How I feel about Christmas music: Please stop. It is December. Christmas is not the only holiday that takes place during this month, therefore Christmas music should not be playing 24/7 on every radio station out there. Not everyone out there likes Christmas music, and honestly I cannot stand it. Its Christmas, I get that it’s a big holiday and all but seriously the music is just annoying. Every song is overplayed and it’s all I hear when I go out. I understand that it’s become almost second nature for Americans to play this cheery music because “‘tis the season” or whatever, but you really don’t need to have it playing all the time. I would much rather have a variety of music, like I really wouldn’t mind it as much if it was only played occasionally, but because of the fact that it is played so often, I have become seriously annoyed by it. Especially during my study hall in school every day because it’s all I hear. Call me the Grinch, but I just really can’t stand it. I like Christmas. I love being able to spend time with family and celebrate and give gifts and whatnot, but it’s not something that I want to be reminded of on a daily basis prior to the event. Agree to disagree with me, because it is my own opinion on the topic, but I just think that this whole concept of flooding the ears of every American with jingly tunes and Christmas melodies is a little ridiculous. People need to learn when enough is enough and just stop. I continue to hear the same like three songs over and over again every day and it just gets old. How much Mariah Carey, Justin Bieber and Nysync Christmas music can we possibly play in school until it finally gets old?
Fear A dreadful thing that sits inside of us Something that breaks others but builds the rest Fear That dark corner inside of your mind that reminds you of your inhibitions That’s constantly telling you what you can’t do And because of this most of us won’t even make an effort toward it The decision was made when the voice spoke up Fear The quitters’ way out The comfort blanket that suffocates our daring spirits The reason why most of us never take a chance in life And would rather sit on the sidelines and become a spectator A job that’s not entertaining or fulfilling But still pleases that dark voice Fear Some people feed off of others fear Using it to their advantage to get their heart’s desires Abuse others insecurities and manipulate the poor victim But really who is to blame for this Oh surely most would say the attacker but that is not it That would be an ignorant statement The real person of blame is the one being played They could stand up against the attacker but why don’t they All because of fear Fear Overpowering the cowardly And holding them back from their true potential Locking people in situations they never should’ve been a part of Something that makes people fret over how they are seen Something that has people looking over their shoulder every day of their lives An emotion that has people anxious for no apparent reason Fear Something that can break a man Crumble someone’s glass made shell Bring out the worst in people or what other’s describe as “true colors” A reason why most people tolerate others From the fear of being alone Of being judged Of not fitting in Fear The reason why most people bite back their tongue Why a lot hold back on expressing themselves But my question: How long will you let fear keep hold on you? Will you stop it today or just wait til you bite the dust? Will you control fear or is fear going to forever control you?
Last night I had a really weird dream. I dreamed that my best friend was missing and we couldn’t find her anywhere. What happened was that we were going camping at a log cabin in Pennsylvania which is the cabin I normally go to in real life. She and I decided to take a quad ride up the mountain to go see the bear cave. When we reached the bear cave, we decided to get off the quad and walk around. I went up towards the top of the mountain first. As I went to turn around, Natalie was gone and I had no idea where she went. I called for her and looked for her and I told her to not mess around because I was about to leave to go get some help to find her, but there was no answer. I decided to drive back down the mountain to go get help and I had the whole family on quads come help me and I showed them where I last saw her. When we finally got all the way to the top, it was beginning to get dark outside so my uncle went back down the mountain to go get us flash lights. We called her for hours and hours, but there was no luck, but strangely there was something not right, like we were forgetting to check somewhere. Then it hit me that she wanted to go down the mountain to go see the open grass area all the way in the front of the property. So we all got on our quads and drove as fast as we could to get down to the open field. There we saw her, lying on the ground screaming for help because she got her foot caught in-between two branches. She was okay and we brought her back to the house safely. It was the weirdest dream I ever had.
Do you believe in paranormal stuff? I do not believe in ghost, to say like someone's soul that haunts you for the rest of your life. However my family is very religious and they do believe in demons and possessions. So probably for growing up with them and knowing them I think the same way. I know I have never seen something paranormal. The closest thing I have experienced to paranormal is watching paranormal movies. For example the Paranormal Activity movies I do know that demons exist in my opinion but those types of movies do not bring a chill down my spine or do not let me sleep at night so on and so forth. However it brings me joy of laughter because scary movies are so overrated. I say that because my friends always talk about movies being horrifying. But to me they are just too predictable so I know what is coming and I do not get scared. What does scare me is when my family talks about myths and legends and demons because since they are very religious they think that horror movies are silly and bad to watch. When I go to visit my family in Guatemala they are more religious than my family here so when they talk about legends and myths I get freaked out because they say they actually seen the things happen to other people. Therefore I always believe it can happen to me and I can’t stand story time with my family. Two myths or legends that scare me are the llorona and one about a dwarf. The llorona one is about a mom that drowned her kids in a river’ then she went crazy and people say that she wears a long white dress and roams streets crying and yelling my kids. Where are my kids? The other one is about a dwarf that only affects women by braiding their hair during the night or braiding anything. People say he wears a big sombrero with a poncho and rides a horse in the night. Of course this is mostly in Hispanic countries that the stories are told and where sightings have been.
Rain droplets hitting the window Begging to be let into the toasty room Instead to be out in the cold with the chilly wind Silence fills the air as the only sound to be heard is the fire crackling in the corner Blankets fill the armchairs As if they had been waiting for company which never quite did show up Two tea cups lay in place on the golden brown table And a small yet still humble teapot Just in case they were needed to be filled to the rim For the visitors they may warm Loneliness starts to fill the once joyful room as the rain starts to pick up its pace As if a sign to lose all faith and just give up hope Look out the foggy window glass To see the once perked up flowers that used to reach up to the blazing sun To be drooping in misery As in if they have been through too much to stay strong through the hard times that now come The green grass that everyone in the neighborhood wants loved Is now the mud puddles that everyone loathes Barely able to make out a clear picture of the house across the street The neighbor’s cat hiding behind the glass door Following every other drop that descends through the gloomy grey sky Exploding on the ground when finally coming to the end of its journey Hoping to start a new journey with the puddles in which it lays in Not letting change in appearance or location affect it Just as we should on a rainy sad day It’s just one day One challenge One test That makes us think Makes us test our ways Our positivity In which we must have for a day like this When it’s over at the end of the day There will be a rainbow Showing that good things may follow even the worst of things Just have to stay positive Look for the bright side and it shall appear.
Today is the day that I have been waiting for since our last game of last year’s basketball season. Today is our first scrimmage and it is against Keyport. I have been so excited to start playing again but I had a really great time playing football and I wish we could go back and do some games over again. I was not entirely satisfied with how we did and I know that if we went back, things would be different. None the less, it is onto the hardwood we go. I cannot wait for our first game because it is at home. Then, the very next day we get to play Spotswood at their gym. That game is always insane! I love the atmosphere of their gym because they get so many people to go and the place is rocking. It makes me so hyped and I want to play even more. Then we have Christmas which I absolutely love. The day after that, we have the holiday tournament in town. Hopefully we get a chance to play our rivals, Middlesex. We lost to them once last year but I do not plan on losing at all this year. The only game I am really focused on is Spotswood, especially after what happened with the two kids in their town. Even though I never liked them, I have a new found respect for the people of that town. It is a tragic thing that happened and it is a struggle to get through. I decided to honor the boy that passed away by writing his initials on my sneakers. I hope the kids at Spotswood appreciate that and do not thing I am being disrespectful in any way. Anyways, it will be a great game and I cannot wait for the regular season to get underway!
I act on my emotions. Some people say it is impulsive and immature. They say that I am in dire need of a filter. I used to be nothing but a filter; only ever saying what they wanted to hear. I guess they just can’t live with not hearing it anymore. I used to have such a difficult time explaining how I felt to people. They used to have to wait with patience for hours before I finally made it understandable. Then, I gave up expressing emotions and put on a face that said, “I’m perfectly okay!” Eventually, somebody came along who saw past the mask and wanted to wait for hours to hear about how I felt. They pushed me to express myself in any way I possibly could. I ended up writing it all down on paper. Now, I can express myself mediocrely. If I am given a pen and paper, I feel as though I can say anything. There is no need for a filter on paper. It’s when people don’t want to bother with my writing, they’d rather hear me say it, that a problem occurs. Words cannot express the way I feel sometimes. I do not understand why; words are supposed to be the most powerful thing there is. I use words to describe what I am feeling but when I speak there are no words. It just always comes out better on paper because, in person, my emotions come as actions. I get confused about this often because it is a naturally human desire to communicate with others. I’ll just have to work on it because I am not the same as everyone else. I am different; no one person is the same as the next. That’s just fine because that makes the world what it is.
This is a bit late but here I am! I can’t wait for spring and summer, they’re my favorite seasons. Besides spring being a beautiful season it’s when I have fun stuff going on. In the spring track and jazz band competitions start. Although track takes a lot of effort practices are usually fun along with meets. During meets you get to meet new people and have a good time, after you do your events. Jazz band competitions are great. On the bus ride there we all joke around, talk, and sing songs from past competitions;it can get pretty loud on there. After we perform we usually eat and then watch other bands play until it’s time for the awards. It probably doesn’t sound like that much fun but we have a good time. I’m so ready for summer even though winter isn’t over yet. Even though I like the holidays I don’t like the snow or the unnecessarily freezing cold weather. If it were up to me it would be summer all year long. This probably sounds weird but I like it when it’s burning hot outside, it just makes me feel relaxed and kinda sleepy. Plus i love, love, love going to the beach and swimming in the water. Sometimes I’ll stay out in the water for hours and my mom will have to call me out. When I settle down one day I’ll probably decide to live somewhere sunny like California or Florida. My dream house would be right on the beach so I could just walk down my steps onto the sand. This is actually making me kinda sad because it’s still winter.
How I feel about Christmas music:
ReplyDeletePlease stop.
It is December. Christmas is not the only holiday that takes place during this month, therefore Christmas music should not be playing 24/7 on every radio station out there. Not everyone out there likes Christmas music, and honestly I cannot stand it. Its Christmas, I get that it’s a big holiday and all but seriously the music is just annoying. Every song is overplayed and it’s all I hear when I go out. I understand that it’s become almost second nature for Americans to play this cheery music because “‘tis the season” or whatever, but you really don’t need to have it playing all the time. I would much rather have a variety of music, like I really wouldn’t mind it as much if it was only played occasionally, but because of the fact that it is played so often, I have become seriously annoyed by it. Especially during my study hall in school every day because it’s all I hear. Call me the Grinch, but I just really can’t stand it. I like Christmas. I love being able to spend time with family and celebrate and give gifts and whatnot, but it’s not something that I want to be reminded of on a daily basis prior to the event. Agree to disagree with me, because it is my own opinion on the topic, but I just think that this whole concept of flooding the ears of every American with jingly tunes and Christmas melodies is a little ridiculous. People need to learn when enough is enough and just stop. I continue to hear the same like three songs over and over again every day and it just gets old. How much Mariah Carey, Justin Bieber and Nysync Christmas music can we possibly play in school until it finally gets old?
Fear
ReplyDeleteA dreadful thing that sits inside of us
Something that breaks others but builds the rest
Fear
That dark corner inside of your mind that reminds you of your inhibitions
That’s constantly telling you what you can’t do
And because of this most of us won’t even make an effort toward it
The decision was made when the voice spoke up
Fear
The quitters’ way out
The comfort blanket that suffocates our daring spirits
The reason why most of us never take a chance in life
And would rather sit on the sidelines and become a spectator
A job that’s not entertaining or fulfilling
But still pleases that dark voice
Fear
Some people feed off of others fear
Using it to their advantage to get their heart’s desires
Abuse others insecurities and manipulate the poor victim
But really who is to blame for this
Oh surely most would say the attacker but that is not it
That would be an ignorant statement
The real person of blame is the one being played
They could stand up against the attacker but why don’t they
All because of fear
Fear
Overpowering the cowardly
And holding them back from their true potential
Locking people in situations they never should’ve been a part of
Something that makes people fret over how they are seen
Something that has people looking over their shoulder every day of their lives
An emotion that has people anxious for no apparent reason
Fear
Something that can break a man
Crumble someone’s glass made shell
Bring out the worst in people or what other’s describe as “true colors”
A reason why most people tolerate others
From the fear of being alone
Of being judged
Of not fitting in
Fear
The reason why most people bite back their tongue
Why a lot hold back on expressing themselves
But my question: How long will you let fear keep hold on you?
Will you stop it today or just wait til you bite the dust?
Will you control fear or is fear going to forever control you?
Last night I had a really weird dream. I dreamed that my best friend was missing and we couldn’t find her anywhere. What happened was that we were going camping at a log cabin in Pennsylvania which is the cabin I normally go to in real life. She and I decided to take a quad ride up the mountain to go see the bear cave. When we reached the bear cave, we decided to get off the quad and walk around. I went up towards the top of the mountain first. As I went to turn around, Natalie was gone and I had no idea where she went. I called for her and looked for her and I told her to not mess around because I was about to leave to go get some help to find her, but there was no answer. I decided to drive back down the mountain to go get help and I had the whole family on quads come help me and I showed them where I last saw her. When we finally got all the way to the top, it was beginning to get dark outside so my uncle went back down the mountain to go get us flash lights. We called her for hours and hours, but there was no luck, but strangely there was something not right, like we were forgetting to check somewhere. Then it hit me that she wanted to go down the mountain to go see the open grass area all the way in the front of the property. So we all got on our quads and drove as fast as we could to get down to the open field. There we saw her, lying on the ground screaming for help because she got her foot caught in-between two branches. She was okay and we brought her back to the house safely. It was the weirdest dream I ever had.
ReplyDeleteDo you believe in paranormal stuff? I do not believe in ghost, to say like someone's soul that haunts you for the rest of your life. However my family is very religious and they do believe in demons and possessions. So probably for growing up with them and knowing them I think the same way. I know I have never seen something paranormal. The closest thing I have experienced to paranormal is watching paranormal movies. For example the Paranormal Activity movies I do know that demons exist in my opinion but those types of movies do not bring a chill down my spine or do not let me sleep at night so on and so forth. However it brings me joy of laughter because scary movies are so overrated. I say that because my friends always talk about movies being horrifying. But to me they are just too predictable so I know what is coming and I do not get scared. What does scare me is when my family talks about myths and legends and demons because since they are very religious they think that horror movies are silly and bad to watch. When I go to visit my family in Guatemala they are more religious than my family here so when they talk about legends and myths I get freaked out because they say they actually seen the things happen to other people. Therefore I always believe it can happen to me and I can’t stand story time with my family. Two myths or legends that scare me are the llorona and one about a dwarf. The llorona one is about a mom that drowned her kids in a river’ then she went crazy and people say that she wears a long white dress and roams streets crying and yelling my kids. Where are my kids? The other one is about a dwarf that only affects women by braiding their hair during the night or braiding anything. People say he wears a big sombrero with a poncho and rides a horse in the night. Of course this is mostly in Hispanic countries that the stories are told and where sightings have been.
ReplyDeleteRain droplets hitting the window
ReplyDeleteBegging to be let into the toasty room
Instead to be out in the cold with the chilly wind
Silence fills the air as the only sound to be heard is the fire crackling in the corner
Blankets fill the armchairs
As if they had been waiting for company which never quite did show up
Two tea cups lay in place on the golden brown table
And a small yet still humble teapot
Just in case they were needed to be filled to the rim
For the visitors they may warm
Loneliness starts to fill the once joyful room as the rain starts to pick up its pace
As if a sign to lose all faith and just give up hope
Look out the foggy window glass
To see the once perked up flowers that used to reach up to the blazing sun
To be drooping in misery
As in if they have been through too much to stay strong through the hard times that now come
The green grass that everyone in the neighborhood wants loved
Is now the mud puddles that everyone loathes
Barely able to make out a clear picture of the house across the street
The neighbor’s cat hiding behind the glass door
Following every other drop that descends through the gloomy grey sky
Exploding on the ground when finally coming to the end of its journey
Hoping to start a new journey with the puddles in which it lays in
Not letting change in appearance or location affect it
Just as we should on a rainy sad day
It’s just one day
One challenge
One test
That makes us think
Makes us test our ways
Our positivity
In which we must have for a day like this
When it’s over at the end of the day
There will be a rainbow
Showing that good things may follow even the worst of things
Just have to stay positive
Look for the bright side and it shall appear.
Today is the day that I have been waiting for since our last game of last year’s basketball season. Today is our first scrimmage and it is against Keyport. I have been so excited to start playing again but I had a really great time playing football and I wish we could go back and do some games over again. I was not entirely satisfied with how we did and I know that if we went back, things would be different. None the less, it is onto the hardwood we go. I cannot wait for our first game because it is at home. Then, the very next day we get to play Spotswood at their gym. That game is always insane! I love the atmosphere of their gym because they get so many people to go and the place is rocking. It makes me so hyped and I want to play even more. Then we have Christmas which I absolutely love. The day after that, we have the holiday tournament in town. Hopefully we get a chance to play our rivals, Middlesex. We lost to them once last year but I do not plan on losing at all this year. The only game I am really focused on is Spotswood, especially after what happened with the two kids in their town. Even though I never liked them, I have a new found respect for the people of that town. It is a tragic thing that happened and it is a struggle to get through. I decided to honor the boy that passed away by writing his initials on my sneakers. I hope the kids at Spotswood appreciate that and do not thing I am being disrespectful in any way. Anyways, it will be a great game and I cannot wait for the regular season to get underway!
ReplyDeleteI act on my emotions. Some people say it is impulsive and immature. They say that I am in dire need of a filter. I used to be nothing but a filter; only ever saying what they wanted to hear. I guess they just can’t live with not hearing it anymore. I used to have such a difficult time explaining how I felt to people. They used to have to wait with patience for hours before I finally made it understandable. Then, I gave up expressing emotions and put on a face that said, “I’m perfectly okay!” Eventually, somebody came along who saw past the mask and wanted to wait for hours to hear about how I felt. They pushed me to express myself in any way I possibly could. I ended up writing it all down on paper. Now, I can express myself mediocrely. If I am given a pen and paper, I feel as though I can say anything. There is no need for a filter on paper. It’s when people don’t want to bother with my writing, they’d rather hear me say it, that a problem occurs. Words cannot express the way I feel sometimes. I do not understand why; words are supposed to be the most powerful thing there is. I use words to describe what I am feeling but when I speak there are no words. It just always comes out better on paper because, in person, my emotions come as actions. I get confused about this often because it is a naturally human desire to communicate with others. I’ll just have to work on it because I am not the same as everyone else. I am different; no one person is the same as the next. That’s just fine because that makes the world what it is.
ReplyDeleteThis is a bit late but here I am! I can’t wait for spring and summer, they’re my favorite seasons. Besides spring being a beautiful season it’s when I have fun stuff going on. In the spring track and jazz band competitions start. Although track takes a lot of effort practices are usually fun along with meets. During meets you get to meet new people and have a good time, after you do your events. Jazz band competitions are great. On the bus ride there we all joke around, talk, and sing songs from past competitions;it can get pretty loud on there. After we perform we usually eat and then watch other bands play until it’s time for the awards. It probably doesn’t sound like that much fun but we have a good time. I’m so ready for summer even though winter isn’t over yet. Even though I like the holidays I don’t like the snow or the unnecessarily freezing cold weather. If it were up to me it would be summer all year long. This probably sounds weird but I like it when it’s burning hot outside, it just makes me feel relaxed and kinda sleepy. Plus i love, love, love going to the beach and swimming in the water. Sometimes I’ll stay out in the water for hours and my mom will have to call me out. When I settle down one day I’ll probably decide to live somewhere sunny like California or Florida. My dream house would be right on the beach so I could just walk down my steps onto the sand. This is actually making me kinda sad because it’s still winter.
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