embrace positivity

I really tossed this idea of a celebrity in my mind and I recently came up with a conclusion. The conclusion is, a celebrity is just a normal person like you and me. The difference is that these people have large amounts of money. If we strip all of that money away from them, they would just be regular people without any extra incentives. I think some "celebrities" aren't grounded and they are big headed in the limelight and this makes it worse in my opinion. On the other hand a lot of celebrities are grounded and don't go into the spotlight a lot. A lot of "celebrities" are measured by their money and it is equal to success. In my opinion, I don't think this is true. Success can equate to love, giving, caring and all un-materialistic possessions. When you see a celebrity on T.V. or even in person, just picture them as regular people, please don't believe the hype!!

After I graduated from Mercyhurst, I applied and got into the Capuchin Franciscan Volunteer Corp. The Cap Corp program is a Catholic social services program. We have jobs (ministries) that we have to interview for. We are at those ministries for one year. The program has two houses. The first house is in Ohio and the second state is in the District of Columbia. I'm here in DC and a few weeks into the program, my housemates and I went to a social. Other volunteers that are volunteering around the DC area were there. I met some cool people with different backgrounds and I really enjoyed my time listening to their stories. Connecting with other people helps people grow and mature as human beings. For me personally, connecting with other people makes me communicate and if I connect with other people so often, it will heighten my communication skills. Connecting with other people also allows me to network and pursue different avenues for my future. God puts people in your life that wil

I watched this film a while ago but recently I watched this film again and this film inspired me so much. I don't know why it didn't inspire me earlier, I guess it didn't because I was younger. Despite all of Precious's setbacks, she decided to Never Give Up and not let her insecurities hinder her happiness. Even though she might've thought of giving up but it was people in her corner that had positive influences on her. That is love and support. You might feel depressed about your own situation but there is people in your corner that want you to overcome your situation. There is people rooting for you to succeed, you just have to seek them out but to be truthfully honest, they will seek you out first probably. The mother in this film is not supportive and loving, she wanted Precious to fail and give up. With all of the doubt that the mother was putting into her mind, she wasn't going to give into her negativity, she chose that positive path, most importantly t

Love and support is so crucial in the development stage and in adult life from family and friends. If you don't have that love and support , you will go through life vulnerable and with sadness in your heart. Sometimes that's not the case, people who don't have that love and support can rise up from that vulnerability and sadness and embrace life at it's fullest!! Every family is different in regards of showing love and support , some families might love and support you but they might show it in a different way than other families. My friend who went to college with me told me this just a few months ago; his mother told him that he wasn't going to be able to go to college. That isn't love and support, that was just mean and not supportive of what he wanted to do to further his education. But what did he do, he went to college and graduated!! He also complains that his family doesn't care about him and I replied by saying that they might show care in diffe

I really like the movie She's Out of my League but the main reason I like this movie is  because of the message. The message in my opinion was even though friends and everybody around the guy ( Jay Baruchel) thought he couldn't handle that type of successful women ( Alice Eve) but he proved everybody wrong. In the movie they were rating girls and that is so disrespectful so Do Not do this at all. I feel like rating girls/guys won't help your situation at all, it will worsen your situation. Just be a risk-taker and explore the girl or guy's dislikes and likes before you jump into the relationship. You should trust me on that because I feel in love with girls in the past without getting to know their personalities and they ended up having crummy personalities. Also, those individuals who tell you can't be with that certain girl/guy, don't listen to them because you can be with that certain girl/guy, you just have to be persistent (not too persistent) and explor

Two weeks ago, I visited a church called Michigan Park Christian Church and they had a guest speaker and his name is Rev, Dr. James Forbes and his message was about the black drape. The black drape was anything negative that consumes us. For example, the black drape could be anxiety, depression or substance abuse. His whole message was that even though we have the black drape over us, God can extinguish the black drape for good. God can extinguish the drape but we need to do our part too. Our part is that we need to pray and give our worries and troubles to the Lord and He will handle everything. People always say that they have bad days but in reality the situations in life sometimes throws you a curveball or multiple of them and you don't know how to handle those curveballs but God is still the greatest and He doesn't want us to move backwards, He wants us to always be pushing forward. Let the past be the past. Let the present be the correction of our mistakes. Be a champion

I titled this Art is Art because everything is art to me. Everything we as Americans and global ambassadors do is art. Doing your job is an art form.  For example, a scientists has several strands of an substance that will help cure cancer but when the scientist is in the process of making those several strands, he or she has to test each strand out and pick one that is the best fit and the process is the art. Another form of art are when models take pictures. The body language in which models pose for pictures is art. The angles in which they position themselves is art. I was watching the Ellen DeGeneres show and Kim Kardashian was a guest on the show and she was promoting her selfie book. I haven't bought the book but those bunch of selfies that she posed for are art. Pictures that some people think are provocative are art. I follow models on Instagram and some of those models pose provocatively but that is art to me. Not just the photos itself but the making of that photoshoot o

I don't literally mean raise hell but shake up the world by making a difference in your own life, somebody else's life, in your community and/or on the global spectrum. Shaking up the world will make your enemies teeth cringe. Don't just do it because your haters will hate it, that would be the wrong reason to do it. Shake up the world because you will feel better and whoever you help out will feel better also. Raise hell by not raising weapons but raise up positivity and love. Shaking up the world doesn't have to be a huge project, you can shake up the world  little by little and hopefully somebody will continue to shake up the world like a domino effect. Hopefully, shaking up the world will never cease, it's our job is to never let inspiration, changing the world, positivity and love fade. A few days ago I tweeted I would want to live in a world that gives out fifteen hundred injections of positivity and zero doses of negativity. Fuck negativity, embrace positivit

I haven't been to a mega church  and I don't mean any disrespect to any ministers who have mega churches but I don't understand how ministers who have mega churches may not know all of their congregation. Some ministers who have mega churches may know all of their congregation and I applaud them for getting to know their own congregation. I have always wondered about this. If I was a minister who had a mega church I would really try my best to know everybody in my congregation. The key word is try because ministers who have mega churches may try their very best to accommodate everybody but I 'm not sure, it's one of the questions that will puzzle me until I visit one and see how the minister will interact with his or her congregation. Back home, I go to a non- denominational church and even though we don't have a big congregation, my pastor's sermons are always on point. I would appreciate an always on point sermon over filled seats. One members of my church