Attending Emergency Services Academy for Professional Firefighting, Sept - Nov. 2007
I'm a soccer boy
I invented Orange Coke. Ask me for the recipe.
I love rainy days in the summer most of all
~Always remember, you're perfect in someone else's eyes. You just have to find that person.
The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.
We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.
We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.
We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things.
We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less.
These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete...
The world isn't cool these days man. We live in one that's shallow and consumer-driven. Fast paced, cheating the system, partying too hard. I hate the people who spend $300 on torn up, bleached jeans with paint splattered on them, and those are the kind of people we want to be. Spending a fortune on shit like versace, lacoste, french connection, diesel, you name it. We care so fucking much on how we dress to keep up with the retarded fashion today it's unbelievable. I also don't understand the people who hate their reality so much they need to get stoned and drunk until they can't function. They think it's a good time. 'Oh man, I couln't even walk, and I puked everywhere and made out with this random guy and I didn't know where I was.' Yeah, pretty cool. Like mellow down a notch. Why can't people just spend a night hangin out or chillin these days. Fucking kids with knives going around stabbing each other because someone tells them to leave, or they have a beef with their 'crew'. Like calm down. High school fights are pretty cool too. So you hate this guy. You fight him, one or both of you get your ass kicked, and you still hate each other. Well that was worth it. People care way too much for the stupidest shit and are busy with the wrong things. But the thing I can't stand the most is the obsession with celebrities. Who cares that Britney's having a baby, that Lindsay Lohan partys to hard, everything Paris Hilton does. Why do people care, and why do they have to know. Actors and actresses are in movies, that's their job. Don't worry so much about their lives when there's so much to fix with your own. People fight so much for the most retarded reasons, too. We've wasted so many hours of our lives being mad or upset just for the sake of making a point that we don't stop and realize we don't get those moments back.
"An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind."



