(CE) Death toll rises in Somalia

In Somalia's capital Mogadishu 15 out 10,000 children are dying from the famine and drought. The UN are there to help the starving people but it looks like they're helping out much. Tons of people seem to still be starving and are living in plastic shelters trying to get food. The whole area looks like a scene from District 9! It's horrible to see people trying to survive and feed their families in these type of conditions. Floods are also a problem in the area where thousands of people are sheltering. People are caught in the flood in the middle of floods and some children have drowned. Many food charities are trying to help this crisis but they can't get around to all the people fast enough.

It's awful to see people in situations like this where as in the United States food is plentiful. I don't see why we can't help countries in need rather than going to countries and starting wars. We go around helping countries like North Korea when they had their famine so I think we should help out Somalia. If no one decides to help the people camping out in Somalia's capital then this situation will probably only get worse. I wonder what's has Somalia's government been doing about this situation. They really should start tending to the people as much as they can. We're foturnate enough to always feed ourselves where countries like Somalia could use some help. Everyone could lose a few pounds in the states anyway. I find it ridiculous how we're having an obesity epidemic while other countries don't have food to have one meal a day. It goes to show how selfish we come off as to other countries.

(RE) The End

 "The season is coming to an end". And as much as I would love to get to sleep in every morning, and have an extra three hours to do my homework, I still hate giving up high school polo for the rest of the year...

I read this from Ben's blog. Yes, sadly the water polo season is coming to an end. You could basically say my life is ending. Polo consumed most of my days and kept me busy. After the seasons over all I have is school. I've complained all the time about how tired I always was because of polo but I'm going to hate waiting for next years season to start. I agree with Ben on loving to have an extra three hours to do homework and just have time to myself. But I think I'm going to miss being busy. Having no time to myself and always busy kept me tired, which allowed me to sleep at night. I guess it's time for more sleepless nights. Swim season is coming up in Spring but in my opinion swimming is just awful. Doing twenty laps of the same stroke is just unbearably boring. And since swim season is going to be in the spring the sun will probably be out more which'll make me darker than I already am. I kind of hate it when people tell me how I am, its not like I've never realized it.

At least Club season is starting to keep me occupied three days a week. I hope to improve in water polo over the club season since I still have a lot to work on. I try to push myself to get better and I've seen improvement. Going to morning practices have helped me got a lot stronger even though I hate waking up at 5 in the morning. Even after all the aches, pains, falling asleep in classes because of high school polo I'm going to miss this years season.

(BC) One life

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

—Steve Jobs, in a 2005 speech

I believe this is very motivational advice by Steve Jobs.  He lived his life to the fullest and became one of the world's greatest philanthropists. I think this is a great piece of advice to live by if you want to get far in life. If you can live life without having the feelings of regret and consequence they could become huge obstacles into getting where you want. He's basically saying live life every day in that moment and don't be afraid to take risks. Each day you would want to do something new and exciting without having those second thought's of maybe I shouldn't or why not tomorrow. Everyone's biggest obstacles is themselves and their doubts. If you could live life without doubting yourself you wouldn't have any trouble in doing what you really want to do.

If I were to wake up and follow advice my life would change immensely. The way I'm living now probably needs to change. I'd be a lot happier, doing the things I like instead of just saying no to anything out of my comfort zone. If I continue to wait for things to happen for me I'll just end up wasting half of my life. Having the mindset that you might day at any moment of the day could change any way a person would live. Just look at how successful Steve Job's became. I probably would've done all the things that I regret never doing. I'd be a much happier person than I am now. Everyday I shouldn't be thinking about the things I didn't do and I should be thinking about all the things I did. If only I could see what's really important and go for it. It reminds me of a line from the book Fight Club I happen to be reading which is 

"This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. ~Chuck Palahniuk"

I wish I could just live a day without any regret it could end good, or end up bad. And that's exactly why I feel like I can't live everyday with taking risks without thinking about the consequences. I always over think about the debt I might have to pay. There isn't a day I don't worry and its usually tons of little things. I doubt myself too much but I'd like to think I've gotten better. It's usually just personal decisions I have trouble making. And since I can't overcome doubt I've have regretted many things I should have done which might've changed my life for the better. I want to have the feeling I won't have anything to lose. I need to stop doubting myself. No more regrets. I only have one life to live so fuck it.

(FREE) We have nothing

Think about the animals used in product testing. Think about the monkeys shot into space. "Without their death, their pain, without their sacrifice", Tyler says, "we would have nothing."-Tyler Durden (Fight Club)

It's kind of sad how true this quote is. If you really think about it we would have nothing without animals and the environment. People would not have gotten anywhere without sacrificing the lives of unwilling test subjects.
The breakthrough of cure's for diseases, and preventing from happening would have not happened if we didn't have animals. Yet what do we give animals in return? We give them less land, less of a natural habitat, we kill them, we eat them, and use them for our own needs. You can't disagree that we have benefited a lot off of the sacrifice of animals. We've become so self minded that we don't even realize that tons of animals are now going extinct because of us.

Take for example, humans used monkeys, rats, mice, all types of animals in space and many of them were put into great danger. Animals have no say into what they want to do, I'm sure the were all forced to be sent out into space. We use animals for product testing even when we know it's wrong. Animals are unwilling used for testing for cosmetics, soap, shampoo and a bunch of another everyday products we use. People are so self centered for the safety of humans but they aren't thinking about the life's of the animals we're killing and torturing. I'm sure there won't be an end to the use of animals for testing. I just think lots of people don't realize how selfish we've become. Without the suffering of animals, we would have nothing.

(RE) Music

 "It seems nowadays all music is about sex, money, drugs."

Justin wrote about how music influences people and how the music industry has kind of changed for the worst. I feel the same way about music nowadays. Music on the radio is complete trash in my opinion. You hear artists auto tuning their voices rapping or singing about how they beat that pussy or how they invented sex. I think music is a type of art and a way people express themselves. I don't think what a lot of music now a days is a art anymore. Music artists that mainly rap about getting high all the time is really getting overdone. I'm tired of hearing songs about rolling weed and fucking getting high. I'm not necessarily saying expressing what you like  but people are really getting influenced by that. People are getting influenced into thinking drugs are the cool thing to do. Drugs can get you into serious problems. It isn't just the music industries fault but also the persons stupid decisions.

"The music industry does this because it makes them $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$"

 I dislike where the music industry is going. Its all about money and not really about the art. If you listen to the radio you hear the same damn song about getting money and bitches 50 times. Music artists Record labels usually pay radio stations to get that same trashy song on the radio so they get mainstream. I'm not saying all mainstream artists are sellouts but a lot of them are. Musical artists sometimes are forced to change their music just to make money for their Record deal. Music is becoming less of an art and more of a business.

  

(CE) The incredibly amazing Steve Jobs

The devastating news of the passing of Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple the multi-billion dollar company,  has greatly impacted the World. He transformed technology such as computers, music, mobile phones and television. He was the creative mind and great leader of Apple. Steve Jobs revolutionized the technology of the world. His ideas effected society and how humans work with small devices. His first idea the small Macintosh computer with a color screen brought a total change to the world. Microsoft took the idea of the color screen computer from Steve Job. Steve took the company Pixar which made animated movies and changed made animation into much more. Pixar became a very successful company and made moneymaking movies like Toy Story, Finding Nemo and more. The icon of Apple also became a big part of popular culture.

Without Steve Job's life would be totally different. Computers we have today started with Steve Job's Macintosh. He made consumer goods more personalized and easier to use. Thanks to Steve Job's he made technology more social which changed the world. I'm sure Apple would not have not gotten as far and successful as they are now without the great innovations Steve Jobs provided to the company. His innovative products made Apple what they are today and without him many people question if they can move forward without him. Sadly Steve Jobs was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer which took his life. The world lost a man who changed the world's view on technology. His revolutionary work he brought to the world and redundant adjectives used to describe them will be missed.

(FREE) Time

Sleep. That's pretty much all that I can think of to write about.. I feel so sleep deprived. The only thing that keeps me sleeping at night is the awful morning workouts I have for water polo. Every night it feels like a burden to try to sleep. My eye bags are getting heavier and darker. I feel like the chracter from Fight Club which the is book I'm reading for English. The main narrator has an insomnia problem that kept him up for about 6 month but eventually he found his cure to insomnia. I guess you could say Water Polo is my cure to my insomnia.

For the last half of summer I felt restless. I couldn't fall asleep and I had nothing to keep me busy during the day. I'm actually kind of glad school started since in the summer I never felt tired and usually fell asleep for an hour during sunrise. Now that school started I'm always tired as hell but at least it allows me to sleep well at night. It takes up all the time unlike during the summer where I would just waste whole days watching movies alone in my bedroom. I'm not necessarily saying that's a bad thing but its not really productive. Having busy weeks are also quite awful. School and water polo have consumed up all my time during the week and sometimes the weekend. The rain has gotten a bunch of players sick on the team. I hope I don't end up sick. I'm already tired and sore, if I were to get sick I'd feel even worse. There's just some days where I just want time to myself or just sleep. I'm happy as fuck we get three day break.