Over the Top

It is 1:20 am and I am still awake. I could give you at least ten reasons for this but really, what good would that do. I am awake because I am not a sleep.

I finally finished editing my blog after upgrading it to Beta.

I like it. I like it a lot. It is a lot easier this way, and much more concise. I feel like I have accomplished something, like my lack of sleep wasn't wasted and that I am now better equipped to express myself and to change the world, one post at a time.

While reading Jaron's blog today I realized what I am missing in my life. Now it wasn't necessarily anything that was said per say but the message was sent none the less. Since being out of High School I feel like I have made some major strides in my life but over the last two months I have seen a drop of productivity in almost every facet of my life, most especially in the development of ideas.

Now other people shouldn't be the reason you think but they can sure cause some powerful thoughts. I realized that I don't interact with people enough to get my mind going. I have no one to challenge my ideas or to offer their own, all I have is the same thoughts spinning around in a place that has been polished and shaped to fit them. There are not figurative stalactite or stalagmites that would change the course of my thought-breeze.

It lends credence to the theory that opposition strengthens us and makes us better. If we never had anything to oppose us or to challenge the validity of our thoughts or beliefs these same thoughts and beliefs would have no form or direction. Whatever we thought couldn't be right because there was no wrong. It couldn't be truth because there was no false.

My Point: I haven't had the blessing of someone to change the course of my thoughts so they have moved in endless circles and nothing remotely profound or worthwhile has been or could be produced.

The Solution: The only way to fix the staleness in my mind is to let a new breeze blow through. I need to be around people, and not just my family, even though they are exceedingly wonderful. I need to start spending time with the outside world and spend less time in front of screens of any type.

If everyone thought about time as an asset, as a commodity we wouldn't be so frivolous in how we spend it. I think I will address that in a different post. As for right now that is all.

In Summary: Opposition enables growth, embrace it! This beta set up it going to be pretty sweet, I am really excited. Time is precious, look for more on that in a future post. Last but not least, Bravo for friends and blogging.

Fulfilling the Founding

So I gotta admit, I'm a movie junky. I love movies! Anyone who has spent more than ten minutes with me or anyone in my family knows how much we quote movies. They are part of are lives. We not only get 43.2 percent of our vocabulary from them but I would say we draw a fair amount of inspiration from them as well.

The point is that I spent three hours today watching "Brave Heart." (don't worry, it was edited) It was a great movie. I don't want to ruin for anyone so essentially it is about the Scottish Rebellion and there war for independence with England. The main character is William Wallace, a commoner who believed enough in his people and in his homeland to fight for their collective freedom.

Now I am sure that sounds cheesy but it is a great movie. What i learned from it though is what I thought I would share. It made make reflect a little bit on our freedom. Now not to get all historical, or Red-white-and blue on you but it really is an item of serious concern.

I think that with all of the things that are going on and do go on in our current government we lose sight of what it is really about. We have had the opportunity to be born in a nation that guarantees us rights just for being human beings, and whether we choose to believe it or not, it was a government established from a Constitution that was written by men inspired of God.

The Lord obviously has some kind of vested interest in this land that he would take care of it so well and would inspire men write the governing document according to His dictates. So what am trying to get across through all of this?

We should be thankful for what we have. We should be grateful that we have rights as simple as our freedom to express our views on blogs.

We should show our thanks by being good citizens. It is the simple things that make the difference, voting, understanding who it is that you are voting for and what they stand for.

Obeying the laws and upholding truth, and then later in life, teaching your children to do the same by word and deed.

That was my thought. We have something precious, and we live in a land choice about all the lands in the world, the scriptures say so. So lets do something about it.