A Nice Change of Pace

Pain=Happiness

People are afraid of pain.

However, I am not afraid anymore.

It felt so right, despite the circumstances.

She was worth the sacrifices.

She helped me grow, and for that I will forever be thankful.

I hope that she knows that I was sincere.

I did find her perfect in every way.

There is nothing I wanted to change.

There was a reason I fell for her, and because of this I never wanted her to change for anyone.

She was real and that was all that mattered.

Before I met her, I thought love was an illusion.

However, this illusion became reality. I then became the fool, but a fool in love, nonetheless.

No grade, no amount of money, no level of accomplishment, could trump this feeling.

I felt like I had already climbed the highest mountain or made that breakthrough discovery.

I may feel full of pain, but this is a joyful pain.

Even though it feels like my city is burning down, I remain hopeful that I will rebuild it.

This feeling of repeated shock still remains, but I will always hold her in the highest regard.

I wish her the best, she deserves the best, and whoever is lucky to be with her, better get this memo.

The reaction to your writing may sound brazen, but expressing these type of feelings should be hackneyed, and will help to create the necessary growth needed to advance in this world. Let your heart speak to the world!!

Surviving The Daily Grind

This past week I have been thinking about my future. I guess I have come to the realization that my undergrad will be done in just over the next year. I find it hard to imagine that this time spent in college has passed by so fast, and the baleful part that remains involves the upsetting job market that awaits. However, with this ever shrinking job market, I find it easy to fathom that I will be unable to find the job I want after I graduate. Still, I have come to the conclusion that no matter what job I land out of school, it will still be an irreproachable job, as it will come down to what I make out of the situation. During my time working in retail, I have come to be humbled by the fact that this job does matter, and that if I cannot handle this job, then I will not be able to handle anything that life throws my way.

So, as this job market continues to get worse, just remember that whatever job that is available, it is up to making the best out of every job situation. I know that it is easy to state this on my blog, but it all comes down to embracing the times of our struggle and making the best of it, since the climb up the mountain top will only remain steep in the future. There is a reason why all of my fellow classmates have made it this far in life, as they have persevered to handle the daily grind that has come their way. I know that in the coming years, life will only be more difficult, but it is important to remember that with the right mindset and work ethic that things will change for the better.

Procrastinating On Midterms

This procrastination has to stop. It is catching up with me. Well, there are two things I need to do in order to make this change happen. This first includes staying off the website known as Facebook. This website just has a dynamism over me, for which I'm having a problem shaking. It is quite frustrating that this website is taking time out of my life like this. It is just those pointless applications and the time I take to posting articles on my page, which takes the most time.

However, it is not the website that needs to be blamed. Only I can make the changes necessary to get past this obstacle. The other thing, which I have finally come to determine creates this procrastination is my lack of ability for me to focus when I'm at home. I'm just never able to focus, which is for a multiple amount of reasons. So, my main focus will now be to just get all my homework done at school. I know that if I actually stay a little later studying on campus, I will be able to get the work I want to get done.

The reason why I'm writing about this is because this past week I put off studying for two midterms, which were back to back, and with the same Professor. Before Monday of last week, I had done none of the reading for any of the classes and was just going off what I knew from lecture, which of all I attended. It was extremely difficult to balance studying for both midterms, as there did not seem to be enough time to internalize all the information. In order to best prepare for these midterms, I just avoided Facebook and studied at school later. The grades for these midterms are not out yet, but when I was focused at school studying, I felt I was getting something done and was beating this terrible habit.

Whatever my grades happen to turn out for these midterms, I remain hopeful that I have learned my lesson. It is climacteric that I get my studying schedule in order, and to take the necessary steps to beat this habit, instead of blaming other factors that I can control. So, now I'm off to go study for a midterm that I have this Tuesday, but if you are suffering from procrastination, spend a little time and analyze what is causing this problem, and what can be done to solve it.

Yes, I am a "Traitor"

This morning, I turned on my computer and checked the daily headlines. I was browsing around the Internet and found a very interesting story, which had to do with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) deciding on the site for the 2016 Olympic Summer Games.

There were four finalists for this event: Tokyo, Madrid, Chicago, and Rio de Janerio. The first two cities that were eliminated came to be Tokyo and Chicago. It then all came down to Madrid and Rio De Janerio. Madrid would end up being eliminated and for the first time in the history of the South American Continent, a South American country will be hosting the Olympics.

Brazil will be the second Latin American country to host the games since Mexico did back in 1968. This is a monumental occasion for the country of Brazil and the Latin America countries in the region. It will be the formal ideal situation where Brazil, like China in 2008, to showcase their rising nation.

It is now time to address my "traitor" status, which has come to hit me, since I first professed my congratulations toward Brazil for scooping up the 2016 Olympic Games. Yes, I was not in support of the Chicago obtaining the bid, it was not due to any type of anti-Midwest sentiment toward this region, but I find it hard to take this bid seriously when the division between the citizens was so tempestuous.

However, this was not the main reason why I was excited for Brazil gaining the games. My main reason has to do with the lack of site distribution that has occurred since the Modern Olympics were first started up in 1896. I was looking over some numbers and I found a disturbing disparity of how many times the U.S. has hosted the Olympics games, which was a staggering 8 times. When I saw this my jaw just dropped, and after browsing through all of the other regions of the world that got to host the Olympics, I saw no country from the South American Continent had hosted the Olympic games. So, due to this reasoning, I find it prodigious that Brazil gets to host the 2016 Olympic Games. It is about time that this booming country and growing Continent firmly get to be on the World stage to show all that they have accomplished.

So, please if you happen to be upset that Chicago didn't get the games, remember that America has been more than lucky to host the Olympic Games.