People of today: has selfish become normal? =s

Often, i stop and think : what have i done for the world recently? Most of the time, the answer is nothing. Then i think : my family, my friends, my teachers... Have they done anything for the world? Have the helped the environment, or provided aid for developing countries? Have they or i done anything more than providing for ourselves and for people that are close to us?
Even the government and big companies, i wonder what they're doing...

I dont even know what point im trying to make here, all i know is that if everyone DID something for the world every now and again, surely the world would be in a much better state than it's in now...

love and a hope that i can help the world

xoxo

Hmmm. This is probably incredibly obvious to all others, but is there a connection between these two words:

Fashion
and
Fascism
?

Fascism- a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism. (www.dictionary.com)

So... a system of government ruled over by one tyrant, oppressing people right and left, controlling everything, trying to make everyone conform to one type of person, and often being racist i suppose.

Fashion- conventional usage in dress, manners, etc., esp. of polite society, or conformity to it. (www.dictionary.com)

So... a system of dressing ruled over by tyrant supermodels of today and the fashion industry, oppressing people who dress differently, controlling what sizes are let into stores, and trying to make everyone conform to this ideal type of beautiful person. Sometimes racist. I suppose

Oh, you're absolutely right. No connection at all.

Love, and rebellion against the chains of conformity!!!

xoxo

p.s. - this post was inspired by my lovely little sister, who has repeatedly insulted my 'fashion sense' recently, and who has to ask if she looks good a million times before she leaves the house. Lol.

A skill I highly admire.

I very much admire the ability to see the beauty in everything, or at least ALMOST everything. People who see the beauty in things... they deserve love. They can see past appearances, or a bad hair day, and they love things and people for the things that make them beautiful both inside and out. =)

They could be any sort of person... people who write poetry about sad things see the beauty in sadness, and tears. True hippy people see the beauty in the world all around us, the trees and flowers and animals. Friendly people see the beauty people have inside them, be it obvious or not so much.

I strive to be like these people who can find the beauty in things. beauty does not only have to be shallow, it can mean so much...

To all my good friends - I think you are all beautiful inside and out. =)
To everyone in the world - You all have something special, i hope you know this. Try to also see what is special in others, because as beautiful things make me happy, so they might make the world a happier place.

beauty to everyone, especially of the inside variety. =)

xoxo



(To my significant other - You know i think you're gorgeous. =p everything about you is special and beautiful to me. Sorry this is soppy)

Slipping away....

Does it feel to you people that sometimes, something you are trying to hold onto starts to sort of slip out of your grasp?

Like when your holding something, and you can feel it start to fall out of your hands. Its like its in slow motion, you can see clearly every millimetre it falls out. Then you clutch at it desperately, trying really hard to stop it, but your fingers miss it and you know its going to hit rock bottom pretty soon.

To me it may happen with a feeling, a friend, an ability, or whatever. Example, if i feel something about something, i can see my feelings start to change. My mind reaches out, telling me not to feel that way, but it just gets worse and worse and sets off a chain reaction of failure. And its weird.... =S

Is it weird?

Love to all my readers

xoxo

Forever forward.

Bigger and better, right? Or smaller and slicker, faster, stronger... That is what we as humanity generally strive for, right?

Hmm. Lets compare modern day language to, say, shakespearian language. Would you ever hear Shakespeare saying 'Yeah well your face is gross', or in terms of romance: 'Yeah, she's pretty hot, I sorta like her, like, a bit' etc.

If society is moving forward, then how come the state of language is so rapidly decreasing?
It is puzzling. =s

Actually i envy characters in Shakespeare plays. I would very much enjoy being incredibly quick of wit, with lots of fancy words at my disposal. When i'm writing for example, i have plenty of time to think of how i will set out what i have to say, i don't have to think quick and i have the opportunity to utilise words i wouldn't use in normal conversation. Given the choice, i would speak like Mercutio, from Romeo and Juliet. Sure, Mercutio speaks quite a lot of nonsense, but he speaks with passion, and he is eloquent, witty and imaginative. I want to be like that one day.

Sorry this blog post is rather self-oriented. =s

peace and quick witted-ness. =)

xoxo

Everyone loves being 'do-able', duh.

Hooray for spending 3 months with comments to the effect of 'daaaaamn, she hot!' and 'I'd tap that!' whenever a girl in the top 2% of attractive people walked past. Yay for any other girl who walked past getting comments like 'Ooh, u know, bit of cushion for the pushin'', or implications of a one night stand without any commitment, simply because the girl is not hot enough.
Who knows if my stepbrothers were actually joking or not? Does it really matter? Surely the purpose of a joke is to be funny, but noone apart from my stepbrothers seems to think these comments are.
I certainly don't. I think: Where the hell are they learning this stuff? Is it from their popular bastard friends, is it from girls who LIKE it being implied that they are 'do-able' (god forbid), or is it from incredibly stupid TV personalities?
What could possibly make a guy think they'll get a positive reaction from thinking all girls will throw themselves willingly into a physical relationship as long as it's made clear that they are 'hot' and could be 'tapped'? Isn't that like seeing something nice in a window and expecting it to be your's?
Gah, the idiot guys who think like that practically define objectifying.

peace and love from a very frustrated caitlin.

xoxo

Oops, hypocrite...

Firstly, sorry i haven't been updating. For those who don't know (though i highly doubt many people actually read this) I am currently travelling around Australia, without much chance at getting online.

Secondly: I seem to find myself prejudiced against a certain type of person, based on the clothes they wear. This by no means applies to everyone, but when i walk down the street theres a specific type of style that seems to directly clash with mine.

For example, i walk down the street in my oversized 'colour the world' t-shirt, in the loose pants i bought in Singapore, and in the crocs which i decorated. I carry either a green enviro bag, or my self-modified shoulder bag. I walk by myself, staring off into the distance and daydreaming, my hair simply puffed up around my head, face clear of makeup, and henna designs up my arms.

Then there is them. They straighten their hair to within an inch of its life and it looks like straw. They wear every sort of makeup imaginable, and you cant even see what they look like without it. Typically, they wear skinny leg jeans, with expensive looking shoes, and a tight t-shirt that shows off their oversized boobs (probably padded). They carry pretty handbags, generally walk as a group, all with a sneer on their face as they check out the people who seem to lack their ultimate sense of style (me, duh), or they flirt with guys who probably took the same amount of time to do their hair.

Not good, but i seem to hate these people, and they consider me beneath their standards. I guess we maintain a healthy balance. That is, until these horrors annoy me too much and i stab them. But i dont see why people seem to want to be like them. I see 10 year olds down the street already dressing like them. It's sad that they will grow up to be evil clones.

Peace, and a reassurance that this doesn't apply to everyone.

xoxo

Valid insults please!

In school about a week ago, i got called a 'stupid skank'... This is by a notorious flirt who i am surprised can even spell his own name.
Insults these days are generally crude, unthought out, vile, or insulting someones reputation. Maybe our days generation lacks imagination? At the very least, insults could be valid, and actually directed at someone in particular, rather than there being a general insult for everyone no matter whether it actually applies or not.
Please, people out there, if you really must insult someone, with no other option, at least use a bit of intelligence.

peace (and preferably no insults at all)

xoxo

Stereotypical Music Videos

Act of stereotyping part one-

Black (for want of a better word) men are portrayed as criminal. They are shown to be muscular, shifty-looking, 'gangsta' thugs who hang around in gangs and wear bling from their apparent wealth. Not in all cases, of course, but enough for the typical 'black person' image to take root. I have nothing against these 'sexy' criminal-ish guys (who seem to get whatever backup dancer they want) but the extent to which young black men are pushed is like they are being forced to live up to this image or risk being seen as uncool. To famous black rappers/singers/whatever, not all guys with your beautiful dark skin want to be seen as a 'homie gangsta'.

Act of stereotyping part two-

NOT all girls are skanks. In fact, hardly any walk around in hot pants and a bikini top shaking their booty, and being all over any guy that just happens to walk past. Sure, they can if they want to, but is there really any point in surrounding singers with skanky backup dancers in practically underwear? All it does is make people believe that its okay to judge girls on whether they are a double D cup or not, and makes some guys think its okay to talk about a girls body in derogative ways if they are not the image of 'feminine perfection' found in skanky backup dancers. Obviously, dancers in film clips have to wear clothes that make them appealing, as such. That doesn't mean that they wear practically nothing and show that fact off. Girls only go along with it to get noticed in the dog eat dog world of backup dancers, and to gain the attention of sexist managers...

More on this another time. Peace for now.

xoxo

The state of things in the world...

Universal primary education- the amount of money it would take to have, in every country, basic schooling available for all children is $10 billion per year. Every year the US spends more than that on ice-cream.
Reproductive services for every woman, to make childbirth safer, would cost $12 billion per year. Europe and the US spend that amount on perfumes.
Basic healthcare and good nutrition would cost $13 billion a year, and Europe and the US spend that amount on pet food.
Primary level education for all at current rate of progress will be achievable by the time Kylie Minogue is 162 years old.

This information is... just horrifying. People worldwide dying of preventable causes, while the richer countries are spending on petty priviledges...
For more information there are a couple of good websites-
www.whiteband.org
www.makepovertyhistory.org
www.makepovertyhistory.org/getinvolved.html

love, and an end to poverty...

xoxo

Beautiful Girls

The pressure is on. Every day influences, television, magazines, fairy tales... they all involve woman who are the image of feminine perfection. These are the woman that young girls and teenagers idolise, the ones who they want to be like. But in this way, the girls are tryin to achieve unrealistic, and unhealthy goals. They want to be stick thin, with a large chest, thin and shapely legs, clear and flawless skin... Should the next generation be constantly trying to achieve outside beauty? To my readers, it shouldnt matter what u look like. Embrace inner beauty! I guess in the end thats all that matters anyway. When you're 60-70 years old, lets face it, you wont be model like, and "gorgeous". But after all those years you can still be nice, and caring, and love your fellow humans, and love the environment, and all the fluffy animals!

Vote 1 inner beauty

peace n loveyness

xoxo

Discrimination, racism, IDIOTIC!!!

What have some people got against people who are different?
This is an issue i am very much against. Judging someone because they are from a different country, have another colour skin, or just because they look or speak differently, is incredibly stupid, idiotic and completely wrong.
This is a problem we as a species have faced for thousands of years; race discrimination. I for one believe that all these differences make every person unique, special, and beautiful.
So what drives some people to hate an entire race of people, be it any race? I suppose in neanderthal, nomadic times, it would have been something along the lines of 'survival of the fittest'. You would have stuck up for your own family or group, and everyone else would be hated and killed because your family or group came first for resources, land, and anything required.
I guess that frame of mind still remains in some cases.
What doesn't help is the fact that blaming other races for our problems is a speciality of governments.
The American government makes us believe that practically all Muslim people are terrorists. I believe this is merely a ruse to subtract attention from the governments plot to get control of oil sources. Sure, there are terrorists, but that doesn't mean that anyone who follows Allah (generally a peaceful bunch) is going to blow everyone else up.
And indigenous Australians; the aboriginals. The government has that thing to 'help' the children. The government isn't very subtle in that they're not trying to help people, they want control of the land that is rightfully aboriginal territory.
Racism is a massive handicap on society. People should not have to be ashamed of where they come from for fear of discrimination or even physical abuse. Hopefully one day racism will be a thing of the past, and EVERYONE will be able to live safe, happy lives without the fear of discrimination.

peace, to everyone.

xoxo

Hurting people

I hate hurting people. Mentally that is. Just seeing someone i have hurt can have me lying awake at night, guilty, for weeks on end.
Everybody says or does things without thinking, and i believe most people regret it afterwards, and feel the guilt.
So how do some people spend all their time insulting people, hurting people, killing people mentally? Why doesn't the guilt keep them awake all night? How do they live with themselves?
Maybe they honestly cannot see the problems they cause. Maybe these people are devoid of feelings, other than smug satisfaction that they have insulted someone 'unworthy' of being associated with in a friendly manner.
And then there are those people who are in more than friendly relationships and one day say "i never liked you anyway". That's just cruel. Dumping people at all is horrible to do, but if it has to be done, it can be done in a more sensitive way. There is no 'nice' way to dump or reject people, but you can try to show empathy.
I myself have hurt people before, and to them i am so sorry.
But to those people who hurt others based on things that make them unique and special, you are the scum of the earth. I hate you.

peace and happiness

xoxo

'Experts'

Don't you just hate it when people automatically think they are the best at something? When a task pops up, they step forward and say 'i know what to do' in this really smug tone, and of course everyone else who knows what to do is completely and utterly wrong.
Maybe it is a trait of humanity, or at least some people, to believe they are better than everyone else, and in their own minds see themselves as best for the job.
Admittedly, sometimes these people ARE the best for the job, but then they act all superior. And then there are those other smart people who stay back because they know their own ability, and know that they honestly have no idea what they are talking about or what to do.
But the general annoyance is still there.
It happens with things as irrelevant as opening a box. Lets say person 1 says "i cant open this box", and immediately persons 2, 3, 4 and 5 all jump in and claim they can open the box, they know what to do. If someone else does manage to do it, of course, in their own mind everyone else could have done it better, or faster. Maybe these people just like being noticed. Maybe they like being the centre of attention, and being seen as an expert for a while.
I say: give other people a chance to prove their worth once in a while. If you know what to do and no one else does, fair enough. But if a whole ton of people are 'experts', there is no point in fighting to do something that everyone else 'knows' they can do better anyway.

peace out

xoxo

The True Meaning of Punk

Punk is a sort of music isn't it? It's a fashion style, with safety pins, and black, and psycho colours, right?
Punk used to be a statement of individuality. It used to mean something, rather than just being seen as a genre, or a popular sense of fashion, or even just being seen as 'cool'.
Punk was created so that people who were true individualists had a way of saying "this is me, im here, im different, and i dont give a damn what you think". i myself strive to have the same mindset, but the problem is that punk was too cool. Other people caught on to being 'individual', and copied what individual people were wearing, and listening to, therefore eliminating what the true purpose of individuality is- to be yourself, not the typical idea of cool.
So really, punk was destroyed as soon as the idea of being individual spread to the cool, awesome popular people.
Nowadays, punk is thought of as a genre of music, or a band, or a style, but all of these things are just a shadow of the past, a shadow of all that punk stands for.
It's like some people were trying to show off their true selves, and be different from the rest of the world, were copied in taste and style, and all thats left are their little clones.
this is actually quite sad. Hail the original punks who fought to be themselves and ended up being copied by thousands of people, who screwed up the true meaning of individuality.

peace and punk

xoxo

Social Status

Most people find that they specifically fit into a social clique. There are many different sorts of status for different people, but some main ones are-
the popular guys (the 'hot' ones), the popular girls (the 'attractive' ones), the sporty guys, the sporty girls, the people who hang around the edges of popular, the ones who insult everybody, the nerds, the geeks, the gamers, the girly girls, the loners, the drifters, the annoying ones and 'other'.
It has happened throughout history, people separating into social spots because of looks, intelligence, ability to maintain vigorous exercise, insulting skills, and what they like to do in general.
Never mind that its probably healthier to the mind to maintain a balance of all these different things... People call anyone with mild intelligence a nerd, does that give all us nerds the right to call everyone else a vegetable?
And popular...I wont even start on how stupid it is to think yourself better than everyone else for obscure reasons! Loners are generally some of the nicest and funnest people you will ever meet, and drifters have this good balance thing going on.
So before you judge someone on what group they belong to, just think about it first. Then i might actually attempt to stop dissing popular people.

peace and love

xoxo

Environmentally friendly teen clothing?

It's incredibly hard to find stylish, environmentally friendly teen clothing where i live. i spent at least an hour or two looking up clothing brands on the internet, and then more time in the town library, and nothing at all appealed to me.
A lot of the stuff just looked like shapeless sacks, with flowers stitched on messily. I know other countries have eco-friendly clothing marketed for teenagers who care about the environment, but I CANT FIND ANY. It sucks.

There are also shops that sell 'save the environment' slogan t-shirts, but when you look at the tag, rather than being eco-friendly organic cotton, it is 100% standard cotton. You may ask what is wrong with this, so i shall tell you.
Cotton plantations only cover about 2% of the worlds arable and fertile land, yet they contribute to at least 20% of the worlds pesticides pollution.
Organic cotton is farmed chemical free, without harmful pesticides. Organic cotton is softer, better quality, and a better choice all up. And yet hardly any organic cotton or even hemp is used in teenagers clothing at all.
So i urge clothing lines, designers, creators, please, there are people who want to help the environment as well as having nice and comfortable clothing.

world peace

xoxo

'Manly' sporting ability...great...

Guys with muscles and lack of brain cells, who run around in short shorts with other guys for the sole purpose of getting sweaty and muddy while kicking a ball through some posts, are definitely worthy of being worshipped.
NOT.
Sure, sports keep guys fit and healthy, but its no excuse for sporty guys to once again, regard themselves as 'better' than any other guys. And of course, a lot of girls find muscly strong guys attractive, probably a trait handed down from when humanity was merely nomadic tribes, and guys were needed for strength because in a world of survival of the fittest, strength was a big plus.
But nowadays there are plenty of guys out there that are funny, and smart, and attractive, but the shallow girls will not go for them as they do not get hot and sweaty in short shorts on a regular basis! Not that the girls can be sure that muscular arrogant sporty jerks will go for THEM anyway.
Thankfully, girls are growing out of that way of thinking, even if it is slowly.
To all you sporting guys, it has been scientifically proven that if you get hit in the head too many times with a ball or another player it will kill off your brain cells and you will become a vegetable, with nothing going for you. So if you don't want to end up unloved, and in a nursing home drooling at the age of 30 or 40, heed my warning.

peace+equality

xoxo

'Popularity'...it blows

This being one of the things in society that i think blows, the topic of 'popularity' is one i shall speak about now.
What makes a person popular? Sadly enough, in this day and age the majority of people labelled as popular are not the sweet, open minded, considerate souls we would like them to be, but rather a bad kind of popular, people who think they are better than everyone else for reasons as yet undecided. What makes them better than other people? The fact that they laugh at their own jokes; which are usually insults anyway?
Of course, some people are good popular. EVERYONE, no matter how different, is treated nicely, and in return the person is loved back. That is the ideal popular person, a good type of popular.
Too bad that the values that usually dictate what is popular are usually "which girl is the hottest" or "which guy has the best body/hairstyle". I would go so far as to say "who is the biggest b*tch" or "who has the least number of brain cells".
These popular cliques usually aim to give as many people as possible low self-esteem by the end of high school. They may do it unconsciously, but they hurt anyone who looks, thinks or acts different from their 'perfect' stereotype. Its wrong.
In a perfect world, no one would be 'perfect'. Everyone has their own little quirks, and these should be embraced instead of scorned.

To all the popular people out there, please review how you act around people that aren't like you. Because insulting someone for being themselves is completely idiotic. Popular people who refuse to listen to the truth, YOU SUCK.

peace y'all

xoxo

Passion

The definition of the word passion is spread over a variety of meanings. It can mean any one of the following: -a powerful, intense emotion such as joy, love, hatred or anger,
-sexual desire, or lust,
-the object of said desire,
-boundless enthusiasm,
-the object of said enthusiasm,
-an abandoned display of emotion.

In the context i use it, it represents that i feel strongly about certain issues. I am passionate about people in the world, and about the environment. I am passionate about doing well in school. I have a passion for performing, and sometimes i am passionate about someone special.

With this blog, i aim to convey the message of things i feel strongly about. By this i mean things that need to change in the world, things that are not half appreciated for what they are, and i wish to make it known to the whole world how i feel about things that just plain SUCK.

peace out y'all

xoxo