bundels of burdens

In " The Free Radio", Ramani had more than just his rickshaw full of burden because of how blind he was. It made me deeply check myself to see if I have been blind sighted  by things, especially burdens, and i found out that lately I have been playing Atlas with the WHOLE world on my shoulders. Once you do get a certain amount of burdens you cant carry them any more and have to do something, anything, and normally that anything involves moving. Once i realized this my life and way of thinking lately started making a whole lot more sense, but that's just the type of person i am. If i didn't care about the world, i wouldn't be me. Yes, it is a heavy load to bear, but someone has to bear it in this generation and they have to know how and be able to handle it. You have to know when to keep hold, let go, and let God take control.

Fairy Tale Reality Check

"Fat is Not a Fairy Tale" by Jane Yolen I believe is a reality check for not only fiction but also for everyone who reads it. Now "fat" is the reality for most everyone whether you personally have that problem or not. It would seem less of a fairy tale if the princesses were more of a realistic size, and in today's society i am sad to say that fat is realistic. Almost no woman is satisfied with the size she is. No one will write a fairy tale that has a fat princess though because if she were fat she wouldn't be perfect then and fairy tales are designed to be perfect. The perfect people in their perfect world encounter the perfect problem and everything goes perfectly fine for them and they end up having the perfect ending, the end (I better stop now before i really start sounding like a Bob Ross with all his "happiness" and all my "perfect"ness). Fat is not perfect so fat simply doesn't fit. I see fat as a choice for the majority, but i do realize that there is a select group that can't do anything about their weight. However, it is under most of our control if you honestly try hard enough, and it is becoming a serious problem. Since it is so common now, it is now being accepted, but it is dangerously unhealthy. Choose to maintain a healthy lifestyle and help the fairy tales be less fictional and more functional, like a realistic goal to reach.

But we are all people, just people... perfectly imperfect us.
 Everyone has flaws; no one is perfect.
Our bodies are our own temples, use them or loose them. Your body is your own body, do what you want to with it.
Reality is not a fairy tale, but it possibly can be.

MAJOR writers block

So today in English class we did this thing called "writers block" and i will be the first to tell you that i did catch a major case of writers block during that time which is extremely unnatural for me. Actually, i still have my major case of writers block apparently because i am writing about not being able to think of anything to write about because i couldn't think of anything else to write about except this. Did that make any sense at all? So during class i finally decided to TRY and write a story with all the words or phrases, but i only just got started good and then i had to leave so i cut it short. I like it though so i think i will work on it more in my free time and see what i come up with, but here is what i got so far.
           Through an open door there is a dark room. In that dark room there is nothing. Nothing except a single writing desk with a single reading lamp on it. A single reading lamp being the only source of dim light in that dark room. A single reading lamp being the only source of dim light in a dark house, in a dark world, in a dark life.
           Under that single reading lamp there was a single sealed envelope. I lifted that envelope up to the reading lamp to see what lay inside. Seeing inside the envelope I could not. So i opened it. Inside that envelope there was a single piece of blank paper. Blank paper withe ragged edges. There was so much on that blank paper, yet nothing at all. Lost in that blank paper is history. Lost in that blank paper could be anything. Lost in that blank paper is everything.

stranger than fiction-the facts

 In "The Nature of Storytelling", despite the fact that I didn't really like O'Brien's "How to Tell a True War Story" , I personally thought he hit the nail on the head when he was describing truth verses reality. it is like he was stealing my words on that subject. What stuck out to me probably the most is when he says,"a thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than true". You don't even know how close i hold that statement. What is true to me isn't true to most others, and even if it is true to them it would only be partially true to them. I believe that your truth is like your life, it is unique for every person.   If you were to physically lose everything, the one thing you would still have no matter what is your beliefs, and if you lose those... well, life is no longer worth living then. So, guard your truths closely and live your own life. Don't ever regret or degrade what you believe in because it is you.