True Inspiration

I recently started podcasts to listen to other stories and learn more things. I listened to a podcast by this guy named Jocko Willink who is a retired navy seal and has his own website, Facebook page and more. I am not referring to this guy though I want to talk about the guy he had on his podcast yesterday. Rob Jones is who I is the true inspiration in my mind. He is a Marine but suffered a major injury a couple years back which made him have to retire from the Marines. This guys job was to find IEDs for his platoon to keep them from encountering them unexpectedly. One day in the field he was not able to find the IED on time and he suffered the mistake. Rob Jones became a double amputee above the knee. Do not think this stopped this Marine it did not he pushed on and now lives a happy life. What I found really interesting was he went to the 2012 Para Olympics and got a Bronze medal in rowing. I also found it really cool that he taught himself to ride a bike again and rode cross country from Maine to southern California. He has a phrase that really gets to me and can relate to anybody. There is weight on everyones shoulders and you can either let it drag you to the ground or you can push yourself and eventually that weight will feel like nothing. I certainly did not get it word for word but he is referring to a work out technique in which a person works out with a certain weight and gets used to that weight. He also has a journal of his time in the Marines that tells an amazing story with great detail he continues to write about his everyday life.Rob Jones is also soon going to do 31 marathons in 31 days in 31 different locations. To follow his progress in this incredible event go to robjonesjourney.com you can also see which locations he will be in on which dates. I want to thank this man for telling his story and being a true inspiration not just to me but everyone who encounters him.Thank you Rob Jones for all you have done.

Night and Day

Everyone has dark and light inside them you just have to acknowledge it. I know I have anger in me and some days its hard to fight it off and keep it at bey. I can feel it lurking at the edges of my mind some days and it does get out without me realizing it right away. It feels like a beast that I have to control each and every day so I do not accidentally let it out and the beast hurt someone I care about. Them there is also the light which is a respite from that darkness. The light allows me to laugh and smile with the people I care about. I can also joke around with them and be compassionate if someone is hurt or needs the comfort. I can help a little kid tie their shoe just because they asked me too while walking down the hallway. Despite this light the darkness still wants to sneak up on me and dig its claws into me and not want to let go until its done with me for that day. So its like Ying and Yang, dark and light , day and night, which ever way you want to see it they are there inside of everyone lurking to be let out. Sadness, hatred, disgust, anger, jealousy, and many more can be considered your beast that you fight off everyday. Compassion, love, caring, helping, trust, and happiness are considered some of the lighter emotions that can drag us out of the darkness for just a little while. I believe each and every person has both of these qualities in them they just may or may not know it or not want to accept they are there. Even in everyday life there is light and dark or in the literal sense of night and day. There is murder, death,heart break, or just a pissed off person that day is the dark. If you have light or just found it never let go. It will help you though the darkness in the world and have happiness where everywhere you look there is not any. If it's a child or true love hold it it tight and never let forget they are your light in this world of night and day.

Note: This post was a draft for awhile so I did not forget what I wanted to say I just wanted to wait to add the picture before I published it.

What is this world coming too?

I have been seeing it a lot on Facebook lets see what you think. There are a few opinions of all the natural disasters happening in the world lately which one do you think is true? The main opinion I have been seeing is that God is coming back to this world that is why all the shocking amount of disasters are occurring.I do not think that could be true because I do not understand how a book that was made a couple thousand years ago could have known that what is happening now could have come true. It does not mean I am putting down the people who do believe I just do not. Another idea is that the Earth is finally taking revenge against humans for trying to kill it for thousands of years. It could also be that the movie The Day after Tomorrow is coming true and the world is doing what it has done for millennia and is resetting itself. This one is a strange one but it could also be the government controlling the weather. This is a strange one to me because if the government is doing this what kind of political advancements does controlling the weather do. Maybe it is to raise political polls or opinions. If the president knows about this then why is he allowing all the deaths to happen. What is your opinion or what ideas do you have on all the natural disasters happing?

What is a survivor?

The definition I am referring to is: To carry on despite hardships or trauma; persevere. I want people to know this one because everyone has experienced a hard time or two. So every time you are thrown into a situation that is difficult remember to be strong. If a person o people put you in that pit of misery claw your way out as a way of saying "Fuck you" to them. If it is a pit of a pit of despair or being thrown to the side of the road because someone thinks you are worthless then remember you are a survivor. A survivor is someone that no matter the difficulty of an issue they will always pull theirselves out of it and try their best not to let anyone else put them in a spot like that again. I understand being a survivor myself because I did not have the best childhood but I am here today and am happy. To be lied to and manipulated for the first decade of my life has taken its toll but I am here today and I understand what was done to m so I do my best to laugh and smile every time I can. I did have some help along the way though which is not a bad thing it is a good thing. My father has helped me with many things like helping myself threw the verbal and emotional hurt I went threw. So do not turn down the help when it is offered sometimes it is needed. Remember your the one who has the last say in weather or not you want to get out of the hell you are in or gone threw. Are you a survivor?

The sport I Love

Well if you are keeping up with my posts maybe you have seen that I have mentioned wrestling a few times. I have mentioned this sport a few times because I love it since the day I started. It is hard to explain but just the difficulty of the sport and the challenge is what makes it so much of an enjoyment for me. Since the first year I wrestled I somehow gained a reputation for being tough and stronger than I look. I have always enjoyed pushing myself to my bodies limit and past it so this was the best sport for me. People still ask me till this day how I got interested in the sport. I remember in the sixth grade my dad told me I had to do a sport and the week before the biddy cheerleading papers went out. That week though biddy wrestling papers were being passed out and I asked the person that was passing them out if I could have one and he looked at me funny but gave me one. I brought the paper home and told my dad that I wanted to do wrestling and all he said was "I will call the coach." I was surprised that he said that but I was happy too. The coach had some problems with me wrestling as a girl but with some fighting I was able to stay on the team and did well. Years later that same coach that did not want me on his team saw me wrestling still, complemented and also apologized to me. I was not certainly not the best but I tried the hardest I could every match and practice. In the eightch grade I gained the nickname "Bone Crusher" because a match I wrestled I accidentally broke two of someone's fingers. I went blind a couple years ago and in the hospital I actually asked when I would be able to get back to wrestling. I had to heal first and transfer to Lorain High before I could even try to wrestle again which was difficult for me. It was frustrating in Lorain City Schools to try and wrestle again because they saw a big liability issue with a blind person wrestling. Maybe they thought that since I was blind I lost the toughness I had when I had sight...wrong. if you are a person that thinks that a person who is visually impaired or blind is weaker is stupid in my opinion because they go threw mor each day than you can ever imagine with that kind of impairment. I eventually went to the blind school in Columbus after I got all my high school credits and was able to do the sport I love with no problem and more sports. I wrestled on a team with a couple other blind students and visually impaired students. I really enjoyed that year because I was able to learn mor about the blind society and how some people think of it and how to wrestle blind. I particularly enjoyed my coach which was also blind because he noticed things that some sighted coaches I had did not notice right away. At the conference at the end of the season I suffered my first serious injury in all the years I have wrestled it was a bruised bone in my right foot but I still placed in fourth place. I wrestled six years which is not much compared to others but I loved all six of those years. Maybe as I get older I will get some kind of part time job in the wrestling field like a assistant coach or an actual coach I will see as time goes on.

A bad Reputation...

Well in this world there are many people that do bad things and earn the bad reputation they are given but what about the animals out there. I am talking about the issues of dogs earning a bad reputation and being punished for it. People get put in jail for their bad deeds because they have the common sense not to do what they did. What about dogs they are taught to do these bad things and do not know any other way so they are punished for it. I think that is wrong and should not happen to a creature that is unable to speak its mind about what it is doing.To get into specifics pit bulls are taking the bluntness of the human opinion and can not do much to stop it. They are ran out of cities because that is their breed and humans have taught them to fight till the death. Humans have also interbred this breed so much that many of the dogs out their are aggressive by nature, I say with the right training these dogs can be as much as a family dog as a lab or golden retriever with the right owner. So I do not think that an entire breed should be accused of all the crimes one person taught a dog to do. I think the idea that all of one breed is bad because one animal in that breed has done horrific actions is wrong. Just like in human society the person that does the crime is dealt with it should also be applied to the animal society. Dogs are just as smart as humans maybe even smarter at times so they can be trained with consistency they can be the perfect companion, In the years past many breeds have gone threw this process of known as being aggressive and then being considered an awesome family dog. People should not forget the past because it can show some truth for the present.

Seasons

What do they mean to you?The seasons mean a lot of things to many people and mean nothing to some. I guess I will start with spring the season of life. I think it means the season of life because new life grows in this season. Beautiful plants start to grow and flourish with just the melting of the snow and the sun coming out. Animals start to mate and give new life to this planet. It continues the cycle of life and keeps the Earth going on for another year. The season of summer is another good season for most people with just the sun and beautiful skies to look forward to. Swimming in pools to cool off or getting a tan are usually the ways this season is spent. I have not been a big fan of the heat for as long as I can remember so this is not my favorite season. Then comes fall the season with changing leaves and cooler weather. This is one of my favorite seasons because I enjoy the cooler weather and the rain. When the leaves start to die is when this season will start and when the world becomes a certain kind of beautiful. I think the last one is Winter the coldest season in a lot of places. I strangely love this season no matter how cold it gets or how much snow is out there. I love the cold and the snow especially when I get to play in the snow. I would love to live in a place when it is winter most of the time like Alaska. I think this is the best season to look at the sky because the stars are so clear and the cool air adds to the mood. After a good snowfall the ground seems to sparkle like diamonds which I think is a fascinating sight even though I can not see. What are your thoughts on the seasons?