Brain Water

A Stranger's Gesture of Kindness

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 06:00:00 +0000

A few days ago I was in Walmart with my Mother going through the check out line, and out of the corner of my eye I saw a guy walking kind of close to me. I at first didn't think anything about it, however I could no longer do so when he put his hand on my shoulder and said hello to me and asked how I was. I of course (being the nice person I am) replyed back with a salutation and told him I was fine. After this he proceeded to walk away and as he did so he turned and said "God bless you" and I replyed "you too". I thought this was quite interesting that a complete stranger would come up and say a few kind words without a rhyme or reason. I mean in the world we live in today most people only think about themselves and what is happening in their own lives as they go about their day. So because of this the strange man's kind gesture got me to thinking. If more people tried to spread kindness each day as they go about their errands don't you think the world would be a lot nicer place to live?

Attitude

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 05:53:00 +0000

Here is a little saying about attitude that one of my teachers gave me. If we all walked around and understood the lesson this little saying teaches the world just might be a little happier place.

Attitude

“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than success, than what people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company, a church, or a home. The remarkable thing is I have a choice everyday regarding the attitude I will embrace for that day. I cannot change my past, I cannot change the fact that people will act a certain way. I cannot change the inevitable. The only thing I can do is play on the one string I have, and that is my attitude. I am convinced that life is ten percent what happens to me and ninety percent how I react to it. So at the beginning of each day I always remember that I am in charge of my attitude.”

People and the Internet

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 05:46:00 +0000

People these days act so stupid over internet forums it is unreal. I happen to know of a few forums where the Admins and some of the members act so childish it would make you want to give up on forums all together. One forum I know of is feuding with another forum of the same genre over a bunch of idiotic things such as stealing members, hacking, and bad mouthing. Now doesn’t that all sound so stupid when in the grand scheme of things IT DOESN’T MATTER. First and foremost there is no such thing as stealing members. If someone wants to go to a different forum or website then they will and that is their choice. Secondly accusing someone of hacking is rather lame. Most people who have websites know the basic and maybe a little advanced coding. I seriously doubt that knowledge alone is going to be enough for someone to be a hacker. Finally we get to bad mouthing. This reminds me of how teens act in school, and my advice for that is simply ignore what a person says because people will talk about you and whatever it is you are trying to pursue until the end of time. Anyway my little rant here is over. I just wanted to get my thoughts of how I felt about idiotic behavior over a little thing on the internet out.

Politicians Gone Wild

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 04:03:00 +0000

Here is a rather funny story I wrote for English class last year the assignment was to take events from my summer and two of my class mates summers and make a story out of it. So here is what I wrote.

Politicians Gone Wild

On the afternoon of August 15, 2008 at a courthouse in Ohio, Barack Obama and John McCain held a debate. The Debate was about what each presidential candidate would do concerning the national debt. At the very beginning of the debate things began very civil, but towards the middle of the debate things had taken an uncivilized turn. Obama had began insulting McCain and belittling all of his ideas. The fact that Obama was doing this angered McCain and the spectators. It was at this point when McCain said to Obama that it was time to settle their differences like men, so McCain challenged Obama to a duel. When Obama heard McCain's challenge he told him that they would duel with pistols at dawn in Washington D.C.

The next day when dawn arrived both Obama and McCain met, and were standing twenty paces apart from each other in Washington. As they stood their the crowd of people that had came to see this event fell silent, and the referee stepped forward. On the referees word both Obama and McCain shot their pistols. Obama's shot missed McCain only by a few inches, where as McCain's shot hit Obama in the right knee.

Upon realizing what he had done McCain began to panic. Without even thinking he ran towards an unattended truck and drove away as fast as he could. When the truck finally ran out of gas McCain was at an american tailgating convention in Myrtle Beach.

Amazingly McCain was able to blend into the crowed unnoticed and even began to hold conversations with some of the people. One of the people he ran into was Travis Sutton which was a man from the Great Smokey Mountains and a glass blower at Dollywood.

McCain asked Travis if he could get him a job at Dollywood and Travis told him that he could, so McCain left the convention and went to Dollywood to start his new job.

McCain began working at Dollywood as a janitor. It wasn't the nicest job, but at least it provided him enough money to get an apartment near by. He worked at Dollywood for many months before anyone found out where he had disappeared to. One day on his break McCain's supervisor called him into his office and told he that he sadly had to fire him. The reason was because government officials had been snooping around the place asking about him, and Dollywood couldn't afford to be in trouble with the government.

After loosing his job at Dollywood McCain decided to go to splash country to relax. Sadly as he was relaxing a tree fell down landing onto both of his legs breaking them both. Since McCain was now hurt he was forced to return back to his family and to Washington. When he arrived back in Washington he was informed that Obama decided not to hold him responsible for the incident that had occurred months earlier. Realizing this McCain was very relieved and planned to make a public apology to Obama so that the public would know that they were now on friendly terms.

Catch Me If You Can

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 03:38:00 +0000

Yesterday I watched a really good move called Catch Me If You Can. It's about Frank W. Abagnale (which is a real person) and how before he was even 19 years old he used false identities and posed as an airline pilot, lawyer, and doctor and got arrested by the FBI for check fraud. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks and, Christopher Walken. If you ever get a chance to watch it be sure to because it is a very interesting film mainly because it is a dramatized biography.

Hello

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 03:35:00 +0000

Hello everyone as I am sure you can tell this is the first post on my blog. I plan to make posts whenever I can daily so try and stop by when you get a free moment. Basically this blog is going to contain anything I feel like talking about and things that spike my interest. So one day you may read something about being frugal and the next you may read something political. Every day will bring a new topic and hopefully something that you will like.