and seen it, and sure they have a lot of aceptions, but I would say a good 78% of Southern Maine, when they aren't trying to keep from bathing, live in shoddy homes, with broken windows, and speed up whenever they see a deer because hitting it means they can eat it. You will notice these ones because they will ALWAYS be clad in neon orange and forest camo, despite the fact that it isn't hunting season. However, in the argument of Southern Maine, GREAT car service. (: Everybody down there is pretty much at least a little automotive inclined. Eastern Maine is sort of like the middle ground between them and the kids from Northern Maine. The ones who grow up in all the big buildings, and not trailers.
However nice and quiet Maine is, it is an expensive state to live in, so, you know, I suppose that explains southern Maine. No I do not have a funny "Mainah" accent so don't ask.
But growing up in this state gave me a lot of time to think. All this thinking led to a lot of realizations about the world around me which I believe others need to hear, *hence a blog*. Sure it might not ALL be relevant to EVERYBODY, but I do like being herd, and I do enjoy talking, writing , and stating my mind. So yeah, I suppose I will post this blog every now and then, and if you like it, keep up with it. I have a lot of things to talk about, so yeah (:
My name is Timothy Pitts, and I was born and raised in Maine. Maine is a cold, baron State in the USA where the only thing larger than the population of people, is the population of trees. Imagine, growing up in a state were you have no billboards, firework shops, large lights and memorable buildings, in fact I don't think we have a building that goes up to 15 floors, and even if we do I can't imagine we have more than a handful.
A place like this is sure to leave a childhood of quiet, thinkable serenity. The upside is its a great place to raise children. It's quiet, the people are mostly nice, as long as you can live to sleeping to the sounds of nature no matter where you are, and the constant cold. The downside is the maturity level. Most people who come out of Maine have a low maturity level. *Keep in mind this is a bias view. I am from Eastern Maine, and we are close to Southern Maine.* Southern Maine has many immature students from what I have seen. I have been down and seen it, and sure they have a lot of aceptions, but I would say a good 78% of Southern Maine, when they aren't trying to keep from bathing, live in shoddy homes, with broken windows, and speed up whenever they see a deer because hitting it means they can eat it. You will notice these ones because they will ALWAYS be clad in neon orange and forest camo, despite the fact that it isn't hunting season. However, in the argument of Southern Maine, GREAT car service. (: Everybody down there is pretty much at least a little automotive inclined. Eastern Maine is sort of like the middle ground between them and the kids from Northern Maine. The ones who grow up in all the big buildings, and not trailers.
However nice and quiet Maine is, it is an expensive state to live in, so, you know, I suppose that explains southern Maine. No I do not have a funny "Mainah" accent so don't ask.
But growing up in this state gave me a lot of time to think. All this thinking led to a lot of realizations about the world around me which I believe others need to hear, *hence a blog*. Sure it might not ALL be relevant to EVERYBODY, but I do like being herd, and I do enjoy talking, writing , and stating my mind. So yeah, I suppose I will post this blog every now and then, and if you like it, keep up with it. I have a lot of things to talk about, so yeah (:
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