Turnin' - Young Rising Sons

This song doesn't have an "everything's good right now" vibe. It's more like, "it WILL be good." A lot of days we don't feel like things are going to go our way, and we need to keep in mind that nothing's permanent...we make our own luck, we just need to hold out until it starts to show up in our lives.

Turning a Negative into a Positive

There are times when I've had to deal with personal adversity before, and more often than not I've curled up and let it pass by. I'm a really non-conflictive person, and don't enjoy results that come from aggression or carelessness for other people. I think that by letting it happen though, I've let feelings of shame and inadequacy take hold for longer than they should have in different times. After the year that's passed for me though, I want to handle these problems differently...and I'm writing about this because a light bulb came on right before this.

I had a close friend publicly like an article on social media that demeaned a sports fan base that I'm a part of. It was something so trivial, but I'm frustrated with what this friend's done in the past too, now-this isn't the first time he's done something like this.

ANYWAY... I decided to respond the way most people that want to behave do. I didn't (or at least haven't yet) retort in a similar fashion to the friend. Here's what I did do:

• Eat...proven to help moods, hadn't done it yet during the day.
• Think of what I need to do today/how to distract myself.
• in this case, I chose what homework I have going into college Dead Week. 
• Get out of house, the heck away from friend.
• Put any energy stemming from anger or annoyance into doing the homework.

Doing all of these things, I need to pat myself on the shoulder for not creating any drama, not making my mood fester over, and right now just being creative. I'm weary of this guy's tricks, but in honesty I'd been waiting for something special to happen so I can regain the energy to get through these last couple weeks. This wasn't the type of event I imagined, but I'll take what I can get and make it work.

To sum up-you mad? Go displace it on something that needs it. Not something random like a pillow or other drivers, make it task oriented and work it out.

Coldplay - Charlie Brown

There's a lot of general positive energy that comes from this song. Overall, it's like Coldplay is telling me to just go LIVE. Find good things to do with my time, things that make me actually FEEL like I'm living. I'm not saying I'm going to go hijack cars and go to random concert parties, but we all need to be able to go out and just do what we want sometimes. It's pretty liberating (note: I don't endorse risky behavior in any circumstance)

One Perspective on Friendship

This past weekend I got to see a close friend of mine who lives hundreds of miles away. Big, big influence on me, personally. Things came up, and at one point the question arose, "why do I want to see him?" In the moment, that's the way my answer and mindset was going...I really enjoy and cherish the time we get to spend together, and I care about him a lot. Thoughts about what I want in the present. 

Now, a few days after that question and the opportunity to see him, I've mulled it over more. Often times, I'll admit that I  take the health and well-being of people I know for granted, that it's static and move in the same trajectory. And that's fair to an extent, I think; short of events I've no awareness of, fellow students will still be fellow students, employed parents will be employed parents.

What can divert from this is when I think a LOT about certain people, it's up in the air for me. My friend is one of those people. Texts and pics obviously don't convey the same feeling of presence as the real deal, so for me...the reassurance I have that he is happy and healthy, the same person I know, means the world to me. To summarize all this: I care about the present, to let the past manifest itself, so that I can feel better about the future.

1st Quote Ever

"This pain is part of being human...the fact you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength."-Albus Dumbledore

Readers here are going to quickly learn that I'm a pretty big nerd at times, but this is a rare quote has stuck with me since the middle of the summer...a length of time I usually don't dedicate to remembering fictional writing.

What I get from this is that, for all the times I get down or troubled over things coming up in my personal life, it'll serve a purpose later on in life. That's a sort of transferrance, I guess. So if I feel bad about something along the lines of missing a close friend for instance...I'm going to make appreciation a strength of mine for when I do get to see him or her, that in the years ahead when I DO have the means to see them, I'll have gotten through the struggle of waiting. And in the present, it helps me to move/look past the hurt and think big picture.

So, thanks again Albus. I owe ya for this lesson.

Young Rising Sons - High (Official)

I find it really easy to immerse this song's message into my day. Just "without a low there ain't a high," it's true! There can't be valleys without peaks, and just like when we get knocked down, we can get back up and see the good stuff. Just go with it until then :)

First Post

Intro+Intent

Hey everyone! Putting this blog up with a few different goals in mind. Obviously, to vent in a fashion...but what I want to vent about is good stuff. I care a lot about people, and generally want them to be well in their daily lives and through the big moments in life. Unfortunately, we all have our struggles and hard times. What I hope to do with this blog is to over time build up a diverse resource of methods, media material and just general thoughts to help improve our moods during those times.

Despite the mission of this blog, I hope viewers forgive me if anything ever offensive appears. I don't think it will be likely; it's just media content I'm sharing and my general thoughts I can screen, but nonetheless, all my respect and gratitude goes to the viewers here.

In important matters-NONE of the material (videos, music, pictures, quotes) I put up here other than my own thoughts is my intellectual property. It's the property of comedians, music artists, general YouTubers and other talented people far more creative than I am. I thank all the other services for allowing me to insert their property into this location to serve my intended purpose.





I love you all and hope everyone can have a good, happy day! Cheers!

C