http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTJ7AzBIJoI
I've always loved this video. While I was working in the nursery at my church today I found a copy of the speech in a box of puzzles. I thought this would be a good place to share it with everyone. Imagine what our generation could do with all the nuggets of genius this speech/essay offers us. Some of my favorite points:
1. "Do one thing everyday that scares you": Make your life worth living. We're in high school and life can seem pretty cyclical, or that's how it feels to me anyway. Go to school, go to lessons, go to rehearsals, go to church and repeat. If we do one thing that scares us everyday it will break that cycle, make life interesting and it could even improve the world around us.
2. "Remember compliments you receive, forget the insults, If you succeed in doing this tell me how": If you were to ask me to recall a compliment right now, I wouldn't be able to say one, instead my mind would just go through a list of insults I've heard. That's just how our brain works, negative things tend to stick to your mind. People claim that insults make you stronger, but they just wear you down. Compliments can bring a smile to your face, and if people point good things about you, chances are it'll be easier for you to find good things about other people. Compliments are just a never ending chain of happy, insults take you nowhere.
3."Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don't.": This one is particularly important to kids our age. I cannot tell you how many times people have asked me where I want to go to college and I just said "I don't really know". It feels like I'm giving them the wrong answer, but It's okay to not know. I've been telling people for the longest time that I want to pursue music for the rest of my life, that I want to make a career out of it; but I'm starting to question it now. I feel like I have no other alternatives and that my family will only support me if I go into music. I have to keep in mind I'm only fifteen and I have my whole life ahead of me. We shouldn't be trapped in the life people want us to have, and we should always have an open mind
Pay attention to this video closely, even look up the words, you can learn a lot from it!
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Dear Bloggers...(grade)
Most of the blogs I've read seem pretty pointless; people telling stories of what they had for breakfast or what they did after they dropped their kids off at work. The general public doesn’t care about the tasks you have posted on your blogs, your meaningless stories. STOP MAKING MINDLESS BLOGS!!!!!
The way I see it there are two different kinds of bloggers: those who are middle aged parents using blogs are a tool to vent and get their aging minds off of work, and those who actually take their readers into consideration. For example, the other day I was reading http://www.mommyofmany.com/. She has some really good points, she really wants people to know how tough her life is, but she rarely makes her text relatable, it's hard for the reader to actually understand all the tribulations of her life. As for a blog that people can actually relate to, I personally like http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/ Without directing their words to the reader, this blog still makes a point. Although the point might be offensive to some, it's there and it's meant to be read and for people to think about how the content relates to their own lives
It's perfectly acceptable for you all to talk about the little details in your life, I'm not here to stop you and take away your happiness; but just keep in mind the best blogs to read are the ones that actually make a point.You can still talk about what happened in your day, just makes sure you somehow include the reader into the story, make them think about what happened and how it applies to their own life.
The way I see it there are two different kinds of bloggers: those who are middle aged parents using blogs are a tool to vent and get their aging minds off of work, and those who actually take their readers into consideration. For example, the other day I was reading http://www.mommyofmany.com/. She has some really good points, she really wants people to know how tough her life is, but she rarely makes her text relatable, it's hard for the reader to actually understand all the tribulations of her life. As for a blog that people can actually relate to, I personally like http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/ Without directing their words to the reader, this blog still makes a point. Although the point might be offensive to some, it's there and it's meant to be read and for people to think about how the content relates to their own lives
It's perfectly acceptable for you all to talk about the little details in your life, I'm not here to stop you and take away your happiness; but just keep in mind the best blogs to read are the ones that actually make a point.You can still talk about what happened in your day, just makes sure you somehow include the reader into the story, make them think about what happened and how it applies to their own life.
raaaaaawr!!!! I'm a mouse! :D
Hi everybody!!!! how are you today? I'm sitting next to Miki in the computer lab. she has pink fingernails!!!!!!!!!! I never really liked blogs, but now i know why everyone makes them, it's fun!!!
"I Feel so loved"~Miki Holmes
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