What Exactly Does Eating Healthy Mean Anyway?

So I'm sitting here in my room trying to think of a new post to write about, and it finally dons on me. I should be writing about how the corporations and the "health centers" of America and around the global world try to get us to eat healthy. It would be nice to go to a restaurant, and order a nice salad for lunch or dinner and that will be the solution to not feeling guilty by eating something majorly happening. Well news flash, salads are evil! Did you know that salads nowadays are filled with empty calories and oozing with as much fat as a quarter pounder at McDonald's? I didn't believe it myself until I read an article and since I'm a stickler for looking at nutrition facts on everything I consume and put into my body, I was floored when I read the nutrition facts for a simple house salad at a restaurant and saw the fat content in it, I pretty much wanted to gag right there on the table. They think we're pawns in their game of life. They say that the United States is the heaviest country on the planet and how the Obese epidemic keeps growing and growing. Well I have news for you, it's not because of us anymore. Don't get me wrong, we are in control of the fast food places we walk into and what food we order and we're responsible for how our bellies grow and all that, but when we order a salad or anything in general that is the color green, we are expecting it to be healthy and we don't necessarily think to check the nutrition facts of a simple salad. Even though it is the dressing that is the culprit, it still doesn't take away from the fact that we expected it to be healthier than a drippy burger. You can put the dressing on the side but then again, who really can stand eating all the greens by itself? Not me I can tell you that much, and I also can tell you that I won't be ordering a salad ever again at a restaurant, not that I ever did in the past but now I won't for sure. I'll stick with simple greens and fat free sauces to go with them. The corporations and "health centers" can't fool me. They tried to pull a fast one but don't let it fool you. Just be smart and you'll win everytime.

Invisibility

Today, for the first time in a long time, I feel invisible. As if no one cares that I am even around. I feel as though I just take up space in a cosmic atmosphere fit for the "less complicated". I'm so complicated in fact that I am my own species. Every single day of the year I wake up and wonder to myself, "Why me? What did I do to deserve this? Why did I have to be the one to be abnormal"? Same thoughts every day, but then they go away, but today they haven't. Today the thoughts have stayed. I do not feel like I fit in and I'm getting really tired of it. I would give anything sometimes to be a different way, just live a different life, but after thinking about it, I realize that that's not possible and that I should just shut up and deal with it! I might as well, seeing as how life still goes on regardless of how you feel. So I guess I'll remain like this until something happens to get my mind off of it, I'll just take up space. Thanks for listening, til next time!

Child Care....It's What's In The Cards!!

Yes yes I just coined a poker term (which is one of my favorite things to do) and I am darn proud of it. This past weekend my extended family was visiting and I realized something rather self affirming about myself. That self affirming epiphany that had struck me was that I am super awesome with little kids. My mom told me, my cousin told me, everyone told me! You know how people say after one hears the same thing over and over again from one or multiple persons they start to believe it is true? Well, I just had that! I am not only awesome with kids, but they happen to understand me and know where I am coming from and vice versa. Some parents do not understand what their child's mind has produced half the time, so it really is great when there is someone that gets them, and that would be me. I have the forthcoming ability to adapt to any personality over time and understand the mind of a child simply because I used to be one myself and know what it is like to be misunderstood. It is very unpredictable what the outcome will be, but with a little bit of patience, adaptation, and communication, anyone could do the deed. To a child care employer, I am who they are looking for. I had coined a poker phrase earlier for a reason and here is that reason. The reason is because all these years of playing poker I have gained patience and wisdom to pay attention to great detail. I pit the poker game against life itself and combine the two and it works out because patience, wisdom and understanding certain behaviors are what makes a great parent. Now I am not an expert or anything along those lines, mainly because I do not have any children myself, but I do know what make children tick and behave. To all those mothers, future mothers, and heck even grandmothers out there, take it from me, continue doing what you're doing but just up the ante on the patience end a bit! That's all I have for you, carry on!

Praying during a Baseball game! Give Me a Break!

I was watching baseball last night and the sight of fans in the stands looking up to the sky begging for some help gets rather tiring and tiring real quickly. I mean come on, these are grown people begging for something good to happen, and asking for some help. Isn't that a blow to one's ego when you ask for help? It would be for me, I mean I dislike with a passion asking for help, I cannot stand it and when I do I look down upon myself. Same goes for everyone else in the world I'm sure, we all strive to be as independent as possible and to perform in life to the best of our ability. When that occurs you know you've gone somewhere in the world. Back to my point earlier, based upon my sports experiences especially as a Baseball fan over the years, what I have learned is that "God" takes the day off during a Baseball game plain and simple. Apparently the sports world isn't important enough, and the reason I say that is because every team that I have ever liked personally throughout the years has never won a championship, they might have come close and come within a few wins and such, but it still never happened so I've been deprived. Yes I could be just another bitter sports fan and be rather upset and negative and thats the reason why I'm saying "God" is taking the day off when there is a game on, but trust me, whenever you ask for help during any kind of sporting event the opposite comes true. When you pray for a home run, a ground out to the infielder for an out will occur. If you want a strikeout, thats when you get the home run you wanted, but it is against your team rather than for them. This is all based on life experience from my stand point, I could be wrong, but I sincerely doubt it. Come on people! No more of the praying, it is all a bunch of crap. When it comes to Baseball I am just as superstitious as the next guy, but still, I don't pretend to be religious just because I want my team to win, remember that! Get with it! Sports are exciting, but they're still meant to be what they are, no help necessary.

Marriage!.....Not So Special Anymore!!

Nowadays you see married people everywhere. Schools, workplace, local parks, doctor's offices. You see them everywhere wherever the public is involved. Wherever you go there is a person with a ring upon their left finger. It almost makes me cringe to a certain degree, and what irritates me the most about the whole thing, is that people of the young generation are getting married as though it is "the thing" to do. I mean people I went to high school with are supposedly falling in love and tying the knot as if it is a normal everyday hobby. Little do they know what they're getting themselves into. Marriage doesn't last anymore people! Divorce rates are as high as they've ever been, and people just cannot handle being around one another like they thought they did going in. I mean the average marriage lasts a little over two years nowadays, thats the average, and my oh my that is brutally short! What are people thinking? I wonder what is going through their heads, because marriage isn't a toy, it is not something you can turn on and off whenever you feel like it. Marriage is hard work, and according to my parents its very hard work. They are best friends, but that doesn't mean much because they're from the generation where it was easier and it was supposed to happen. Nowadays you don't have to get married because things are more independent based rather than co dependent based. I mean don't get me wrong, due to the current economy you almost need to have your spouse working too but there is still more opportunities now for women than ever before so it is easier to just simply be on your own. I happen to think marriage is overrated and it really does make me cringe having to spend my time with the same person every single day and have them be in my space but thats just me. People get married now for all the wrong reasons, and most of them are because of benefits and how it makes their life easier and all that, I think that is just a load of crap and those people should be punished. I turn on the television earlier and all I see is an engagement ring commercial and people getting married. It consumes even the media world. It kind of makes you think that the media and the higher ups want everyone to get married, all I have to say to that is No Thank You! Because I know who I am, and I know what I am capable of and my lifestyle doesn't fit with marriage, I wish more people were like that, its a shame! A big shame if you ask me! Come on world! Be independent!

The Media is Nothing But A Favoritism Game!!

The media in newspapers and television news and even internet news is nothing but a favoritism game simply because all they the reporters ever write or report about is what they think would be popular at the time. What some people consider popular in this world are the things no one really knows about. For instance, I, as well as several people I acquaint myself with like indie films. I love how they are low budget and they feel laid back, and the writing is actually better than any expensive production they have out there nowadays. When you look at sports, all the reporters ever put in the news are events about big payroll teams like the Yankees, Red Sox, Patriots, and even the Steelers. No one writes or reports about the small market teams, and to me that is unfair because they play the same game, they have some really talented players that deserve recognition of some kind, and they work hard just like anyone else in their profession does, and some of them even deserve the same hefty contracts that the popular players get, but since it is a favoritism game they won't get that money. Such an unfortunate state of affairs if you think about it. It makes me sad sometimes because I think about it and wonder what if a lot about some players getting the same salaries as the big timers do. If that would happen, the sport would be better because the good guys would win in the end and get their fair due, but seeing as how the world does not work like that, life goes on and we continue doing what we do every single day. It kind of makes you think though, if things were different would we even like it, and what I have to say to that is, Yes!! We would definitely love it because the small timers like us who like the small time things and are a big fan of the unknowns would love to get the attention we deserve. I think the world better shape up and take notice of what they are missing out on. Loosen up world! Understand what you are missing out on and get with it. Would the world be better off? You bet your arse it would!!

Degree? Really? America Isn't So Free Afterall!!

Today I applied for a freelance writing job. I didn't get it simply because I lacked the right education as well as experience necessary to write about what they needed me to write about. That explanation was definitely okay because it was right on. It was very exact and I appreciated them for informing me and telling me the truth unlike other companies who just leave you hanging and wondering why. The thing about it is that you pretty much need education and experience necessary to live the American dream. No matter if it is just to paint a house, they require you to take a special test and this and that in order to even have a smidgeon of a chance to land the mode of employment you want to be employed in. My stance on education has always been clear as night and day. I have never been a proponent on sitting in class and doing school work and paying attention to a boring instructor attempting to teach me something that I can find out in books. It has never appealed nor will it ever appeal to me. The sad part about it is that I had to do it for years from Kindergarten to post high school and it drove me crazy. Education should not be necessary in my opinion because if you already know what you're doing and you have been doing it for a long time, there is no reason to get a degree to advance yourself because you're probably more qualified than anyone else applying for that same job is. Yet they (the powers that be in the chosen industry) pick the person with the educational background, and it doesn't make sense and it never will to me. I am just as good of a writer as anyone else they have in those companies and I consider myself a very smart person with an above average IQ (because it is true and I have been tested) and it is an insult to not be chosen for something that I think I would be really great at. America is obviously not as free as we thought it was and as much as she labels herself as. All the want ads and Classifieds sections of newspapers and online postings all want education and experience, just a sad, sad state of affairs. Hopefully it changes because the world is missing out on a lot of talented people who are just waiting in the weeds to show off what they have. Something must be done about this, some way, somehow.