day nine

Day nine- your beliefs

So...that's not vague or anything.

I believe in a lot of stuff. I believe that gravity is real. I believe that macaroni and cheese is always delicious when I make it myself. I believe all people have some bit of good inside them.

If the question was framing my beliefs on religion. Well. I think that's for another blog post. God and I speak, but the church and I don't get along as much.

I have a lot of beliefs. I believe that people should work to put others before themselves sometimes. They should actively help others. They should try and make others lives easier even if it means making things tougher for them for a little bit. Compassion is another thing I believe in. Forgiveness isn't always an easy thing to do, but without it the world could never go on.

I believe that, for the most part, the world works on economics. We will switch to clean energy when coal and oil get too expensive, or it gets too hot, whichever comes first. We will truly tackle world hunger when all families in America have comfortable budgets to do so. Minority groups of all types will stop being oppressed when the majority stops fearing the loss of power.

I believe that if you are going to go anywhere impressive, you must learn to take serious risks. You must find the limits of your comfort zone and run five hundred miles away from it. The more you experience and the more you learn the better.

I believe that life isn't all flowers and roses. Shit happens. Plain and simple. Life is never ever going to deal you a perfect hand. So what can we do? Fold or bluff. I believe in working with what you have to create the best possible outcome for yourself and others. It's not always easy, but crying about it won't change any situation. That's why I don't freak out very often. I believe that staying calm and not letting emotions take over all action (a little is ok) keeps us thinking about how to handle a situation best, not just what feels right.

I believe that Brett Favre probably didn't send naked pictures to Jenn Sterger, but he probably did something which his wife wouldn't appreciate.

But on that note, which one of us is perfect? The way I see it, everybody is going to screw up here and there, and we're probably all liable for a big mess up once or twice. It's how we pick ourselves back up from the storm that defines who we are.

I believe that our society has no patience and has no interest on gaining any. They enjoy electing new politicians every two years in hopes of Utopia. People don't understand constraints and politics, so many choose to hear only what they want to hear, and the media makes a boatload of money off it.

I believe that the world in 50 years will look nothing like it does now. Technology is expanding so quickly that we don't even notice the incredible strides of the past decade. 4th graders carry cell phones. This effects the way we socialize. Instead of saying hello to people you see in public, the majority of people on the C train in the morning are far too focused on their headphones or game of Angry Birds on their iPhones to pay any mind to the elderly woman who has nowhere to sit. People are uncomfortable in public situations because they are with people they do not know, and luckily our portable electronic devices give us the perfect excuse not to speak with anyone else because we can just throw earbuds in and pretend like no one else exists.

I believe in improvisation within daily life. I believe in switching things up when you're bored. I believe that you should never plan too far into the future, because your plans are likely to change anyway. I believe that life is too short to worry about little things, unfortunately that means when I don't worry about little things, people who do usually look down on me and think I just don't care about the situation. I guess I do care, just very little, because I believe that those small pieces of drama will work themselves out with time, usually about two weeks of it, and things will go back to normal. Live is too short not to love other people.

I believe that if you are still reading this far that you are a good friend of mine, and if for some reason we don't talk often, we probably should. I also believe you should comment or blog about your own beliefs. This is actually quite refreshing to review what exactly I believe in. Sometimes throughout this struggle we call daily life we can forget what is truly important to us. The cliche quotation is for us to stop and smell the roses. I may not have roses to smell in NYC, but I certainly have huge buildings to stop and look up at. They are incredible. Goodnight.