“The Wonders Of ‘Emorationality’ & The Man of Service”

Ever felt like your head and your heart are in an eternal battle at times? That they clash and you are torn to choose between one from the other? But my question to you is “Have you ever wondered if there’s anything in between the suppose ‘Polar Opposites’? If there is such a thing as emotions being intertwined with what seems right from wrong or vice versa? The article ‘Emorationality’: Where Your Head Meets Your Heart by Gabrielle Gawne-Kelnar touches upon such subject in where she quotes on an expert Professor Olivier Oullier, talks about the old binary trap, states the source of research on the subject and last of all it includes you at the end of the article. Within that article it includes links on answers that myself and I bet a massive amount of people have asked themselves countless times in terms of a daily basis and or on relationships.

In another topic, “Mr. A-Z” talks about what would life be without music, where musicians would be, and finally where he’d be without music in his life all in his Blog. The life that he’d pursue, and the dreams of becoming someone riding a “Bigger Wave” that would help masses of people. He even talks where he’s standing right now so far in terms of his music career and how the critics and not to forget the false claims have affected his life. Now you may be wondering who the heck is Mr A-Z? Well you might know him from the hit single “I’m Yours” that lasted in the number one spot for months, yes ladies and gentlemen; it’s Jason Mraz. The perspective from a bohemian artist lets fans such as myself know what goes on in the minds of great musicians such as Mr. A-Z.

"Playing Around With The Hands Of Time And The Screen."

Have you ever asked yourself where do the hours pass by when you do homework and the next day you find out it’s incomplete? It doesn’t make sense right? I mean you spent so many hours doing homework and yet it seems that overnight half of it ran for its life. To me it sounds like your hours didn’t run for its life but that it jumped to a hole called distraction. What? What distraction? Well you tell me, I’d say an estimate of over 85% of teenagers are involved in a social network which includes hot websites such as: Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. Roughly the same equivalent to that percentage have experienced going from doing homework for a couple of minutes to finding themselves wasting hours chatting on such popular networks where you can stay connected with friends. There’s a point though, we need computers to do such things as research, typed papers, etc. So how can we avoid the “Network Effect” as I call it? I’m no expert but in my own personal opinion I think the best thing to do is to set yourself time for friends and time for study, homework, or essays that are due throughout the week. It is not hard and most of all teens complain about the amount of homework that they have when they don’t even notice that they have so much more time to finish it and still be socially active. Don’t fight time itself; it is not there to put a halt to your life, It’s actually quite the opposite; it’s there to move your life forward.

Vision Board

Keep on swimming

stay in contact with the friends who let me be myself

Have a dog

Keep making my parents proud of me

Keep having an education

Keep being myself

"Luma’s secrets to a successful life."

It’s not really a secret actually; it’s more of a way to live except it takes a lot of discipline. So what’s the secret you ask? Well the article ”Work Hard or Work Smart” put it in very simple words; “Work smart, work hard and live strong.” SURPRISE! It’s a combination of both! Exactly how was Luma able to make the Fugees, a group of kids from all kinds of different places the best team of their league? By staying strong all the way through and working both smart and extremely hard against the barrage of issues that her team had. According to the book Coach Luma during the tryouts while watching the kids play soccer she sat on the grass endlessly writing up plays and erasing them and re-writing them yet again, this continuous habit she developed made her work in a strategic way for her upcoming soccer games of the season. So she has already achieved the first basic step of being successful, and so what’s next? Working hard of course; right after tryouts she set down the rules and what she expects from them kids. The expectations were incredibly high though they were achievable and she knew that the kids she was training could follow them. There’s also another thing that she did that assisted her in becoming a coach of the most competitive team and that is that despite having to overcome personal problems in her life, Luma stood her grounds through thick and thin. She showed dedication through her hard work, as she was being strong for the people around her. Overall,  as we can see that with her plays that she made and the practices she set for the kids; Luma and the Fugees came a long way.

                                          

                                          

"The Chronicles of College. The Lion, the Witch, and the Laundry?"

                                                  

Ferocious wolves that can talk, a humble Lion that knows what’s right from wrong and a Witch with the ambition to take possession of Narnia. Oh how I miss watching those kinds of movies when I was a kid, and I bet that all of us have those certain movies that just caught our imagination and took us into a world of fantasy unlike any other. As a kid I would invest a serious amount of money trying to see all these adventures movies because they sparked an adventure land everywhere I went. Of course now I’m a teenager in college and fantasy has decreased a significantly large amount but what does that say? It might be that reality’s gravity is finally hitting with full force. By spending so many hours on the TV watching cartoons and movies that only expanded my imagination it created an equal but opposite reaction as it was decreasing the hours needed for me to learn basic skills of how to take care of myself later on in life. As for example: Laundry. I’ve never done laundry on my own, in the Universe my mind with all kinds of mystical creatures cramped inside this skull, chores as basic as doing the laundry was the antagonist to the story. So it’s true that reality is cracking through my life but that’s part of growing up, and a lot of people think that growing up means that you lose the ability to have a fantasy world but that will not be the case with me as I believe that my dreams are a part of me and for them to fade away is to lose myself. It just turned out that I had to my own laundry this week; it wasn’t that bad, in fact it was almost like an adventure just as good as the stories inside my head. Reality doesn’t seem that bad.                

                                           

                                               

"A toast for all the papers that are due!"

First 2 week of college? Done deal. How was it?  Very messy. Why? Because of all the papers due of course! In the transition of becoming a college student, the first weeks are crucial in the college career of any freshman. It’s a learning experience like any other; everything is thrown at you at the same time, a new place, new friends, new teachers, but most importantly lots and lots of papers that need to be completed. Is that the biggest change from high school to college? A change in the amount of workload and homework? From my own personal view, it might just be. From swim team papers sheets that need to be filled out to syllabuses that need to be memorized. The whole thing just overwhelms anyone; notice that I haven’t mentioned the homework that is also a contributing factor of the challenges presented in the first month of college. As I stated before the first few weeks is a very crucial part of college, and though it is annoying and it’s overwhelming, it’s essential for the transition into becoming a full-pledge adult with responsibility. Millions of years ago we had to endure the freezing era by killing a few wolves and ox to warm ourselves and survive. So if we all went through obstacles and changes in our past and endured temperatures far below 0 degrees, what can we learn from them? The best way to overcome all of it is to do what us human do best. Adapt.  That’s just what I’m going to do.

"The Forbidden Marshmallow Fruit?"

Eve fell into temptation as she ate the forbidden apple and God forever condemned her. As we saw in the Marshmallow video 2/3 of the kids ate the marshmallow though they were warned not to. They only had to wait 15 minutes; after the forever-long minutes were done they’d get two marshmallows instead of one. Rarely any of them waited, the white puffy sugary sweet was right in front of them ready to be eaten… Well in the case of these kids, they were ready to be swallowed whole. Exactly how does this relate to the typical college student? Well ever heard of self-discipline? Or how about self-control? They made it pretty clear in the video that if only the kids were more patient they’d have more then what they had when the experiment started. They had to plan ahead and see the big picture or as we say “The long shot.” Well yeah, college kids definitely know better then these much younger kids, or do they? How many times have we seen the average teenager go to a party instead of doing homework or study for a test the next morning?  The stats are very similar to the statistics of how many kids would eat the marshmallow instead of waiting to have two of them. Of course though, the teens that didn’t go to the party had a much better chance in passing the test or having a better grade of homework then the wild party craze adolescents that like to stay in the fiesta the whole night. So what’s the lesson learned? Avoid that little guy in the red suit with two horns called temptation; he likes to mess around with you once in a while.

"Getting To Know Me"

• So to start off the blogs I have chosen 5 concepts that describe me in a way to picture my personality
  
  • Intuitive
  • Dreamer
  • Escapist
  • Compassionate
  • Secretive
  
  Intuitive:
  The power of knowing things from a natural knowledge inside your mind, that’s what being intuitive means, to some people it seems that, this concept is sort of being psychic but really its just knowing the surroundings you’re in. My parents, family and friends have always told me that I am not the usual teenager and one of the reasons is because I have a sense of intuition that helps me on a daily basis. Usually my friends come to me for advise on situations that I’ve never been because I’ve been told that the way I know how to control the situation at the present moment helps them in whatever they are doing.

Dreamer:The desire of things that are usually unrealistic to achieve and accomplish. I’m a dreamer, there’s no doubt about it. When I have time to myself I imagine and live in my world, in there I am able to do whatever I please and manipulate what goes on in my life. There’s a problem with that and it’s that it sometimes becomes hard for me to touch the ground and be able to realize what’s fact from fiction.

Escapist:
An escapist is someone who likes to escape from they’re surroundings or someone who doesn’t like to face reality. This is pretty related and similar to the dreamer concept though it is more like a reaction to what’s going on in the real world. Everyday I try to separate both of these worlds; the real world from my dream world. The problem is that when things get to tough I start crawling back into my dream world where I can stay safe behind it.

Compassionate:
Compassion is the feeling of feelings other’s emotion. I am the type of person who knows how to read people, from their face expressions to their body language. With that said I can see what they feel and typically I try to react to that certain emotion they are going through.

Secretive:
This is one of the concepts that is both good and bad. It means to contain information from everyone, which is what I do. I’m usually very good at keeping secrets because I try not to betray the trust of the person that told me but sometimes when the secret is something that is life disrupting to that person is when it starts to hurt the person and myself for keeping it on the DL.

The College Life

     What's that? a bird? a plane? How about none of the above. It's JUST College. What exactly is college? To everyone that simple yet complicated word has a different meaning but to me, it means time to fly. Fly away from home that is. Someone once said that knowledge is power but how do we obtain knowledge? Well that's just it, we have to get out there and find it or experience it at least. That's just what college means to me, a stepping-stone to obtain the power to recklessly tackle life at full charge. Accomplishing going to college is just like giving you tools to build your own house, both are very similar in a way because both help you go that extra-mile to grasp your own personal design. Building your own house makes you live that dream house, well going to college assists you into grasping your dream life.

    In my own personal view being a full time college student is something to be proud of since none of my family members have ever gone to college in the U.S or ever experienced the intensity that the schools in the U.S.A provide. I have changed throughout my life on the view of my academics, I use to be the kind of person who really didn't care but as I got older it hit me that I need to straighten up and put my two feet on the ground, so becoming a college student excites me as far as education goes. All the experience from all the professors is valuable to me since it's all like a library where I can see what's out  on the real world and since they're taking up their time to help me succeed in life and providing the assistance to figure out what kind of person I'm going to become in the near future.