Let's buy magazines that make us feel uncomfortable about ourselves.

Magazines these days, what a joke. ALL of the women, men, children, and teens that show up in popular magazines that we read are all photo shopped because our flaws are not allowed to be showed to the public. Seriously, what a joke. I mean what kind of message are we sending to young children these days, that we need to be extremly skinny to be considered beautiful in today's society? Well that's what all these magazines are insisting. It's very rare that you see average people on the covers of People Magazine or Vogue and that bugs me, not that I read those magazines anyway, but just the people that are in it are too skinny for me. Yet, girls now a days only have their mind set to skinny is pretty and if you're just a pound or two over then all hell breaks loose. Grow up, that's why diseases such as bulimia or anorexia are well known now a days. I can't say much about it, but I know a pretty good amount of this stuff since one of my best friends has been in this position. But is skinny really better? If we have to go through great lengths just to fit the standard woman's stereotype that's posted everywhere now a days. My answer: you're beautiful as you are, stop trying to be like photo shoped models, because we all know it's not real.

Staring Into Nothing, Absolutely Nothing

Sal gave our class another experiment to do this week. This time there was a t.v. involved instead of nothing. Our assignment was to watch the t.v. with absolutely no sound. The first 15 minutes was any television show of our choice and the other 15 minutes was the news. Doing this task made me realize that t.v. isn't as exciting and interesting without the sound on and I was in less of a "daze" than with the sound. Also it was MUCH difficult to understand the program of my choice, since I chose a drama and most of it is narration. You would see one sense with people talking then it would cut to another that maybe have been a flash back or just another day in the show. Talk about being lost at the beginning of the program, already. Just starring at the television made me less interested in the program and I just started to ignore the show like it wasn't even on. That just shows how much sound has an impact on things such as the t.v. Although when i was watching the news it was different. I understood most of it and was engaged into it with the different pictures and colorful words that were being displayed on the screen. Yet, most of it was old news like the kid that got "stuck" in the hot air balloon, so I understood when the anchors were talking about that incident
Watching another person watch t.v. is also amusing and it's interesting the kinds of pattern they make for themselves and follow it without even realizing. I secretly watched one of my best friends watch television, with sound of course, and I could relate to her pattern. As the show "Gilmore Girls" started she was glued to the t.v., but as soon as it cut to commercial her interest was lost and occupied herself with something else until the show was back on. This got me thinking, how do some people stare at a t.v. all day, when it's just a box filled with electrical wire and plugged in into the wall outlet?

Seriously, Just do NOTHING

We had a very interesting assignment last week where we had to do absolutely nothing in a crowed place. For my local I had chosen to do this nothing at homecoming, last Saturday night on the dance floor.
Honestly, it took me a while to get myself to be comfortable with everyone jumping up and down and just moving at a fast paste around me. But once I got into the mood set it got easier. As minutes went by I actually felt relaxed and calm on the chaotic dance floor. It made myself realize that Americans run on such a fast paste and timed schedules that they don't have the time to just stop and notice the little things which makes life even more wonderful and rewarding.
Another thing i noticed was the weird stares i got my way. Sure, it WAS a dance floor where you were EXPECTED to dance, but our society has really shaped us to the point where we look at others differently when they are not following the group. Over all it was a great experience that I'm glad I could be apart of. I really liked being outside of the box, even it it was just for 10 minutes.

Tuesdays with Morrie

Let me start off with love is a very powerful thing that can make or break a person, or so I've herd. In my personal opinion I don't believe that many people have a problem with showing their love towards a boyfriend/girlfriend, friends, spouse, or family member. You go into the city, or even around here, and you see all kinds of people holding hands, kissing, and hugging and showing the obvious love they have for them. Yet Morrie wasn't exactly talking about that kind of love that we show in public, it was more of an inner love that we all need to survive because humans just have that tendency to be wanted somewhere by someone, even if it is your parents. On the other hand some people are just unwilling to show their feelings either it be "unmanly" for guys to show it or makes you "weaker" in the eyes of your enemy, it's better to just keep it inside us so no one will ever know how we feel.
Why are we so afraid to show love, and I mean not just in public, but in own own homes? I wish I knew why. To think in a different perspective is hard and I tried doing that with this not showing love thing and the only thing I can come up with is maybe something bad happened to them, like someone passed away, and that person had trouble showing it after that because they were so close to them. I don't have a problem showing my love towards family or friends maybe I haven't experience death yet, or nothing life changing has really happened to me, but still even if something did drastic happen to me, I would still show my love...