Beauty is more than skin deep

The other day I was on one of my random video searches on YouTube and I ended up watching a movie trailer for Identity Thief. When I get on these kicks I try to avoid reading the comments, just like I always avoid reading editorials in newspapers, because I'll always see something that just irritates me and makes me wonder how/why people get the opinions they have. For whatever reason, I saw a comment that got my attention, that then led to me reading more comments. Needless to say I wasn't disappointed in how shallow people can be about peoples appearances. So many people were writing comments about Melissa McCarthy's weight and how somehow that made her a bad actress. Really?! Come on people. I don't care what size she is, she is a beautiful and funny lady. That's like me saying well Lucille Ball would've been a lot more funnier if she was a blonde. I always love how people act it like people want to be overweight.Yes, I love getting stared at because I'm far from that perfect size and God forbid they see you eating 'junk food' Speaking as a person that continues to fight this, it can be a hard thing to live with and try to compete with what society says I should look like.There's more to beauty than someones size or hair style. I've seen people that have been the perfect example of what society calls beautiful and they have been down right ugly because of their personality and behavior towards others. Why can't people get past what they see on the outside. Beauty goes so much farther than being skin deep.  Oh well I guess it all comes down to you just got to love who you are, do what you feel is best for you.  I'm gonna end with that or this could get way to long.

In the movie, The Wizard of Oz, it takes a house falling from Kansas to destroy the good witch but by the end of the movie some water accidentally thrown on the Wicked Witch is all it takes to destroy her. Granted, I'm sure water would have just as easily killed the good witch and all of this is just based on a classic book and movie. However it got me thinking and I say all that just to make this point: it took something a lot stronger to destroy the good. Think about it, if you got your mind set on the finished line for whatever goals you have, no matter how many obstacles get in your way you're going to find a way to get to that finished line. That is you'll find a way and keep getting back up if you have a made up mind you are going to see that finish line and know that it's not going to be easy. If you think you're going to get there without much work and it's going to be a fun easy ride the whole way, well you just might get discouraged enough to quit the first obstacle you meet, or the first time you get water thrown on you. Same goes for having your mind fixed and decided on being the person you want to be, hopefully that includes at least treating people right and standing up for what you believe in (two things I truly believe every one should do). Once you decide on this, first you can guarantee you're going to run in to obstacles and people to test you to see how serious you are. Sometimes I'm not even sure they are aware that they are part of those obstacles to test you. However, you got to remember that it doesn't matter how many times you get knocked down that counts or even how many obstacles you have to face that counts but it's how many times you get back up. If you don't care or get easily frustrated and/or distracted the smallest pot hole in your road to to the finish line can keep you off your road longer than you intended or wanted or even for good. Sometimes it takes detours though to get us prepared and even on a different road so we'll be where we're supposed to be. Personally I think I've been on the side of the road for to long and I need to get back in the race. I realize that this is a lot of analogies that all got me thinking from one of my favorite movies but hopefully there was some kind of decent point made. With that I will leave you with what is probably my favorite lines from the move between Dorothy and the Scarecrow:

Scarecrow: I haven't got a brain... only straw.
Dorothy: How can you talk if you haven't got a brain?
Scarecrow: I don't know... But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking... don't they?
Dorothy: Yes, I guess you're right

Change

There's a couple lines in a song that says 'I just feel like something good is about to happen, I just feel like something good is on its way...' Well I'm not sure if something good is coming or not but I do feel like I'm changing. Kind of like how people do spring cleaning to get rid of the clutter in their house, well it's almost like I need to do some spring cleaning of things I keep around in my life and just change the way I look at things. Hmmm...I probably sound like I have officially lost it. I can't be the only one that has just felt like they aren't the same as they used to be. For example something as simple as TV shows and music I used to love, I'm finding myself not caring so much about it any more. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing because I'm getting where I want to listen to other kinds of music, not watch as much TV (with the exception of those older shows mentioned in last post) and best of all I'm finding my love for reading again. Now I'd much rather hole up in a room and read. Bad thing is I'm in a major rut and am finding myself so burnt out and not wanting to work. Hopefully a three day weekend will help fix that next week. I'm also hoping to get to go to the art studio my art teacher from high school has opened. If I do get to do that you can bet I'll be posting about that. Oh, that's another thing I've got where I doodle and want to draw more, granted I'm not good but it's something that kills time and seems to settle my nerves. At least I'm finding the old stuff I used to do and am enjoying it again and hopefully if I am changing and getting ready to go into another phase of my life it'll be a time for me to grow, have fun and just another road to becoming who I want to be.

Happy Birthday Betty White!

It's funny how attached you get to celebrities, or should I say characters that they portray on television. Betty White is one of those celebrities. She was and still is so funny as Sue Ann Nivens on the Mary Tyler Moore show and how could you not crack up at all those St. Olaf stories she told on the Golden Girls?! I probably watch more television than one person should but my favorites are always shows that aired before or when I was to little to watch them at the time they originally aired. I am actually starting to feel really old since all the shows I did grow up watching are now airing on Nick at Nite, for example The Nanny and Fresh Prince of Bel-Air should not be on Nick at Nite yet. I applaud and admire women like Betty White, Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett (I probably misspelled her name, as much as I love her I can never spell the poor womans name correctly) and many others that were pioneers in their own rights in television. I'm so glad I can also still watch shows like Mary Tyler Moore Show, Golden Girls, Carol Burnett Show, I Love Lucy and all the other older shows I would much rather spend my time watching. No matter how long I live I hope to be able to have the funny and outrageous time that Betty White seems to have with life. 

What to write, that is the question....

I think I have hit a wall where I just can't think of anything to write, nothing is really going on in my life and when I do think of something I decide I really shouldn't write it because of fill-in-the-blank with an excuse. I had some people bring up some things about me and it's so funny how it's got me thinking when they are ways I use to describe myself all the time. For example, I was told I have interesting opinions and am random. I personally don't see how my opinions are interesting, I'm just like everyone else and have my beliefs and thoughts on subjects. My opinions are even subject to change on certain things, however there are some things I will stand firm on my opinion. I've yet to find anything to do about the randomness but it can entertain me so not really trying to hard to change that either. Of course it would be nice to not have so many random thoughts going on while trying to work. Someone once said I was awkward to which I responded I am so beyond awkward that I don't think there is a word for it. I don't really like the word awkward though, it is such a weird little word. I also don't like it when someone used the word backward to describe someone who is shy, especially if that someone is me. I guess it could be worse than people just seeing me as someone who is awkward, random and has interesting opinions.It should also be pointed out these people didn't say these things to be mean or anything it was said after I had made some statements of my own that they brought it up. As long as I'm not being cruel or treating people wrong I don't mind what peoples opinion is of me anyway because like it or not everyone that ever sees me is going to automatically form some kind of opinion of me.