A brief Update

So its been a little while since i've posted. I keep say i'm going to get better at this, and post more often, but I never do. I guess I should do a brief update on my life. I'm graduated from high school, and quite literally again all odds I am a student at University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). I've been blessed so much, and am so absolutely ecstatic to be here, beginning my journey, starting a new life. So join me along the ride, and trust me, its gonna be a ride.... You can keep up with me on my various social networks below:

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A Brief Post on Relationships

So someone on ask.fm asked me to do a post on relationships. I'm not really the best source of advice on yrelationships, because I've never really been in a healthy relationship, so I guess I'll just talk, and we will see what happens. 

Relationships between human beings, whether sexual in nature or purely platonic, are always extremely complex and multifaceted. That's all I can really think to say on the topic. Oh, and that relationships are never just purely between 2 people. They are always affected by a myriad of extenuating factors such as the family of the 2 parties involved, finances, previous relationships, living situations, and a whole host of other things, and all contribute to the success or failure of a relationship. 

Relationships change, as people change, and grow as people grow.... If you look at a couple that has been together for any amount of time whatsoever, and then look at them again in a few years, or even in a few months, the relationship will look different, and the difference will be immediately obvious. 

Hmmm, beededededee, what else do I have to say on the topic? Ummm, oh, that in order to have a healthy, long lasting relationship, both parties must base the very foundations of their relationship on some insoluble, impermeable, unchanging source. For many, that is their religious beliefs, for others it might be something different, either way, it sets your relationship up for success. 

Oh, and communication. Open, honest, and in depth communication is extremely helpful in making relationships work. Make a point to try to spend more time talking to your friend/boyfriend/girlfriend/whatever or whoever your applying this advice to in person, or at least over the phone or video chat than you do texting them. It's hard to maintain a relationship if its predominantly located in the  virtual realm, trust me, I can attest to that. 

Well, that's about the depth of my knowledge on the subject, at least that I'm willing to share. I think the reason it's so hard to give good relationship advice is because, there is no cure all, solve all formula of if you follow these steps, your relationships will be perfect, each relationship is different, and as a result, has a different formula. It's up to you and your other to figure out what that formula is.

A Brief Snapshot of my Time in High Point

So today is Tuesday, March 25, 2014, at about 1:15pm I am currently in High Point, North Carolina doing Humanitarian Aid and natural disaster relief with the Samaritans purse. Ive been here since sunday Night, and this is my second day on the Job. It's 35 degrees outside today, and rainy, and all I'm wearing is a t shirt under a hoody. I'm soaked to the bone, tired, and cold, and we still have 4 more hours before the workday ends. I'm not getting paid, I'm the youngest person here by 8 years ( the next older guy 25, then the next youngest guy after him is 40). I'm still in school, so I'm doing homework during the car rides from work site to work site. Why the heck am I doing this you ask? Because I love people, and these people need help. My body is absolutely miserable, but my soul and spirit couldn't be any happier. This is my calling, helping those who need help. 

P.S, this is pretty old, I just got around to posting it.

The Beauty of Humanity

Humanity is beautiful. I've always known that, but I've always wondered why. We are so hateful, so selfish, so angry, so prone to acts of brutal savagery at the slightest provocation. How the Hell can we be beautiful? But see that's the thing. We are prone to all those horrid acts above, but we also have, somewhere deep inside us, a little ember of love smolders, a miniscule, pitiful specimen of a thing, that can barely be seen. We have every reason to give in to the devastatingly powerful temptation to do wrong, to injure ourselves and our fellow mankind, yet for some strange, unimaginable reason, some unknown, mysterious force inside is us of us quells those urges, and instead carefully and patiently blows and fans that smoldering ember inside us until it eventually reaches our heart, where it smolders, and eventually becomes a fire.  Some of our hearts are less "flammable" per say than others, producing small, fragile little fires, and others of ours ignite into glorious, beautiful bonfires of love, that spark off onto other people. Spreading like a virus, until it engulfs vast areas, with no limit to how far it can spread. But that fragile little ember can also be stomped out, extinguished, leaving behind cold, "heartless" beings devoid of all conscience, who have no qualms about doing whatever they so please, only satisfying themselves.Most of us spend the extent of our lives teetering on the edge, able to go either way, becoming a beautiful bonfire, or a cold heartless creature. I say creature because the heart is what makes us human, and the heart cannot live without love. They have lost their humanity. To live life without your humanity is to not live at all. So I say to you, the beauty of humanity is that whatever we become, it all starts with a spark.