week in a flash (week 4)

1. I watched two awesome movies this week.  One was awesomely good (btw if you ever want to hear Kate Hudson sing, rent Nine, it rocks!) and the other was awesomely bad, I knew it would be that’s why I rented it. :D

2. Have you ever had moments when you felt wise beyond your years and then had moments where you felt extremely immature?

3. A few years back I started doing this thing where I say to myself “I love my life, I love my life, I love my life,” I started doing it because I noticed than as soon as I started focusing on how everything was going wrong it was easy to fall into a depressive, dark way of thinking where I would start saying things to myself like “I hate my life” and other such things that I won’t deign to put in print ’cause they don’t belong in my head.  I don’t say “I love my life, I love my life, I love my life” to try to erase anything that might be going wrong or anything that’s hurtful to me or to convince myself that things will get better; it’s just a way to remind myself that I’ve got a reason to live and that HE’s always with me.  Sooo…I love my life, I love my life, I love my life.

4. My bro may disown me for saying this but the Twilight saga has got some great characters…too bad they are stuck in one of the worst stories ever written.

5. With regards to a week two comment I made about people, I also want to say that people can also be amazingly compassionate and just plain nice.

6. My summer class starts in a few weeks.  I’m a little nervous.

7.Would you hate me if I said that I actually like Tim Burton’s adaptation of Alice in Wonderland and absolutely hate the book?

8. Two of the best sounds in my world at the moment – the crack of thunder, just the way it rumbles and rolls across the sky and how everything trembles and shakes when it’s really loud – in my opinion there is nothing more breathtaking, terrifying and beautiful all at the same time, love it!  And the sound Jack (my Jeep) makes when it accelerates, the raw horsepower and the strength is thrilling.  Granted Jack doesn’t corner like it’s in the Indy 500 the way Baby (my Honda) did but I love ‘im anyway.  (Yes I name my cars, get over it :D)

9. Happy Father’s Day mi padre! (and all the other wonderful fathers out there)

10. Even though you are underway right now and probably won’t see this for a few more weeks, Hippo Birdies bro!!

Give a Damn

http://www.wegiveadamn.org/

This is not a political move.  This is not a religious thing.  This is not a “behind-enemy-lines” infiltration.  This is me.  I saw this when I read a “news” story on Yahoo! and I went to the site and I realized this is important.  It’s about people being treated as people.  I don’t know if homosexuality or transgenderism or bisexuality is Right but I honestly don’t think it matters as much as treating people like human beings, respecting them, loving them, fighting for and with them, people are people and they deserve to be free whether or not they are homosexual, transgender or bisexual.  So I have joined this campaign called Give a Damn to add my voice.  I know this will bother some people, even among those whom I consider friends, family too, but this is important.  People have a right to happiness and love.  To me it echoes the struggle of the Civil Rights movements of the ’60s and ‘70s and I will never forget that at one point in history it was me that was oppressed, it was me that people were saying didn’t deserve to be happy and free and have rights equal to that of men, it was me that was being arrested and tortured and killed for using my voice, it was me that was being ignored and hated, it was me because it was them.  And now it is a different class of people struggling for the same thing.  And they deserve to have victory.  They deserve to be covered under the same laws as straight people, they deserve the right to be married same as straight people, they deserve the right to fight for our country same as straight people, they deserve to be heard, they deserve to be loved and have love.  And here’s a thought if you really want to reach them (I’m talking to my fellow Christians here) try loving them for who they are, just like God loves you for who YOU are, that is where you should begin and end, by showing them the same love your savior has shown you.  You can try telling me that God doesn’t love them but I will have to tell you that you are wrong, God loves you and He loves me, are we so different?  It is up to Him to change people if that is what He wants.  God is.  It’s as simple as that.  And I know that some of you will feel the need to “correct” me or take a shot at my faith or place a judgment upon my heart so go ahead – I’ll defend myself make no mistake – but honestly I don’t care what you say or think about me, I’m not changing for you.

*I Give a Damn*