Real Talk

 It is getting close to Thanksgiving, and I asked my sister Faith for a topic... and she came up with a good one, something that hits close home to me.. and hopefully it will hit you hard too. Thanks Faith... We take so much for granted... we think we deserve everything in the world when we really don't....  When I am at school, one of the main things I can hear is..."don't talk to ME like that..." When I hear that it is hard not to laugh, because people thin that they are all that, and they deserve to be talked to in a certain way... Now don't get me twisted, don't read this and start bad mouthing your parents... because they are over you, they deserve you respect, and you should talk to them respectfully even you are responded at incorrectly... You should do this not only to your parents, but to other adults that are over you... I know how hard that is... Sometimes people respond to you incorrectly, waiting for you to trip up on a single word, but be respectful in your words, when you are dealing with other people, because you wouldn't want to be offended by someone's words... why would you do that to others... Next, we are truly never satisfied... there is always something else we want... and that is human nature, we want more, and more. I can understand if it is a necessity, and you need it but, if it is something you don't need, why do you want it... " All things are wearisome; Man is not able to tell it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, Nor is the ear filled with hearing. That which has been is that which will be, And that which has been done is that which will be done. So is there nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which one might say, "See, this, is is new"? (Ecclesiastes 1: 8-10) There is nothing really new today... the thing that we want today, are basically renewed versions of older things, but yet we still want them... Lastly, I want to ask this... What would it be like if Christ never died for us..? The world was already evil, and full of sin before Christ died for us.... Just imagine what it would be like If he never died... The world is a sinful place now, but if Christ never died... it would be 1000 time worse... but yet we carry on with our little lives, not thanking God for allowing his Son to die for us, and not thanking him for allowing us to be able to wake up every morning, in a stable place... It's a shame that we can't be thankful for the small things that we have like family, friend, shelter,and food... but when we mock the Creator of the Universe it is just dreadfully sad... he keeps us safe, and he allows us to live... HE NEVER NEEDED US, HE WANTED US!  He didn't have to create us, but he did, and we should be thankful for everything that he has, and will do for us...

"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life." (John 3: 16)... He has done so much for us, the least we can do is praise, and love Him... Be thankful, because so many things have been done for you.. the least you can do is be thankful... Let me ask on final question... Are you thankful for all the things that have been done for you?

Thanks for the topic Sis...

 I am having one of these venting feelings lately... It's funny how lately everything has been my fault... for the things before I can sort of understand, but for this one it is completely absurd. So today, we had Cloud Nine practice over Jason's house... I told mom that practice would be over at 5:30... It came close to five so I told mom that practice would be ending in about 20-30 minutes... so everything was cool... Practice ended, mom got lost on the way there, so I asked Jason to give her directions... everything was cool there... So me and Jason decide to study for the chemistry test we have tomorrow, and not my know my mom has arrived, and me and Jason are still studying... So she calls about 10 or so times, but I couldn't get them, because Jason's basement has no signal... I get an 11th call, and my mother is royally upset at the fact I didn't pick up my phone, and all this nonsense... I gather my stuff, and leave without my ipod... Thanks, TK.... lol So I get in the can after hearing, my mother nearly yelling through my phone.... and discussion went from there is that, this is all my fault... and blah.... and truly I am through. It seems like every time I try to do something nice for someone, or if I am just doing something fun... It seems to come crashing down... This has now happened, three times.... I mean I was just trying to help a friend in chemistry, but I guess that is not good enough... I have to wait outside for your arrival... I know you have that parental worries, I understand, but what really put me over the top is to have a long day, and then one of the first things you hear is a parent screaming into your ear about something that really is minor. I am getting tired of doing nice things for people, and then I get yelled at for doing it... I mean really it was common courtesy, the man is letting us use his house to practice in the least I could do, is help him study.... Even my music was effected by this... I was soo off tonight at my lessons it wasn't funny... wrong notes, rhythms, everything.... sorry that I babbled but I needed to vent... I'm not the only one so please stop getting mad at me, and you wonder why I never say sorry... You get yelled at for something.... so minor. All of this took me by surprise, I didn't expect this... but oh well, I'm through...

It's been a while, hopefully I can get back into the rhythm of writing. As always, I asked Facebook what to write about, and as always they never let me down, aside from a comment about bagels. I obtained two responses, and they had a common theme, which was stupidity."Two things that are infinite, human stupidity, and the universe. I'm not sure about the universe..." - A. Einstein.DO IT.... how stupid guys can be lmao.." I guess I will start here. It seems like in today's society the lack of thinking is so great.... People today just do not think... For example, In your classes, sometimes the answers do come straight out of the book. But when it comes to the teacher teaching a lesson, people just want to be spoon-fed answers, but things don't work like that. If our ancestors were spoon-fed answers, instead of actually figuring things out for themselves, or society wouldn't be as advanced as it is now with all our gadgets, and inventions. Recently, I've been hearing a lot of things about males and females, and how they are so stupid, or how they are so difficult to understand. Well I'll say two things here.... One, Females stop messing with these guys heads... like seriously if you females knew the damage that does to a man, you wouldn't want to do it in the first place.... That means you have to think about others, instead of thinking about yourself.... now I'm not saying all females do this, but some certain types of females do this.... all I have to say to those females is, be careful, because one day that might catch up with you. Secondly, Males stop fooling around with these females.... You string them along, and then you leave them hanging, without a clue that isn't right.... By only thinking about yourself, you can cause some serious mental, and emotion damage to others. Lastly, people do not think others... One example of this is the halls of Laurel High School. For all of us who go there, you know we have a limited amount of time to get to class, and we have a lot of ignorant, slow walking people in these hallways.... Those slow walking people aren't thinking... I know you might have classes closer to your other classes, but people need to get by... especially on that long trek to the new building, this is not only being lazy by not getting to class, but you are also wasting someone's time, which is limited.... By not thinking you can not only hurt someone else, you can hurt yourself, and cause someone else to miss an opportunity. If you take one thing away from this, please think , because it not only shows that you are thinking about someone else, but it also show that you are an intellectual person... 

 So.. I received a comment from a viewer, saying that I didn't fully answer her question. Well, I can never leave a question unanswered... So here I go, some guys are stupid, and I some for a reason... there is that one 1% of males that aren't actually stupid... there is a 1 percent that has actually matured to the point where they can actually think sensibly about a situation.... But on the other hand there is that 99% of the male population that "thinks" they have matured, but they actually haven't... They play the stupid little games, that messes with a females emotions, and gives the 1% of guys a bad reputation... The answer to your question that you posed, is that they aren't mature, and is why they are so "stupid"... You can see this once again in the halls of Laurel HIgh. You see the mall chasing the female, you see the "Girl Please!", and you see the rudeness... that really just gets me going because, if you're really mature, which you should be at this point, you shouldn't be doing so many primitive things... LIke really, grow up.... these immature tactics may have worked all the way through middle school, but it is time to grow up man.. You are trying to act like a grown man, but why are you going to approach a female with such, puerile ideas... If you really want have a relationship with a female, or even just be friends with them... you need to respect them.. treat them as if they were your sisters, or mothers, or the someone in your family that you respect. In my opinion male's fatal flaw is our single-mindedness... I may be right or I may be wrong... 

But I have a question for you... Why are females so blind... not trying to categorize all females in this, but some of these females are really blind... You have a good thing right in front of you, but when it comes time to chose, you go a mile in the other direction... and it's kind of ironic that when the female gets hurt, they blame it all on the guys, but it is not all our faults, you chose, you decided... and when you said I want to go out with a guy like you... We (males) stand with our mouth agape, and we ask "well if you wanted something like me why didn't you go for the real thing, instead of the placebo." But that's just my question... Hopefully I answered your question....

 It's been a while, hopefully I can get back into the rhythm of writing. As always, I asked Facebook what to write about, and as always they never let me down, aside from a comment about bagels. I obtained two responses, and they had a common theme, which was stupidity."Two things that are infinite, human stupidity, and the universe. I'm not sure about the universe..." - A. Einstein.DO IT.... how stupid guys can be lmao.." I guess I will start here. It seems like in today's society the lack of thinking is so great.... People today just do not think...  For example, In your classes, sometimes the answers do come straight out of the book. But when it comes to the teacher teaching a lesson,  people just want to be spoon-fed answers, but things don't work like that. If our ancestors were spoon-fed answers, instead of actually figuring things out for themselves, or society wouldn't be as advanced as it is now with all our gadgets, and inventions. Recently, I've been hearing a lot of things about males and females, and how they are so stupid, or how they are so difficult to understand. Well I'll say two things here.... One, Females stop messing with these guys heads... like seriously if you females knew the damage that does to a man, you wouldn't want to do it in the first place.... That means you have to think about others, instead of thinking about yourself.... now I'm not saying all females do this, but some certain types of females do this.... all I have to say to those females is, be careful, because one day that might catch up with you. Secondly, Males stop fooling around with these females.... You string them along, and then you leave them hanging, without a clue that isn't right.... By only thinking about yourself, you can cause some serious mental, and emotion damage to others. Lastly, people do not think others... One example of this is the halls of Laurel High School. For all of us who go there, you know we have a limited amount of time to get to class, and we have a lot of ignorant, slow walking people in these hallways.... Those slow walking people aren't thinking... I know you might have classes closer to your other classes, but people need to get by... especially on that long trek to the new building, this is not only being lazy by not getting to class, but you are also wasting someone's time, which is limited.... By not thinking you can not only hurt someone else, you can hurt yourself, and cause someone else to miss an opportunity. If you take one thing away from this, please think , because it not only shows that you are thinking about someone else, but it also show that you are an intellectual person...

 This topic has been on my mind for a little while, and a lot of recent events have just influenced my thinking about this topic... Here we go.... I was looking at the Webster Dictionary, and I came across the word "Resilient". This is what I found:"characterized or marked by resilience: as a : capable of withstanding shock without permanent deformation or rupture b : tending to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change". This word sort of clicked in my mind. It seems like people today just want to give up when things get tough, or just stop dead in their tracks when things don't exactly go their way. It is like they let one little thing ruin their whole day, and they are just going to dwell on that one little thing. Dwelling on one little misfortunate situation will not make things any better. For example, Remember when everyone was hyped up about the presidential election, and everyone was pro-Obama... what happened to that... now he is losing support day after day. If you are really supporting a person, thing, or idea, your not going to leave it when things get difficult. If you do that it only proves that you were never actually for something. Another example I have is the IB program... Now, this program, is a rigorous, and difficult program that basically goes fast, and if you can not keep up you will be left behind. This program was appealing to me... It would prepare me for college, and I would be able to challenge myself. I went to all of the meetings about this program, and people said that this program would be very challenging, and I had to make a promise to God, my family, and myself that I wouldn't quit on this program even if it became challenging. I'm still in the program, but there are so many people talking about, oh this is to difficult, or I can't do it, or this is just a waste of time, and this program is unorganized.... Well all I have to say to those people is, why did you join in the first place? We were all told that, this would be difficult, but if we finished, there would be great benefits. We aren't dealing with difficult stuff, but still you want to quit. If you thought you could just breeze through this stuff, you thought wrong.... Being resilient to me means, that when the storm comes, you keep moving forward, even if there are some mountains to climb. If you are able to weather that storm, you can make it in so many places.... Don't give up, because running away from the difficult times only makes things worse, not better...

 I asked the people of Facebook what to write about, and the certainly have never failed me. So McRae says:"wat is beauty?" That's a good question/topic... Well I guess I'll start here... Beauty is something from within someone, so if you thought that it comes from the outside, well I hope your thinking will change. Everyday I walk through the hallways of LHS, and you should see the thing I see, and hear... I mean like really these girls are loud, and ghetto. Ladies, if you think that is something a guy is interested well that's the exact opposite. For those girls, who think that the clothes make the woman well, that's not exactly true either, because some guys including myself don't wanna go for the girl with the most body, or anything. Sometimes, we just want a simple girls. Not only simple girls, but you ladies have to respect your self... you can't be jumping from guy to guy like your the Energizer Bunny... you can't let everything hang all out.. sure that may be appealing for a while, but that only shows you have no respect for yourself, or your parents haven't taught you right... True beauty, comes from a woman who can respect themselves, who is smart, and who can be independent. Right now I'm searching for that, and I'm having a hard time, but hey, my time will come... I hope I answered your question McRae..

 Well a few weeks have passed, and the guys and me have been working out more frequently, and wasting it at Parkside (lol). So One monday or tuesday, I met Steve at the top of the hill near Evan's house, and we go down to Evan's house to see if he will join us for the workout.... He couldn't exactly make, because he was planning on tearing down his shed later... He asked If we could possibly come back, and help him... so as the generous guys we are we helped him. We left his house, and that's when the whole adventure part really started... A few workouts before this one Steve and Evan took this path to get to my house. The path started off with about a 25-30 yard jog through Evan's, poorly trimmed backyard, I mean really that grass was about 3 feet high, and If you didn't move correctly those deer ticks would tear your legs up.... after that jog we had to work our way through a thorn infested forest, which was intersected by a small creek. After you got through that forest, you had to run about another 20 or 30 years, to an opening which led to apart of my neighborhood, and lastly after going through there we walked about 1/4 mile back to my house....

 After going through that adventure, we finally arrived at my house, and we did most likely the easiest workout of the summer. No Burnout, no rotation, just presses... Steve was so determined to beat me at Call of Duty 4 that we just played that for the rest of the time... Sadly, he crushed me, only because I just got the game about a week back... so we finished, and we took the adventure path back to Evan's house. Once we got there, in the back yard we saw, a half torn down shed. The remaining pieces of the shed were on the hauling truck that Evan's dad placed in the backyard..

 The sun was high up in the sky, and the shed was in pieces, bricks lay here and there, wood was lying all around with multiple nails sticking out. We got started with finishing the tearing down process, by using sledgehammers, and the shovels... We broke down everything, and then we moved it into the truck.... While we were moving a piece of wood, I actually stepped on a nail, and it went through my shoe... luckily it didn't pierce my skin, because I was not wearing any socks.... (stupid planning yes, I know). We kept on moving the materials, and we started moving the main piece of wood, and we found this little black frog, that steve wanted to let free. So Evan had the strongest urge to chop the frog with the axe.... The axe was so dull that it hit the frog, and the frog was still living.... Steve highly upset let the frog go free in the woods... Steve, Evan, and I were moving the main board, but Steve not looking, accidently steeped on a nail, and the nail actually pierced his foot, and yelped in pain (lol) so I went inside the house to go looking for the rubbing alcohol, and I couldn't find it, but sadly my bladder was full from all the liquids... A quick pit stop later, I went back outside, and found the rubbing alcohol outside on the front steps, and I felt so stupid. I hurried, back over to Steve who was grasping his foot, and from about a few feet out yor could see the blood stain on his sock...

 With the cut cleaned off, and all three of us rehydrated, we got back to work. We finally cleared the demolished shed, and we moved on to our next task. Evan's mother didn't really like having a tall tree in the backyard. it served no purpose, so we decided out of the niceness of our to cut down that tree for her. Evan directed us toward the axes, and we got to work. First we started taking off the branches. We had our own little three man system, Evan cut the branches, Steve moved them over to the side, and I placed them, back into the forest. We continued that little system until all the branches were off. Then we started the real cutting. We started hacking, and slicing that tree up... but sudden;y a little chip feel off of the tree, and Evan just happened to smell it. So Evan told Steve, and I to come over, and smell it.... now that piece of wood smelled like good cantaloupe , and it was just like nectar to your nostrils. The three of us took a few good whacks at that tree, and then it finally came down, with a nice thud. After the tall slim tree fell we diced it into many pieced, we continued our three man chain gang. The last part of this task took about a good 45-50 minutes, and after this we were tired ,hot, and sweaty. Evan brought up the whole idea of "payment", but me and Steve both agreed on being payed in lemonade, and watermelon. To our benefit, Evan had both, and it was so delicious... The watermelon was nice,chilled, succulent and sweet... and the Lemonade was just right, not too sweet or too sour... it was perfect! So I had an Idea, I put Lemonade in my watermelon bowl, and it was just the best of both worlds... nice, and sweet....

 After the Watermelon, Evan's mom called, and he told her all the work we did, and she ordered us two pizzas... Now after doing all that work we were hungry, and tired.... we basically crushed them pizzas while we were watching "Jumunji". About an hour later I had a call saying that I need to come home from my mother (lol), and she was not in the greatest mood. So Steve, and I parted ways at Evan's house... On the way back home, I reminisced the great adventures that we had that day... Man that was a good day, we all will remember that for a long time....

 To be continued...

 Welcome to the workout Chronicles... in this 3 part, or however long this is, series I will be telling the story of three guys, a summer, and their weightlifting sessions.

Well this summer, my friends and I (Steve & Evan), decided that we wanted to spend our summer days working out. Usually, during the summers I would go over my grandparents house, and just chill, and have my own little workout sessions, but Steve approached me over facebook. Previously, we were already talking about going down to the gym in Vansville, and working out there, but there were a lot of things that had to work out to achieve this. He was wondering if we could start working out over my house, since I have a gym in the basement, my mother didn't disagree so it was about to start up. We decided to start this whole thing on a monday, but on either the saturday or sunday before that monday, Steve called me, wondering if Evan could join us in the workouts... I said yes, so that's basically where this whole thing started.... 

 That monday, I was waiting for the both of them at my front door, impatiently... because they were about 20 minutes late, and they were sweaty,out of breath, and covered with some small piece of high grass. It was funny, because I called steve 20 minutes ago asking where they where and he said... "Well Evan decided to take a path through tow forests.... so yeah, when we get there can you have some Neosporin, and Band-Aids waiting..." I said "Sure". After hearing that I didn't know what to expect, because I haven't seen these guys in about a year, because we go to different schools, but once I saw them I was cracking up. I give them some water, and the Neosporin... and then we got into the workout.... At first we started out doing bench press during the early part of the summer, but some technical issues, which will be told in the next parts, halted that. After moving up about 10 to 20 pounds in benching we would move to a three part rotation.... Pull down, Arm curls, and Flys.... not complicated workout at all.. but after that we would do something called burnout. Burnout was a workout that i picked up at the gym. You basically bench the weight you started on, as many times as you can without burning out, it built our endurance, and it showed me what weight we would start on next time.

 We were working our ways through the workout, and we were having fun... occasionally we would talk about school, and other topics, and a few good jokes would come up, and it was just a good time.. So we came to Burnout, and I was ready, but the other guys I was not so sure about... all I can say is that they did pretty decent for their first try (lol) From what I can remember  Evan had 21, Steve 22, and myself, about 30ish I think.... After that we were tired, so we went to a close by restaurant, which just wasted our workout... Steve had to hurry, and eat because he had to be home by 12... he scarfed down his sandwich and fries, and head back home... While Evan played me in some Madden 2009, where I beat him 49-21... sadly in the third quarter he gave up, and left... So with the guys gone, I was left at home to clean up the weight room, and to vacuum the grass off the carpet. This is only one of the many adventures of last summer... 

 To be continued....

 Once again I asked for another topic, and my big sister Faith came up with this:"how about...if today was your last day on earth and you knew it....how would you spend it and why." This is a tough one, I'll see what I can do... If today was my last day on earth and I knew it, I would spend it with my family, off in a scenic place. I truly love nature, and just examining it, shows that it couldn't have just come into existence by some "big bang". I would just chill and enjoy the view of the ocean, and the sky. Second, I fall into a state of nostalgia, because i like being retrospective, and look at what I have done, where have I been, and why am I here. I would think, think, and think. Thirdly, I would pray... I would thank God for giving me this one fulfilling life to live, and I would thank Him for allowing me to meet, help, and encourage so many friendly people... I would just thank Him for everything, and ask him forgiveness for not being so grateful. Lastly, I would look at the sunset, because I have never see the sun set across the ocean yet. I've heard it is the greatest thing to see, so I would do that... It would kind of symbolize closure... and that's what I would do. "as life passes us by never be afraid to stop and collect yourself, and never be afraid to be nostalgic." - J.McRae. Thanks Faith...

 Sometimes things don't exactly work out the way you want them too, and for me that happens just as much as the normal person.. But as you all know, at least those who are reading these blogs, about the whole complicated relationship thing between me and that girl. Well, we are friends now, but somethings continue to vex me to the extremes, and I guess i want to state it here. Now, the whole communication thing between me and her has cleared up, because throughout all the complication we couldn't talk at all... It was literally like pulling teeth, and she didn't want to budge. I am glad about that, but why couldn't she tell me anything like really... I know that she had tough things going on in her life before, and at that present time... If she truly would have talked to me I would have gotten past that hurdle, and kept on going. I would have been upset for a little while, but I would have gotten over it, at least she would be telling me the truth, and not hiding it. Another thing is why do you think I changed... I can't really say anything about this but... for those reading this have I changed from last year? If so please let me know... if it is in a positive way let me know, and if it is not I'll work on it. But we could talk last year, and this year in the whole complication we could not... So apparently I have changed in some way, but I don't know... Lastly, I want to know one thing... were you just stringing me along, because that's how it felt going through this whole thing... were you planning on showing any signs of affection, if not why string me along, if didn't plan on doing anything thing you should have told me, and I would have stopped dead in my tracks, instead of going down this road of confusion... This will only make me stronger... Thanks for the inspiration McRae.