literally LOL

LOL! Watching that sponge bob video made my day! I totally understand that the media has a huge impact on everything we do. Its somehow become part of life & it's pointless to turn away from it so i've just learned to embrace it. The music i listen to, the shows i watch, it all reflects me as a person. So i like to think that i look for things that are ME, not that the things that i watch and listen to me define me. My music for example ranges from Frank Sinatra to Lil' Wayne and everything in-between. It will make most people say 'huh'? But in my case, each artist writes something that either makes laugh, cry, scream, dance, etc. I appreciate it, and believe that in some ways it does change me. When this subject comes up, most people get all defensive and angry about the fact that the media is taking over peoples lives lol. It's gonna happen whether everyones freaking out about it or not. So i say, why waste your time freaking out when you can enjoy it and accept the fact that you can't change it?

Artists on my iTunes:

[Aaron Neville, Celine Dion. ABBA, Ace Hood, Alejandro Sanz, Alex Ubago, Alexander Pires, Alicia Keys, Amy Winehouse, Andrea Bocelli, Bob Marley, Bonnie Tyler, Brian Adams, Camila, Cassie, Chichi Peralta, Chris Brown, Chris Daughtry, City High, Coldplay, Common Sense, David Archuleta, Day 26, Dido, Dirtie Blonde, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, DMG, Elvis Manuel, Enrique Iglesias, Estelle, Etta James, Frank Sinatra, Fito Paez, Five For Fighting, Gavin DeGraw, Hannah Montana, India Arie, Jack Johnson, Jason Mraz, Jay-Z, JC Chasez, Jem, John Legend, Jonas Brothers, Juanes, Kanye West, Katy Perry, Keith Urban, Kenny Chesney, Lauren Hill, Leanne Rimes, Leona Lewis, Lil Wayne, Lionel Ritchie, Luis Fonsi, Luis Guerra, Macy Gray, Maria Mena, Marvin Gaye, Michael Buble, Mos Def, Ne-Yo, ETC]

Some people would call that insanity. 

if only...

...If only everyone would really try to help. 

If only people where educated on all the ways they can help.

If only everyone knew that it's so easy to help. 

I know because in my high school, we where educated on problems like these. They taught us ways to help and it made everyone want to help. I was in a class called Special Issues where we had a different issue every 2 months or so. We would first learn all about the issue and then we where actually able to help, hands on. For example, we had an issue called "project rice bowl". In this we decorated the school & dressed in black for a week to promote helping the hungry. After two months everyone would turn in a donation box the size of the average rice bowl. All the money we got would go straight to poor countries. We went from class to class showing videos, pictures, and reading impacting stories to encourage everyone else in the school to want to help as well. 

Although i already graduated, i still go back every two months or so to help out on these projects. Most of the students in that class and even some students that weren't still go back to help on the various projects as well. It's so easy to help, but unfortunately no one knows how. The organizations that are out there aren't promoted enough to make an impact like they should. It takes impacting pictures, videos, and stories to make us feel guilty and want to help.

Aside from project Rice Bowl, we did many others to help children living in the worst neighborhoods in florida. For example, 'Tricks-no-treats' was a project where we brought poor children from about 4 different schools to our school to go trick or treating from class to class. The students in our school would bring candy & pass it out as the children went around. These children wouldnt be able to go trick or treating if it wasn't for this because their neighborhoods are too dangerous. After a full day of trick or treating we take them to the fully decorated library where they have a party with prizes and activities. The children walk in looking scared and tough, and they leave with smiles from ear to ear. It makes all the hard work worth it.

lucky me

Fortunately,  there is nothing that i feel i shouldn't discuss with my mom. I talk to her about everything, really EVERYTHING. I only mention my mother because i don't have a lot of family in Miami and the friends i can choose, so it is not the same. 

When it comes to abortion, i happen to highly dislike debating about it. Most people give very uneducated opinions about abortion which just piss me off. I don't mind talking about it because i've educated myself on the subject so i wouldn't feel as though i'm talking out of my ass every time i argue about it. Although it's not fair to say that everyone deserves to have that option, it's also not fair for a girl who was raped at the age of 13 to mess with her body (because a 13 year olds body is no where near prepared for conceiving a baby) and have a child & bring the child into this world unwanted and/or unplanned. Without going to such an extreme, a 17 year old girl who makes a mistake and doesn't want to have a baby should not be forced to bring an unwanted child into a world where it will have enough problems to deal with. Although if i was put in the situation, i would not get an abortion, i don't believe that everyone should have to think the same way i do. I think everyone deserves to have a choice.

Politics is one thing that i rarely even talk about because i don't feel i know enough to give an opinion. Although I'm slowly learning about the candidates, i can't choose anyone just yet.