How about "love"? Most teenagers go and see movies like "The Notebook", "A Walk to Remember", and multiple other romance movies, and start imagining a romance so sweet and true as those. I believe it creates a falsehood in the minds of us teens that all relationships are really not that hard, and can be fixed with the slightest flick of a wand...wrong! Relationships are like a job you enjoy. Yes, you love working hard for the benefits, but you're still sacrificing a lot of things for this "job."
So many teenagers feel like searching for a companion as perfect as the movies make men seem. HA! Funny how the chances of that happening are one in about twenty thousand...odds comparable to being murdered...no joke. So we read magazines, watch movies, and look for similar things or quirks about someone else that you just love. You reach high school, and everything is about so&so dating someone else every two weeks. Or you have those who last from freshman year to senior year, and you think, "how the hell did this happen to them, and not me?"
Easy...you have the same chance of being murdered in high school than you do in finding love. I'm not saying it isn't possible, because I consider to have found some myself, although as Jason Mraz said, "And it takes no time to fall in love, but it takes years to know what the love is." Those are very wise words, seeing as in high school you typically base your opinions off of those of your peers, as well as the media. Movies, TV Shows, even music influences the minds of young generations across the nations.
So, who do we blame for wanting love so badly so young? The media? Ourselves? Men who are incompetent? No, simply, we just don't point fingers. It isn't polite, besides.
:)
Friday, July 17, 2009
Friday, July 3, 2009
So basically, sarcasm.
Sarcasm. Webster defines it as "a sharp and often satirical or iron utterance designed to cut or give pain." How true is this statement made up by some really really bored English guys? Sarcasm is usually the tone you give a significant other when saying that everything is fine when it isn't, or taking a statement and throwing it back at them with some extremity to make them feel lesser of themselves. I think this gives pain, wouldn't you? Or in familial ties, where your family jokes about your recent job or love-life, and you hate being reminded of such casualties.
I guess this leads to the intonation of how things are said. If you say things like "yeah, whatever" as either flirty or legit angry, then you obviously have two moods that can be based off of one phrase. This is the problem I have with electronic communication, i.e. texting, e-mailing, even twittering. You cannot hear the tone of some one's voice via these ways, but still accuse people of "saying" something they never actually verbalized. Then you have court cases which says that it was verbalized, but electronically. Then they send you to jail or juvie, whichever you prefer, and you're basically screwed for just joking around. Or using politically incorrect phrases. Cause we all know, heaven forbid, that someone use "gay" or "retarded" in a blog. Or on myspace, twitter, facebook, you name it.
Now, there are many phrases in the world that can be taken two or more ways. Things like "cool" "great" "yeah, awesome" "i love you" "i hate you" can all be taken differently depending on the intonation. Cool can be nonchalant or caring, great could be praise or apathetic, and i hate you could always mean that you love them, just you're refusing to admit to it. If only we could hear President Obama use one of these, which I'm sure he has and I haven't heard him say them. How i wish i could record every single mess-up he caused. I'd have a really good blogging topic then, wouldn't ya think? ;)
I guess this leads to the intonation of how things are said. If you say things like "yeah, whatever" as either flirty or legit angry, then you obviously have two moods that can be based off of one phrase. This is the problem I have with electronic communication, i.e. texting, e-mailing, even twittering. You cannot hear the tone of some one's voice via these ways, but still accuse people of "saying" something they never actually verbalized. Then you have court cases which says that it was verbalized, but electronically. Then they send you to jail or juvie, whichever you prefer, and you're basically screwed for just joking around. Or using politically incorrect phrases. Cause we all know, heaven forbid, that someone use "gay" or "retarded" in a blog. Or on myspace, twitter, facebook, you name it.
Now, there are many phrases in the world that can be taken two or more ways. Things like "cool" "great" "yeah, awesome" "i love you" "i hate you" can all be taken differently depending on the intonation. Cool can be nonchalant or caring, great could be praise or apathetic, and i hate you could always mean that you love them, just you're refusing to admit to it. If only we could hear President Obama use one of these, which I'm sure he has and I haven't heard him say them. How i wish i could record every single mess-up he caused. I'd have a really good blogging topic then, wouldn't ya think? ;)
Thursday, July 2, 2009
The Freedom of Speech...or so we thought.
Our Constitution helped to create the government we've come to know, well, up until this past election. And with that Constitution came the first amendment, which includes the freedom of speech and many other freedoms that come with it.
First, let's go with phrases that are not politically correct. Things like "retarded", "gay", "special", etc. Now, my generation has grown up using these phrases constantly, as phrases of expression to something stupid or hard. Now, these phrases get people into lot of trouble, especially journalists. If you say any of these in an article, soon you're ass is being ridiculed by MSNBC and CNN for "not being politically correct and expressing views that are biased and wrong." So, therefore, what happened to expression? Sure, these things are written and can be taken in many different tones, but if we get down to it, they're just words. Everyone, and i mean EVERYONE, is entitled to an opinion. So why strip us of said opinion so we can ball it up, and transform it to shape the spectrum of political correctness? It doesn't seem fair. If you get offended by a bunch of printed words, that especially aren't directed to just you as a person, you need a therapist.
Second, cuss words. You grow up all your life being told that cussing is wrong, bad, unladylike/ungentlemanly. But all in all, aren't these just more words that are being used as synonyms? Sure, they have negative connotations, but so do the words that aren't politically correct. So, maybe you're one of the few and brave and truly inspiring writer's that doesn't really give a shit, and cusses to your heart's content and uses all these phrases that the media claims as "horrible" and "rude", yet, you get amazing reviews on your book! CNN and MSNBC rave about you for weeks, about you're approach and how much it makes sense. So then, if a book is only using one of those words or phrases, they get ridicule fired at them like bullets. So, make up your mind! Choose one or the other, don't leave people getting praised for excessive cussing, or getting blamed for minor cussing. They're all just synonyms anyways.
Lastly, how about all these political people who are publishing raving books about Obama, that are only praised for their content, and not the style of writing? Surely, this is unfair to all the rest of us who are struggling just to put pen to paper, when all these loons are out there writing about Obama and all the lovliness he brings to our world...
Loving this nation, and my first Amendment.
First, let's go with phrases that are not politically correct. Things like "retarded", "gay", "special", etc. Now, my generation has grown up using these phrases constantly, as phrases of expression to something stupid or hard. Now, these phrases get people into lot of trouble, especially journalists. If you say any of these in an article, soon you're ass is being ridiculed by MSNBC and CNN for "not being politically correct and expressing views that are biased and wrong." So, therefore, what happened to expression? Sure, these things are written and can be taken in many different tones, but if we get down to it, they're just words. Everyone, and i mean EVERYONE, is entitled to an opinion. So why strip us of said opinion so we can ball it up, and transform it to shape the spectrum of political correctness? It doesn't seem fair. If you get offended by a bunch of printed words, that especially aren't directed to just you as a person, you need a therapist.
Second, cuss words. You grow up all your life being told that cussing is wrong, bad, unladylike/ungentlemanly. But all in all, aren't these just more words that are being used as synonyms? Sure, they have negative connotations, but so do the words that aren't politically correct. So, maybe you're one of the few and brave and truly inspiring writer's that doesn't really give a shit, and cusses to your heart's content and uses all these phrases that the media claims as "horrible" and "rude", yet, you get amazing reviews on your book! CNN and MSNBC rave about you for weeks, about you're approach and how much it makes sense. So then, if a book is only using one of those words or phrases, they get ridicule fired at them like bullets. So, make up your mind! Choose one or the other, don't leave people getting praised for excessive cussing, or getting blamed for minor cussing. They're all just synonyms anyways.
Lastly, how about all these political people who are publishing raving books about Obama, that are only praised for their content, and not the style of writing? Surely, this is unfair to all the rest of us who are struggling just to put pen to paper, when all these loons are out there writing about Obama and all the lovliness he brings to our world...
Loving this nation, and my first Amendment.
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