keep it real.

Why force somebody to do something out of their character and get upset about it when they don't want to? I mean, there comes a time where you just can't force people to do stuff. I mean, I'll go more personal. My whole thing, just because that gonna be your husband, doesn't make him my dad. I'm 24 years old. Don't force me to like somebody that pretty much means nothing to me. Being nice is one thing, but don't try to jump in a be my father, I don't need it. Maybe if I were 12 or 14 years old, it would be different. I mean, it's not like you become friends with people over night. But know you're place. You can't try to be a grown mans father. He already either has a father or father figure. And then....don't force me to like him!! Don't force me to talk to him. Stop playing games. Do you REALLY think it's gonna help and/or work?? Doesn't help you're being fake all the time, pretending you like stuff that you wouldn't look twice at other wise. Now, I understand "sacrifice". I understand trying to be something you're not to impress somebody, in a way to convince them to date you. But when you're already in a relationship, I think it's time to be you. Infact, I think you should've already been you before hand, cause if you're not SURPRISE! I mean, why keep up a lie? It's must easier to be real from the get go.

It's funny

This is funny to me. Now, of course people love to have money, I do to, and if I said anything other, I'd be a hypocrite. It's how we can....basically live. Now, of course, both men and women want to have money, it's social status these days. In a non-married relationship they love it because they can do things, have fun, live like royalty, so to speak. Same thing when they're married, although they give up some of that for their kids, or just include them. Now, there's a saying that goes 'Time is Money'. You can interpret this as "The more money a person makes, the more they work". So, typically, if you're making about $65,000+ you're probably working a good amount of time.

Now, here's more of what I'm getting at. Women want a husband that makes a good amount of money. I understand that completely. Infact, I'd love to make a good amount of money whenever I get married myself. Now, like I said earlier, when you make more money, you work more. So why is it, all these women that "need" a man that makes a good amount of money ALWAYS complain about never seeing their husbands and being unhappy cause they're lonely. I mean, isn't that part of the game? You don't play football if you don't want to get hit. You don't drive if you can't afford gas. You don't get good at playing instruments and art if you don't practice. It's the name of the game. It's rare that you get both, so why don't women realize this? Don't ask for a rich man if you can't live with being apart while he's making your money. Same thing for men, don't say you want a working woman if working different hours is to hard on you.

All in all, cherish the moments you spend with your loved ones, because no time is promised.

Progress Stoppers

This is no longer a question (Thank you Elyse) but rather a reflection. My original question was something on the lines of "What should one do when they have a friend, that's just wasting their life away, never seeming to grow up, so you try to push and motivate them to do something with their life? Do you keep trying or do you leave them behind?" Now, the ultimate answer was, leave them behind, because if they already don't listen NOW, they never will, and it'll only hold you back. Which, is true, very true.

Just thinking about it to myself, the truth became even more evident. I myself am never comfortable if I'm not doing something with my life. Granted, not every move I make is the right one. My path isn't straight and narrow, but wide and curvy. But I'm trying. I think most people are the way I am, especially when you have so much talent to the point to where you can't pick ONE thing to do, just gotta keep going till you find the right thing. So, I'm positive all those people feel equally as bothered when you see people not doing anything at all. Not even a plan. Nothing.

Looking at it, I think it can be somewhat straining on a friendship. It's like one friend being a millionaire and the other always asking for money, initially you don't mind, eventually it's bothersome but you try to push them to get on their feet. Ultimately you either cut ties or back away a bit, drifting further apart sometimes making a friendship into a acquaintanceship at best.

Now, it's completely different if it were somebody that fell on hard times, a victim of the economy. But to never try, that's another. I will say now, they will never be a priority for me anymore. I won't go out my way to be around them. I won't sacrifice things that can be important to my future for them. I won't even pencil them in my plans for the future, cause I don't want to waste the time to erase them.

In sports, they have a term for people that have top out in performance and can no longer help the team progress past their current potential. It's called simple 'Progress Stoppers'. Typically, those people are kept until a good replacement is found, who have the potential to be even better than that person. It's not a move meant for a quick fix, it's for the long haul. But it's meant to give you the best chance to win a championship.

So, now I have to cut my progress stoppers, or at least make them inactive on my roster, or else I'll never win.

Ok, real questions, and please do answer and if not, just think about it.

Why do people that not only never say thank you, but feels entitled to everything you do, like it's your duty to bend and they're will, get mad if you don't say thank you?

Why do people that talk down to you, and I mean that, when you're already down they try they're best to make you feel worse, get mad when you just don't wanna eff with them anymore?

Why do people who can never have a positive conversation with you get mad when you never want to talk?

Why do people that do all of the above to you, wonder why you're not nice to them? Do they not realize they do the things they do?

These are the things I'm wondering right now.

What does it mean?

Now I'm left in a state of endless thought as usual. Y'know, everyone knows that people come in and leave out of ones lives constantly. It happens every day. Everyone has their purpose in our lives, weather it be brief or continuous. Naturally, many people (not all) eventually leave ones life because they have served they're purpose for us, and us for them. However, what does it mean......if a person that left ones life, pulls a Brett Favre. You thought they were gone, they said they were gone, but yet here they are again as if they never left. What does that MEAN!? Have that same person be called for a new purpose in ones life? Has their purpose in ones life not been fulfilled? Where they never even gone at all, just dormant in your life? Now I'm left in a state of endless thought..........as usual.

This is what I want to do, and I love it!

This quarter at school, I finally feel like I have the time to commit to a program called 'Game Wizards' at school. It's a game development program where students get to make they're own games. Last quarter I intended to do it, being that a much trusted and admired classmate of mines was going to be a Lead for his game. Unfortunately, all my outside commitments along with school were just to much to handle. But now that I have the chance, I'm goin to make the best of it.

This time around, I'm doing concept art and 3D modeling for weapons/props/buildings/ect. Those who may know, my goal is to do Character designing. Being that I haven't truly worked on a team in this sort of situation, this will be a great experience for me. Although I'm not doing EXACTLY what I want to do as far as a career, this is close enough. I just hope I can create work that will find a nice cozy home in my portfolio.

American Wonder

I'm sure, some Americans that realize that America isn't the only place on Earth sometimes wonder why majority of the world hates us. Well, given my current place of employment, I've been blessed with the chance to ask (mainly Australians, English, and New Zeland..ers) what they hate us (as a whole, not as an individual). Of course there's man answers, however, the most common one is politics.

Let's start it up with more recent stuff. Now, of course when Obama was elected, the worlds approval rating of America went up, drastically. And if you're wondering, they're image of us was ruined by Bush. But, never-the-less, they loved us when we voted us in. The world LOVES Obama. Every country around the world backs Obama to the fullest. Why do you think he's doing so good with Foreign Affairs? Now, here's why the world hates us......ready........we dislike Obama (as a whole, not individually). But why? The main reason is, all the people that said they had his back, all the people that said he was our savior, all the people that said they'd do everything in their power to help Obama succeed, all the people that said "for this country to work, we need to operate as ONE not multiple parties", all the people that agreed it was time for a change (and had the power to help) ALL TURNED THEIR BACKS ON HIM!!!!! In other words, it's because he's black. That's right, I just basically called our government (or at least people with power) racist. However, given that majority of people don't watch the news or follow politics, they don't realize that this is going on, in our faces. To them, all that's happening is that "change" isn't happening fast enough in a world that's so accustomed to instant gratification. So to us Americans (as a whole) he's failing in our eyes. Which isn't the case, he's doing all he can. Don't forget about all the problems he inherited. But instead of all this, our approval rating of him falls, instead of us going to the government and pleading for them to help Obama help us. Why is it that people in other countries realize this, yet people in his own country show him NO love!? I wish I knew.

Another reason why other countries hate us is......we voted in Bush....... twice.
So, basically, they all think we're idiot cowboys that think we know everything when we actually know nothing.