Straight In A Crooked World

Stand up for what you believe. You may feel like you’re isolating yourself but you might actually find friends.

I had a friend from church brag about his drinking habits. Everyone knows about it and we’re concerned for him. Of course, being underage and unexperienced I don’t really pass judgement or preach at him. But the other day when he posted something about drinking on Facebook I just said, “You seriously have nothing better to do?” I then got accused of preaching at him, being underage and that I wouldn’t understand.

I told him I wasn’t preaching, I just thought he could do something more productive with his time. I reminded him that he’s a creative person and could focus on that and encouraged him by saying that he’s fun to be around sober, he doesn’t need to drink. Also for the attack aimed at me I said that I didn’t see being underage putting any restrictions on young people from drinking now and that I just don’t care for it.

He was still a bit defensive so I said I’d mind my own business and that I trusted he knew what he was doing. I reminded him that I only said it because I care about him.

It wasn’t hard for me to say. I had to think about it before I said it but I believe it is important. I guess I became an annoyance to him and put myself out on a limb when so many of my friends drink. But the amazing thing was that heaps of people read the conversation I had with him and thanked me for standing up to him. I said things they wished they could say to him. These people care for him too and it gives them hope see people like me do that.

I’m not trying to hype myself or my actions up. I just want this to be an example of something you could do. It might be a friend, a brother, a sister, a father or a mother. You’re not alone the world needs people like you and me to set things straight in such a crooked world. if you are in a position to do something do it. Say it. Care for them. But in saying that you need to be respectful. You need to know that sometimes it will come flying back in your face. Do you think people really want to be rebuked? Of course not! Do it in love. Let them know that you care and love them no matter what.  That you belive they are worth more.

Goodluck!

Being Busy Is Distracting

School, School & School.

It’s seems bad and it seems stressful. The idea of being overloaded with assessments. But honesty, I’m more stressed without them. When they’re not in the next few days I’ll put them off and spend my time bludging.

Bludging: for me consists of checking me email and Facebook every two seconds. Playing piano or guitar and writing depressing blog posts. :P

But now that I’m busy. I feel so much better. I don’t have time to mope about the house. I don’t have time to reflect while strumming out a chord progression. All I can think about it ‘drive here, drive there’, ‘speak to this teacher’, ‘write this speech’. I feel so much better when I am busy.

Busy means having no time to join meaningless groups on Facebook, having no time to write a blog that requires me to dig deep. Being busy means being happy. Having a purpose.

But being busy also means I need God. Have you ever felt too busy to stop, read your Bible and pray? Have you ever heard that saying, ‘I’m too busy NOT to pray’? It’s true. I’ll find myself wanting to go to sleep without doing my devotions when I’ve got plenty of time and I’m lazy. But when I’ve been motivated to get stuff done I tend to be more keen on getting that important part of my day in.

So yeah I’ve got my head in the books at the moment and to be honest. It is not at all a bad feeling. Haha and the marks that come out of it are encouraging too so it’s worth it :)

 

Facebook Deprivation

I honestly can’t convey to you the peace I feel right now.

I haven’t checked my Facebook in days and it feels good.

I hate the adictiveness of it and the way it controls us.

I’m thinking this is the same reason I abandoned msn a few years ago.

It’s all about popularity, who’s in with the latest ‘group’ and who’s getting messages from whom.

I mean come on. There is so much more to life. So many better ways to spend our time and so much more to show for it.

Yeah seriously. You might think going without internet for a few days would give you the jitters. But you’d be surprised. If you have any remnants of innate life rather than cyber reality left in you, you will thank yourself.

It doesn’t really work if you are away on holidays or your internet is down. I think it is the active choice you make to restrain from checking/ surfing the internet that makes you feel good. That you do not succumb but rather are in control.

For once.

Don’t even get me started on whatever they call fate.

Watched the end of Romeo + Juliet. Come on… how could he not get the letter!? How come she awoke one second too late to save him from the perilous destiny!?

Yes we must exercise our control over the things we can. Otherwise we have no hope.

I say ‘let’s get some air’.