Looking Forward

There are many things I ponder about my future. Things such as my career, family, friends, and where I will be living. The place I've always wanted to live was South Carolina. To me South Carolina is warm enough for me to enjoy myself and I also get to experience autumn and winter to an extent, but not too much. I grow tired of the cold, harsh Michigan weather. I long for warmer weather, nothing like Florida, that would be too hot, but South Carolina's temperature is perfect for me. I also love the ocean, so I would love to either live close to or live on waters edge. A house on the beach in South Carolina sounds like the perfect place for me to rest my hat.

Losing Sleep

I've realazied that my sleep schedual has been all kinds crazy lately. There are nights I don't go to bed until 4 am and others I'm in bed by 11 pm. The amount of sleep I recieve a night also varies. Some nights I get a good eight hours of sleep and other nights I get half that that amount. Depending on what I'm doing is usualy the cause of me losing sleep. Mass amounts of homework is usualy the reason for most of my late nights... most of them.

A Deviant form of Art

There are many forms of art. Drawing, painting, sculpting, music, dancing, photography, I could go on for a while.

There is a type of art that is praised by the youth and "rebels" and frowned upon by older generations and is seen as an act of deviance and vandilism throughout the U.S.



This form of art is called graffiti and (in my opinion) one of the best forms of modern art. Some of the artwork is so amazing, the style and creativity of the artist are unique and bring to veiw a new style for a new generation. To me the greatest part of this form of art is how
anomyous it is. Some artist will use a theme or leave their innitials for people to recognize their work. Most though leave nothing, probably because it is against the law and is considered destructtion of property.

It's true that most of this art is done without permission, so sanctions should be held
against it. But it should still be considered a form of art as well as vandalism.

One thing a Child may be Better at than an Adult

I sometimes reminisce about my childhood and laugh about how easily I was entertained by the simplest things. Jumping up and down could entertain me for hours. We had our imagination to help us out. When we played we imagined something was happening, was present or we were somewhere else. We knew that something wasn't there, or that we weren't surrounded by wolves, and that in fact we were still in the back yard. So what happened to our imagination? Ours was so vast back then that we knew what was real and what was not, but doesn't it feel like we kind of lost our imagination somewhere along the road of growing up?

I mean sure we have writers, artist and all sorts of occupations that involve the use of out imagination, but i think that when we are children we have a more abstract/articulate imagination, while when we mature our imagination starts taking knowledge into effect, the more knowledge we acquire the small our imagination gets. What we learn eventually effects our imagination and we start incorporating our knowledge with our imagination. As a child we know little, and therefor our imagination is broader.

I say that movie makers start asking children for movie ideas because an amazing amount of them are lame!

Developing Morals and Values during Youth

I know religion is a touchy subject, but please bare with me because I promise that nothing I say will be offensive towards any religion.

Until I was around 13 my parents always forced me to attend church every Sunday morning. When I turned 13 they gave me the choice to keep going to church or to (meaning I don't believe what has been preached) not attend church anymore. Even though I chose to no longer attend church and became Agnostic, I believe that attending church during my youth I developed more morals, a sense of right and wrong and make better decisions.

Now I'm not saying one religion is right or wrong, or has better values then another; I'm just think that the morals and values
most religions have are the ones that society should run off and as a kid we are more influenced by ideas. So I belive that religions teach some form of values and morals, and that all children should be brought up with some form of faith in their life.

The Things You See from the Corner of Your Eye

Sometimes I just enjoy sitting around and people watch. But more so I love to evaluate my own friends and how they act. From social recreation we all partake in, to their movement and visual communication. You can pick up on little things and learn how they will react to certain actions. Sometimes I catch my friends doing the most (to what I find as) annoying things ever. Like continuesly flicking the ashes from their cigarette or the way they mooch on their friends and family. However, I find myself doing this things at times and wonder how I do not notice myself doing so. So when I catch my friends doing it I just don't say anything because then I'd pretty much be a hypocrite ya know? Oh well we're all human lol

Traveling

I've traveled to many places, all over the U.S., into Central America, the Bahamas and West Indies. But i would love to travel outside of this hemisphere,to Europe, Asia, Africa, all over the world and throughout all the continents.
My top three places that i would love to visit would be Italy, Japan and Egypt. This way i could see some of the many vast culture throughout the world. I would be able to see the great Coliseum in Rome, the Nile River and the mountains and busy cities of Japan. Hopefully one day I'll have enough money to travel to all these places.