criticism

There is criticism and then there is constructive criticism. Criticism is typically negative, used to put others down in order to make the criticizer feel better about them self. Though, they don't truly feel better about them self because other people's anguish and insecurity doesn't truly make you happy, it is a hollow happiness that collapses and imploded with the slightest of nudges. Constructive criticism on the other hand is a good method of self improvement. Listening to others opinions and then looking at yourself from a third party point of view can be very beneficial at times. Especially in the cases of writing,acting, singing, dancing and other things that catch the general public's eye. I am okay with receiving constructive criticism, and try to use it to my advantage. I'm also good with dealing out constructive criticism because i tend to try and look at things in an unbiased manor to begin with. One good thing to follow is if you can't take criticism, don't dish it out. Though that mostly applies to the not constructive type of criticism, a lot of people are quick to judge others while simultaneously managing to ignore their own flaws and imperfections. People that do this are hypocrites, hypocrites really annoy me.

Common sense

Unfortunately common sense is becoming less and less common nowadays. Yes this is a generalization, and a rather negative one at that but I honest feel it is the truth. People let the internet do their thinking for them; there is no critical thinking or decision making. Often people will be content with the answer "someone on the internet said so" when asked why they believe certain things. This is often due to shortsightedness, they can only see how something affects them and not that it might be affecting others, and that the others effected might be getting the short end of the stick due to their actions. For instances anyone with two brain cells to rub together would realize that the people in line behind them in a line for food are just as hungry as they are, if not more so because there are more than one person behind them versus just himself. Yet today I encountered a person who decided he were going to take ten minutes to order his food and another five minutes arguing over how much it costs, delaying everyone and even the productiveness of the food establishment, then he actually became angry when his food wasn't instantly ready for him the second he purchased his meal. The place is a grill, yet he expected instant gratification while simultaneously denying all those behind him the right to even get timely gratification. This shows a complete lack of common sense, and as I stated earlier, attitudes like this are becoming more common every day.

Humility

Being humble is often considered a good trait in people, it is the opposite of pride. Pride is a source of shame whenever your limits are tested. Humility on the other hand is knowing your limits and being comfortable with them, or striving to better yourself without the need for others approval. Humility suggests knowledge. Only fools are prideful, those with unwarranted pride are easily manipulated because they feel a need to protect their overly inflated egos. Those that are humble do not feel a need to show off or prove their worth to other people. They know their own personal worth, and it is logical not over inflated or irrational. Humility can be a good quality that employers look for as well, they will get their job done and not feel like they should receive awards or praise. They will want to good on their work to live up to their own standards, not any other person's. Humility is overall just more enjoyable to be around as well, if some one is all proud and constantly feels the need to brag and justify themselves, it can get annoying rather fast. Humble people are fun to be around because they can just talk without always steering the conversation back to their own exploits. So overall humility is pretty good.

Attitude

I think the simplest way to describe my attitude is as a laid back pessimist. As awful as that sounds, it fits me. Like I said in a previous post, I tend to not plan things and more or less do things spontaneously, or with little thought or care to what might happen. This is probably due to being laid back, honestly in most circumstances, mundane circumstances that is, I tend not to really care. I don't think I am conveying this properly, so I'll give you an example: person: "hey should we go at this time or this time? and should we go here first or here first?" me: "I don't care, we'll leave when we are ready.. as for which first, which is closer?" Somehow I almost always end up being the one to decide details, usually just to make them stop nagging though. In terms of my outlook on society and people in general, I'm rather pessimistic. being pessimistic about people also attributes to my somewhat antisocial attitude. Most of the time I'm content to stay at home and not have to deal with other people. I have a select few people that I actually really enjoy being around, I can count those few on one hand. I do try to at least give people a chance though, I may be pessimistic, but I'd prefer to prove my pessimistic views wrong. So i guess that means I'm trying to be optimistic, but it usually doesn't work.

dependability

Dependability is very important and goes hand in hand with honesty. An honest person is typically a dependable person. Of course there are exceptions, but your are much more likely to find someone dishonest is also undependable rather than someone honest being undependable. Dependability is often something that is overlooked though, a lot of people tend to only do things if it benefits themselves in some way. For that reason I would much rather depend on myself. Perhaps a select few people who I know very well. But in short if you mainly depend on yourself than you only have yourself to blame, and you know the extent of what is within your abilities. Plus, being independent allows you more freedom, but simultaneously more responsibility. Personally I don't see that as a bad thing, I guess it  speaks wonders to my faith in humanity that I'd much rather have much more responsibility  then even attempt to depend on others. It's just easier, and well, less disappointing to depend on yourself. I know dependability is a very important trait, but I just don't see it in most people now a days. Of course, one last issue is those that are rather dependable tend to be used by those that prefer to be more or less cared for.

honesty

Honesty is one of the most important things in this world. Yet, it is also one of the most disregarded. People lie for an infinite number reasons, but none of them matter. Society is built on an honor system, you have to be able to trust what some people are saying. Things that matter most end up being lied about the most, politics for example, these are the people who we are choosing to help run the country. Every single one of them lies in their campaigns to get elected, which in a sense means our entire country is currently built on lies. Of course everyone knows to take what politicians say with a grain of salt, but that means nothing because we are still unaware of the truth. Personally, I try to stay as honest as I can. I have people who hate me to extreme amounts because of it, mainly because I don't just mean when it won't hurt people. I'm honest even if it is the last thing that person what's to hear. I'd rather be hated for the truth than liked for a lie. Oh and about the song, I chose that song because if people where to truly look at themselves honestly, a lot of them would see that we actually aren't truly living, just going with the routine of daily life.

planning

Ever-changing, the title basically says my opinions on planning. Though, the song is more relationship oriented. You can't truly plan for anything. You'd have to take everything into account, which is not possible. I tend to wing most things, which tends to work out relatively well. It does require some quick thinking every now and then, but I don't mind that. Of course somethings do indeed require some degree of planning, but on those occasions, I do the bare minimum of planning because those are the plans that are least likely to be interfered with by life, or if they are interfered with, it changes everything else that was going to happen involving those plans anyways. Some people might say not planning is irresponsible, but, if the foundations of the plans are ripped out from under you, who is going to recover better? The one who had every detail of what was going to happen? Or the one that all they bothered to plan was the time and date of whatever they were doing. The one that did the major planning will just have to throw them all out, and even then probably be distracted by them while making new plans. This is why I don't plan, nothing is set in stone.

Goals

Currently, I am undecided in my goals for the future. I know I'll figure it out soon enough, but until then, this song serves a motivator and a reminder. It talks about what can happen if you are unmotivated and don't set goals for yourself. You don't live your life and you lose yourself along the way. I have lost myself before, I intend for that to never happen again. But, for that to hold true, I need to find something in this world that ACTUALLY interests me. Which is a lot harder than you might think, I'm relatively jaded towards most things, and even the things I actually enjoy I can't see any future in (or there isn't one to be had with certain interests). Though, an annoying habit I possess in regards to this subject is that I tend to shut down the moment anyone tries to give me advice about my future or career. In short, I'm my own worst enemy when it comes to this. My very own catch twenty-two, if you will, but I intend to break it. Hey, look at that, we found a blog post topic that I actually have something to say about.

hard work

Hard work, I really don't know what to write about hard work. Let's see, it's important. I'm a hard worker when motivated. I have a feeling these blog posts are going to be an issue for me. None of the topics hold an interest for me. I'll see what i can do though. Just writing this post on hard work is requiring hard work because of the lack of things I have to say. Everything I can think to say is basically a reiteration of my first three sentences. I would give you an example if I could think of one that wouldn't bore you all to sleep. I'd rather like to avoid the example if i could. I feel that a lot of the posts will be: "this one time, i was having trouble with such-and-such, and then i put in some hard work, and I succeeded!" I refuse. I'll talk about the music video, technically it's more about forced labor than hard work, but forced labor is still hard work, so it fits. Kind of, awfully so, but still. And finally after all this hard work, I am indeed finished with the second blog post of the class.

post #1

I was considering just posting the video and nothing else, I figured "it has over 200 words, right?" but then i decided i don't fancy failing one of the first assignments. So now, I'm writing this in an attempt to write two-hundred words without saying anything at all. So far it seems that I am about one quarter of the way there, thus, we continue. I guess I'll tell you why I'm writing about nothing instead of about myself, I absolutely hate talking about myself. I find it almost repulsive. Hey, look at that, I just met the writing requirements. Well not quite all of them, I'm still about one- hundred words short of the required two-hundred. Lets talk about the music video then. Rise Against is one of my all time favorite bands. They are one of very few bands that i actually enjoy each and every one of their songs. This is the only way that i can actually talk about myself, through music. Looks like I'm STILL a little short on the amount of words, so I'm reverting back to my previous tactic and writing about absolutely nothing at all. This last sentence will finally finish it off, I've finally reached two-hundred!