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[20 Mar 2008|09:49pm] |
From the magazine, The Week
Good week for:
Mean Girls, after a study found that high school students who savage their peers by spreading rumors and excluding them from cliques are viewed by other kids as popular and well-liked.
hah. I love how their was a study for that. In theory, it's just a supply and demand issue. supply decreases, demand increases. Amount of friends (supply) allowed in a group decreases, those who want in that group (demand) increases.
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| oh what lips |
[18 Feb 2008|10:30pm] |
XIX
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why,
I have forgotten, and what arms have lain
Under my head till morning; but the rain
Is full of ghosts to-night, that tap and sigh
Upon the glass and listen for reply,
And in my heart there stirs a quiet pain
For unremembered lads that not again
Will turn to me at midnight with a cry.
Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree,
Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one,
Yet knows its boughs more silent than before:
I cannot say what loves have come and gone,
I only know that summer sang in me
A little while, that in me sings no more.
Millstone
I used to be such a burning example,
I used to be so original.
I used to care, I was being careful.
Made sure I showed it to those that I love.
I used to sleep without a single stir,
'Cause I was about my father's work.
Well Take me out tonight,
The ship of fools I'm on will sink.
A millstone around my neck,
Be my breath, there's nothing I wouldn't give.
I used to pray a God was listening.
I used to make my parents proud.
I was the glue that kept my friends together,
Now they don't talk and we don't go out.
I used to know the name of every person I kissed.
Now I made this bed and I can't fall asleep in it.
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| addicted |
[13 Feb 2008|12:04am] |
I don't know why we always think that when presented with certain situations, we'd act a certain way.
I had a close friend of mine that when I met her she was enduring a severely abussive relationship (with an EX-BOYFRIEND) for over a year. When you see those situations, you wonder why on earth she doesn't just tell some one. Why would any one endure that pain? I think to myself, the first sign of abuse- I'm out of there and I'm telling some one. Then I meet this strong, confident person- who has this skeleton in her closet- and said she had always thought the same thing as me when she heard of those situations. Stupid girl, tell some one!
Maybe those what-if situations.. what if a man held a gun to your head?
What if it were only you and another person stranded on an island with no food?
What if God Himself told you to kill your child?
Gambling. How does any one get addicted to Gambling? There's no nicotine flowing from the machine into your brain that sends you home craving more. And yet people blow their entire salaries on Gambling. On Pay-Day they hit up the check-cashing store outside the casino and walk right in.
Drug-addicts, killers, the morbidly obese
We have this mindset, and maybe it's just me, but this mindset exists that our self-control will be strong enough to overcome what all these weaker people have succumbed to. Maybe it's this idea of invicibility that made me let my guard down for awhile. I had the notion when I heard of addictions that it couldn't possibly happen to me. I couldn't harm a fly. I'd just stop eating that badly when i saw myself growing heavier.
Cheating on a partner, Alcoholism, underage pregnancy
I had a friend that told me he saw some one die right in front of him. Instead fighting off tears and remaining manly, he didn't have to fight off anything. He felt nothing. Once again, I reject the notion that I couldn't possibly be that indifferent. I mean it's human life we're talking about.
I'm amazed at what people can find themselves doing, or traps they find themselves in. I read books or hear stories and think it couldn't possibly happen to me. But isn't that what every single person who found themselves in any of the stated situation thought? They'd simply up and go from such situations.
What I need to do, and maybe any one else, come down from my cloud of naivete and realize i'm susceptible to anything; I am the weaker. It's my job to be aware of that, so i can prevent it.
I'm not personally experiencing any of the above stated, (no i'm not pregnant nor addicted to any drugs) but recent events made me question certain things, in different areas. Somehow it all came together, so I'm simply thinking things through.
All it takes is one passing glance where we lock eyes and it gets me thinking again.
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| almost over! |
[27 Dec 2007|07:10pm] |
nerd crush nerd crush
L
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i'm gonna do my year wrap up very soon =)
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