What color do you wear?

What happens when someone is positive? What happens to a person when all they've believed is negativity about them? Do words actually affect us that much?

Do words actually have the power to change someone's thoughts and life? I realize I'm asking a lot of questions here. So now i'm going to answer them how I think.

It is amazing to me how one's feelings are affected by other's words. If something you truly believe in gets attacked by others, even if you completely believe in it, it leaves you feeling somehow betrayed. The well known cliche'd saying "stabbed in the back" is something that actually feels real. Somehow, you end up feeling betrayed by this.

On the other side of this coin, (i'm not ashamed at all to use a few cliched statements) when someone is positive, something happens in that person's self belief. No matter what it is, if you show interest in what they're passionate about, it adds value to that person's opinion and belief and thus to themselves.

In conclusion on this random collection of my thoughts, I believe that optimism and positivity are incredibly underrated. Either underrated or misunderstood. One can never be too positive. The worst that can happen is something different happens, but then something positive can still be found out of that situation.

So, keep positive in everything. Look for the positive in anything. Wear those rose colored glasses with pride and don't let anyone's negativity trump how awesome you see the world.

This is Sparta

I much love this movie. If you haven't seen it, recommend it as a must see action guy macho man flick before you die. Nay, I say the sooner the better. Go rent it out tomorrow or today if you can. The thing I love about this movie more than anything is the comradeship. More than the intense battle scenes, the rocking soundtrack, the bold king Leonidas, I love the comradeship. Everything for them rises and falls on this.


I'm reminded every day in life, to be alone is to fail; to die. One must have fellows, comrades, buddies, bros to keep one stepping out in life. If you have no one to back you up, you die so easily. If you have no one to challenge you on how you act, you will become one sorry lonely old bad dude. If you have no one to share amazing moments with you, you soon get depressed and lonely.


In the movie 300, it was literally their comradeship that saved them. If they didn't have good men to back them up, they would have been singled out and destroyed. Their entire battle strategy was dependent on that.


King Leonidas himself says this: "In the end, a Spartan's true strength is the warrior next to him. So give respect and honor to him, and it will be returned to you."


When your life is on the line, that is when you know you need your fellow comrade. This is common sense. To know you need him before that point, that is great wisdom.


In the end, I would have my friends, my comrades be able to share the same sentiment as King Leonidas and one of his men.


(With arrows penetrating his body) Stelios: It's an honor to die at your side.
King Leonidas: It's an honor to have lived at yours.


This is not Sparta. This is life

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Things I learned from Godfather

Having just watched Godfather for the first time recently, I realized some things from the movie that relate to my life. Here goes:
Family should always come before business. If it's the other way round, both get messed up.

Be honest and loyal. If you don't, you will probably get wacked. You may get killed too if you're honest, but it won't be as bad.

If you're buying fruit, make sure someone has your back covered. Or just in general, have someone to watch your back. Otherwise you will probably get wacked.

Be faithful to one woman. If you end up going and ditching your current girlfriend and getting married in a different country, the girl you marry will probably die in a car bombing, and you'll end up marrying the first girl anyway. Way way too much drama.

Show respect.  Whether your father is the Godfather or not, show respect to others and they'll show respect to you. Otherwise the Godfather will have you wacked.

Be wise and strong. Don't let anyone push you around, but choose which fights to fight. And when you fight, go about it smart.

Life is unexpected. You may not want in the family business and then end up as the Godfather. Just chill out and take it as it comes.

Oh and have as much fun as you can

Just one piece of rubbish can change your world

It amazes me sometimes, when I bother to notice, how much people can ignore. I guess that's the first sign that something's wrong, that I only notice when it's convenient for me. These days one can walk down the road and see so much wrong with the world just in that small glimpse of our lives. You notice the rubbish lying in the gutter when there is a rubbish bin with the iconic "be a tidy kiwi" not 5 meters away. You notice the group of young teams aimlessly wandering around causing nothing but havoc and trouble. You notice the mother with 5 young children and obvious signs that the father is no longer involved in raising those precious ones of the next generation. You notice the young mother lighting up a cigarrette with her friend even while she nurses her 3 month old baby.
I ask myself, what is wrong with this picture? Is it ignorance?
I think not, for the reason that we are bombarded every day by government messages that tell us these things are wrong, if for no other reason than the fact that they could and have been sued by people willing to give a damn for their own profit.
No, I think what's wrong with this world is apathy. People know what's going on, they just don't care anymore. They don't have a reason to change where they're at. They don't have any hope anymore
I think all this to myself as I walk down the road.
Then I realize, I'm the one who has the hope inside of me, and I'm not doing anything about it. A very wise man once said, "Take the log out of your own eye before trying to dig the speck out of your neighbor's." In other words, get your own self doing something instead of spending all your energy yelling at everyone else to do something.
If I started to give a damn, and actually did something, I wouldn't be as frustrated with everyone else not doing anything. I would be actually living for something greater.
So I challenge myself, tell someone you love them, live a life worth following, and bend over and pick up one bit of rubbish.
If all of us picked up one piece of rubbish, how different would our world look; let alone if we started living like the person next to us was as important as ourselves.

I wanna be a real boy

Have  you ever met one of those people who is guarded? I'm sure you have, since everyone you met is human, has been hurt, and therefore is somewhat guarded. Its a defense mechanism built into the human psyche. Its a protection that happens.

Sometimes it comes out from in insecurity. "Perhaps they won't like the real me," you say. So you put up an idea of the ideal you, or what you perceive what others would want to see.

I don't want to see the "ideal" you. That person is fake. I want to get to know you. I want to get past the insecurities. If you are putting in the time and effort to get to know me, its just rude and misleading to throw up an image to keep you from the real me.

I want to be a real boy. I want you to see me as I am, and accept me. Warts and all. I don't want to come up and talk to your abrasive shield that you put up. Do both of us a favor and show the real self.

Does this mean I shouldn't change though if there are truly offensive parts of me?

No. If I truly care about you, which I should, I need to care about you enough to change those things so I don't hurt you. If I have an anger issue, I need to find out what's causing that anger so I don't trigger your defense again. I don't want you to open yourself up only for me to hurt you again.

But I want to know you. The only way I'll get less offensive and more effective as your friend and companion is to know the real you, and know what edges of myself I need to knock off. I will hurt you. That's a promise, although one I wish wouldn't happen. But, as an old proverb says, "as iron sharpens iron, so the countenance of one man sharpens another."

What will come will be even more beautiful and inspiring than what would have.

I would rather be scarred and still be flesh than totally calloused and covered over.

Where do we go from here?

Dear Blog

I have started you out of a desire to get my thoughts outside my head and onto the world wide web. I hope you will be a source of inspiration and excitement to myself and others. 

Your purpose will be to spread revolutionary thoughts and ideas that have the potential to change lives and nations. I do not desire to speak religious man talk, but to talk in real life language about real life situations that really happen. 

This is why you have been created. Kindly serve your purpose

P.S. Remember to have fun!