unity

Today, I sat in the food court and took in the end of the cricket match where the West Indies beat England. It was a nice expression of how having something greater to unify us allows us to put smaller things aside. I mean, unfortunately England became the enemy temporarily, but I digress.

If only the world would value greater things, and worked to achieve them instead of certain other things, we would be in a better place.

Also, I'm sitting in the back of a Spanish Drama class, and they started to play the Gangnam Style song. Now they're doing the dance! Hilarious!

returning

I haven't written in this blog in a while, and I have also barely written in a while. It's something to look back on the posts, and remember the situations that I'd written about.

Some of them were happy, and some of them were sad, but they all happened, and all this time down the road I'm able to look back at them and at least remember. Even though it makes me feel a bit sad to see some of the things I wrote about, there's a... fascinating thing about thinking "that was me."

Now, in this return to blogging, I do feel good about expressing myself in this way again, and my thoughts. I knew who I wanted to be, and aimed to reach it, and it's time to do it all again.

failures.

We're all failures to some extent. There are so many things we've wanted to do, and tried to do, and it hasn't gone as we had planned, and we've failed.

But we shouldn't get down because of one thing. As people, we tend to hold on to that one tiny bit of bad that we've done, and forget all the tiny bits of good we've done.

While I'm not saying to ignore that we do make mistakes, which is something people need to also realize, that they should swallow their pride and admit when they're wrong, within our own selves, we need to be real, and know what we've done wrong, and what we've done right.

Failures should act as an opportunity for us to learn, pick ourselves up, and make a new beginning.

differences, other than physical.

People are often described as different based on physical attributes, but I just got to thinking, at 3:something AM, about one of the things I would like to call a difference between me, and most other people. In my opinion.

I think the difference between me, and most other people, is when I go to a movie with my friends, and they like it, I think I'm allowed to dislike it, and feel okay for it.

I think the difference between me, and most other people, is when I like a musician, and that musician performs, I try to understand the song, for what it's trying to be, and what it's trying to say - even if it is trying to be a joke.

I think the difference between me, and most other people, is when I like a person, I try to get to know that person to discover why I like them, and what about them I like, instead of trying to simply get closer to cling harder.

I think the difference between me, and most other people, is that what I believe, I believe it because I think it makes sense, not because someone told me it's supposed to make sense.

I think the difference between me, and most other people, is that I think.

Do you think too?

things I know.

When I acted in "Children of Eden" earlier this year, I, ironically, played the role of God, and there was a line that went "there a things a Father knows, a child can not". I feel that line sometimes in my own life, but I do believe there are things that people should know, yet remain free to make their decisions with the information at hand.

Why would you tell me not to eat the fruit, but don't tell me the negative effects of it? Try me, I think I'll be able to understand.

The of all of this is, I do wonder why people with all the information against something will still try themselves, and go do it. Just to try and see if they'll survive, despite compelling evidence to the contrary.

There are the people who are strong enough, and solid enough with themselves, to walk up to a bad person, have their exchange, and remain mostly unchanged.

Then, there are the people who would like to believe that they're strong enough, and solid enough with themselves, to walk up to a bad person, have their exchange, and remain mostly unchanged.

I would hope that the latter's belief in themselves is well placed, because I have seen some people mess up some people so badly that the victims are never close to the same.

Think of what you're doing.
Think of what you know.
Think of what you want.

Think of what you want to be.

going places.

Last weekend, I went to the sister island, Tobago. It was my first time leaving Trinidad, and we would be going over there for work with ACTS as they covered Jesus Rally 2009.

I personally am getting tired of the concerts, because they all tend to have the same cast, who performs basically the same set. It's like we're on the Gospel Music tour and they have omitted so many worthy of the stage, repeatedly.

In Tobago, it was a little bit of relaxation, I was on the beach and just relaxing till the work started, which was just a few hours later. It's a nice place to be though, as there are many nice places to be in Trinidad, but the place would have been a lot more enjoyable if there were close friends with me.

I suppose I didn't enjoy it much because of the work... but I do enjoy working with my great, great friends. I wanted to get home, so I could be closer to my loved ones, not literally home in my house, but around my friends... Home is wherever you are if there's love there too...

inventory and the show.

It's actually very, very tedious. The people who do this every day with thousands of records must not have anything better to do... wow.

I'm at the station now, thinking of the show for this evening. I'm not really in much of a mood for anything today, perhaps I've taken on too many volunteer projects and now I'm feeling exhausted as a result, or I feel progress isn't quick enough and I'm getting demotivated, or I just want some juice.

Either way, I have much to do and not that much time. So, let me stop writing and get to some work!