Acceptance...and Not Just Self

People think that being anorexic and being overweight are EXACT opposites. They couldn't be more wrong. Those people have to fight the same demons; both inside and out. Self-hatred, torment, and hate from the world are just a few. We are so absorbed in trying to change other people that we never stop to look at ourselves. It's easier to find the faults in other people and sooo hard to find it in ourselves. Just like it's easier to put slippers on your feet than it is to put carpet on the world. Take the time to first, make yourself perfect and THEN work on other people. There is NO ONE in the world who has a BMI of 0%. If you want to look at it like that we're all fat. Just like that quote "Like birds of a feather, we fly and fall together." It couldn't be more true.

In our day in age we are the BEST in the world at judging, making people feel like they need to change themselves, and we couldn't be better at making people hate themselves. Isn't it funny? We have to work at making people happy but it's soo easy to make them sad.

For those of you who believe in the Bible and the Word of God, God's second commandment was to "love thy neighbor as thy friend" and in the Bible is says that the only person that is allowed to judge is Jesus Christ, and Heavenly Father. Why, then, are we so good at it? Why do we spend all day doing the exact thing he asked us not to? Because it's so easy. Why? Because we allow it to be. It's everywhere. When a man commits a murder and goes on trial the jury, judge, lawyers, the press, the public, the people sitting in on the court case, the people watching the TV and reading the newspapers. It's on our blood some people say.

The thing is, is that if we just stopped being prejudice life would be so much simpler, and so much happier. 

 We all make mistakes. They can't be erased but they can be learned from. Look at as a learning experience. BUT! Remember, the first time it's a mistake but after that it's a choice. So, don't make prejudice, hate, and sadness be a choice. Don't even make it a possibility. And if someone tells you can't Stand Up! and show them you can. Who you are is NOT defined by the words and labels people put on you. The meaning of life is in YOUR hands. Not theirs. Don't give them the satisfaction. Just remember, when you're on the ground and he thinks he's won, just as he's a coward he's going to kick. Stop him. Don't let life take you the way it goes, take life the way YOU go. You are important, and you deserve to be happy. Don't give into the lies the media shows you. Wanna know a secret? 90% of the pictures on the front of magazines, and people in TV shows are Photoshopped! You thought they were real? You thought they really looked like a six foot twelve year old? Ha! You can't be happy, and look like that. It's not possible. But! Don't worry. As long as you do what's right and is confident in who you are you'll be happy. And, as long as you 

NEVER GIVE UP you couldn't be happier. You'll see.

-Stand Up!

The World is Not as Ugly as You Think

Soooooo I was watching a show today and there was a patient who had an eye transplant and her brain was all messed up she was having hallucinations, and her eyes weren't working right. Her doctor fixed it, and therefore fixing her eyes. She talked about how she used to be an architect before the transplant and after the transplant she became a teacher. She said that she didn't like how the world was. She described it as ugly, and said that the world is not something she wanted to see. Her doctor, however, told her that the world is not as ugly as she thinks it is. Sure, there are murders, robberies, people lie about stupid crap to try and make other people happy by only telling them what they want to hear but the world is not ugly. It holds so many pleasures, and happiness the only problem is people are so stuck on the sad and the bad that they don't bother to see the happiness that they are offered. People miss what's in front of them. They dwell on the bad and only the bad. But, if we didn't have bad and we didn't have sadness how could we know what is good and happy? We can't.

I used to think that in order to find happiness you had to make other people happy. I was wrong. The person that is most important is you. You have to make yourself happy BEFORE you can make other people; and "make" is the wrong word...it's more of enable. You can't MAKE anyone be happy. They have to choose that path themselves. Isn't it odd? Some people are so stuck on the bad for so long that they think they will never be happy without it? I used to be..am one of those people. I always thought think that if I made someone else happy then I would be too no matter what they asked me to do, no matter how stressful, or how painful I would do it so that they would be happy so that in turn I would be too but I was am wrong.

Don't make someone else happy because you want to be. People can't pull the trigger if you don't hand them the gun. (Lady Tip #154) There are so many role models out there. Take, for example, Adele. Just in the recent she won 6 of the most outstanding and highest grammies. She won those because she made herself happy which IN TURN made others happy because they could partake in what SHE LOVED! Singing. Some may not realize it but art is the very essence of who we are. It's everywhere and nowhere at the same time. It's the ONE THING that speaks through us all. Allow other people to be happy because you are. Allow them to be happy because they can enjoy what YOU love doing. Don't allow yourself to be happy by partaking in the wrong things. It doesn't work. It's not real happiness.

You know sometimes we just have to Stand Up! for our happiness and who we are. And, maybe, just maybe we can show other people that they can do the same and have the same.


If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you always got.

It's about time to take a stand. Be happy because you want to be, not because someone else wants you to be. The world isn't as ugly as you think. You just need to look at it a different way. Try it. You may find you like it. I go to Gig Harbor High School and I know that sometimes us students there don't have the highest performance in happiness (or kindness) but if we can do it. You can too. What do you got to lose?

-Stand Up!

You Show Them!

Oh this wondrous world we live in. It leaves me in awe at the things it gives us. I have come to realize that we see obstacles in our life as just that. Obstacles. But, in reality they are a chance for us to learn and grow from them. For example, I liked this boy...A LOT and one day he asks me to help him. He asked me to help him...talk to a girl he liked. See if she'd go out with them. Classic! It's like one of those movies. The good girl gets ditched for some trashy, electic girl. But! You see, in that moment in the movie the girl would be all down on herself thinking that he doesn't like her, and she'd turn all vindictive and really go talk to her about how horrible he is so that she can have him instead. But! That's not me. That's not who I am. I saw it as an opportunity to learn. I learned that when the right boy comes (one, it won't be in high school...guaranteed) I'll know it. The best things are worth waiting for. However, that doesn't mean that you don't have to work for it, that doesn't mean that it'll just show up in front of you on a silver platter.

All great things are worth waiting for.....and WORKING FOR! 

You know what I hate? I hate when people make generalizations, even if they're true. I hate when people say "Ohh it's just human nature to steal, and lie." No. Actually, it isn't. You don't see everyone shoplifting, or lying do you? Didn't think so. Or what about during World War II? When the government made that HUGE generalization that all people of Japanese ancestry were enemies because of their heritage? No. Actually, they aren't. You don't see all Japanese telling Japan about our military plans? Do you? Didn't think so. People think it's okay to make assumptions, and generalizations because we don't show them otherwise. We let people make the status quo for us. That's why it's a great PERFECT time to Stand Up! stand up for who YOU are. Show people that not everyone fits in, and show them that that's okay! 


It's a lot more fun living in the spotlight. THE ONLY WAY TO LIVE IN THAT SPOTLIGHT IS TO BE SEEN AND THE ONLY WAY TO BE SEEN IS BY STANDING UP AND STANDING OUT! So DO IT!


Show people that who you are is not who everyone else is. Show them that you are you and you are unique in every possible way.


-Stand Up!

Tear it Down!

Hey guys! I've come to realize that so many people are worried about what people think of them. That's why girls are so afraid of just waking up and leaving the house-because girls are worried about their looks. That's why we only say, feel, be what people tells us to say, feel, and be. No one realizes that our differences is what sets us apart from other people. Our differences is not something that makes us weird, or odd. Our differences is something to celebrate not something to bash, and tear us down for. There are so many people in this world that are able to do some really great things, but people are so scared to live their dreams, and do their thing because of what people will say about them, and what people will think about us that we live in this little bubble and limit ourselves and what we can become because we're scared to be different, break the labels, and tear down the status quo. We don't realize that when we do that we'll be able to do some pretty amazing things.

I'm a high school student and high school is like the wild of Africa and a jail all at the same time. There's the girls that everyone aspires to be, and people that no one would be caught dead being seen with, and even though we don't want to admit it we are the best at labeling each other, and we know just what to say so that we can break people down the perfect amount that they will think they can build themselves back up but in all reality they can't. I am ashamed to be seen as one of those kids who are judgmental, rude, and frankly the worst but I can't say that I'm perfect, or that I'm the epitome of but what I can say is that I'm working on it, and so should you.

I have to be honest with you. If you knew who I was you would totally be saying that I am the exact person I described. In 8th grade I was exactly that! My best friend started dating a guy that I did NOT like. At all. I did everything to get him in trouble, and make his life the worst. I did it to say the least. I got him suspended a lot, and he didn't want anything to do with me. However, in the end we became friends, like REALLY GOOD friends, and now we're not even talking because we got into a really big fight and I said some things that I didn't mean to. I was mad because of something that happened that wasn't even related to him. I am so tired of people telling me what I need to do, what I should be, and what I should say and feel. I am my own person, I am me and that is not something that I am going to give up. That's not something that I am going to allow people to take away from me. Not today! Not ever!

So...it's about time to take control of your life. Don't let people take the opportunity to say what you really feel, and be who you really are away from you. You're not a mistake, all you have to do is not make the mistake of giving control to another person. Someone that has no say in how you live.

Be who you are, and you'll be a lot happier. Just try it. You'll find you'll love the feeling. I know I will. STANDing Up is one thing you must do, it's one thing that we all have to do to rise above the status quo and really show who we are because if we don't we're depriving people the right of knowing who we really are.

-Stand Up!