I read and watch information a lot. There are few times, very few special times where I see someone explain a way they behave or think that wants to make me cry. I want to cry because they explain me, they explain something I do (That they also do) in such a way it touches me deeply because they could not have explained it any better. They explain it perfectly.
Isaac Mizrahi is an American Fashion Designer who influences/affects your life more than you know. He does high end designs for TV (many things you might have seen) and also designs custom merchandise for Target ( I have an Isaac Mizrahi designed cups and plates from Target maybe you have some other things too). He was invited to TED and gave a presentation which blew me away.
The biggest problem in acquiring world peace is the fact that we all see the world in different ways. When these perspectives clash that’s when we have disagreements, arguments and wars. Secondly we are too self absorbed, because we feel we are the only ones in the universe, we have no other enemies but ourselves. We have no one to point fingers at for our downfall or problems but ourselves (humans) so it is only natural for us to pick a fight with people who have a different view, culture, look or behavior from us. But trust me if there we were aware of another intelligent species hostile preferably. That are capable of driving cars like us, communicate with each other like we do and maybe even crank that soulja boy like we do. People from all race and class will unite cause a new set of bad guys in town and Al Qeada will be the least of our worries.
Saturday evening I rolled out to the movies with the boys. This was the first movie I have seen (in a theater) since I came back from New Hampshire (Your boy has been mad busy). The consensus was to see the new Guy Ritchie movie RocknRolla. I was skeptical, I have seen a couple of trailers and although it seemed like a decent action movie I would want to see I was not sure if it was worth my ten bucks, well to get straight to the point it was worth it.
I was just in Barnes and Nobles walking around, looking for a programming book that I have wanted to buy for a while now. As I walked through the store and my eye wondered. I looked at all the colorful book covers, I looked at all the titles of each book section, amazed at how every book was arranged so neatly and in order, I stood and stared. I then walked over to a section picked up a book and ran my fingers across a cover and it all came rushing back to me. The reason I have not been in a book store recently, the reason I have not picked upĀ a book to read in a while. The reason I felt I was in a candy store as soon as I walked into the store. I love books.
I was listening to Rihanna the other day on the radio and her hit song umbrella came to mind. I remembered reading that she did not write the song and she was even skeptical about the “ella - ella” chant which made the song famous because she felt it might be too cheesy.
I am a very passionate person. My main drive in life is following my passion. If it touches me the right way I am willing to spend a lot of time dedicated to make something happen. Lose sleep, food and maybe human interaction, but when you flip the coin it is totally opposite. If I have no interest in something I cannot force myself to focus.
Ever since I watched that movie “Pursuit of Happiness” I realized consciously or subconsciously that’s what we all have dedicate our lives to. Every action we take is towards achieving some form of happiness. That cake you deprived yourself of was so that you can be happy about the way you look. The school degree your working on is so that you can have a happy future, even the lie you told your friend was to make yourself happy for making him happy. That is our number one priority in life and some of us don’t even realize it.
I read this post about how the musician Joss Stone supports file sharing and encourages people to download her music and listen to it. She argues that most musicians are brainwashed by the record labels and discourage their fans from downloading their music, “music is supposed to be shared” she said.
So a couple of weeks a go some Jehova Witnesses came to my door step in New Hampshire to tell me how I am doomed if I do not see the light and convert into the right path. I was nice to them and nodded and agreed with them on every point they made. Not because I was swallowing what they preached hook line and sinker but I felt pity for them. I was thinking about all the people that were gonna be rude to them and cuss them out and there was no need to make their day any harder.