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.
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?
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
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.
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?
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
