Get OvEr It (ignore the grammer I typed this in like 5 mins)

Yo, usually I talk about deep topics but lately things have started to get on my nerves. I always hear my homeboys say, "Dude every girl I speak to or talk to on facebook thinks I like them or I'm trying to get at them in someway." I feel their pain because I've had the same problem. Well....

*Public Service Announcement*

WE JUST WANT TO BE FRIENDS!!! STOP THINKING THAT EVERY DUDE YOU MEET IS THIRSTY. IS IT WRONG TO HAVE SOME FRIENDS THAT ARE GIRLS. WE DON'T EVEN KNOW YOU HOW CAN WE LIKE YOU AND ALL WE KNOW IS YOUR NAME?? FOR ALL WE KNOW YOU CAN BE A CRAZY STALKER!!!

Look we aren't trying to talk to every girl we meet. Females, it's not all your fault....The thirsty dudes need to act like They've seen a female before dang. You ruin it for the dudes who are actually about something by being a butthole. To be real they probably don't want you anyway chill bro. I need the people who fit these descriptions to GROW UP. You're immaturity is causing problems for everyone. I see why upperclassmen don't respect freshmen the majority of us haven't made the transition from High School to College mentally. This is so funny I've never seen so many people who think that their college emblem makes them different. THIS JUST IN...You are the same person you were before.....Don't let a College emblem define you...YOU ARE SUPPOSE TO DEFINE THE EMBLEM LOL.....Don't try to create a illusion of a sterotype that you think is attractive....be yourself....people can see through that stuff dang.....TO THE YOUNG MEN: In order for you to inherit the title: MAN you have to be a MAN....As a MAN you should know who you are in this world not who you think will make you attractive to society. To the YOUNG LADIES: UHHH guys don't like girls who front.....when he meets you and you act a certain way in the beginning but then as a he gets to know you more and more as time goes on you reveal the real you and he is is often shocked and then he vamps lol and you wonder why you end up hurt.....This note is not meant to offend anyone....And in the words of drake, "We not bitter.....you know its life....if yall pull it together maybe i'd have something better to talk about."

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Kriss Kross Style lmbo

In the early 1990’s a group by the name of Kriss Kross hit the scene. This group was comprised of two young men who became famous for their hit single “jump” and wearing their clothes backwards. In society we have become so bent on being rebellious that we have become somewhat “backwards.” Only a few people joined the clothing fad in the 90's but today, many teens have adopted the mentality behind it. Our clothes might not be backwards, but we are.

There have always been rebellious people in the world. People like Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and Nate Turner are remembered in history for rebelling. This great country we live in was a flower that bloomed from rebellion. But adults don’t rebel nearly as much as teens. It is like teenagers have a mechanism wired to their brains that tells them to do the exact opposite of what they are instructed to do. Prime example teenagers of the 1960’s experimented with drugs, guns, pre-marital sex, and protest; but most of those same rebellious young people who were soon evolved into up-standing member of society. They began to work white collar jobs and helped to push society forward.

We, now have that same problem in society. Teenagers have become excessively rebellious. It seems that in society there has been a complete reversal of morals. Things that were once thought as good have now become bad; and bad things now have become good. Some teenage guys now see it as standard to sag and wear grills and chains. And when they see a person dressed with a tie and/or a blazer on they think they’re a preacher. That’s completely different from generations before. In the 1960’s and 70’s they wore their pants on their waist and most of them wore ties or dressed at least with a respect not only for themselves but for others. Because I doubt that any of the adults or people around you wants to see your boxers. Teenage girls have their problems, too. They wear tight and revealing clothes and when a guy looks they get mad. That’s like me walking around in a police uniform and getting mad when someone comes and asked me for help.

Teenagers have also forgotten how to speak to people. Proper language is frowned upon; slang (especially offensive slang) is glorified. Some teenage guys talk to girls with absolutely no respect for them. They show no respect when addressing them or talking about them. But young ladies promote this by referring to each other as “hoes, B’s, etc.” It seems as though people now have forgotten about the golden rule that was preached to us as children,” treat others as you want to be treated.”

It also seems that chivalry is really dead, you don’t see young men opening doors for young ladies anymore, and you don’t see young men treating young ladies as young ladies. It has gotten to the point that you have to listen pretty hard to hear “yes sir, no sir & yes ma’am no ma’am.”

Teenagers these days have an unequivocal lack of apathy. Now-a-days important knowledge is frowned upon and trivial knowledge is exalted. All the youth cares about now is what Lil Wayne said on his new song. Another thing that’s backward is the fact that the youth knows what type of Jordans another person has on but when you ask them who their state senator is….they go blank. Why is it cooler to know about pair of shoes or a song that doesn’t affect you directly or indirectly; than to know the person who is conveying your beliefs to the national government?

I’m not going to stand here and portray myself as the anti-teen. I have my faults too. My apathy level is not where it should be, I love rap music, and I have my own view on reality. But if its’ true that history repeats itself maybe my generation is like the 1970’s and maybe we will change and become upstanding citizens of the society. So to all the youth in this room, WE have the power to change the ills of society. We are capable of change but in order to cause change we have to be changed. Just think about it most of us are in our last years of high school and soon we will go off and have our own families. My question for you is this: What are you leaving for your children? Grandchildren? A wise man once said, “Things never stay the same they either get worse or they get better.” I for one want to leave the latter.

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AUC WAKE Up (re-post)

In life we all wonder or worry when God will say the sand in our hour glass called life will run out. We often wonder about life’s final "common denominator,” death and as we mourn the death of one of our own. I challenge you to ask yourself what’s going to be left when these feelings of sorrow subside? Are you going to continue to follow the road you were on or are you going to take a different route. The harsh reality is that Jasmine Lynn could’ve been anyone of us. So after the sorrow what are you going to do in remembrance of you AUC/Spelman Sister? A lot of people are saying they want to go home….Why would you leave? If you really feel sorrow, pain, or disheartened by this tragedy then you will take advantage of the education Jasmine was here to get. But this note is not to bash anyone for being afraid, but it is to tell you that fear is not going to help. We need unity among the three colleges. A unified voice that will not only speak out about increasing security in AUC but also a voice that will advocate a helping arm in the community surrounding the AUC. Don’t ever get so complacent that you forget about the world around you. If we want the security to get better we have to get involved and start be active rather than reactive. Because there are kids in the west end who walk these streets to get to school and their life is threatened everyday just like ours are. There is a elementary school, a couple high schools, and thousands of families surrounding this area and they deal with the same threats we do. So are you only going to worry about your own safety or try to help the community in the process? How can you attend a college that promotes excellences and teaches you to change the world and you won’t attempt to change the world around your college. WAKE UP AUC PLEASE WAKE UP It doesn’t make sense that student of 3 of the best colleges in the world can’t wear their college paraphernalia outside the gate of their college without feeling threatening. WAKE UP AUC PLEASE WAKE UP Are you going to sit and wait on change or are you going to make a change? I hope you choose the latter.
To the parents, friends, classmates, and associates of Jasmine Lynn….remember to be absent from the body is to be present with the lord….she is ok now…..tears are ok now….but don’t let her death be temporary sorrow….make sure that what happen to her won’t happen again….I didn’t know here but she was our sister via the AUC and as a Man of Morehouse I am sadden to have lost one of my sister to ignorance….but ignorance is part of our world……just make sure part of the solution and not the problem
2 CORINTHIANS 5:1,6,8 NKJ
1 For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord.
8 We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord. Read Full...

Measure a life

Often times, I’ve been describe, by really close friends and relatives, as an overly logical person. The reason why is because I frequently ponder things that seemingly have no answer. But over recent months I ran into an intellectual brick wall, while conjugating a question that surprisingly has burden so many before me. That question is: What is the measure of a life?

I began my quest for answers by using the most invaluable tool in society today, the internet. I typed my question to the all knowing Google search engine and embarked on my mission for knowledge. As I carefully sifted through the websites given to me by the omniscient Google, I read many articles about the subject.

Some stated that life’s measuring stick is the accomplishments one achieves while progressing through life. The articles spoke of people like William Shakespeare, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Gandhi whose accolades are almost unmatched. They believed that people shoot to surpass people that have done great things and that is the reason why people should use them as the measuring stick for life. But I tend to disagree, because there are numerous people who have done great things but aren’t remembered. For instance who knows who Peter Durand is……(the inventor of the can to preserve food). Or how about this who knows who invented the electric iron….Henry W. Seeley. That’s evidence that not all people who do great things are remembered. I know the changes caused by one might be greater but all the people I named are great people to model yourself as but accomplishment can’t be used to measure a life accurately.

So in an act of frustration I left Google, unhappy with the answers given to me by it and went to ask for the knowledge of Jeeves. So I went to Ask.com and presented him with the same question hoping for a different answer. And that’s exactly what I was given because the websites I skimmed through said that life is measured by faith. The arguments presented stated that faith is a measuring tool because it determines what happens after death. For example, Christians believe that you have two possible places for afterlife heaven or hell. And it will be determined by your faith and the decisions you made while living. Whereas Buddhist believes in rebirth and that karma is the determinate of where you will be born again. All religion is beliefs and pertains to faith. And to the people who wrote the articles I read, that is how your life should be measured; by how much faith you exhibit while on earth because it determines where you will go ultimately. But what about those who don’t believe in a religion, what will they be measured by.

Disappointed by the answers I was given, I shut down my computer and began to think about it while asking myself; how do I measure a life? I sat and thought for hours considering all the variables I could think of. Then, as if in a seen from the Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner cartoon, a light bulb came on illuminating my intellectual world. I developed an opinion saying that the measuring stick of life is not only the things I read but most importantly its, you. As I thought about the question, I remembered this movie I watched a while ago entitled,” the Bucket List.” In the movie, one of the characters said that in ancient Egypt they believed that in order to enter the afterlife you had to answer two questions. One being, did you find joy? The second was, did you bring someone else joy? I believe the ancient Egyptians had the right idea, and that that is the true measure of life, the joy you bring to the people around you and if you died happy; that, to me, will have a lasting impression on the people you interact with. Because, lets be real everyone will not have the legacy of Shakespeare, MLK, Jr., and Gandhi. So for the people who don’t there joy will be the sum of their life. Joy is a recurrent theme in life because if you find joy you will be happy. And in your happiness you will cause someone else to gain happiness by being the source of joy. It’s kind of like people with joy, being as power sources of joy, and with every smile and kind word they distribute their joyfulness to others. This leads to those accomplishments, this leads to strong sources of faith and joy leads to love.

In the end, the measure of a life is not how much money you get (although I want a lot). It’s not measured by how many years in your life. It's measured by the life in your years.(Bill Clinton) It’s measured by the joy you bring to others as well as yourself. It is measured by the legacy you leave to speak for you when you can't speak for yourself. It’s measured by the love people feel when they think about you, it’s measured by the path you took and how you finished. I for one want to make my own path and finish joyfully just as the character in the movie did with “my eyes closed and my heart open.” How will you life be measured?????

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