Who Knows

Space:

Each space you inhabit even for a short time will have meaning.  With that meaning, your personal imprints will reflect particular ideas in your mind when ever that particular place crosses your mind.  So in a sense, you no longer have to be in that place to draw those feelings in your mind.  I am talking about the power of the mind to attach particular emotional imprints on the material world.  The creation of meaning to things.

The material world is a socially constructed.  Humans draft up homes for people, offices, playgrounds, and dining tables.  Those constructions are various and constructed from different materials.  Yet no matter the material or the object we as humans place meaning to those object.  We begin to create categories for those objects and in some cases we create hierarchies.  For example the most meaningful to the most meaningless. 

Yet when one feels empty and meaningless inside, those imprints on material become the only source…to fill the void.  I see people on the television (granted I’m aware that TV is another element of the entertainment that feed us extremes of social characters for entertainment) seeking help-attention-meaning.  So you seek out material goods to fill the void.  A new dress, new shoes, and a new fight with your temporary roommate all for the sake of creating meaning in your life.  I call this meaning “drama.”

When are people going to learn that “self motivated drama” is just a reflection of the emptiness you have inside of you, but the ”drama” will never fill the void.  Once again shades, shoes, cars, and clothes will not fill the void and neither will the temporary drama you create around yourself. 

All the stupid things

Out of all the stupid things I have said, I never meant to cause any trouble.  Just as Coldplay’s Trouble lyrics say, “[stupid things] spun a web for me.”  It is the stupid things I have done that keep me from the things I want for the future. 

I have reached the point where I have spun a web that keeps me down from expanding the possibilities of greatness.  I am trying to grow from my stupidity, so I am going to write today about making changes…to stimulate new discussion about a topic that was once considered dead. 

“Race” as a writer once stated “has become taboo.”  Yet in publication there are remnants of racialized discourses. For example, Audience. For publication using demographic statistics will leave out particular racial groups or lump particular racial groups together.  Why?  

Granted some people may argue…there are too many racial identities to be accounted for.  But, why is it built into our subconscious that when one is labeled “native” or ”nonnative” it is assumed that native means “White.”  The last I checked the Native Americans were not ”White.” I will qualify this statement with the Native Americans were born in the land we now call United States which was taken from the Native Americans and founded under the name of God-”white” ideology.

Ok enough, if I have angered a reader I will only say this…I have been reading a lot of highly racialized and highly popularized academic discussions about social linguistics.  Even though social linguistics may not be a topic of your preferred reading understanding that this is a debate on the academic level. Makes you wonder.

Stepping Stone

Duffy, ” I will never be your stepping stone.”

I threw my stepping stones away…today. All those moments of weakness, when I was merely getting through the hardness. I was fragile for such a long time, and I was disappointing myself when I looked in the mirror I was not the women my mother reared me to be. You kept me down for too long , so you were the heaviest stone in my path. But I lifted you up and heaved you into the ocean-swim fish. But you are a stone, you will sink to the bottom of the dark ocean, because you too will be put in your place…and squashed by the gravity of nature. I will never be your stepping stone.

Chew the Fat

“Sometimes you have to chew the fat for a while before you swallow or discard”

People don’t always have to get along, not all deals are fair, some times people surprise you, and often times your plans don’t work out as expected.

Under these situations or circomstances like these, we usually react out of shear desire to think on our toes, and me knowing myself., I know I need take a slow down and think about teh situation at hand.

Metaphoraclly speaking…not all fat is bad.

I learned a long time ago ” differed gratification” would become my muse. It gives me strength while leaves me dazed and confused. Yet in my wonder, I find peace. So to think a situation over before taking action, even though it is nearing its close, is painful but logical.

Why do I react quickly if I am used to differed gradification you may ask? Well, its because I have bigger plans a head of me, so the little events in my life and detours I may take along the way usually are not making any changes to the “bigger picture.” YEt I need to learn from those detours and stop rushing though life little lessons.

Especially, when you are contemplating a thing/ an event may seem as rubbery as chewing fat.

I am going ot use this metaphor constructivly to create a point about life’s struggles. No matter how you try to break it down, it seems to never lose its ability to reamin in its same consistency. In this event, one should call an apple and apple and move one.

While in some instances one can chew and feel a break, than one will think cna this be digestable should I endure the possibiliy for “this too shall pass.” On the other hand you have moments of geez this event is absolutely what I do not want to become one of my life experience–discard.

Nice and easy people…the time you take to rethink an outcome is meaningful and in some cases leaves a lasting print on your consciousness. Just don’t take too long because than your going to make yourself sick.