It's up to you

Disappointment. A word that commonly is the substitute for upset. It is the feeling of being let down to put in simple terms, and it unfortuantly has been a word attached to my name for quite some time now. Disappointment can come in many shapes and forms. It can be a friend ignoring you, it can be hurting someone to where you feel disappointed in yourself for inflicting such pain on someone, which can lead to a heart ache of guilt. I'm the type of person that dwells on these times we so wish to forget and never have to experience again. I can still remember, and I'm sure most all of you can too, remember times back to those undenyable troublesome middle school days where no matter where you turned hurt, dissapointment, and lonliness were always one step forward and two steps back. But the truth is disapointment will probably never leave you. However, how you handle it will be the thing that changes. Why let defeat consume you? Why let it give you false precepts about future events? Why let it shut you down and strike fear in your heart when everyday is a new day full of new opportunities? How will you handle your next disapointing news?

The Show About Nothing

This show needs no introduction. In simple terms it is a show about nothing. Yes, it is none other then Seinfeld. As you know it's about four best friends, God bless Elaine, whose lives are as up and down as they are. But if you think about it, all their nothings really add up to so many wonderful somethings. The nothings of hanging out at Jerry's apartment or sipping over a cup of coffee at The Restaurant for hours actually is something, and a wonderful something at that. It's the fellowship between these dear friends that together they can compose the most outrageous nothings and turn them into unforgettable somethings . It's moments spent like this that create an agglomeration of sweet nothings. It does not take an adventurous trip or expensive getaway to say you did not do anything this summer/weekend. All that matters is you were able to, even only for a short time, experience a couple of hours full of nothings, for it truly is the little things in life that sweep us off our feet. So savor those moments where you find a brief moment of love or joy. I challenge you to find one of these moments in your day where you wish you could freeze time, stuff it in a old bottle, stopper it shut, and forever set it on desk with scattered papers that bring us back to life. Though the dusty bottle may appear to be nothing to others, but to you it is as far from the east to west of being something shy from nothing.

The Twenty First Century

Today at work, I work as a camp counselor at Oak Hill Day Camp, one of my six year old campers pulled out of her track bag an item that caught me off guard. Now many of my campers have brought their most prized possessions to camp, they would rather put these items in danger of becoming dirty or lost just to show them off to their "best friends." But my camper did not show me her stuffed dog she sleeps with every night or her "silky" a baby blanket I was once shown. But low and behold, she whips out a Samsung cell phone! Her cell phone. After telling me I needed a new phone just as nice as hers, I asked her who she called on her phone. Her response was, "I text on it mostly." So now has she not only gone above and beyond the call of duty for a phone, but informs me that she texts her family. As she opened the phone, by the way it opens in two different ways, she enthusastically showed me that her background was a video of Obama that she had recorded off the tv. All that to say that the twentith century has no limits. It seems to be like a stick of dynamite in the hands of people who yern for the rippling effects the explosion creates, hense a six year old with a cell phone. So as she so flagrantly displayed her embrace for the twenty first century I too dove into adventure and experience one of the fastest growing waves of this era, blogging. But in reality, blogging has been around since the beginning of time. Blogging is just the newest form of journaling, keeping a diary, except this is the type of diary that you can't hide from your siblings despite where you hide the key this time. Blogging is a way to express to the world absolutley anything that is on our mind. I have decided to name my blog All Things Considered naturally because I enjoy listening to NPR's All Things Considered. Oh to be as wise and educated as they...