I think one of the worst feelings in the world is when you understand that someone has a problem or needs help, and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it.  To sit on the sidelines and watch others make decisions that you don't agree with, when you are trying to scream helpful advice to unhearing ears is by far one of the most frustrating ( Read more... )

Its amazing that feeling you get when you throw things away.  For me at least it feels like your getting rid of the old and everything feels like new.  Organizing is something I absolutely love and was thinking about how theraputic it is.   Your making room in your life for improvement, and tossing out garbage you've been carrying around for a ( Read more... )

 Finals.  The week at the end of the school year that makes every college student want to quit.  My question is, why have finals at all?  If your doing well in a course, haven't you proved that you know the material by now?  Finals just create a week of stress for everyone, professor who have to grade everything, students who have take the finals, ( Read more... )

I just saw Gran Torino for the first time and was blown away.  When I first saw the previews it looked like another dumb gang movie, but it absolutely proved me wrong.  It really was a story about relationships, not like dating relationships, but how you interact with other people and how that affects you.  Clint Eastwood in the movie doesn't get ( Read more... )

I wrote this a while ago and forgot to post it ( Read more... )

 There are two things that we as a human race have done to praise others that have lasted through our existence.  Writing, and building monuments.  And you know what I think is the coolest thing about that?  God has more things published and written about him than anyone in history.  He's been the number one selling book pretty much since a ( Read more... )

As children we are constantly bombarded by fantasy stories.  We grow up surrounded by things like unicorns, wizards, fairies, dragons, the list goes on and on.  Our imagination takes that information given to us by our parents and adults, and takes our minds on a wild ride.  Sure, some things we may have understood to be fake, but I think I am not ( Read more... )

So I was sitting at my desk studying for an economics exam, when I made kind of a strange connection to religion.  There is an economic theory called the "search theory" which essentially states that at some point it is no longer beneficial for a person to become any more knowledgeable.  Imagine a marginal costs and marginal benefits graph (it ( Read more... )

 It's funny how looking back at previous journal or diary entries you can really mark how much you've changed over the years.  I used to dedicate this journal to rants and raves and basically "glass is half empty" sort of stuff, and for that I apologize.  I've since matured and promise this journal to be much more interesting this time around. ( ( Read more... )