"We are one but we're not the same "

Our world is always changing and evolving. Places, people, and all sorts of things come and go due to the ever persistent time. Some say that in order to try and race with the waves time, you need to adapt a stronger body or mind in order not to get swept up from the waves. I believe that an individual needs to be aware and acquainted to globalization in order to survive in this day and age of computers and high speed information but I also strongly feel that the individual must also be engaged in his/her culture while also respecting the cultures of others. Globalization might be a scary situation for some because many feel that a globalist might be treading water on some sensitive territory such as unintentionally diminishing another cultures beliefs, customs, or languages. A possible solution is to be culturally aware and realize that your customs or beliefs might not be the best way for everyone. The spread of technologies and advancement is fine but we must also take into consideration the cultures of other societies. Unfortunately many powerful countries or industries, mostly from the western world, never really taken account the value of diversity of the countries they had conquered either physically (through warfare) or financially ( market power) and some have never taken into consideration the cultures because they believe that their culture is right and the others are wrong so we must change their language, customs, and beliefs. In the end that leads to resentment which ultimately leads to regression.

An individual throughout his/her life, is impacted by many things in their lives such as family, friends, peers, school, the arts, and so forth. Although globalization might impact an individual on an financial and intellectually level I believe in the end it is up to the individual to decide what to value and cherish. For example, you can try to make a man or a woman become a Christian but if he or she doesn't accept the savior in their heart, then theirs no point . Many people can try brainwashing or manipulation to make people believe their way of thinking but at the thick of it, if the person's heart, mind, and even soul are not in it, then the most reasonable solution would be is to leave that person's belief's alone and find some common ground that each culture might share such as sport (rugby, soccer) or the arts (painting,music). Our world is a very interesting place that is teeming with different kinds of cultures. In my point of view we should value our unity to gain knowledge and strength through information but also honor our differences as individuals.

Secrets...

I guess I was never good at keeping secrets. I don't see myself as the kind of person who could really hold a secret. Granted, I have hold and I am holding secrets now, but I feel that I cannot hold a secret unto my last day on earth. I feel that one day, maybe if I can have the privilege to live up to my golden years, I might right a book that will uncover every secret that has ever touched my life along with my life's story.My family has never really trusted my with a deep secret because they fear that I might just spill the beans one day. Personally, I feel that I can keep secrets if I have to but I know that I can't keep them forever.

The Secret....

I had once had a friend who told me he was using drugs (mostly marijuana) during our middle school years. It shocked me because he was so young and through my own personal experience( I have a family member who abused the drug), I knew firsthand the negative effects the drug can have on the user and the people around him. He told me to keep it a secret from his family and I agreed because I was naive and he was my friend. Well to keep a long story short, a couple of years later, he was busted smoking the stuff at High school and he was eventually expelled since that's a major offence in the public school system. Unfortunately his family kicked him out of the house for a while and he was homeless for a couple of days. Needless to say the truth came out there and the secret nearly ruined his chances at a acedemic career but thankfully he was able to recover from it and he stopped smoking the drug.The point of my story is that that a secret can never be a secret forever, a secret will always come out if you search for it or in my friends case, if you abuse it at school. The truth will come out someway.

Epic Fails that bite off your nails

Well, I feel that I have always make intellectual mistakes. Sometimes I think that I'm right and most of the time I'm just plain wrong. For example, whenever I take the RATS for the "How we Know..." class, I think I might know the answer on a current event or issue but most of the time its either false or I guessed it right. Sometimes I'm right and sometimes I'm wrong but that's the way it is in the world of acedemia, sometimes your right and sometimes your wrong because you are never fully sure of anything as a student. Although I do make a lot of intellectual mistakes I feel that as a human being I am never going to stop being a student. As long as I learn from my mistakes then I feel I'm doing fine in my acedemic and intellectuall life.

I try my hardest to be as clear as possible when it comes to communcation. I can't really state when I misuse my communcation but I can state that if I ever did then I would try my best to quickly to clearify if I'm aware of it or if someone points it out to me. As I stated before in the first blog, unless theirs a reason for the message to be ambigous or murky then a comuncator should be as clear as possible when communcating with their audience. I feel that if its unintentionally murky then the communicator has failed at his or her job.

As far as other cultures and nations, I defintiely agree that communication can be blurred. For example, the language and culture of chinese and japanese are different but they use the same tools to cummicate such as computers and phones, the communication lines can be blurred when they are communicationg together. The same may be said for countries such as the United States and England (Great Britian), two countries that basically have the same language but have different cultures and lifestyles. I believe that the best solution for these nations and/or cultures is to be respectful of each other and be as clear as possible. One must know when to communcate and how to communcate properly. I guess the best solution would be to impose Communication manners on everyone from a young age so future generations can be misccommunication free.

The Blackout

The past couple of days I haven't watched or read the news and I must write that it didn't really affect me much as far as being anxious but it did make me ignorant to what was going on in the world for the past couple of days. I am usually not really news hungry anyways although I do read or watch the news regularly, it's just not a 24/7 thing for me, so I suppose missing a couple of days didn't do me any harm.

Pop songs and Comic books

Why do I write ? Wow, that question has never crossed my mind until my professor proposed the question last week to the class but I guess I should explain to my audience and myself why. I feel that I'm losing my love for writing and maybe through this blog post I might reinstate my love for writing again . To tell you the truth, I write (although I must admit I sometimes write very badly) because I need to document my thoughts, feelings, viewpoints, and ideas on sheets of paper. I need to write because If I don't, all my forms of expression will fly away from my head like wandering birds and if I don't catch them and cage them, then I fear that my birds will fly away from me forever. I also tend to write because I am a very shy and reserved person. My family and close friends now the real me but most people think I am this very innocent and simple person( or perhaps thats how I feel that most people percieve me), which is not the case indeed, I am not very innocent and I am just as complex as any other person.



I suppose my love for writing came at a very young age, particulary in my late toddler years. I know this because, not that long ago, I had a chance to talk to my elementary school teacher one night at a party that we happend to attend together. After exchanging hellos, she told me that I wrote a poem about her when I was a child in her class but I could not remember a thing about it . I suppose it was an endearing memory to her to see that a kid wrote a poem, perhaps a nersery rhyme poem, to her to gain her affection. Another exemple would be that as a young kid, I was trying to write a comic book story about a duo of brothers who were superhereos, I would be writing the storylines and creating the concepts, while my twin brother would illustrate the pictures. Perhaps maybe this year we can begin the story/epic.



I've always tried to write all sorts of styles and formats, for example, I remember trying to write a moviescript for my acting class,I've written and published a haiku for a college magazine (Miami Dade College's Miambiance), and I've writting all kinds of essays and short stories for various subjects for countless creative writing classes. I believe though, that my greatest love or the one form that comes natural to me is the form of songwriting. So far I have written up to two hundred songs about almost anything I can think of: love at first sight, finding love and being in love, love gone bad, heartbreak, politics(the way I see it), being sad, being happy, being lukewarm, relationships of all kinds, being on your own, etc. I've written anthems to try to brighten my world around me and I've writting ballads to reflect or cherish certain memories or people in my life. I write songs because it is the simplist and most effective way for me to express all that I mentioned in the first paragraph while also putting in the songs three to four guitar chords to make it dance.



Their's a saying that goes that all you need to write a song is three chords and the truth. I believe in that saying wholeheartedly, I write because I need to express my truth in whatever I am writing. Wrtiting is my outlet, an expressway to my mind, a tool that I use that in its noble essence, helps me commincate fully to the people around me, whether it be through a pop song or a comic book.