Words of Advice

Today, as I sat in class,  I learned a  few very important lessons from my professor Dan Owusu and I thought I should share it with you. Life is full of struggles and there are many times when you want to give up. You are put in situations where you need to speak up for yourself and not allow others to bring you down. The struggles of life do not define who you are and who you will become. As humans we have the ability to overcome the many obstacles of life. Many times I allow others to step over my dreams. I allow people to tell me that I can't achieve what I want to achieve. I let these people get in my way and at points I believe that they might be right but there not. I will face many people in life that want to see me fail. I will face many situations where someone will not cooperate with me and my ideas. I will face situations where my dreams are seen as a child's fantasy but that will not make me stop. What I am trying to tell you is that we all struggle at one point or another. We all face obstacles that seem hard to overcome and we all have had our dreams crushed. I just want you to know that we will be alright. We will be able to overcome all our struggles because we are strong. Never allow anyone to define who you are and what you will become. Smile and keep moving on.

Ninth Ward

Love??

As I rode the train today, I thought about love.  I sat their thinking will I ever find the one? Now, I know this may sound cheesy but I am pretty sure that a lot of single ladies and gentlemen think about love and finding the right one. We have all watched romantic movies where at the end love always perseveres and the couple lives happily ever after. No one want to be alone forever. Now, as I dreamed about my prince charming I came to a realization. I came to the realization that I wasn't sure what love was? I began to think and think and I just couldn't come up with a clear definition. Then I remembered my media classes and began to draw a conclusion. My definition/idea of love is what I have seen in media. Media has created this image in my head of what love should look like and feel like. I like to think that I am smart enough to not let media influence my thoughts because I am a communication student but I realized that like many people in America and around the world I have fallen victim of media. Media makes love seem like a wonderful experience where a man and woman go through hardships but at the end love conquers all. I don't know if it's true because I don't know if I ever have been in love but I think that love is more complex than that. Now, you may be asking yourself why is she writing about love and media? As I sat there in the train, I couldn't help but think to myself if anybody knew the real definition of love? How do you determine if you are in love? Is love a physical attraction, emotional, or both? Media has created this image of love in our heads that is impossible for most people to come up with their own definition of love. I guess my question is what is love and will we ever know a true definition of it? Or like my proffesor said " How do we know that it is real?"

Any one there?

I know that I haven't written in a while. I took a break from writing but today as I sat in my computer I thought about this blog. I wondered if anyone actually missed reading my stories and learning from my experiences. I'm not really sure if anyone reads this blog or not but I hoped that someone out there actually did gain something from reading my stories, stories that I lived and experienced. I started to think a lot about the our society. We all walk around with our headphones and technology on hands that we forget there are others around us. We never stop and listen or pay attention to anyone but ourselves. So as I sat in front of my computer i wondered is anyone there? Is anybody listening to me? Sometimes you just need someone to listen to you even if you aren't making any sense. You need to know that someone out there cares and that they feel the same way as you do. Life goes by really fast and before you know it your life disappears. You become a memory. So maybe instead of ignoring the person next to you, you should say hello. A simple hello can become the salvation of someone who yearns a listening ear. So one more time I'll ask is anybody there? Are you listening?