embrace positivity

Everybody in life  wants to be included whether it's at school or out in the real world.  I know I wanted to be included when I was growing up. I learned a lot while I was growing up and what I learned was that being not included feels that you are not appreciated. During my high school years, I saw this kid named Ben who was sitting by himself eating his lunch and I decided to sit with him. I knew how that felt. The conversation started off rocky because he really was just having little dialogue with me. When I kept sitting with him, then he started having more dialogue with me. I guess he wanted to feel me out first. I know everybody wants to be included but the thing is to decide if that inclusion is involved with negativity or positivity. For example, if you are hanging out with gang members who commit heinous acts, you want to be included but you are doing it in a negative way. I'm in college now and college is supposed to help you in regards of socializing with peop...

It's always good to have a solid and firm relationship with your mother and father. I was watching The Middle ( T.V. show)  last week and the son wanted his father to teach him basketball. That moment made me think of when my father and I were playing basketball with two other relatives when I was a teenager. That bonding between us was so priceless. That moment was not the last one, I have so many memories and I will continue to make memories with my father. Roles can always be switched. For example, a son and his mother can have a relationship, a mother and her daughter can have a relationship and a daughter can have a relationship with her father. All I'm saying is to cherish the moments and relationships that you have with your parents because life is too short to not cherish it. If you were in a foster care system or were raised up in unforeseen circumstances and you didn't know your parents, it's always good to reunite with th...

Appreciate the little things in life. I received a package today from my father and it was a journal that has a scripture from the Bible on each page. The cover says " I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me"- Philippians 4:13. If you don't know the significance of that scripture, it is my favorite scripture in the Bible. My father didn't have to purchase the journal and ship it to me. He was just shopping at a store and stumbles upon the journal and he was thinking of me when he saw it.  Little things can make a lot of difference. Little things don't have to big, that's why it's called little things. Little things can stretch from smiling at somebody to giving a gift to somebody that you are thinking about without that person having a birthday or celebratory occasion. Spread those little things around to light up the world.

Have you ever cried over something for a long time. I cry about everything, about certain situations that I went through and what I go through on a daily basis. The big stereotype that society deems for men is that all men are big macho individuals who can't be emotional. Well, I truly believe that is totally false because men have feelings like women but the difference is  how they express their emotions and feelings. I just know that I'm an emotional human being that cries about the high's and lows in my life. A situation that happened to me before the new year was an emotional experience for me, I cried last night because I guess I was releasing the emotional and mental aspects of the situation from my soul, heart and mind. I guess I needed a good cry. I truly believe that when you cry, you release stress, anger or frustration. Also, people can cry to express joy. For example, when people attend church and they testify ...