I have been thinking a lot lately on the subject of judgment (or prejudice if you will). In my life I have been falsely judged on several occasions. I won’t go into the details because they are unimportant. I would like to discuss how judgments hurt other people. You see when I have been falsely judged it made me question myself and what I was about. It was as though I was guilty of a crime of which I did not commit. The worst part of what happened to me was that once I had been accused of the deed,…
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness…That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be…
The whole Virginia Tech Massacre has got me thinking, there seems to be a few things off about the whole travesty. First of all, if all of these entities knew about the gunman’s mental state why there was nothing done to keep him away from others? I am certainly not saying the man was not responsible for his actions quite the contrary but at what point does someone say something definitive. In today’s world of political correctness I am sure they tried to give the mentally ill gunman the “benefit of the doubt” so to speak but at what point…
So when a member of the Bishopric called me and asked to speak on gratitude, I responded enthusiastically. I think he was slightly surprised at my willingness to speak. The truth of it is, as most people can tell by my blog that I love to speak. I don’t know if it is some masochistic part of me that loves the torture of being in front of an audience but I truly enjoy public speaking. I found acting in school amazingly fulfilling. That isn’t to say that I am good at it but I do enjoy it. He asked me…
Today I was suppose to get a whole lot more accomplished than I did, unfortunately my computer (yes my new computer) decided to have issues. Now I am not sure any of you are aware but the “blue screen of death” that Windows 95-Windows 2000 users are use to still exist and I know this for a fact. Every time I would try and watch a DVD my computer would crash into one of those screens. It would then proceed to reboot and act as though nothing had happened. Then randomly it would do the same thing. Well I got…
Let me try this one more time, I had started to write a blog and unfortunately my Microsoft Word sometimes decides to take a dump and stop working. This was one of those times and I lost everything that I had said. Today I am doing much better than this weekend. I unfortunately was dealing with situations the way I use to deal with situations when I was younger. This was just slightly out of character for me. I have always been a proponent of choice and that most importantly we are only able to influence one thing in life…
I know it has not even been a day but I am going nuts not hearing from my love, so my question is what was I thinking? How could I even consider telling her not to call me until she figured something out? I know this is the selfish side of me talking but even still. All I can think of is her, this really sucks! I don’t know which is worse not knowing or knowing if it means us not being together. I want to pick up the phone and call her and tell her I didn’t mean it,…
It is it wrong for me to be upset? Last night my girlfriend told me to call her it didn’t matter the time. She wanted to talk to me one more time before we cut off communication so she could figure herself out. So I called her and she told me she would call me right back, well a fair amount of time went by and no phone call back. Then I received a text message to the accord that she was waiting for her sister to fall asleep and she would call me shortly. I laid awake for another…
So I really don’t know where to begin, this week has been fairly interesting. Not interesting in the great sense but just interesting in the varied week sense. I am confused yet confident with how this week has gone. Life is complicated, it always is but sometimes it is worse than others. Right now it is one of those times where it is significantly more complicated yet in some ways simpler as well. Since having dropped my Calculus class it has relieved quite a bit of burden from me but at the same time my drive to complete my classes…
So this evening after studying for my Chemistry test I decided to watch the movie “What women want?” starring Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt. There is a scene where it talks about “understanding” women and essentially finding what women want. So I have been doing some thinking on the subject of understanding. I realized that to be understood is one of a human’s greatest desires. I mean how many times I have thought if only they understood me; they wouldn’t be so harsh or “look” at me that way. What about understanding others? Do we genuinely try…
This line often quoted from Hamlet brings a bit of introspection to anyone reading it. I know it certainly does me. I think often times we are caught up in the world and the meaninglessness that it holds. We forget that we short change ourselves of truth. Not the trite phrases of truth but the honest look yourself in the mirror and know that you are true to yourself. So what are some ways that we can be true to ourselves?
So although today was extremely less “interesting” than yesterday it still had a few highlights and or thoughts that I wanted to share with you. It started off with me going to go to school exceptionally early to see my girlfriend. I didn’t have to but I certainly did want to and now seeing as how the day ended up it was really good that I did (we barely got to see each other in the evening). It was only slightly distressing to see the guy that walked her to class last week attempt to not only walk her…
So as I previously mentioned today has already been an exciting day (and that was only 10:00 am). I went to institute this morning to attend my New Testament class as usual but of course I met my sweetheart before her class. I enjoyed my institute class immensely as I always do but then afterwards the floor fell out from beneath me. Now to tell this story I have to at least tell you one minute detail, about two weeks ago my girlfriend and I were saying goodbye in the parking lot of the institute and this girl who neither…
Because I said I would “entertain” you with my prom story I decided now is as good a time as any to give it to you. I have to premise this by saying that I have been graduated from High School for nearly 11 years and that this occurred my junior year which means this is approximately 12 years ago. The story goes like this:
Today I feel impressed to speak in reference to a topic that I feel needs to be addressed. Lately I have had a lot of trials, tribulations and frustrations. Now I am not writing for myself on this one, I am writing for all of you. I have to begin by telling you a little bit more about myself (not to boast of myself but so you can know that I speak from experience not from idealization). I was born in Salt Lake City, Utah to good parents who love me very much. I can honestly say they did the…
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