Don't jinx it....

I've been watching the news, reading articles, watching movies and its been starting to get to me: this "idea", shared by much of the human population, that the world will soon end. Now, I'm no Nostradamus, but who are we (and when I say "we" I'm referring to the human race as a people), to say when the world will and will not end.... giving exact dates and times. C'mon now. Excuse my French but the world has been FUCKED up for a long time, probably for much if not all of its existence.

For as long as history has been recorded there's always been problems in the word... anyone who took a history course could tell you that... especially American History, but thats a different story for a different time. Before I go too far off track what I'm trying to say is that, this world has always been a sketchy place to live in. YES, there has been quite a few things that has happened within the recent years that could imply that the world could be soon ending but lets go back about 96 yrs or so..... remember that thing called WWI? Yea.... countries all over the world were in battle and people were dying left and right..... fast forward about 20 years or so to the Great Depression and WWII.... sound familiar? I could imagine that there were some people back then with the idea in their mind that the world would be ending soon but look at what they were dealing with!!! I'm gona round my numbers up and say that WWI was about 100 years ago.... okay. All the people who prophesied that idea back then were wrong and probably close to death if not already dead.

Here we are in 2010.... telling everyone that the world is going to end in 2 years...now, I'm a Christian and I do believe in God and Jesus Christ. Honestly, who are we to say when we think the world will or will not end?? If anything we're just JINXING it!! It is ultimately up to God to decide when he wants to end life on this planet we call earth. He created it, he can just as easily take it away. Realistically, it could end next week.

What I'm trying to get at is, YES the world is going through tough times right now: the economic depression, not only in this country but spreading to far corners to the world (if it wasn't already there); the terroristic demonstrations that we've seen in recent years; and the natural disasters happening left and right, but NO ONE knows when the world is going to end.... NO ONE.

I'm tired of hearing of these false prophesies.... call me stubborn but I'll believe it when I see it.

Kids and Love

I got this from a close friend of mine, Jamilla, but it was soooo cute I had to share it with yall.

Kids' thoughts of the day:

on love and the proper age to get married?

"Eighty-four, because at that age, you don't have to work anymore, and you can spend all your time loving each other in your bedroom." (Judy, 8);

when is it ok to kiss someone?

"You should never kiss a girl unless you have enough bucks to buy her a big ring and her own VCR, cause she'll want to have videos of the wedding." (Jim, 10)

LOL!! Where are these cute kids in todays society!!!!! (You can tell it's a little outdated because the one kids mentions a VCR) Today's youth is corrupted with false ideas of what love should be and relationships......

Trends

Every now and then I see something that sticks out to me and in my head I'm like "....hmmm, when did that start?" or "that's in now?"Most people succumb to following trends instead of going with their gut instincts or what they believe is "right for them".

The other day I saw a twitpic my friends were commenting on and it consisted of a Barbie with a tattoo on her lower back. Not anything small either. It was pretty big, what most would consider a "tramp stamp". Now I'll admit, I found it amusing at first but we have to remember what age group and gender this Barbie toy is geared towards. Young girls see this toy and they ask their parents to buy it. Whether they want to admit it or not, the children subconsciously look at this doll as somewhat of an "idol". When thinking of the future they would like to have a cute boyfriend, a pink corvette and cute clothes without a care in the world, but who wouldn't? LOL. So for Mattel to manufacture something as controversial as a Barbie with a tattoo, KNOWING that in some way, shape, or form, these young girls dream of being a "Barbie" one day or having a "Barbie" lifestyle is just preposterous ESPECIALLY with all the talk and controversy of the new line of African American dolls. How can you shun away a line that could potentially enlighten and motivate young girls but push the sales of a line that will eventually crush and deteriorate all home-taught morals??? But, thats a story for another day. LOL.

These young girls that are trying to fit in and look for new trends 9/10 times hang with the wrong company. These are the girls that are in 10th grade walking around pregnant. You should be preparing for the SATs not getting ultrasounds every other week!! I think most young adults in general want to rush into adulthood. But who didnt'? We all did. But with adult decisions come adult consequences. That is what separates the adults from the children. These kids running around and cursing on Maury Povich's stage are lost causes. Why do you think it comes on television?? Its looked at as entertainment, not nearly as the issue that it really is. These girls grow older to become the girls that are in this "Barbie trend". Now I'm off the doll, I'm talking about girls close to adulthood or young adults walking around calling themselves a "Barbie" thinking its "in" or "cool". Now yes, Barbie is pretty, but she's also a 7" plastic doll. These celebrities have nothing better to do with their money but spend it on plastic surgery and start meaningless trends. These girls walk around and follow these trends naming themselves after a plastic doll with no mind.

WHAT HAPPENED TO THINKING FOR YOURSELF AND BEING YOURSELF?