Shining Thru

abstractions and my captions on life

Delicate Feelings

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July 3rd, 2009 Posted 3:32 pm

It’s amazing how easily someone’s feelings may be hurt.  You can hurt someone with something so small to you, maybe even just a simple remark, question, or statement; maybe you don’t even realize that you have crushed their feelings. 

What about when you know that you are over reacting and still can’t help it.  When you know that someone would never want to hurt you, but you can’t help but feel the sting of their remark?  How do you get rid of that feeling?  It’s easy to say suck it up and move on…unfortunately no two people’s minds work exactly alike and what may seem like one simple comment to one person may spiral into a whole big scenario in another person’s mind.  Maybe that comment has emotional consequences that you can’t even begin to fathom…..

It’s probably the other person’s fault for letting their feelings take over their logic for that amout of time, but I think that most people struggle with this battle throughout the day.  Sometimes something just pierces you and you can’t help but associate it with other things in your mind.  It’s nobody’s fault really…because you can’t help the way that you feel.  I don’t think you’re suppose to help how you feel, but it is important to deal with them and not let them fester until the point when they will explode and there wont even be that logic behind them to let you know that you’re over reacting and not being logical. 

I think it’s important that we realize what great power we have over the people who are close to us.  However it is equally important for us to realize when our feelings are not being logical and probably have no merit in the situation to begin with.

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What is Power?

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July 2nd, 2009 Posted 9:23 pm

For being something that nobody has ever really defined well for me, most people in the world seem to crave and seek power.  But what is power?  Is power having some amazing abilities, or conquering and enslaving people???  Is it money and materials?  What exactly is power? 

We all seem to know what super powers are.  But what is the power that every day people seek all their lives?  Even most people who don’t realize that they are seeking it, perk up at the thought of having power…power in a company, or having influence, maybe just having someone near by who has to listen to you, “being the boss”. 

What is it about power that has engraved itself into human nature to the point where some people go crazy over the want of it.  I realize not everyone is after it, mainly because I don’t believe in absolutes.  But I do think that it is fair to say that most people would jump on having power if they could. 

Throughout history many wars have been faught over the thought of power, many graves have been robbed, many people have wasted their lives looking fo the key to being all powerful.  I think in these instances the people wanted to be in control….is control power?  If power is simply having control, I think it is easy enough to see why so many people say that power corrupts, or goes to a person’s head.  I wonder what it would be like to have real power…would I even want that responsibility?  Would I want to be responsible for what happens to other people?  Is control in fact the key to having power?

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Haze

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July 1st, 2009 Posted 3:01 pm

Sadness

Greyness

Dull light penetrates the gloom

Clouds enclose on clarity

Overwhelmed you sit down

Looking around to see nothing

Nothing but a haze

Nothing but a blurr

You blink but can’t focus

You rub your eyes to no avail

Only seeing a foot in front

a foot behind, all directions…nothing

The colors have disappeared

everything blends into dull and faded

No way to escape the haze

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Lost in Thought

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June 30th, 2009 Posted 2:28 pm

Wandering around,

Pacing Back and Forth,

Lost in thought. 

Forever skipping steps,

Having gaps in logic,

But wanting the end resolved.

Thinking Thinking Thinking,

Sometimes wondering

Sometimes just letting it flow

Random thought taking over.

Chaos growing as you climb deep,

Digging Deeper into the steps of thought.

Climbing in and over

Not knowing if you will slip and fall

Not knowing what lays behind the next

Just continuing forward with everything, yet nothing in sight.

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Misconceptions of Society and Education

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June 29th, 2009 Posted 2:11 pm

What makes us believe what we hear from certain sources?  Why is it that we take certain information for fact?  Most people hear a word used and never stop to wonder if the word was used correctly or not.  I myself am guilty of this, I hear a new word and remember it in context, never stopping to look up the actual definition of the word.  Habits like these have led to a lot of misinformation in our society.  However, if everyone around you has the same misconceptions, are they still misconceptions?  Or do they become fact at that point?  After all, the purpose of words is to communicate, if communication is achieved, doesn’t that validate the words that were used? 

Although, I think this theory of validity does work with words and the development of language, there are a lot of things that I don’t think it could work with.  For example, history; you can be taught all sorts of misconceptions and probably have been, and you may even choose to still believe those things, but your beliefs don’t make it truth or fact, just simply a misconception.  Your beliefs can’t change cold, hard facts, but they can change your perceptions of those facts, creating your own reality.  A world that only you can decide what the facts are, and what you choose to ignore.

So why then do schools and people in general continue to teach misconceptions of information that have been around and been exposed for years and some for decades?  More importantly, why haven’t we, as a society, learned to question what we’re being taught?

Wasting Time in Life

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June 28th, 2009 Posted 11:20 am

Time is flying

Joy, Peace, Excitement, Tears

All a part of life

It runs by you in a cloud

A haze of emotions and experiences

Life

You don’t know when it will be over

Just play as if your at the last level

Keep it moving

Don’t watch it drive by you and leave you in the dust

Sitting and waiting gets you nowhere

Worrying and Waiting is Nothing

Useless, they get you nowhere

Better to press on and through

Live life, instead of wasting time.

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Flash

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June 27th, 2009 Posted 12:26 pm

Lightning flashes up in the sky,

So Strong and Powerful

The evening show of truth and beauty

The light of heaven flashes

The majestic peacefulness shows.

Feeling of grandure before you

Fills you with knowledge of something more

Look up and see the flash that comes before the crash.

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Questions of Beauty

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June 26th, 2009 Posted 12:29 pm

What makes someone beautiful?  What is it that attracts us to someone else?  Why is it that one person’s idea of the perfect mate is another person’s nightmare?  Is it the way we were designed so that everyone gets a chance?  Why is it that some people truly only care about the inside, while others would rather people just came as beautiful outside shells with no emotional content, feelings, or baggage to go with them?

Why is it that some people lack the confidence they need when they look like a super model, while others feel that they are God’s gift to earth yet nobody seems to agree with them? 

What makes a person confident in their beauty?  Is it knowing yourself and being comfortable with that person?  Is it being flattered by random strangers or by the person that you love? 

What is the difference between beauty and sexiness, or pretty?  I think that true beauty really does come from the inside…I know I can find someone very attractive until they open their mouth and then I have to jet out.  Get out of the situation because they have lost all attraction in my eyes because of their ugly or shallow personality.  Although this does not bother some people.  I have seen people go after people they could never have a conversation with because they simply want to get them into bed. 

There rarely seems to be a common ground when you ask people what beauty is….Some people will automatically think of another person, while others think of a scene in nature or a painting they saw once in a museum. 

So what makes someone beautiful?  How do we recognize that beauty?

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Emotional Weather

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June 25th, 2009 Posted 1:02 pm

Weathering the storm together

Grab on tight and don’t let go

Rocky waves will come and go

Splash, Crash, Smack

Everything comes at once

The peak of the storm shows true faith

Love will last and a rainbow will be seen

My love doesn’t feel the wind blowing

Standing strong in the middle of the waves

Knowing you are there

Getting flashes in the ligtning

Always keeping you in sight

Never wanting to lose you.

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Appreciate the Beauty

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June 24th, 2009 Posted 2:24 pm

It’s easy to get caught up in the chaos and craziness of life; work, responsibilities; it’s easy to lose track of the things that really matter to you.  Love, family, friends, the beauty in nature.  Everyone treasures something different that they might get distracted from at one point or another.  Maybe it’s someone’s acting career or music….it’s easy to get caught up in the To Do List and forget about the things that make you really passionate, that make you light up and enjoy life. 

Some people only need someone they love to appreciate their life, some people need to see a beautiful sun set, or hear their favorite song….No matter what each of us considers beautiful, I think it’s important that we don’t get caught up in all of the “have to’s” of life and forget about the things that we want to have around us.  It’s important to appreciate the beauty that surrounds us in life.  I think that without beauty, life isn’t worth living.  Nothing left to make you passionate, nothing to remind you of why you are alive.

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