Saturday, April 10, 2010

My favorite website

I know this is going to sound totally unoriginal and very expected but my favorite website would have to be........Facebook. It's definitely the website I go on the use the most. I'm not one of those people who has a thousand friends on their account, I just like to make sure I have everyone that I interact with on it. It's a great way to communicate, better than email for multiple reasons. You can post pictures for friends to see, update your status to let people in general know what's going on and send friends public as well as private messages. You can also get updated on friends' lives within fifteen minutes by just browsing. In fact, Facebook is so good that many people become addicted. I have multiple friends who have shared concern that they are so obsessed with Facebook and spend so much time on it that it has taken a toll on their grades in school. I don't think it will stick around for many more years though. There have been a number of websites before it such as MySpace, Msn and Aol messenger, which are all no longer popular. It's just a matter of time before someone creates a more advanced version of Facebook under another name and that is what everyone will switch to.

Friday, April 9, 2010

Do your zodiac sign traits describe your personality?

Woah! "Life Pursuit: Emotional and financial security. Secret Desire: To have a secure, happy and wealthy marriage." So far, very much like me, but who doesn't want that? Basically my sign says that I look calm on the outside but inside I'm running with emotions, that I am a very social person but in reality let very few people get close. That I am stubborn, and hide my true self and that is why I may be considered snobby or boring. It says that separate myself from the world around me and am closely associated with "feeling good" so like comfort, pleasure etc,. I especially enjoy all of the senses like touch, smell and taste, am an outdoorsy person and like to plan for the future. I guess some of this is true and some isn't. It's actually very hard for me to hide my emotions, even if I try my face somehow betrays me. People know when something is wrong and it's just hard for me to hold feelings in for long. I am social, that part is right, and as long as I see that you are a good person I let you in easily. I treat people they way they treat me. I used to be very stubborn and was told that a lot, but I have learned to open my mind up more and realize that I am not always right. I have had friends who have admitted to thinking that I was snobby before they knew me, maybe it's because I am not super outgoing when I am surrounded by people I don't know well, but the zodiac got that right. I do enjoy comfort very much, I enjoy relaxing and having slow bummy days where I don't do anything. I also absolutely love food, perfume and nice clothes. And finally for the last trait that says I am an outdoorsy type of person, that is definitely wrong. The only outdoors activity that I like is going to the beach, and that's because you can just relax and lay there soaking in the sun.

Something that changed my thinking.

It wasn't any one event or experience, it was more like a series of events and experiences. I guess it started once I entered high school. I had new friends and old friends and was surrounded by a lot of new people. As time went on I lost some friends and it wasn't a peaceful kind of separation, normally it was b/c of something really stupid that left us both angry and hating each other. There was also drama with people I wasn't close to, over things like boys, rumors and just calling each other out on things. I always felt like it was never my fault, people just felt like fighting and being catty and it happened to be with me. And honestly I still feel like that about a lot that happened, because I am not the type of person to start something unless I absolutely have to, but I am the kind of person to finish something. And that's exactly how my attitude developed. When someone would come at me unreasonably or disrespectfully, I had to make sure I let them know that I didn't take that lightly. I would make a huge deal, get into a fight (not physically but verbally) and made sure to put that person in their place. It didn't always work out of course, but basically the outcome was always the two of us becoming enemies. But I felt like I had pride and principles and if those people weren't going to respect them I wanted them to know that I wasn't cool with them and didn't like them. So roughly five years later I now realize how much better and less stressful life is when it's enemy free and when you don't hate anyone. I have to say, for a person with my personality it takes huge effort to be nice to someone that I am having a conflict with instead of just telling them off, but you feel so much better at the end if you made a friend instead of an enemy that it is totally worth it.