Bullying

I recently watched an ABC Family movie called Cyberbu\\y. It was a movie about a high school girl who becomes the victim of cyber bullying. Cyber bullying, for those of you who dont know, appears to be a new trend online. Its easy to do, you can attack someone and you dont even have to worry about any retaliation. After all, most of the time they dont even know who you really are. It gives you a sense of power, and entitlement.

The problem with this, is like any other form of bullying. To feel good about themselves, the bully has to attack someone else. Has to put them down and make them feel bad about themselves.

This has sever consequences to it, suicide, and acts of Violence can be attributed to bullying.

So it leaves me to wonder why, to some people, bullying seems worth it? Bullying in any form, is wrong. It's hurtful, and the victims of bullying never forget. They may move on, they may move past it. But those scars will always be there.

Of course.... some scars are more visible. Some bullying itself is physical. Some people have gotten beatings for being different. Like being gay, for example. And it even goes a step farther. Some have been killed!

We as the human race need to recognize bullying for what it is. It is Wrong. We need to stop it. We need to prevent it. We need to lock it away. I know we're a long ways away from a bully free society.. But we can try to stop it still cant we? We are our future. If we want a better one then we need to make it. We need to stop the tyranny that bullying has created.

Its no longer 'just a high school thing' or 'hazing' now its our lives....

Think about it...

Is the five seconds of superiority really worth a persons life?

Well... a month of writing crazies is done....

Thats right.... NaNoWriMo is coming to an end... and i'm proud to say that I've completed it. Now I await my winners prizes!!!!!

Let me tell you about the experience...
Well a few friends (Amber and Jenny) and I got together at Dun Bros coffee every Tuesday (and some Thursdays) to write. plus every other day we had to type like crazy. we have several writing sprints then we laugh like a bunch of gumdrops, make some herp derp jokes, then do it all over agin. this generally lasted for 5-6 hours at a time and sometimes even longer!

Needless to say it was complete madness. Especially if you mix two jobs into the picture. (plus play time with my puppy!) but it was an amazing experience I think. I had this awesome sense of acomplishment when I submitted the full novel. Now to work on the next one.

For those that are curious It's a trilogy and if you want to know what the book is about, I will be posting a blip about it soon! :D right now, after I finish this post I'm taking a little break from writing.... gotta start editing!!!

Well Thank you to my friends who were a huge support in the craziness and thank you to my family who pushed me too!

and now.... i must end my 3 am post before I really start sounding like a crazy person.

Rambles from the mind

3 am.
Have to work at 11 am
Still no sleep
No intentions of it any time soon.
Why you ask?
Well thats a good question. You see... I dont have the answer.

My mind sometimes wanders into a far off place and I dont know if there is really a true way to describe it. Its like a million thougths all merge into one. a million hopes, a million dreams as well as a million fears. My life is uncertain, I've come to terms with that. and in truth that really does terrify me. But I cant let those fears eat me alive. I have to prevail over them. And thats exactly what I plan on doing. This NaNoWriMo is a start. I've always loved to write. But poetry was really the only thing I wrote for myself. My stories, some started but never finished... Almost all of them (with the exception of most of my fan fics) were for others. They were never just for me. Well since I've had my eyes opened these past couple months i've really sat down and started focusing on me. And, if Im being honest, Its probally the happiest I've felt in a very long time. Even this story (which is almost done) is just for me. I told someone who I thought I could trust and confide in a while back my idea and they shot it down. Well I'm doing it. My story is really coming alone. And I feel confident in it. I hope that when someone reads my story that they can see it too.

I'm able to put these fears away now, not completely, but Im able to feel proud agian. Proud of who I am, proud of who I can be. and most of all, Proud of what I can do.

me, I.

I will not lose to anyone or anything. I will live my life the best that I can. I will laugh, I will cry. I will be me.

Side Note

On a side note I just discovered that one of my favorite authors, Amanda Hocking (http://amandahocking.blogspot.com/) Is from Minnesota! Seems like another achievement for Minnesotans!

Well that was my side note, now I must retreat to this scene or it'll never get done.

Life's Lessons

So as I'm sitting here working on my script I really have to sit back and think about life. There are plenty of things to reflect on. Plenty of choices that I can look back and wonder what I was thinking. Though I don't know if I can really regret making them. After all, after every lesson you learn from it. I've learned a lot in these 23 years of life. Though I do wish some wouldnt have been so expensive, but what can ya do?

But I think that may be a theme for my script, I'm debating on reworking it completely after all, I really want that to get through that at the end it just ties up and ends in a 'lesson learned' sort of way.

But at the same time, human rights arent really like that are they? Its not really a lesson learned so much as an unfortunate circumstance. So many choices.

But I'm finding it very difficult to actually focus on this task at hand with my brain a million miles away so I will bid adieu to everyone whilst I go work on my script.

USA takes a step forward? Or back?'

Recently the United States of America came out and said that they have found and killed Osama Bin Laden. As most of you know Osama (or as some places spell it Usama) was the face of terrorism. He's been playing hide and seek with the United States for over ten years now and we finally managed to get him. I've read several different reactions to this. At first it seemed everyone was overly excited by the turn of events. Then the next day everyone was screaming conspiracies. Now a lot of people are saying it was a mistake to kill him. That it will only cause more acts of terrorism.  And some people, really don't care.

Well here is what I think. I think this is a very serious situation. I do think that the United States was right in finding the man who destroyed our feelings of security in our own country by taking out the World Trade Centers on September 11th, killing several people. I also believe that it truly is a step forward for our war on terror. Terrorism is a serious issue, and I feel we all need to actually take a moment and think about it. I don't think that it was a conspiracy at all, though it will probably help president Obama with the polls on the next election. And of course this is going to get a little whip lash from the other terrorist. Think about it though, if you push someone, they push back. However, we're prepared for it, we're expecting it, so when they try they will fail. 

We really need to understand that this is a historical moment in time, and we're all here to witness it. I also thing its a matter that everyone needs to take seriously. We need to realize whats going on in our lives. We need to support the troops that are over there protecting our civil liberties with their lives. This isn't just about the President, this is about us. This is even just about the United States of America. Its about everyone.