Meaning of Life

So the topic for this time is the meaning of life. What do I believe about the meaning of life? Well, life is a precious thing and I've never really thought about something like this. Life is just something that is, and I never really thought about why we were put on this Earth. I have wondered sometimes, but never actually had deep thoughts and philosophied the reasons we were put here. Sometimes I wonder how we were even chosen to be put on this Earth. I wonder if there is a God that created all of us and put us here on this beautiful planet for a reason to praise him and worship him, or we were just a coincident of all matter like the big bang and created life. Sometimes I think we are here because God put us here for a reason, but sometimes I think we are just coincidental parts of matter all put together and there is not really a reason we are on this Earth. We just are. There is no reason for us to be living, but we just are, and we have to live and survive.
Then sometimes again I believe again that we are put on this Earth for a distinct reason. Maybe that reason is to teach someone something or to do something great for the world. It's like when I think of certain important people in history like Martin Luther King Jr. He was put on this Earth to lead the blacks out of slavery. That was his reason in life.
I dont know my reason for being on this Earth, or at least, I don't know yet. I feel like I'm on this Earth for a greater reason than just being alive. I feel like I'm supposed to be doing something more, but I dont know what it is yet. I never think about these things. The meaning of life is to do drugs and be happy. Live young and wild and free. The meaning of life is in this song I know entitled Young Wild and Free.
  Young, Wild, and Free --> [So what we get drunk, so what we smoke weed, we just having fun, we don't care who sees. So what we go out, thats how its supposed to be, living young and wild and free.] This means right now, just forget about our reason and stop thinking why we're on this Earth. Just right now, I'm young and in high school, and I shouldn't be worrying and thinking so much about life, just having fun not worrying about a thing. Just have fun now and I'll worry about everything else when I'm older and need to. Its prime time in the golden age of high school just have fun! don't need to stress about this stuff yet. Worrying for nothing. Now is the time to be free and just have fun. Some people say he meaning of life is 42, but I dont really get that . I just dont understand where people get the number 42.

Art

The blog this time is  about Art. What is Art. What do I believe art. I believe art can take place in many different shapes sizes and forms. When someone hears the word art, the thing that usually comes to mind is a painting, or a drawing , or a picture. Something like the Mona Lisa or Picasso pop up into their mind. Some more advanced people think of art in certain different ways. Instead of Pablo Picasso or some other famous painter, they might think of a symphony composer, like Beethoven. Some people may even think of people like one direction, or Justin Bieber when they think of art… After all, they are called artists. In my opinion though, real art is whatever it is that people can appreciate. If someone can appreciate the Mona Lisa, then it is art. If someone can appreciate and see the beauty in the Beatles and their music, then their music is art. If someone can appreciate a pile of garbage and say the smell and way the trash arranged is beautiful and it has meaning to them, it is art to them. Some people, like me for example, hate One Direction or Justin Beiber and their music, and do not appreciate or see the beauty in it. It is definitely not art… to me at least. In other things though, I appreciate, like certain good books. Small steps, or holes for example. Those are really good books that I appreciate and understand and see the value in them. This is art to me. Other people might just see them as letters on a paper that don’t mean anything and aren’t valueable at all except for the paper and ink that were used to make the book, but to me it has value and meaning, and that’s why its art to me. This is only one example. The book is a piece of art by Louis Sachar, and I can see it.

                There are many different types of art though. There is the traditional view of art we see, as paintings and drawings and pictures and caricatures. There is art in the sense of music. The art of music and the art of the piano, or the guitar. There is the art of speech, how people talk and persuade or get a point across. There is the art of the English language, that many people are interested in. The art of war, yes some people do appreciate and see the value of war. There is actually a good book titled the art of war. There is the art of competition, in sports, or anything else. There are many different types of art, besides just the traditional types that we see, like paintings and such.     

                After all of this, explaining all these different types of art, I hope you learned something, and now see things in a new light, in my perspective. Just because you don’t like something, doesn’t mean its not art, and art can be many different things you never thought of. Art comes in many different forms, and something that is valuable and artful to you, may not be artful to someone else. A pile of trash can art to someone, while a golden Porche 911 wouldn’t be art to someone else. Our different views in things make so many things art, and so many things, not art. Even the Mona Lisa might not be art to certain people who don’t know how to appreciate it. 

Justice

Well, its time for the next blog again, and this time it’s about justice. Justice.Justice.Justice. What is justice? Justice is doing the right thing. Justice is correctness. Justice, according to the dictionary of dictionary.com is  the quality of being just; righteousness, equitableness, or moral rightness. Or the moral concept of determining what is just and lawful. There are a few different ways of determining justice, but then a few are probably better than another. For an example one would be why someone always wears a hat backwards. They could say, its correct that’s why they do it. But why is it correct? They might say because of authority. They could say that their dad told them that was how you do it so that’s how they’ve always wore their hat, and that may be true. Their dad might have told them to wear their hat like that, but it doesn’t make it correct to wear it that way. The next way to determine justice, if something is correct or not, would be democracy. This is basically like peer pressure. The majority, or a large number of people do it that way, so therefore it is correct to wear my hat backwards. They might say, I wear my hat this way because all my friends wear their hat this way, so it must be right. This is just peer pressure, just because a majority or a lot of people are doing something, that does not make it correct. An example would be, a lot of people smoke or a lot of people drink, but that definitely does not making smoking or drinking right. One more way to decide on justice is tradition. This is good in many cases, but some cases, traditions aren’t very good. There are such things as unreasonable, dumb traditions. If they say, because all my father’s side males wore the hat backwards like this, so I am following the tradition of what they do. This does not necessarily make it correct. It follows their tradition, but who’s to say their father or their grandfather was right. No one. There are some traditions that are dumb and useless too, like a tradition in the American government every single Thanksgiving. They have to bring a turkey to the president, a live turkey. The president then has to use a knife and slaughter the poor animal to make the feast. A thanksgiving feast, and the tradition is to have the president whack off the head of a turkey. This is an example of a tradition that is not really smart and is pretty dumb actually. Just because the government has always done this does not mean that they are right.

                There is one other last way to determine justice. It is someone deciding what is right. We all should have rational minds and we decide what is right or wrong. This is probably not a very good way to determine because although we know a lot, we don’t know everything and we could be wrong. This is not very reliable. The best way of these four to me, would probably be authority. This could fail in ways because the authority is dumb and incompetent, but it would still be correct in most cases.

Trust

Truth. This is the beginning of my next series. What I believe about in truth, justice, beauty, meaning of life, and art. The first is truth. Now… what do I believe about truth. Truth is one of the most important things in a good person. It is alongside integrity and honesty. It is essential to have the virtuous trait of honesty and being able to tell the truth in order to be a well-respected, successful, person.

                I believe that everyone is born good and innocent and why they only learn to do bad. They are born with the ability and want to tell the truth and to do the right thing, but the world we live in is corrupt and as we grow, we learn bad things, like lying and being dishonest, not telling the truth. That is why kids are so much better, nicer, and more honest than older people and adults. Of course there are adults howerever that know how to overcome the desire to lie or do bad, and are just as truthful and honest as a good kid would be, but not everyone is like that. There are exceptions for everything, just as this. Truth is a crucial part in everyone’s life, especially from the people whome you love and are close with. If someone is dishonest and lies to you, you can lose a lot, or even all of your trust for them, and that is definitely a very bad thing. Being truthful from one another from one another is extremely important because it leads to trust. Trust between two people is also a very important thing for any relationship, friendship, or anything like that. Any ship. Truth is not only not telling lies and saying bad things, but truth is also saying whatever it is that is relevant, and not withholding information. Keeping information is not being honest. It is not lying, but not being honest, and not telling the complete truth, which is once again, crucial for every friendship or relationship.

                Truth is the key to success in any relationship with people. One time I lied to my parents and it was really bad. I lied over something to try to not get in trouble and I hoped they would never find out about it, but they did find out about it and they were not even that mad. They were mad that I lied though. That made them more mad than what I did because they stress how important honesty is. They say that honesty is one of the most important things in life, and since I lied, especially since they were my parents, they were really mad and upset and disappointed. It was not good. If I had just told them what I did then they would not have lost any trust for me but since I lied to them and was dishonest, they lost trust for me and respect as well. 

Connecting

                The blog topic for this time is how do I connect with others. I don’t really get the blog topic this time as it’s very broad. I’m not sure if it means how do I connect with others like Facebook, or Twitter, or Instagram, or like social networking sites, or how I connect to others as mentally or emotionally. I think what the blog topic is trying to prompt me to write about is how do I make connections with people. I make connections with people with similar interests. I make connections by talking to people, and the more we talk, I find out about things in common then I connect. I don’t even know what connecting to someone means so I don’t really know what to write about this blog topic. It’s a really hard topic actually…

                                I’d say that I connect with others, when I talk to them a lot. The easiest way to connect with somebody in my opinion is to spend time and get to know each other. The way I see it, all human beings are alike in most ways. We are different in little ways, like what we want to eat or our favorite colors, or shows, or type of music we listen to. Those difference may seem big, but overall they are just tiny little differences in us. All humans share way more similarities. We have a sense of caring about certain people, like our family, or that we want what’s best for ourselves or our loved ones. We don’t like to do things that are difficult. All of us are the same in one way or another, but the thing is that some us don’t see beneath our petty surface differences. We need to look deeper and we can see that we are alike on the inside and those petty surface outside differences mean nothing. No matter if we’re white, or black, or Chinese, or Japanese, or Indian, or Korean, or Filipino, Italian, German, French, Russian, we are all the same on the inside in many ways. It’s just a part of being a human. This is why I think that spending time with people would let someone connect with others. It doesn’t matter if they are complete opposites on the outside, if they spend enough time and get to know each other better, they should probably be able to see that the outside differences mean nothing and that they are pretty much the same in what they want. They should see that no matter their different race, ethnicity, skin color, or age they are similar in so many ways that they can be able to connect.

                I find it really rare that people that spend so much time with each other can hate each other a lot. If someone spends time with another person a lot, I’d expect them to like each other because they see how similar they really are. Maybe they might not like each other, but at least respect one another and not dislike each other as they are both human beings and should understand each other. I didn’t really understand the blog topic so I just stated how I think people connect with each other. All I can say about myself is that the way I’ve come to connect to people is that I’ve talked to them a lot and spent a lot of time with them. I got to know them and see that we are alike in many ways, so I can understand why they do some things that other people who don’t know those people wouldn’t understand.

moving or staying

The blog topic for this time is if living in one place better, or moving around from place to place. Obviously both sides of this topic has its advantages and disadvantages and is probably a really controversial topic. For me though, I would like to live and stay in one particular place rather than having to keep moving around from place to place.

                Some advantages of moving around from place to place would be hat if you mess up or have a bad reputation in one place, its fine because you will go away and not be with those people anyways. You will be at another place with another group of people. You can keep starting over whenever you make a mistake in your life, that, to me is probably the biggest advantage of moving from place to place. Another advantage would be being able to meet so much more new and diverse people and to learn about different people in different areas. People in the city may be much clumsier and rushed and stuff like that, while people in the suburban or rural areas would be more relaxed, chill, and have a slower, easier life. A person moving all around would get to visit all these places and experience those places and learn all different things and how people live in all those different places. They would also make more friends and know people all around incase they need something. It would be really convenient to have friends all around the world so if something happens, you can ask for help. It’s just like having connections. Someone in New York might be able to help you do something, or an easier example since I live on Saipan, is shipping. Most places don’t ship to Saipan as they probably never even heard of the place. So how do I get the things I order from amazon, or ebay, or wal mart over here to the tiny island? Simple. I ship it to California where my sister, or some friends live and have them pick it up to forward it over here. Or if they ship to Guam, just mail it there and have someone pass or bring it back to this island. It’s very convenient to have friends all around.

                Some advantages of staying in one place though would be that the group of friends you have, or the people you hang out with would stay with out and you all would be really close, rather than if you had to move around and keep meeting new people. These friends would be really close to you since you’ve lived with them for so long. This is the main advantage of not always moving around from place to place. This is also why I prefer to live in one place. It’s also easier because you don’t have to keep leaving the things or people you care about. Even if everything is going wrong, and you want to get away, it will still be hard to leave certain things, like people who you’ve come to know and care about especially, or people who have helped you out.

                Those are some advantages of either staying living in one place or to keep moving around from place to place. There are probably an equal amount of advantages and disadvantages for both, but I still prefer staying in one place, especially so I don’t have to leave things that I’ve come to know and love. I am sentimental and leaving things would be kind of hard. What I believe though, is probably really different from what other people think, as once again I say, this is a very controversial topic. 

Quotes

The blog topic for this time is ten quotes that I live by. One quote that I live by is my wise old history teacher’s number one rule of sex. This wonderful rule is “Always use condoms.” This is the first quote that I live by. I mean, I haven’t used lived by this rule yet, but I will be sure to follow it then. Another quote that I live by is a good quote from a good friend of mine named Lynette. She would always say “Chow the balut!” I think she is saying this as a metaphor. The balut represents the essence of human life, because balut is a fertilized, unborn fetus of an chicken. We must chow the balut and feel the essence of human life to be happy. This is what I think the quote means, and Iive by this.

                Another quote that I live by is from the famous rapper Drake. His quote is “YOLO” This is abbreviated and actually means you only live once. This means to live every moment like it’s your last and you should live life without regrets. This is definitely a quote that I live by. Yolo, that’s the motto.

                Another quote that I live by is “The last man standing is the best” by Chris Park. I interpret it that it means in social Darwinism, evolution, humans get smarter, quicker, more intelligent, and better in every way as time goes on. Just like evolution, we get more and more advanced as time passes. The last man standing is the best, a good quote by Chris Park. One quote that I really like, but I can’t seem to live by is “Patience is a virtue.” This is a quote by the Chinese philosopher Confucius. This is a quote that I wish I could live by. It would be god to have patience, and I really wish I had patience, but I don’t, I am impatient and I can’t live by this quote.”

                Some great quotes though that I live by is part of the ten commandments. These are things that I definitely live by. Some of these are : “Thou shall not murder, thou shall not steal, and those commandments.” I am a Christian and I definitely like any other Christian, live by these commandments. These quotes are an important part of my life and I have to live by them.

Happiness

                Happiness is defined in many different ways and for different people, they see happiness in a different way as well. The ways people are happy are different in many cases. Some people in Africa may be happy with enough food to have a full belly and enough to drink to not be thirsty. For other people with higher standards of happiness, they would need a lot to be considered happy. They would have to get an education, and have their life be perfect and such in order to be happy. For me though, being happy is having a healthy family and a good close family. I would have to have no problems mentally, physically, emotionally, and in every other way. I should have enough food and everything and be full and not thirsty. The dictionary definition of happiness is “good fortune; pleasure; contentment; joy.”

                People are different in what makes them happy. To me, happiness is doing something you really love or enjoy to do. When you are doing whatever that is and you feel like nothing else worries right now, that is when someone is truly happy. If someone likes soccer so much that it is their life and is professional, plays extremely well, and makes a lot of money and is successful, famous and known all over the world but doesn’t enjoy playing soccer, then he isn’t happy. If he likes to play basketball rather than soccer, but has to play soccer for a living, even if it’s for a lot of money, he won’t be happy. If someone is really into cars and just enjoys driving and everything, he is probably happiest when he is speeding down a straight road with no traffic feeling the power of his car. If someone really enjoys music, he or she will be happy doing something that relates to music. He wouldn’t be happy running a large business even if it is extremely successful and profitable if he’s not into it and doesn’t enjoy it.

                The dictionary definition of happy is “Delighted, pleased, or glad, over a particular thing… characterized by or indicative of pleasure, contentment, or joy.” If you have pleasure and are delighted doing art, then go pick up a paintbrush and some paint and have fun with a blank canvas. Happiness is not the same for everyone. Something that makes me happy might not make the person next to me happy, or any other person happy. Soccer makes my friend happy, but it does not make me happy, I’m not into soccer as he is.

                Everyone is trying to be happy and their ultimate goal in life is to be happy, but then they don’t know what they are doing to try and achieve this happiness. This is the problem with a lot of people, they try to be happy without knowing how. I am happy however, when I run for leisure. Sometimes, I just get out and start running to loud music. I like to run along the road and the beach, but not on the sand. I’ll run and listen to music at full volume at a steady pace and I’m happy. I can unwind and forget about everything and just run to clear my head. It feels great and for me, that makes me happy. For other people though, running is terrible and would lead to unhappiness for them. This is just yet another example of how being happy is different for different people. 

Book I Learned From

                This blog topic is about what one book has benefited me the most. I don’t think that any book has really benefited me in a large way. I can’t think of any way that a book has benefited be besides the fact that it may have taught me some new vocabulary words I did not know before, or taught me different styles of writing or slang or something like that. It may have taught me grammar or about persuasive writing. It probably has taught me different methods of effective writing. No story in a book has really taught me about morals or a life lesson or anything really important. I learn those things outside of books in real life situations or from people, like my family.

                If I had to choose one book though that has benefitted me the most, besides from books I read inside of school, I would choose my favorite book, which is entitled Small Steps. This book is the less-known sequel to the book and movie Holes. This is a really well known story of a group of kids that have committed crimes and have been sent to a camp in the middle of the desert to dig holes and build character. These delinquent children dug holes everyday, unknowingly searching for a treasure that was left there many years ago. The sequel of the book holes, which is Small Steps, my favorite book, is about some of the kids that have finally gotten out of the camp and are trying to rebuild their lives one step at a time. It is specifically about a boy nicknamed “Armpit” as he tries to do good and get an education for all the years he missed out on while he was digging holes in camp. He tries to stay out of trouble in every way, and have a nice normal life at home, but then an old friend from camp is also out, but not trying to rebuild his life as well as Armpit. He is not really trying to stay out of trouble and finds a business in illegally scalping tickets and selling them for a lot of quick cash. This boy, named nicknamed X-Ray drags Armpit into his business and gets him in trouble too. Armpit didn’t want to join and help him, but eventually because he was greedy and needed money, got dragged and involved in the whole mess. His efforts of rebuilding his life hit some hard obstacles but eventually, at the end of the book he succeeds in this.

                This book has taught me to be like Armpit and slowly go up step by step. To be successful in life, is to take small steps toward a set goal and to not be greedy. If you are greedy you might take too big of a step and slip and fall down, getting pushed down back to the bottom of the river. This is just like when Armpit got greedy for some cash and got dragged into the business and all the way back down the river. In the book, there is the metaphor of taking small steps up a river and taking small steps in life. Find stable rocks and foundations to step on that aren’t too far away (goals) and go for them, step by step. Plan your every move before you do it so you don’t fall. And to get to the top, you can’t take big risky steps to loose rocks, like in real life. You can’t take such big, risky steps if you can’t afford to fail and start over. 

Looks Vs. Ideas

The blog topic for this week is: The looks and clothing of a person are more important than having good ideas to succeed.  Do I agree or disagree?

I definitely disagree. The looks and clothing of a person don’t define a person success at all. There are some ugly people who don’t know how to dress that have made it very far in the world. They are a huge success, make lots of money, are very well know, but yet they still wear polka dot shorts and crocs. Having good looks and good clothing and having a sense of fashion may help people out in the real world a little bit by attracting other people, possible people that could help with what they’re doing and such, but having great ideas is definitely more important. Having good looks might attract more people and let you make more connections that would help you out in for example, a business, but having great ideas would get you a lot of attention as well and help you make connections based on your work, not your physical looks.

If someone had no great ideas, were dumb as can be, but looked great and had great clothes as well as a good sense of fashion, they would still not be successful. It does not matter how many people they know, or how many connections in the real world they have made, because they can’t really do much else other than modeling and just looking good. They cant think what is better for them and would be controlled by someone their entire life.              Someone who is smart and has great ideas can soar above the rest making innovations, and being creative doing things people have not done before. Some great innovative creative thinkers with great ideas are the most successful, rich, and well known people out in the world today. Steve Jobs for example, he just passed away about a year ago, but he was not a very handsome man. He was a great smart creative thinker. That is what made him so successful, his creativity and innovation that created all these different types of gadgets like the iPhones, and   and the macbook laptops, and all these different things. He created the macintosh operating system! Okay well he didn’t create it, he wasn’t that smart, but he did get the idea and create it in his mind, which the then was able to hire programmers to do it for him, but the idea still started from him.

Another great successful person with great ideas is Bill Gates. This man I’m sure everyone here has heard of. He is arguably the most successful person in America. He is if not the richest, one of the richest people in the United States now. He created the windows operating system and he gets so much money, that he gains over $1000 per minute. That is how much money he has. This all started with the great idea of windows operating system. Now it’s so widely used everywhere. This blog itself is typed on a windows 7 laptop.

These successful, rich, and incredibly well known people didn’t get to where they are now by having good looks and wearing nice clothes. They got that after they became rich and could afford nice clothes and plastic surgery. These people got to where they are because of their knowledge and creativity and good ideas. Good ideas are way more important than having good looks or wearing nice clothes to become successful for sure.

True Friends

The blog topic for this time is what three qualities of a true friend are. Three qualities that a true friend should have. Everyone has friend, many friends, but only a few of them are really true friends. One thing to me that really makes a friend a true friend is their loyalty. They should be loyal to you and be your friend forever. I don’t mean being loyal to you as in serving you, but be loyal as in they will stick with you through hard times and good times. They should always be there for you no matter what happens. This is what loyalty is. This is probably one of the most important qualities of a true friend. This is hard to find in most people.

Another quality that a true friend must have is that they should be able to sacrifice some things and give up certain opportunities to help the other person when they need it. A true friend should be able to give up something that they may want so that the other person can benefit. A true friend should be able to help the other person by doing something that might benefit them even if they don’t want to. They should be considerate enough to not care about their own needs as much as their friend’s needs.

Another quality that a true friend should have is that they are caring as well as loving. They should be loving enough as though if this friend of theirs disappeared or went away they would be sad and hurt. If anything happened to them, they would feel just as bad as if it happened to them. If they got hurt in any way, the true friend should be there ready to help out in any way they can. If they fell off a bike or something and got a cut, they would laugh at them and make fun of them. This is only because it’s not a serious injury or anything that hurt them badly, just a scrape, or a cut, or a little bit of bleeding. If it was a serious injury or something serious that hurt their friend, like cancer hitting them, or getting hit by a car, or being in a car crash. Those are serious injuries and most likely life threatening. This is where a true friend comes in to help them through it and recover from whatever it is that happened.

The difference between a friend and a true friend is that a true friend can tell their friend bad stuff about them and not worry about hurting their feelings. They can say, you’re hairstyle is ugly and your sense of clothing is terrible and their crocs don’t make it any better. A friend might be able to say that but would offend the other person. A normal friend probably would not say something like that though because they aren’t close enough to the person and should be afraid of hurting their feelings or offending them. True friends know that they aren’t doing that to offend them or be mean, just telling them to make fun of them and have some fun.

Those are three qualities I think should be in a true friend and the difference between a true friend and just a friend. It's hard to leave and difficult to forget about a true friend that was always there for you.