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Benjamin Francis- Atlas Hands :)

"The water there is deeper than anything you've ever seen
Jump right in and swim until you're free"

This song makes me think of summer. Makes me happy on the inside :) <3  

Pretty Poem

You say that you love rain, 

but you use an umbrella to walk under it... 

You say that you love the sun, 

but you seek shade when its shining... 

You say that you love the wind, 

But you close your windows when it comes... 

This is why I am afraid; 

when you say you love me...

                                                                                                                  --unknown 

So I found this poem while surfing about on the internet and no one seems to know who it's by... Some say Shakespeare and others, Bob Marley. To me... it doesn't seem like the work of either. Regardless, what a beautiful little poem. :)  

Interesting how we say we love something, but it turns out that love is dependent on circumstances. Can we generalize this for love among humans? Perhaps we can. A love for another human being might be dependant on the person we think they are whether they might be a friend, sibling or lover. Again falling into that subjective world we create for ourselves. We have an idea of a person based on their acts and consistent behaviour, but that is not the whole of their personality, it is just what we have witnessed from it. So how much of a person do we really know without getting to sit inside their litto noggin? Maybe not much. Since we create their personality from what we have collected... and from our own evaluations of them (which are made in relation to past experiences dealing with different types of people). So maybe we love the idea of them that we create for ourselves. And maybe when their character is outside of the idea we made... we "use an umbrella and walk under it". 

But it is true that we will move away from even the things that we love if they cause discomfort... quite a natural response. 

mmm... interesting concept :)

~YEYEE

Hearts&Sheit... all the good stuff :3

The workings of the subconscious mind?

So besides the fun of mere chance, I think that maybe the information our unconscious mind takes in has a lot to do with this... Look at the image below. The first three words you see are supposed to describe you.
I got "sweet", "talented", "outgoing" and "elegant"... hmm interesting... (don't know if wishful thinking might be involved here ladies and gentlemen...). That's all very nice (although slightly questionable) I am surely not so elegant... *tear* one day.... maybe one day. But hey, fun litto thang! Try it out :D

I have read before that the unconscious mind collects all information about your environment and surroundings while the conscious mind actively perceives it and pays attention to only certain aspects of it. Perhaps what we see, or rather, consciously pay attention to is what our subconscious mind has noticed and worked out. 

We all know what kind of personality we possess, so maybe the unconscious mind does the work of picking out those words that we feel best describe us, and we in turn end up paying attention to only those words. 

Ever notice you keep seeing the same number again and again? Calm down... and stop hyperventilating it's not a conspiracy, I assure you. It just your unconscious mind picking out similarities in your environment that you end up consciously noticing. Lets say maybe you see the number 6 again and again. "Oh my lord I saw it three times the devil is trying to talk to me!" *faints* Oh funny little over dramatic friend of mine, its just the magic of the awesomeness contained in that brain of yours. 

That fills me up with hearts yeoo 

~YEE YEE! 

<3 

Power of an idea!

"We are told to remember the idea, not the man, because a man can fail. He can be caught. He can be killed and forgotten. But four hundred years later an idea can still change the world. I've witnessed first hand the power of ideas. I've seen people kill in the name of them; and die defending them. But you cannot kill an idea, cannot touch it or hold it. Ideas do not bleed, it cannot feel pain, and it does not love." 
--from V for Vandetta... awesome movie! 

Well isn't that cute.

Change the colour of your eyes permanently?

Midnight sannmich and some dark chocolate covered blueberries… Oh yes. So good. *drool*

I was ever so innocently procrastinating (evil essay) *wipes chocolate from face* when I suddenly came across this thing called BrightOcular. Turns out this is a surgical procedure that makes use of coloured lens implants to permanently change the colour of your eyes. It was originally made for people with albinism and iris dysfunctionalities but of course, if humans got the option to be more “beautiful” they’ll most likely take it (of course… ahh greedy little things we are, no?)

Here's a picture of a woman who had the procedure done and went from dark brown to light blue. (yes I went through the effort of getting screen shots for you guys, your welcome.) 

P.S. she looks kinda creepy... 

                So a part of me got excited reading about this while another part of me found it pretty vain. I got excited because of the advancements of science! Woot! It seems like anything humans ever desire can be attained through invention… which excites me (ahh the human mind… tis a creative thang). But on the other hand it all seems overwhelmingly disturbing. Don’t get me wrong, I am not completely against cosmetic surgeries. But really? The eyes? Out of all things, the eyes?!

Like most of the world I feel like people should be comfortable with who they are and how they look. But I also feel like people have the right to look how they want. Let’s say for example a girl is uncomfortable with her big nose (say its huge… like massive… like ginormous) and is constantly self-conscious about it and in turn it affects her self-esteem, to her I say… get the damn thing fixed! But for someone who might want…. Hmm let’s say a boob job done… I’m thinkin… a C to a DD. I’m sorry but should that really be a priority? (Gentlemen, your opinions shall be held as bias and therefore not considered *cough*, apologies). I mean I understand someone who may be uncomfortable with their attractiveness and might want to get implants but common… I think we all know some people overdue it.

So why do some of these people overdue it? It (quite obviously has to do with self-confidence). Like in my other blog post, I mentioned people easily confusing external confidence with internal confidence. These people who get addicted to cosmetic surgeries and end up looking like Chuckie’s bride have seriously got a problem. Take for example, Joan Rivers… holly Jesus the woman gives me nightmares. Clearly she doesn’t want to age. But no one does… maybe people need to stop resisting and just… accept? (They may just find a sense of peace)

I completely understand the appeal that light eyes have. They can be very beautiful. Just look at the picture below (which is a scene from a British show called Skins, damn addictive). Or the one under that. I am sure you’ve seen that picture somewhere, it a very famous picture that was taken by a photographer for the national geographic. Sharbat Gula is the name of that girl who was living as a refugee in Pakistan when the photo was taken. She was 12 years old then and at the time the photo was taken no one knew her name. The picture was equated with the Mona Lisa and gained recognition as the most recognized photograph in National Geographic history. So what is it about that picture that got it so famous? Okay so it’s a girl looking at the camera… big woop right? It’s her eyes! They seem to have capture people for so many years. She has now become a “symbol of the Afghan conflict and refugee situation worldwide”. They say “eyes are the windows to the soul” and I personally find it quite interesting that the world had fallen in love with her eyes, the same eyes that had seen so much! Her parents had died in the Soviet Union’s bombing of Afghanistan and she was fleeing with her siblings and grandmother to a refugee camp.

Okay so yeah I know your probably sitting there like.. okay that’s all dandy but dude… she’s got sea green eyes who wouldn’t love them? But I guess the point I was making is that eyes really do seem like the windows to the soul, so maybe they shouldn’t be changed. Also, beauty is in the eye of the beholder and what you may find average might be beautiful to another. I’m pretty sure that Sharbat Gula didn’t care much for her eye colour, girl had bigger fish to fry, but those eyes captivated North America, and she didn’t even know it. I guess what I’m saying is that we give importance to light eyes because of the culture we’re in, that shouldn’t devalue the beauty of the browns… because they are still their own window.. :3

The whole idea about changing your eye colour is defiantly an interesting one. Gets me simultaneously excited and disturbed… O_o. Perhaps this is the beginning of even larger human advancements in the cosmetic fields. But the only thing is… people are so easily confused and lead astray… maybe we have been placing too much emphasis on looks and the option of changing things can and will be taken out of hand and exploited. Maybe one day people might be able to completely reinvent themselves. Not sure if that’s a good or bad thing… maybe it sounds weird because we aren’t used to it. Change is always odd in the beginning but eventually people tend to settle in. But this new idea of the future confuses me, I’m not sure if these changes are good or bad. Maybe they don’t have to be either. I just hope people don’t lose focus on the shiz that really matters…

Till next time!... Cheerioss!

~YEE YEE

Hearts & Sheit. <3