When days are long and work is endless, just keep going.

Spring please stop being so bipolar here in New York!

My thought of the week:
Why do we gravitate towards those who hurt us, and push away the ones that make us feel loved? Sometimes I wish I was blind so I could only see the soul and nothing else.
Why do we have such a desire to feel pain, is it because we can't understand the feeling of love?
We'd rather be positive that we're feeling something, than be left putting together a puzzle of what exactly we might be feeling.

Rest in peace Elizabeth Taylor, you're still radiating.
And congratulations Rebecca Black, for being famous for a reason I still can't put my finger on, and yet I'm still stuck in my small little town. I'll be gone one day though, that I'm sure of! 

“All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.”- J.R.R Tolkien , absolutely beautiful.

Goodness

Top of the mornin' to ya! (Okay, so that was my really cliche Irish greeting on this lovely, and shall I say, green day of March.)
So today, I asked myself what topic I would chose to write about. Would it be a redundant misconstrued thought, or another ramble on the problems in the world? Possibly a reflection on my life, or me being more disappointed with the world than I already am? Though all extremely tempting, the consistent saddening blogs get tiring and very unnecessary, so today, I decided to break a little outside what I've been writing about in the recent posts.
Goodness.
What's that? Oh yes, that was a word with a positive definition. Although it's looked past quite often, because the human mind tends to always look past the positive and dwell on the negative, it's still there and very much alive. Lately, with the exception of the events in the past week (both in my personal life and in the world, example: Japan) I've been much more aware of the goodness around me, probably because it's been much more noticeable.
In the materialistic world the majority of us follow trends on a daily basis, and as we all know, trends get old and new ones come to replace the ones dying out. What separates our mind materialistically and emotionally? Nothing. Take a gloomy, rainy day for example, do you ever see people in bright colors (minus the yellow rain coats and eccentric rain boots)? Not really. It's because all sections of your mind are connected, materialistic, emotional, creative, etc. (I know these aren't the scientific terms, believe me, I'm trying to put it into easy to digest terminology!) So if we follow trends, such as in fashion, that means it's very much possible we follow trends in the way we behave. No, I'm no human scientist and great philosopher, I'm no anomaly. The exception, is that I pay attention. When greed is in someone, the people around them tend to be greedy as well. When cruelty is in someone, there peers feel it's equal to retaliate with cruelty. When someone is kind, a sane person could never have the heart to be mean to that person so they are kind in a return. We learn by example. When I think I like a celebrities outfit, I try to recreate it. When I like the way someone acts, I try to follow in their footsteps. It's the treat others the way you want to be treated mentality. Even back 2,000 years ago, they understood this. When someone does something it's reflected on the person they're doing it to, whom can very well do the same to someone else.
We rarely stop and consider what effect our actions could have and the ripple effect they cause. We are like-minded beings, that is something that will never change. We're all unique and yet so similar. We learn from each other, because we're all we have. (And I'm pretty sure we don't want to be learning from animals) Children learn from adults and other children and adults learn from other adults and children. It's a complete circle and circles never end. 360 degrees of the same shape, just curving throughout the path. We're 360 degrees of the same thoughts and action, some of us just curve them along the way.

We need each other more then we ever have, facing difficult times with a draining economy, loss of hope, and forgetfulness of what helps to keep us sane enough to focus but insane enough to smile. Of course, there will always be those who are ignorant and against change, because in history they're always have been those people, but if you recall, it's a trend. When enough people join together and set the right example, those who are still residing in their heartless ways will feel out of the loop, and no one likes to be left out. If we all can just be nice, be considerate, helpful, and/or compassionate at least once a day and put the needs of others before our own, imagine just how much better daily life would be. FOR ALL OF US! I'm not asking to change, because that would be completely illogical. I'm suggesting that we should add on, add goodness on to our day-to-day lives. Be a trendsetter! Others will be sure to follow, trust me on this one. We all need hope and in the toughest of times, hope is all we need. If you can remember to brush your teeth, believe me, you can remember to do something that could better someone else. We have so many resources to do it with as well, facebook, twitter, youtube, as well as in person, it's not that farfetched!
*Most billionaires got their fortunes from absolutely nothing. We can get what we need from absolutely nothing as well. It takes time, but the top isn't that far from the bottom, please start climbing with me!

To the best of trends,
Isabelle:)

PS- This idea was sparked by two people whom I wish all the best to. Do I know these people not at all. Random acts of kindness is what they performed and are both the top trendsetters in my mind right now. One is a woman who watched my friends candy get stuck in the candy machine after they put their money in. They were about to walk away after banging against the machine when she gave them a dollar. When they put it in, their candy fell out along with he one right behind it. She, then went to put a dollar in and get her candy of choice and two fell out for her. (Treat others how you want to be treated, guess He wasn't lying right?)
Two is a man who watched another two of my friends sit down with no food after a long day. We had no plans of going out to get late lunch, so my friends and I scraped change and dollar bills from the bottom of our bags. We had enough to buy two drinks and two slices of pizza. It definitely was not filling enough. On the way out, the man hands us another slice of pizza, saying "heard you couldn't find your money." He gave us one of the brightest smiles as we grinned largely back as he walked out of the pizzeria into blinding sunlight.
If they could effect me that much by those small acts of kindness, just imagine!

A quick hello!

Some more Spring!

“Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.”

Also a really cool article I came across: / http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/3PijZu/zenhabits.net/2010/02/ace-exams/ 

Hope the days are treating you well. 

Always remember to pray, no matter what you believe. Prayer is the beginning to sanity, and sanity is the beginning to change. Pray for the world, that it may change. 

I'm really enjoying the song "Just Can't Get Enough" by the Black Eyed Peas, and been listening to Zac Brown Band a lot lately. Ohhh, and all the amazing glee songs from the most recent episode. 

I want Spring! I want Spring! I want Spring!

I like to use parenthesis! (oh hey there) (how's it been while I was gone)

Just bringing some Spring:)

So you know how Taylor Swift is the face of Covergirl and Emma Watson is the new face of Lancome, well I should be the face of failure. Yup, that's me. A nice closeup of me plastered all over the walls of success, with me being the contradicting failure. It's not good, not at all. I've actually been quite disappointed with myself lately, like always though, and I think when I get really fed up, I just take to the blog to let it all out. (Though I should do it daily if I ever want to go some place with my life)
All you ladies out there, this week especially was so unproductive because mother nature decided to drop off her monthly (for me 3- weekly) gift. It's absolutely torturous. This week I had it by far the worst I ever had and literally crawled into a hole (my bed) and could just not get out until it was over. But that is so past the point. Besides for that, Lent started. Probably one of the most depressing times of the liturgical year. Church is miserable, everyone is miserable, but then Easter comes and it's beyond worth it. I've made my daily sacrifice of food, which I've already found exceptions, because I am just so very sad. It also partners with the imaginary diet I'm on. Yeah, go Special K all day long!
Luckily, this week hasn't been all that bad, the television was phenomenal. I watch very little television but I do watch Pretty Little Liars and Glee and I was blown away this week. (I think I'm in love with Darren Criss from glee, save me) OKAY. I'm rambling again, which is probably why no one reads these, or because I'm just a horrific writer, or because my camera is still broken and I've neglected to get a new lens. Shame on me. Blah Blah Blah.


But what really managed to get me down this week was Japan. It seems as if things have been constantly happening lately. Catastrophes after catastrophes that seem to be only caused by God. By no means do I mean to sound like one of those crazy people at the moment, but what if it's really a sign? You know, the whole Noah's Ark stuff. What if God is just saying, can we please stop focusing on Charlie Sheen (just throwing that in there) and start focusing on what actually matters in life. Lately, as countries we only seem to be talking about things that have to do with money. Actually, lately this whole world revolves around money. Of course, money is necessary to survival and it enables us to be content, but it seems as if we all let money consume us. (I'm not talking about every single person, but most of the world.) I know for a fact if money wasn't such a big issue, my parents probably would of worked through their divorce. It always comes down to money. Green pieces of paper(cotton or whatever if you want to get technical), that don't have a meaning, they don't make us feel anything, any emotion, they just dampen our logic and weaken our morals. As children we grow up desiring money, not happiness. Celebrities flaunt it, politicians seem to have it, and then there's all those that don't, where do they fall? All I'm saying is that maybe these disasters are wake up calls. Testing on how we work together as a world, as a country, and as people. We seem to forget that we're all sailing the same ship. We all live lives that challenge us everyday, the thing that makes them difficult though, is the fact that we cant work cohesively to fight off hardships while overcoming them. The greatest tools we were given were each other, it's about time we read the directions on how to use them.
Things happen for reasons, we're so blinded sometimes that we can't even see deeper into them. Sure we all have our own problems, but they help to weave a bigger basket of problems shared with all those similar to us, helping each other is the only way to empty it. I know I can't wake up in the morning without an alarm clock, God knows we can't without one either. We just really need to stop hitting the snooze button.

Pray,
Isabelle

PS- Much ideas are circulating through my head, many more posts to hopefully come, key word= hopefully. Plus, I need to vent about a special person. I missed writing dearly, and whomever reads:p
I WANT SPRING, AND I WANT MY CAMERA, AND I WANT YOU. hehee, jokes. :)

If the world has given you so much, what do you give it in return?

I miss this place. I miss my writing, and instead of being my redundant self and saying how I'm going to write more and stop neglecting this blog, I'm just going to apologize and move on. sorry, to the few, if any people who may read my blogs, my writings, anything of mine. But most importantly, I'm sorry to myself, because to achieve your dreams, you actually have to REMEMBER them.
I have not completely forgotten though! The notepad on my cellphone is filled with strange fragments of words and phrases. My friends look at my phone and think I'm some sort of psychopath, but those words mean so many things to me, so many new topics to write about. However, they've seemed to just sit in that notepad and accumulate dust, well technological dust, if there is such a thing.
I think it's been about three weeks since the last I've written, and let me tell you, those three weeks were probably the most eventful weeks I've yet to face. That's why my writing sort of drifted off into space, but it's returned, just as my schoolwork returned. My point being that these past three weeks of my emptiness has, in all seriousness, actually filled me with much knowledge. So many things I've been a part of and so many things in my head. I feel like I might just explode, with all the ideas floating around in that very small, wait no, my head is quite large, but still my very small head. I don't know how to iterate all of them. I don't know how to put them all into words and actions, but I have to start someplace, and that place is here.
The beginning of my disappearance began with something that changed me completely, something that changed the way I thought of my path int his world. It helped to erase all the doubts in my head and just go straight forward with all my assurance.

It was this man right here, no not the Pope, I have yet to meet him, but this has been the closest I've gotten, Tony Melendez. He came to my town a few weeks ago and played a beautiful concert, I've never seen my church so completely in sync with each other until I saw them all singing along to his lyrics and crying to his music. It was the sort of unity that I wish was throughout all the world, especially with current events lately.
He had such a beautiful soul, with unmeasurable amounts of perseverance and faith. Tony was born without arms, due to a drug his mother was given while she was pregnant. He had to face the normal world without two of the most imperative limbs in the human body. Yet, nothing got him down. He lived his life, just as any average child would. He overcame judgment and difficulty and instead of looking at his empty shoulders as a disability, he saw it as what God had wanted form him. He picked up a guitar and played it, until it sounded like music. The most astonishing part about him though is his vocabulary; how the word "can't" is nowhere to be found in it. Not once did he tell himself he can't, not even without arms! People who have all four limbs say they can't regularly, and he was missing two and never said it! He changed the world through his music and brought the pope to tears through his persistence, determination, and his certainty that you can do anything you have the desire to do.
Before his concert, I told myself how so many things were impossible, I mean, the success of this blog being one of them. (Success as in people actually reading it! And/or being moved by it!) I want to reach out to people, because everyone has the capability to be amazing. The thing is, some people just have such a difficult time of seeing that. I wish I had the resources that, hmm, let's say that Justin Bieber has. He can reach millions of people with just a word out of his mouth. If I could do that, if only I could do that. So, I'm still on my mission to figure out how I may change this world, whether it be simple or more detailed, I don't care, as long as can give back what goodness the world has already given me. I'm still trying to figure everything out and it's going to be hard, I know. I'm still so young, but I know that it's not impossible. Tony helped me discover that, and no matter how long it takes me, hard work always pays off. I know that. So thank you Mr. Melendez, for starting my phenomenal past three weeks in which I discovered that dreams can always be put into reality as long as the word can't isn't involved.
Love,

Isabelle

PS my song of choice- Head Full of Doubt/ Road Full of Promises by The Avett Brothers (And for whomever watched the Grammy's, I knew them well before so don't yell at me! :p ) The underlying message in this song depicts me, well probably all of us, accept those who've already accomplished their dreams. There's a whole road of possibilities ahead of us and it's not only empty for success but promising as well! It's the doubt in our heads that prevent us from traveling on it.