Don't you hate it when your trying to log into an old email or website of some sort and you forgot your password? I know that now there's the thing where the computer will remember it for you and all, but it will only be on that specific computer. Which is vaguely frustrating when you use a different computer and end up having to reset your password. And it could be soooo easy if we all just used the same password for everything, but apparently there's something about if a hacker figures out that one password they can get into everything... and that's supposedly a bad thing I'm told. Just kidding, of course that's a bad thing. But yet it would be just a bit more convenient to have the same password for everything. There's a lot of thing in daily life that could be made just that much more convenient, but yet we don't do it. Let me give another example... Let's say Justin just isn't feeling the best on certain day and he goes up to his friends with a big sad look on his face... and instead of telling them he isn't feeling all that great he waits till they ask him, "What's wrong Justin?". This is something that happens to me all the time where people go up to me and expect me to figure out their emotion, and I do the same as well. And really this is something that makes the situation more complicated since the other person has to figure out what's wrong or if there is something wrong. When Justin could just simply tell his buddies that he's not doing too well. And really I was just thinking why people do this... and the only thing that I came up with was that it makes what your feeling more dramatic... By finding out that Justin is sad you don't only feel proud of yourself for deducing this, but you also want to figure out what's going on and are more interested in what Justin has to say. To be perfectly honest, I prefer someone to tell me what's going on since sometimes I don't notice certain things. Well I just wanted to share this little tid bit of society that I found out this week. That when someone could easily take an easy way out of a situation, they still end up taking the harder way.
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I have recently finished a book called In My Hands. To give a brief summary it's about a 17 year old girl named Irene who lives in Poland during the holocaust and ends up doing all of these amazing things by rescuing Jews and fighting back against Russia and Germany. And it really got me thinking about how powerful youth can be in a society. Most people have associated the youth, teenagers especially, with being tricksters. Instead of the Terrible Twos, it's now the Terrible Teens. When we are walking by a tipped over outhouse we say, "Dumb teenagers". And the fact is that it's probably a teenager who did that too. But all of those crazy and terrible adolescents ruin the ideology of all teens, even though some are perfectly great people. This creates the voices of youth being suppressed because they are considered radical and irrational, leading to the "good kids" feeling as if they have no say or power in this world. When this is really not true. According to the JOCI-IYCW (International Young Christian Workers) a character our youth has today is, "We are serious about life and want to live for some purpose and meaning". In other words the youth of our society actually has serious ideas and aspirations. But then why are so many of these youth angry, depressed, etc.? It's because our society is full of things that tell them they can't do this or be this, according to the IYCW. My only opinion on the matter can be summed up in this simple verse: 1 Timothy 4:12- Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity. As young people we need to realize that whatever society says about us, any stereo types or names don't matter. Because we can prove everyone wrong by acting with love, faith, and purity... and this works whether your a Christian or not!!! But of course this can be a challenge of trying to live life in this manner, but the bible has answers to this too... Psalm 119:9- "How can a young person stay on the path of purity? By living according to your word." There's two of the reasons why I love the bible, it has all the answers and it tells you that it does!!! And lastly just think of all the amazing things we can do if we act like this, we can save lives, by showing people love we can create world peace. And not just that but by showing love we show God, which saves lives by letting others follow God and live with him eternally. While we may not be able to change the view of our society we can make a difference... You can't control the wind, but you can adjust the sails.
During exercise, work, school, or anywhere else our society tends to be listening to music. I mean music has made it into the category of questions to ask on a first date, which has to be of some significance... for some people at least. Today I wanted to talk about a few different aspects of music since it's apart of most of our lives. Some have heard that listening to music can actually be good for you. And did you know that there's some phenomenons that can go on within your brain that has surprising effects. I did some research and really it's not all shock and awe on if it is actually good for you or not. But to sum it up music can keep you calm, cheer you up, elevate your workout performance, help you focus, and even ease your pain. So really it's all the reasons why we even listen to music in the first place. The one I found most interesting is that it can ease pain. I found out that it can help people with fibromyalgia also called fibrositis (widespread muscle pain and tenderness are the most common symptoms). Not just that but it's been shown to clear up head aches. Some music has special isochronic tones within them. These are tones that are basically being turned on and off quickly, and research shows it can help focus and relive the mind. Oh course I had to try it, but being a person who doesn't get headaches typically it was hard to tell if it worked. But I can tell you one blogger who thought they worked and her name is Nikki Albert. In one of her posts she gives her opinions on some isochronic music and says she thinks that while is can be somewhat painful, it's kinda nice after a while. So really listening to music can be good for you, I guess that's a relief that we all don't have to get rid of our iPods and MP3 players. And on that phenomenon I mentioned, it's called Synesthesia. And really an explanation of it in my own words is when your listening to music or certain sounds then something in your brain is "triggered" and you somehow see colors. You may of heard of this but if not I'll start off by telling you that I do have Synesthesia, and I guess I didn't know that it was an actual thing, that it was just something that only I had. But I found out that all sorts of other people have it and that this Synesthesia can apparently have other triggers too, like words, numbers, or even feelings. But specifically the sound one is called Chromesthesia, and apparently it's different for everyone who has it. For me it's specifically music and it's rushes of color that can be faded at times or extremely bold where I can barely see or consecrate at times. I play in band and when everyone is warming up and playing everything at once it's really hard to control it, but over the years I've found that I can know that I'm in tune based off of the colors I see. Really the more and more I learn about it the more fascinating it becomes, and to think that I have it kinda weirds me out. But I do encourage you to do your own research on it since there's also books based on people's experiences with it and really it's just plain cool to hear about. I hope this gave you a burst of knowledge and got you thinking a bit. Have a great weekend everyone! And don't forget to check out Nikki Albert's blog called Brainless Blogger at the address below!!!
http://brainlessblogger.blogspot.com/ I want to start out by saying I obviously haven't been posting every Monday and Wednesday and have decided to just post at my leisure. I know this of course will go against every blogger on earth and will get my very little views, but I feel that this is the only way for me to continue my blog at all. Today I've decided to talk about control. Lately I've been leaning about the Protestant Reformation as well as other religious historical things that ended up turning into more of a political debate rather than a religious one. It all comes down to who has power, in some cases it's the king, others it's the pope, the people, or really anything else you wanted to fill up that blank with. And really all of those things couldn't be farther from the truth. Whether it's control over land, money, people, or our everyday lives; most of us think we can have control over it all. For example, when planning to go the movies with your friends after work. It started by having a welly thought out plan. This is the point in the story where everything in the world is right with the character and birds are chirping.... Then disaster strikes... there's changes in schedules or there's an argument, a cancellation, a miscommunication... and before you know it the entire thing is cancelled, and all the control you thought you had over the situations is...... gone. This is a very mild example, but you get my point. Ultimately I think that we have no control over what may happen. Yes we may prevent things from happening, or make plans, or do what ever it is that can create control. But really we cannot fully control other humans' thoughts or actions, this then makes us unable to be in complete control. Now, this isn't the time to be freaking out and hiding in your zombie apocalypse safe house, because there is someone who is in control. Proverbs 19:21 says, "Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand". This says that while we all may have plans, God's plans are the ones that will be in complete and utter dominance. Hopefully this is a relief to you, that we don't have to worry about what may happen and just put our trust in the Lord. I'll leave off with this: Psalm 46:10- "Be still and know that I am God". We can be stress-free and live our lives without complete control in knowing those 7 simple words. I hope you have a wonderful rest of your week, please comment with anything you want to say or any prayer requests. God Bless!
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