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Personal

Brutal Honesty

I really need to start bringing a laptop or a tape recorder with me when I go on walks. I always think of the best things to write about, but by the time I get back I almost completely forget how I worded them and everything. The purpose of this blog is really to try to admit some things to myself. The best way I could think to do this would be to present it to a world wide audience.

You ever get that feeling where you know something is amiss, but you can’t figure it out? Well, for the past year or so I have had this constant nagging feeling. It gets stronger on some days and weaker on others, but it’s always there. There was a couple times where I thought I got it, but alas, it was to no avail. This is just, hopefully, a stepping stone to help me figure out what the hell is going on. You know sometimes when you believe a lie so much it becomes truth? I kind of get that feeling about my whole self. I don’t really know me anymore. I mean I am me and I don’t know me. If that is hard to understand I am sorry. I feel like a hodgepodge of different fads, scenes, and people. I don’t know my defining quality. Over the past year I really thought I gained a bunch of confidence, but I realize now most of it is just a facade. I think most of me is just a facade. I put on these fake masks every morning because I don’t want people to see the real me. I don’t even know the real me anymore. The real me died many years ago when I started to care what other people think. I keep searching to find the real me and bring him back from entropy. There is so many things I have done just to impress other people and it hasn’t even done that. Instead it has really made me loose sight of truly important things. I am at a point right now that no matter which group of friends I am with I always feel awkward. I am distrusting of everyone and I don’t like 95% of people I come into contact with. I am ashamed of things I really like and sometimes even deny liking them in front of people. I really don’t like me right now. There is only a few things I am proud of and it’s not enough. I really want to be happy with myself again. I think then I will be happier with other things. I always say I don’t care what people think, well it’s time to start practicing what I preach and stop being a baby. I really want to start being less sarcastic, it is my biggest shield against anyone. It has come to a point where it’s hard for me to communicate without being sarcastic and sometimes just downright mean. I need to start bringing the old me back maybe with some new spices, but essentially the person I used to be. I liked him. We were buds. I look back at old posts and videos and I really was arrogant. In the summer I used to ask myself what did I have to be arrogant about? Well, today I realized it was because despite my slightly chunkier physique, I was comfortable with myself. I liked me and in turn so did other people. I don’t know how to end this, but I think I am done for right now.

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Music Nonsense

Target is Indie?

Apparently Target has made some deal with the Elephant 6 Recording Company because I just watched two commercials featuring music from Apples in Stereo and Beulah. Commercials are really getting better taste in music. I mean M&M has had The The and Iron & Wine. Sprint has had Architecture in Helsinki. I guess people with killer taste in music are the new demographic. Go figure.

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Personal Philosophy

Complacency is the Enemy

Before we start getting into it, you may have noticed I went back to my old style with green replacing maroon. I just wasn’t digging the blue/brown motif. I still can’t get that damn title centered. I will have to enlist some help. *sigh* I always hate giving up.

I have been sort of restless recently, not satisfied with my life and being drove virtually crazy. Some may suggest I might want to change my outlook, but in reality this is how I hope I am in 5, 10, 20 years from now. It is feelings like this which inspire change. It drives me to do better. It motivates me to try to make my life better, fix what’s wrong and if it can’t be fixed figure why; then change the rules so I can. I have been satisfied before. I became stagnant, uninteresting, and boring. I was perfectly happy. I hated it. Something inside told me I hated it, but I was too blinded by everything going on to realize it. I look back and am absolutely disgusted with myself. I can’t believe I let myself be that way. I never want to fall prey to that again. I am on a constant quest to to better myself. Learn something new, invent something, figure something out, solve a problem, something so at the end of the day I can feel I have accomplished something; something so that I’m not just another leech on this whole human existence. The American dream of a wife, house in the suburbs, white picket fence, and 2.5 kids is my ultimate nightmare. If I end up that way I will consider myself a failure. It is not my idea of success. Change is the only constant, so accept it and use it to your advantage. Memories are nice, but don’t let them control you. You have a life to live, so don’t get hung up in the daily grind and go do something.