There is no greater feeling than when you are sprinting for your life. Your hair streaming in the wind, muscles burning, stomach aching, every cell in you body with common sense telling you STOP!
But that voice in your head that whispers, "Keep going,"...
The pain is temporary. Hours from now, you are going to be resting, silently, heartbeat and breath even, wondering about what could have been. What you could have done. What you should have done.
But if you take the initiative, the opportunity dangling in front of you, barely in your grasp...
The gratitude...the effort...the years and years of training...
The win.
Will be eternal.
Hey, that was my explode the moment bit, how did you guys like it? It's an writing exercise I'm going to start doing. It can't be more than 12 lines, and each has a unique prompt. The prompt was:
Running
If this transported you to another world, comment! If it didn't comment on how I can improve!
Sunday, February 10, 2013
A Thought or Two About Hate Accounts...And Other Stuff
Alright. So I'm tucked into the corner of the sofa, laptop in hand, earphones plugged in and ready to contemplate. Every once in a while someone needs some time to think, and reflect, and just check out a little. Or a lot. Depends on the mood. Hey, everyone my song changes, I'll let you know by doing this ::example::. That way you can see what I'm listening to and my musical taste. Neat, huh?
So I've seen a lot of things on social media. Mainly I am extremely active on Instagram only, but occasionally I do see things about Facebook and Twitter too. There are a lot of different, exciting, sometimes horrifying things out there on social networks and the internet...it's amazing what people will call normal. Or weird. How someone can post something utterly disgusting, vain, or hateful. Or how someone can be so reserved and quiet and thoughtful, and post the most interesting things.
Since I know just about everyone and everything Instagram, I'll focus mainly on that. ::Everybody Talks; Neon Trees:: I follow a variety of people on Instagram. Me being a teenager, I follow a lot of different people that go to my school. Most of them are good friends, people that I'm actually interested about, good thorough kind people. There's the occasional best friend posting in my feed somewhere. ::Some Nights; Fun:: I always make sure to like those. It's especially exciting when someone who is never on, like NEVER, posts something. It's like finding a gem in a bunch of everyday rocks.
However, I am following a lot of people that I don't even talk to. Not strangers. Definitely not strangers, actually, people that go to my school, or a brother or sister of a friend who goes to high school. These kids are really something, I'll tell you. I guess you could call them "popular", or the "cool kids", or whatever labels society uses. I mean, what ATTENTION seekers they are! Excuse me Miss Priss, I can see your overlarge boobs, yes, you don't have to bend over! Yes, swagmasta_foreva, I can see your weakling stomach. You don't have to flex your arms to make it look like you have an inkling of muscle. ::Express Yourself; Labrinth:: And they words they use are really just something to laugh at. Cussing like a motherf_cking n_gga f_cking a big _ss wh_re does not make you any better. In fact, I laugh whenever these people swear like this. Hold the phone, we got a bad_ss over here. Like, NO.
I also have a nagging suspicion that most kids, mostly girls, like this have divorced parents. I might be generalizing, I really don't want to, but I can name at least like 5 girls that have divorced parents. Like, is it "cool" to have parents that hate each other? No, it's not! It's really annoying and sad and depressing! Furthermore, I think these kids have deep emotional issues. ::Relaxed My Beloved; Alex Clare:: I swear, they are complex emotional attention-seeking freaks. I love hanging out with friends, but I am soooo glad I not one of them.
There are the occasional good people, the ones who are social butterflies but have a couple ounces of good-natured individuality in them. I mostly likely know them, maybe talk to them once in a while. I try to associate myself with good people, people that if I got in trouble with, I know I'd get out easy, not get into some serious crap.
So anyways, a couple minutes ago I was scrolling down my feed and I came upon multiple stop-the-hate posts. ::Brokenhearted; Karmin:: They were mostly like "Please, stop the hate. You'll get in serious trouble and it'll suck. Stop hating on these people. It's not worth your time". Wow. I actually was kind of proud of them. Finally, a reason to have faith in humanity!
You see, previously I had come upon two hate accounts. Man, they were horrible. I mean, these kids are terrible when it comes to insults. Like I said earlier, they cuss. HARD. Now, to give you some sort of example of what this kids are up to, I'll give you their EXACT usernames. I mean, it's not heart-stopping, but it just makes you think about the things kids are up to. ::Little Lion Man; Mumford and Sons::
First one that I encountered: bad_b*tches_of_bdjh
Second one: jackfranden_sucks_d*ck
::Hall of Fame; The Script:: Okay, to be honest, I do not like mista Jack Franden over here (arrogant jerk/bad word), but a hate page? SERIOUSLY? You had nothing better to do with your time? Have you ever heard of save the environment? Go hug a tree? Go be a skateboarder? Idk, maybe work on your poor social skills? Work on your language? Go do something that will actually BENEFIT you in life, not get you suspended? Man, what is up with this world?
Well, both pages were just pathetic. That's the word. PATHETIC. Hating on people for no reason. Maybe there was a grudge between the person or whatever, but calling them names, insulting their family friends, even if they are pretty sleazy? I can tell years of education and MORALES have worked on you.
::Tickets; Maroon 5:: But I'll tell you, that was not half of it. Apparently it spread around friends, friends of friends, and INSTAGRAM, and people started commenting furious retorts and defensive replies, blocking and reporting the account, and spreading even more stories about who the creator of the account could be. It was like wildfire. And the smoke make everything difficult to read. I even caught whiff of it at school, as I was walking down the hallways. ::Girl on Fire; Alicia Keys:: Stuff like "Yeah, it was Chris!" and "Who do you think it was?". It pretty much burned down the entire social system of the school. People were suddenly looking at each other differently, wondering how such a normal looking person on the outside could be so nasty inside. Does my best friend like me, or hate me? That basketball star, is he legit, or a die hard hater?
Eventually it turned out to be some kid who was up in the social status pretty high, with the ballers and dumb-as-fish jocks. ::Good Time; Carly Rae Jepsen/Owl City:: I'm pretty sure the school got involved, and, well, we all know as much as schools and principals try to help, that freakin chaos just turns into a full out hurricane.
Well, fast forward a week later. Not surprisingly, 2 more hate pages were created. I didn't get to see them, but frankly, did I even want to? I think it's sort of sick habit, checking out this insulting pages to see how bad it is. Anyways, scrolling down a post or two, I see that there are comments about who the new perpetrator is. And wow. It was pretty shocking. And I mean, I'm not one to feed into gossip, so this was sort of a guilty pleasure. I guess thats a reason I follow these types of people; it gives me a window into what everyone's talking about. ::Don't Wake Me Up; Chris Brown:: I know the kid they were talking about. I KNOW HIM. He's in a couple of my classes. He hangs out with some pretty stupid sleazy kids, although he seems actually pretty odd. I mean, let me give you a picture: ratty white-blonde hair, skinny but lithe, tall and full of pimples. I mean, I guess he would be sorta cute if he didn't have a red nose and a pizza face. No offense to pizza faces anywhere. You guys rock. But there's just something, I don't know, weird about him. He has this really low voice. He is good friends with my crush, who is gosh-darn AMAZING. But he hangs out with dumb sleazebags. ::Skyfall; Adele:: I mean, since I'm in all GT classes, it's pretty rare to find one of him in my class. You get pretty interesting people when you're in GT. He's pretty athletic (A-Team football and basketball), but he just has an odd personality. He doesn't talk much, and when he does it's in a weird little voice making a joke or something. I kind of stay away from him. For various reasons I really don't want to say his name, so lets just call him Johnny Brown.
Well, apparently, he's been creating multiple hate pages!! Wow. It's just really weird to think that out of all people, he would be the one who's behind all this stuff. Keep in mind though, it's really hard to believe pretty much anything if you heard it from a friend of a friend who's brother's cousin aunt's little girl told you.
But like I said, it's pretty weird. He's always intrigued me. He's kind of a nerd inside, but yet he's best friends with a total jerk. What is his opinion on things? Where does he stand? What kind of person is Johnny Brown?
Well, if all the rumors, gossip, and talk is actually truthful for once, then I underestimated Mr. Johnny Brown. It seems to me that he's cracked. I'm not the only one who recognizes this popular idiots as they really are.
Or maybe he was just bored, and decided to pull a couple jokes for fun. I mean, honestly you never know. Johnny Brown will always be a mystery to me.
So, to conclude this extremely long post (by my standards), guys, don't spread the hate. If you really don't like that person, why don't you be man (or woman) enough to go up and say it? Hiding behind a hateful page is a true form of cowardice. You'll get in loads (no, heaps) of trouble, and your friends will start to distrust you. And it's going to haunt you in 20 years when you're applying for that dream job, but you get denied because of a stupid little stunt you did back in grade school. Think before you write. Think before you text. Think before you type. Because even though the Internet is pretty darn cool, everything offered up by anyone stays there forever.
Just think about it, okay?
So I've seen a lot of things on social media. Mainly I am extremely active on Instagram only, but occasionally I do see things about Facebook and Twitter too. There are a lot of different, exciting, sometimes horrifying things out there on social networks and the internet...it's amazing what people will call normal. Or weird. How someone can post something utterly disgusting, vain, or hateful. Or how someone can be so reserved and quiet and thoughtful, and post the most interesting things.
Since I know just about everyone and everything Instagram, I'll focus mainly on that. ::Everybody Talks; Neon Trees:: I follow a variety of people on Instagram. Me being a teenager, I follow a lot of different people that go to my school. Most of them are good friends, people that I'm actually interested about, good thorough kind people. There's the occasional best friend posting in my feed somewhere. ::Some Nights; Fun:: I always make sure to like those. It's especially exciting when someone who is never on, like NEVER, posts something. It's like finding a gem in a bunch of everyday rocks.
However, I am following a lot of people that I don't even talk to. Not strangers. Definitely not strangers, actually, people that go to my school, or a brother or sister of a friend who goes to high school. These kids are really something, I'll tell you. I guess you could call them "popular", or the "cool kids", or whatever labels society uses. I mean, what ATTENTION seekers they are! Excuse me Miss Priss, I can see your overlarge boobs, yes, you don't have to bend over! Yes, swagmasta_foreva, I can see your weakling stomach. You don't have to flex your arms to make it look like you have an inkling of muscle. ::Express Yourself; Labrinth:: And they words they use are really just something to laugh at. Cussing like a motherf_cking n_gga f_cking a big _ss wh_re does not make you any better. In fact, I laugh whenever these people swear like this. Hold the phone, we got a bad_ss over here. Like, NO.
I also have a nagging suspicion that most kids, mostly girls, like this have divorced parents. I might be generalizing, I really don't want to, but I can name at least like 5 girls that have divorced parents. Like, is it "cool" to have parents that hate each other? No, it's not! It's really annoying and sad and depressing! Furthermore, I think these kids have deep emotional issues. ::Relaxed My Beloved; Alex Clare:: I swear, they are complex emotional attention-seeking freaks. I love hanging out with friends, but I am soooo glad I not one of them.
There are the occasional good people, the ones who are social butterflies but have a couple ounces of good-natured individuality in them. I mostly likely know them, maybe talk to them once in a while. I try to associate myself with good people, people that if I got in trouble with, I know I'd get out easy, not get into some serious crap.
So anyways, a couple minutes ago I was scrolling down my feed and I came upon multiple stop-the-hate posts. ::Brokenhearted; Karmin:: They were mostly like "Please, stop the hate. You'll get in serious trouble and it'll suck. Stop hating on these people. It's not worth your time". Wow. I actually was kind of proud of them. Finally, a reason to have faith in humanity!
You see, previously I had come upon two hate accounts. Man, they were horrible. I mean, these kids are terrible when it comes to insults. Like I said earlier, they cuss. HARD. Now, to give you some sort of example of what this kids are up to, I'll give you their EXACT usernames. I mean, it's not heart-stopping, but it just makes you think about the things kids are up to. ::Little Lion Man; Mumford and Sons::
First one that I encountered: bad_b*tches_of_bdjh
Second one: jackfranden_sucks_d*ck
::Hall of Fame; The Script:: Okay, to be honest, I do not like mista Jack Franden over here (arrogant jerk/bad word), but a hate page? SERIOUSLY? You had nothing better to do with your time? Have you ever heard of save the environment? Go hug a tree? Go be a skateboarder? Idk, maybe work on your poor social skills? Work on your language? Go do something that will actually BENEFIT you in life, not get you suspended? Man, what is up with this world?
Well, both pages were just pathetic. That's the word. PATHETIC. Hating on people for no reason. Maybe there was a grudge between the person or whatever, but calling them names, insulting their family friends, even if they are pretty sleazy? I can tell years of education and MORALES have worked on you.
::Tickets; Maroon 5:: But I'll tell you, that was not half of it. Apparently it spread around friends, friends of friends, and INSTAGRAM, and people started commenting furious retorts and defensive replies, blocking and reporting the account, and spreading even more stories about who the creator of the account could be. It was like wildfire. And the smoke make everything difficult to read. I even caught whiff of it at school, as I was walking down the hallways. ::Girl on Fire; Alicia Keys:: Stuff like "Yeah, it was Chris!" and "Who do you think it was?". It pretty much burned down the entire social system of the school. People were suddenly looking at each other differently, wondering how such a normal looking person on the outside could be so nasty inside. Does my best friend like me, or hate me? That basketball star, is he legit, or a die hard hater?
Eventually it turned out to be some kid who was up in the social status pretty high, with the ballers and dumb-as-fish jocks. ::Good Time; Carly Rae Jepsen/Owl City:: I'm pretty sure the school got involved, and, well, we all know as much as schools and principals try to help, that freakin chaos just turns into a full out hurricane.
Well, fast forward a week later. Not surprisingly, 2 more hate pages were created. I didn't get to see them, but frankly, did I even want to? I think it's sort of sick habit, checking out this insulting pages to see how bad it is. Anyways, scrolling down a post or two, I see that there are comments about who the new perpetrator is. And wow. It was pretty shocking. And I mean, I'm not one to feed into gossip, so this was sort of a guilty pleasure. I guess thats a reason I follow these types of people; it gives me a window into what everyone's talking about. ::Don't Wake Me Up; Chris Brown:: I know the kid they were talking about. I KNOW HIM. He's in a couple of my classes. He hangs out with some pretty stupid sleazy kids, although he seems actually pretty odd. I mean, let me give you a picture: ratty white-blonde hair, skinny but lithe, tall and full of pimples. I mean, I guess he would be sorta cute if he didn't have a red nose and a pizza face. No offense to pizza faces anywhere. You guys rock. But there's just something, I don't know, weird about him. He has this really low voice. He is good friends with my crush, who is gosh-darn AMAZING. But he hangs out with dumb sleazebags. ::Skyfall; Adele:: I mean, since I'm in all GT classes, it's pretty rare to find one of him in my class. You get pretty interesting people when you're in GT. He's pretty athletic (A-Team football and basketball), but he just has an odd personality. He doesn't talk much, and when he does it's in a weird little voice making a joke or something. I kind of stay away from him. For various reasons I really don't want to say his name, so lets just call him Johnny Brown.
Well, apparently, he's been creating multiple hate pages!! Wow. It's just really weird to think that out of all people, he would be the one who's behind all this stuff. Keep in mind though, it's really hard to believe pretty much anything if you heard it from a friend of a friend who's brother's cousin aunt's little girl told you.
But like I said, it's pretty weird. He's always intrigued me. He's kind of a nerd inside, but yet he's best friends with a total jerk. What is his opinion on things? Where does he stand? What kind of person is Johnny Brown?
Well, if all the rumors, gossip, and talk is actually truthful for once, then I underestimated Mr. Johnny Brown. It seems to me that he's cracked. I'm not the only one who recognizes this popular idiots as they really are.
Or maybe he was just bored, and decided to pull a couple jokes for fun. I mean, honestly you never know. Johnny Brown will always be a mystery to me.
So, to conclude this extremely long post (by my standards), guys, don't spread the hate. If you really don't like that person, why don't you be man (or woman) enough to go up and say it? Hiding behind a hateful page is a true form of cowardice. You'll get in loads (no, heaps) of trouble, and your friends will start to distrust you. And it's going to haunt you in 20 years when you're applying for that dream job, but you get denied because of a stupid little stunt you did back in grade school. Think before you write. Think before you text. Think before you type. Because even though the Internet is pretty darn cool, everything offered up by anyone stays there forever.
Just think about it, okay?
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Just Kidding
Wow, one night of sensitivity and you decide that your blog should be private.
I take that back. I have a book to write and drawings to showcase! I don't know what I was thinking when I said I'd make this blog private. I mean, I won't share where I live or anything, or my address, or anything like that.
So, actually, I finished ALL my homework today, which means I have approximately 4 hours of nothing until the Superbowl. Guess what I'll dedicate that to....writing! I'll post the next couple pages or so in the Project Mob tab. If you haven't already checked it out, look at the head of this blog and you'll see 3 tabs. Click on "Project Mob" and you'll find some stuff related to the book I'm writing.
See ya guys! Hope you have an awesome Superbowl! 49ERS FOR THE WIN
I take that back. I have a book to write and drawings to showcase! I don't know what I was thinking when I said I'd make this blog private. I mean, I won't share where I live or anything, or my address, or anything like that.
So, actually, I finished ALL my homework today, which means I have approximately 4 hours of nothing until the Superbowl. Guess what I'll dedicate that to....writing! I'll post the next couple pages or so in the Project Mob tab. If you haven't already checked it out, look at the head of this blog and you'll see 3 tabs. Click on "Project Mob" and you'll find some stuff related to the book I'm writing.
See ya guys! Hope you have an awesome Superbowl! 49ERS FOR THE WIN
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