Bartender Chp 30.
Here We Go
“Hard work is all that’s needed to reach a dream? I doubt it. You also need luck and talent.
But one thing is for sure though. No matter how much hard work you do, there is no guarantee that you will be a Pro.
However, i never met a Pro who hasn’t worked hard
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Adapt or die
I enjoy talking to women as much as i do hanging out with dudes. There are those who are just socially talented and those who have to learn, I am a learner.
As a Learner, i know there are situations you are able to take your time or speed through. Thinking a while back, remembering my first clubbing experience, it was a situation where i had to think fast.
IT WAS A DISASTER. So many people, I didnt know what to do, I was nervous who to talk to, and I was just plain scared to dance and ran outside. My good friend “Oro” was fed up with my anxiety and forced me to enjoy myself. Here’s how: grabbed me, brought me to dance floor, left me with a bunch of people, and then he left…..what a friend haha.
My dad did a similar situation to me, but it was about swimming. I was only 7,just started learning how to swim. My dad brought me to the pool and I was scared to go into the deep end. So my dad used his parenting skills. Lifted me up, walked to the deep end….it was 12 ft(im like a 3 ft kid), threw me in and said:
“I’ll save you, but swim to the wall first. If you dont calm down and swim to the wall, you are gonna drown “
Just like my swimming experience, in the club, i had to calm down or else i would end up panicking and lose myself. When your in a situation when you have no control and fear is playing with your heartbeats, Your usually stuck with 2 options, Adapt or “die”.
I hate the methods used on me, but glad they did it.
Challenging the future
“If your future self appeared in front of you and told you to give up on your dreams because you’ll never reach them, would you stop?”
A person’s life is a living diary , it is like a book with a ridiculous amount of pages worth of stories, feelings, and experience.
The great thing about reading a book is, you start at the beginning not knowing what the end is. The reader get’s the thrill of reading the whole book to understand what the ending is.
I really hate it when someone spoils the fun by telling me the ending of the book when i barely reached the middle of it.
….I would really hate it, if someone ruined the excitement for my future by telling me my destiny when I’m barely in my 20’s.
The past is written in stone, the present is where we actually live, and the future is place we choose to be at when we get there, which has endless possibilities.
I dont think the future is meant to be known, if it was, then it takes most of the fun from imagining and living. There wouldn’t be any journey worth taking, no adventure worth making, no damn mountain worth climbing.
However, if my future self did tell me that I didn’t reach my dreams i’d say: “No i wont, but thank you anyways. Now all I have to do is live happier and try harder than you ever did and make sure i reach it.
hmm
Sometimes I hate the sense of having Patriotism, only when it overrides the sense of Humanity.
What’s the point of loving your own country, when you stop loving the people who live in it?
From “America the Ignorant”
http://current.com/groups/progressive-america/92639733_a-civics-lesson-for-america-the-ignorant.htm
3 Terms that people throw around and don’t know the meaning of:
1) Constitution - A very simple document that outlines the fundamentals of United States Doctrine. The Constitution’s main purpose is to protect the people from unlawful treatment by the Government. Simply stating that something is Unconstitutional is an easy accusation to make. To prove it; usually leads to troubles with the user of the statement. There are only 26 Amendments to the original constitution so labeling so many things as Unconstitutional pretty much statistically makes most of the accusations false. For instance the freedom of speech only guarantees you freedom of persecution by the Government, and only the government. You can’t say whatever you want to a private individual and not expect a backlash. You also can’t make threats and false accusations. Those are superseded by the Justice System.
2) Socialism - Is a governmental system. Not economic. It has nothing to do with Free Trade or how a person can make money within their own country. Close to every modern nation in the world operates in a Socialist fashion today. Many people have begun to accuse the United States of becoming Socialist, but they are either ignorant of the meaning or denying the last century. The United States is a Socialist country already. In fact the Public Education system is one of the largest and most successful Socialist programs in the history of human civilization. Medicare is another example. Social Security is another one. Municipal road work. The Interstate System. The list goes on and on. Pretty much anything that the Government does for you with your tax dollars is Socialism. If you want to protest this; stop drinking your town water. Stop driving on paved roads. Plow your own Interstate. Teach your own kids K-12. Socialism is paying your Government in Taxes and in return they give you services that would cost you a lot more in private sale. Nazis and Soviets weren’t Socialist. They called themselves this for Propaganda because it’s a “caring system”. They were in fact Totalitarian Fascist and Dictators. I’m not going to explain the meaning of the last two because if you can’t understand that the US doesn’t operate like that you can’t understand the meaning’s of these words.
3) Communism - This is purely an economic system. It has nothing to with the way the Government governs the people. Communism is a flawed system in that it relies all on trust of the Government. In Communism the totaled income of the country is divided evenly amount the Citizens. There are no social classes, no tax brackets, and property is distributed among the people not bought and sold by individuals. It’s great in theory but no government seems to be able to handle the burden and trust needed to implement it. The Soviets butchered the system into punishing the people and reaping the benefits of the private sector’s lost income. The United States will never be a Communist society. Financial regulations do not constitute communism. If pick pocketing wasn’t a crime and the government suddenly enacted laws banning it would you cry Communism? No, the free trade system would still exists you would just have to change the way you made money. You couldn’t steal it anymore.
There are a plethora of other issues sparking across the nation today. But most are to stupid to even address. Hatred is strong in the nation today and it’s disgusting. If we did have a Black Muslim Socialist President what exactly is wrong with that? Ask yourself that. Pull the words apart.
Black = Skin Color
Muslim = Branch of Judaism just like Christianity
Socialist = Last 10 Presidents fit in that realm
President = Elected by the people
From article: America do be dumber
Chances are that by now you’ve heard about the Aug. 19, 2010, Pew poll that found that nearly one fifth of Americans (mistakenly) believe that President Obama is a Muslim. Perhaps you think that a terrifying outlier; or perhaps you’re a believer, and then you are in good company. Either way, you’re wrong: in fact, remarkably high numbers of Americans believe the most unusual things. Although the portion of poll respondents who believe Obama is a Muslim has risen recently, some of these oddball opinions contain more consistent numbers of believers. Here’s a sampling of the nuttiest.
EVOLUTION vs CREATIONISM
To mark the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, Gallup thought it might be a good idea to poll Americans on their beliefs of the British naturalist’s theory. But the results must have had Darwin spinning in his grave, since only 39 percent of Americans believed in the theory. The good news: only a quarter said they didn’t believe it; the remaining portion either didn’t have an opinion or didn’t answer. (Also, only 55 percent correctly linked Darwin’s name with the theory.) However, it appears that views may, um, evolve: younger people believe in evolution at far higher rates than older ones.
WITCHCRAFT
It seems obvious that it’s not a good idea to put too much stock in withcraft. But it turns out that 21 percent of Americans believe there are real sorcerors, conjurers, and warlocks out there. And that’s just one of the several paranormal beliefs common among Americans, according to Gallup: 41 percent believe in ESP, 32 percent in ghosts, and a quarter in astrology. In fairness, the numbers in this poll are a little old—they date back to 2005. But then again, if people haven’t changed their mind since the Enlightenment, it’s not clear another half decade would make much difference.
DEATH PANELS
From Facebook to faith: that’s how a spurious rumor became part of the national dialogue. On Facebook, Sarah Palin wrote in August 2009 that Obama would institute a “death panel” as part of health-care reform. Soon pundits and politicians were demagoguing the issue into common currency. Even in August 2010, one year after the initial burst and five months after health reform was signed into law, the belief lingers. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, four in 10 Americans mistakenly believe the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act creates a panel that makes decisions about end-of-life care.
SADDAM’S WMDs AND 9/11 INVOLVEMENT
Even years after claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction or had links to the September 11 attacks had been debunked, not all Americans were convinced. In a June 2007 NEWSWEEK poll, four years after the invasion of Iraq, 41 percent believed Saddam was involved in 9/11—even though President Bush had said otherwise as early as September 2003. Wild views on 9/11 are in fact still rampant. In September 2009, Public Policy Polling found that a quarter of Democrats suspected Bush had something to do with the attacks. Meanwhile, many Americans also remain convinced that Saddam had WMDs, even though inspectors haven’t found any in the seven years since the invasion. Still, as of 2006, half of Americans believed that, according to Harris. Who knows where they got that idea?
HELIOCENTRISM
Didn’t we clear this one up in the 16th century? Copernicus be damned, 20 percent of Americans were still sure in 1999 that the sun revolved around the Earth. Gallup, the pollster that conducted the study, gamely tried to dress it up by celebrating the fact that “four out of five Americans know Earth revolves around the sun,” but we’re not buying.
HISTORY OF RELIGION
If mutual understanding is the key to tolerance, we’re in trouble. According to NEWSWEEK’s 2007 What You Need to Know poll, barely half of Americans were correctly able to state that Judaism was older than both Christianity and Islam. Another 41 percent weren’t sure; in case you’re in that group, here goes: Judaism is the oldest of the Abrahamic faiths, followed by Christianity—which reveres the Jewish prophets (including Moses, above)—and then Islam, which reveres the Jewish prophets and also hails Jesus as a prophet.
Supreme Court vs. Seven Dwarfs
It’s hard to imagine what inspired the pollsters at Zogby to ask the question, but the answer is striking: in a 2006 poll, more than three quarters of Americans could name at least two of the seven dwarfs, while not quite a quarter could name two members of the Supreme Court. NEWSWEEK’s response is a split decision, if you will: on the one hand, Disney is as much a symbol of America as the high court, and those dwarfs are adorable. On the other hand, it should be easy to name only two out of a pool of nine options. Objection sustained!
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
Lost? Don’t ask an American. Sixty-three percent of young Americans can’t find Iraq on a map, despite the ongoing U.S involvement there. Nine out of 10 can’t find Afghanistan—even if you give them the advantage of a map limited to Asia. And more than a third of Americans of any age can’t identify the continent that’s home to the Amazon River (above), the world’s largest.
Three Stooges vs. Three Branches
What a bunch of knuckleheads: according to Zogby, the majority of Americans—three in four—can correctly identify Larry, Curly, and Moe as the Three Stooges. Only two out of five respondents, however, can correctly identify the executive, legislative, and judicial branches as the three wings of government.
FREEDOM OF RELIGION
Who needs constitutional constructionism? Not one in three Americans, apparently: that’s the proportion that said in a 2008 First Amendment Center poll that the constitutional right to freedom of religion was never meant to apply to groups most folks think are extreme or fringe—a 10 percent increase from 2000. In 2007, two out of five Americans told the FAC that teachers should be allowed to lead prayers in public schools. You can see several years of the reports here.
PRESIDENT OBAMA’S RELIGION
Opponents of President Obama have been spreading false rumors about his religion for quite some time. Recently, however, it seems that the number of Americans who believe these untruths is on the rise. Among respondents to a Pew poll, 18 percent believed Obama was a Muslim, up from 11 percent in March 2009. A Time magazine poll last week found similar results: 24 percent believed he was a Muslim, while only 47 percent correctly identified him as a Christian. There’s some evidence that the best indicator of belief that Obama is a Muslim is opposing him politically, casting doubt on the accuracy of the results. Then again, it wouldn’t be the craziest thing Americans believe, would it?
I’ve always been stuck with 2 ways of thinking. 1) Do everything you can to make your self happy and 2) Dont try to hard living life, or else you’ll end up missing the important things. That sense of balance of the 2 has always been hard to figure out, or maybe im just thinking to hard haha…
“Enjoy what you have, and pursue what you want”
