Shining Thru

Stirring the heart, the fluttering returns

Pressing on the chest so that it is hard to breathe

Your dreams and reality collide together in overwhelming passion

Coming together for a few moments of peace found in the intimacy

The love and desire filling any gaps in the heart

Soft and warm, held in the adoring arms of the one you are connected to

Feeling free and fluttering off in thought and dreams

Happiness and Joy filling your eyes as you can’t prevent the smile shinning through

I thought it was interesting today watching CNN…someone brought up the fact that the Media must have gone crazy…the only things that they have to say against President Obama is that there is an extra in a music video that looks like him and that he’s not showing enough emotion about the oil spill.  I mean, what do these people really want?  him to break down in sobs so that he can appear weak to the entire nation instead of strong and level headed.  They even insulted the fact that he was in business pants when he was down on the site…what did they expect for a Presidential Press Event?  I thought that the reporter who was commenting about this whole drama made a good point when he posed the question, do you want the President to play act the part for you, or go ahead and actually do something…

I have to wonder how often it is that the media gets people all hyped up about the wrong issues and how often people are pulled into the drama of the media craze….How often do people put their own priorities, thoughts and feelings aside because they have become caught up in the media frenzy and are now stuck on the point that has been driven into their head every time they have turned on the news or looked at the paper.

I wish our country would go back to thinking for themselves instead of being programmed into thinking whatever other people want them to think.

I don’t understand people that think other people only exist to serve them….they only prove their point by ignoring people until they need something from them, and then all of the sudden they want to be your best friend…or at least until they get what they want from you.  I wish I could understand the mentality that would actually lead a person to think that it is ok to treat people that way, as if they are the Ruler of the land and everyone is just another humble servant who can’t wait to grant their every wish and desire. 

It’s amazing how people choose to interact with each other, or at least with certain people.  As if the people they encounter don’t feel put off at all by the treatment.  Have they never felt hurt or anger or frustration with someone for similar treatment?  Are they not able to feel these things because they are so centered around themselves that it doesn’t even occur to them to feel anything because they don’t notice how others treat them? 

I have to wonder if people realize how they appear when other people witness their treatment of the people around them.  Personally when I see someone who just uses another person, it makes me not want to trust them, or even help them out in any way.  It kind of makes me just want to let them flounder because they are obviously use to people giving them exactly what they want, when they want it; as if they are entitled to something that the rest of us can only dream of.

Living, Breathing…but not thinking or feeling

Pull the string and watch them say the programed phrases

Keep on watching as they march across the room

Living on in the program of society

Not able to change the ones and zeroes that surround us

Watching them makes you sad

You check the reflection of your mind

Not watching to turn into plastic

Not wanting to turn into something fake

Not willing to give up the emotions of life

The hurt and the frustration are traded for love and happiness

Tears of joy replace those of saddness

Giving up the pain isn’t worth giving up the power of thought

The power of knowledge and experience

The love and life that you would miss out on

Self Perception and insecurities can play a huge role in how you see the world.  It’s always surprising that a lot of the problems that people have with the world are really based around insecurities that they have about themselves, the things that keep them from being self confident in how they look, act, or simply are….

Many people complain about other people or the way the media portrays people because they are insecure with that exact opposite about themselves…I never realized it before I had a conversation with a friend who pointed it out, but they were right…you very rarely hear a confident person complaining about other people, or the society that we live in…they just make it work because they are confident in who they are and don’t care what anybody else has to say or even think about it.

And in truth, it shouldn’t matter what anyone else has to say about you,  because honestly, you are none of their business.  Granted, everyone has a different life experience and therefore see things differently…the things that annoy me, or irritate me, may be the things that you enjoy and are glad to see in our world….a lot of it is based on our background, but a lot of it is also based on who we are as a person.  If we are confident in who we are and what we do, then we shouldn’t have anything to worry about.  I realize that sometimes that is easier said than done, but it should be the case.

I think it’s funny that as I stop and think about all of this, it is the people who are constantly saying how they don’t care what other people think, and make it a point that everyone knows that they don’t care, who seem to have the most insecurities.  The ones who are promoting others not to do something because it is what society pushes for, are the same ones who try to talk themselves up or others down while condemning all society.  Maybe it’s time for those people to take a look and do a little self examining before they go off about what’s wrong with this group of people or that group, or society in general…..

I don’t think it’s a bad thing for any of us to take another look and at least be knowledgeable about the fact that our self perceptions greatly affect our perceptions of society and the world that we live in.

You can only trust people to be as exactly as they are.  A hard lesson that must be learned, or you can go through life trying to see the good and trusting people and getting screwed over in the end.

If you trust the people that only have their best interest at heart, to have yours as well, you will lose out every time.  And then people want to quickly back track and let you know that you should go on trusting them…but why??  What’s your motive?  There isn’t one….the only thing you can do is move forward a little wiser, and remember the lesson you learned about trust so that you never find yourself in that position again.

It’s such a shame that it comes down to this, I wish that we could believe what people tell us, and believe that they mean what they say when they appear to give a damn about you, but in reality, you have got to do what’s best for you.  Because you are the only person that you know what lies behind in the depths of the mind as motivation.  Everyone else’s dark recesses of the mind will always be a mystery.  You can never know what lies behind the actions of another until the end game is seen.  Trying to figure it out will only exhaust the mind, it’s better just to make sure that you are always watching out for yourself, and as selfish as that sounds, it’s better than getting screwed over.

It’s strange how a lot of times when you’re uncomfortable, sick, stressed, etc.  There are certain things that you look for and just know that one little thing could make you feel so much better even though it doesn’t actually change anything.  Sometimes it’s a food, sometimes a person’s voice, sometimes a person hugging you or cuddling up with you on the couch.  Different things comfort different people and a lot of the time, people need different things to provide different comforts.  Sometimes at the same time, like going out for your favorite meal with the person that you love and trust because you’re feeling stressed or upset about something…

Comfort sometimes is found in a book covered in the warmth of your bed, or a favorite movie….it’s strange how some little things can provide so much comfort for you.

Feelings change with everything that is added to them or takes away from them.  Comfort can be such an easy thing to provide, or such an easy thing to take away…it all depends on the perspective of the person and how easily they are affected by different things that come their way, or how they react to not getting what they want when they want that familiar comfort.

What is normal?  What seems normal and obvious to you may be the exact opposite to the person sitting next to you.  You never know what their experiences have been and you don’t know that your perception is shared by those that share the room with you now.  We have all come from different backgrounds, even if you grew up in the same neighborhood, maybe even as next door neighbors, that might mean that you have a better general, mutual agreement of the term “normal” but in reality, normal doesn’t exist.

Normal is some type of thing that we have fooled our society into believing.  Normal is a fake term that is used when people expect the other people around them to understand what is going on inside of their head.  The truth is that nobody can really be inside your head, and it shouldn’t be assumed that other people know your thoughts as if they are being broadcast on the wall behind you at all times…like the people you are talking to have cue cards.

I think that a lot of misunderstandings could be avoided if people were more open to the fact that not everyone has the same background, the same beliefs or the same views on things…and that is ok.  So many people get so defensive like their livelihood is being challenged simply because someone else has a different thought about something.  So instead of opening their mind up to a new experiences, they lock it down and dig in their heels to argue, when no argument is necessary.

“Normal”….that is something that doesn’t exist and probably never will.  What is normal is what the media tells the younger generations to believe is normal…but then what media are we talking about?  What stations are people watching?  What magazines are they reading?  What radio stations are they listening to?  All kinds of things define “normal” for our society, but in reality it is all a matter of perception.

How do we really know what the universe is?  It could be any number of things depending on your perspective.  Some people may be so focused on their job or their family that it becomes the only thing that is worth anything in the life and therefore is their universe.  Nobody knows how far the actual universe goes on?  Does it ever end?  We speak of it as if it is the planets and stars that we have identified and know about; however, I think that we do that because an unending limitation of the actual universe is too much for a lot of people to comprehend, then we may have to admit that the Earth is not at the center of it, and that maybe humans don’t know everything.

I suppose each of us belong to a different universe if we are simply going by our experiences and perception of life and the world that we live in…

Maturity is such an interesting thing….Some people grow up and mature when they are really young, there are some four and five year olds that know rules of society that many adults will never pick up on.  Things like personal space, or putting your nose where it doesn’t belong, or simply listening to the boss because maybe they know what is for the best.  I know four year olds that don’t argue with their parents, where as I see teenagers and adults every day argue back with parents, work bosses, etc.  Disagreeing is not necessarily a bad thing, but arguing just because you don’t want to be wrong or you don’t want to hear someone else’s opinion is completely different than trying to put some good suggestions to help the situation.

There are a lot of adults that I feel like they never grew out of their teenager years, especially those that were spoiled, and yet there are teenagers that I don’t think ever got to be teenagers because they have always been working for everything that they have.

Maturity is an interesting that that comes to people in different stages and at different times in their lives.  What really measures what makes a grown-up?