Intuition is a funny thing

I'm sure we all have had that feeling(or a vibe as some people like to call it)that something is going to happen,whether good or bad, or you forgot something but you just don't know what. When they first meet someone they can tell if they like them and vise versa. When you are over stepping your boundaries, you get that feeling that you need to stop. Now, some may call it their conscience, others just a vibe, others common sense. I guess it differs from each and every person but still I'm sure every being can say they have come across these feelings. Anyway, I sometimes get these vibes that bring me down and make me feel miserable but they're not always right so then I feel disappointed with myself that I let these feelings take precious time away from me that I won't ever get back. I try to ignore them best I can, but when these feelings are insistent I fear it's better I do listen to them or at least take them into consideration. What is even harder is when there are too many emotions, too many vibes, too many feelings I just can't sort out or figure out what to do with them which stresses me out and makes things worse. So you ask what I do then? I write, I spend time with those I love, I call someone I miss, I get myself caught up in someone else to forget my distress, and you know what? It helps, it works. So the question remains do you follow these feelings or not? More importantly is it your brain or your heart giving you this vibe and is it reliable? Can you trust your heart or your mind? You would think you should be able to trust both but we all know that's rare. Life is temporary, make the best out of it, take out anything that causes you stress and add more things that bring you joy, contentment and peace.

Robots on this stage called Life

Life is a funny thing when you take time to think of it. It's as if we're all robots, following the rituals society has set for us. You're born, pampered, taught by parents, teachers and society what you should do and what you shouldn't do,spend half your life in school, struggle to find yourself, go to college, work, accomplish the goals you set for yourself, get married, have kids, watch your kids do the same, grow old, and eventually die hoping your name will be remembered and carried on. But is that really all life is about? I don't think so. Life appeared to be the easiest thing to us when we were children, little did we know, reality would soon set in and we would no longer see anything easy about it. One of the toughest battles anyone probably has to encounter, is the battle within themselves. Trying to find yourself, find purpose in your life, give your life meaning, whether keeping yourself busy with education, or trying to find a spouse to make your life complete. Achieving your goals is anything but easy, but it is worth it in the long run. Seeing a degree being handed to you the day of your graduation after spending practically most of your life in school, that is an accomplishment. Settling down, making a family, building a home, raising well-mannered children, that is also an accomplishment, and anything but easy. Forcing yourself out of bed everyday to build yourself, even working at a minimum wage job, trying to keep yourself away from the troubles of life, that is an accomplishment. Society shouldn't have to set for us standards some of us are just unable to meet. Not just unable, some just don't want to. School isn't for everyone, marriage isn't for everyone, 'to each his own.' Basicially, everyone shouldn't take life so seriously, no one gets out alive anyway.

Facebook? what exactly is the purpose of it?

So every few years or so a new social network comes about, and is the new trend that everyone has to have to see what the big deal is about,right? Dirst we had Myspace("A place for friends"), made a big fuss over who was on our top 8, what polls to fill out, what pictures to put up, who to have on our webpages, what color, what graphic to have on our profiles, it was the best thing, none of us had seen anything like it, at least in my case, it was a whole new world for me. After Myspace started to die out, Facebook came out, I am not even sure which came first, this is all from my personal experience. So now we all threw out Myspace, and Facebook has overtook our lives, whether we like to admit it or not, it is everyone's favorite kid. It's the first thing you check when you wake up in the morning and the last thing you put down before you sleep, right or wrong? And nothing is wrong with having an obsession, Facebook isn't a bad thing, it can be depending on what you use it for. In my personal view, it's a great place to reconnect with old friends, who would've ever kept in touch with a classmate they went to school with in third grade? It's a great feeling reminiscing and reconnecting with great people who left an impact in your life whether you realized it or not. How else would people remember your birthday? Let's hope the only reason your dad remembers your birthday is because Facebook reminded him. Anyway, today I was in a rut, I wasn't feeling so great about myself, and a dear friend of mine gave me a wake up call, and not only made me feel like my problems were insignificant, but not really problems compared to what's going on in the world around us. Sometimes we get so warped in our own worlds, our own problems, we forget we are just one person, one small person in a very huge world. There are people around the world who have no shoes, we cry about having not enough shoes, what about those who cry because they have no feet? I cry because I haven't finished my college degree, what about those that don't have the ability to even study elementary school? My friend pointed out that we don't know how lucky we are. We spend more time complaining than we do being grateful, and that needs to stop. Everyone has good days and bad days, but that doesn't mean it will last forever. How would you know how great something is if you didn't have something bad to compare it to.

What happens to Cinderella after her "happily ever after"?

Has anyone ever wondered what happens after the fairy tale ends? We get the glimpse of the fairy tale, the struggle, the happily ever after..and then what happens? Well, first let me say, Disney set high standards for probably every little girl world wide. As beautiful and romantic as the fairy tales are, we soon find out that's not really how life is. We grow up, we move on, and we start a new life, somehow hoping deep down we can grasp that fairy tale. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that we can't live our own fairy tales, I'm simply saying, why follow or live by someone else's dream when you can create your own? Each and every fairy tale basically has the same idea, a damsel in distress, searching for a meaning in life, after struggle and drama, Prince Charming soon stumbles on and gives her life meaning. As I'm sure we've all figured out by now, life isn't that easy. And when you think of it, why would you want it to be so plain and simple? You truly don't know how great something is until you've tried something horrible. Maybe there's a reason Disney doesn't reveal what happens, maybe it's all an illusion. Maybe Disney wants to leave us guessing what could have possibly happened after? Anyway, what does it really matter anyway, Cinderella is a fictional character, but do you know who is real? You. Me. Our lives, our fate, is in our hands, we aren't being filmed, we aren't on stage acting, unless you consider yourself an actor on the stage of this world. Basically what I'm saying is sometimes in life you should be greedy, why just shoot for a fairy tale, when you can create the most beautiful life for you, whether single or married, God gave us a free will for a reason, and in that we can live in harmony, peace and all the happiness in the world.