This is

This is a picture of hands. Hands can tell you a lot about a person like their age, what they do for a living and more. These hands are beautiful. these hands have been through decades, these hands are special. This is life.

This is a place of pure beauty. Highs and lows, watch the valley as the water flows. Every color you could imagine is here. This is the grand canyon.

This is superstition. More of them than us. Might make your hair stand up. This is a black cat.

Six word memoirs

Boxed in but still standing out.

Memorable passage

“We believe that we can change the things around us in accordance with our desires—we believe it because otherwise we can see no favorable outcome. We do not think of the outcome which generally comes to pass and is also favorable: we do not succeed in changing things in accordance with our desires, but gradually our desires change. The situation that we hoped to change because it was intolerable becomes unimportant to us. We have failed to surmount the obstacle, as we were absolutely determined to do, but life has taken us round it, led us beyond it, and then if we turn round to gaze into the distance of the past, we can barely see it, so imperceptible has it become.” – Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time

To be honest i couldn't think of any particular book to get a passage from so i looked one up. This passage from the book, In search of lost time caught my eye because it talks about what people do all the time. The way I interpret this passage is when something gets hard, people tent to give up or make excuses. One particular line that stood out to me is,"We do not succeed in changing things in accordance with our desires, but gradually our desires change." Let's say you're trying to follow your dreams and things gets hard and not going the way you want them to go, we change our desires or "dreams" so we don't have to face some sort of failure.

"Reely" good quotes

 My first quote is from a movie called fences starring Denzel Washinton. Its a morality quote that Denzel says in one of the scenes. "Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner."

My second quote is from Zootopia. This quote to me sums up life in one sentence. Nick wilde,"Everyone comes to Zootopia, thinking they could be anything they want. But you can't. You can only be what you are..."

My third quote is from Concussion starring Will smith. "Need is not weak. Need is need... You have to be the best version of yourself. If you don't know what that is you pick something and fake it"

My last quote is from Finding Dory. "The best things happen by chance."

Reel life

My favorite movie right now is Fences. The reason why i like this movie so much because there are so many lessons that are given out in this movie. The setting takes place back in the 50's about a African american father trying to raise his family while coming to terms with the events of his life. Some movies i really don't like to watch are really dumb corny movies or like movies making fun of the original one, irks my nerves. I watch movies all the time. From going to the movie theater to just sitting in my bedroom. I prefer to watch movies at home because i'm more comfortable and i don't have to worry about anybody being annoying or any little kids. When i watch a movie, I only need about 5 things. My bed, food, drink, rainy days/overcast, and peace and quite, that makes a perfect movie setting for me. What the survey said about wasn't that surprising to me. It says i'm 50% extraverted which means in their words that i enjoy the company of others but i also value my privacy which is correct. It said i'm 58% agreeable which means i'm agreeable but i can sometimes be stubborn and competitive which is also true. Its says i'm 75% conscientious which means i'm well-organized and i generally have clear goals and are able to set goals aside. it also states that i'm 67% emotionally stable which means i'm usually calm and able to deal with stress but sometimes experience feelings of guilt, anger, and sometimes sadness which is true. The last thing it says about me is that i am 92% open to new experiences and that i have broad interests and are very imaginative which is also true. Taking this survey i didn't think it was going to be this accurate but it did surprise me on some things like being emotionally stable. If my life was made into a movie, i would have to play my own roll because i don't think there is anybody out there that can play my role better than me. In this movie, there would be lots of ups and downs and a lot of things i couldn't explain but it'll all turn out good in the end.

Photo inspred

Apartheid. A policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race. There are a lot of places and a lot of things going on in this world that we don't know about either cause we don't care cause or our news doesn't cover it. You would think that these types of things would be covered on the news when that's all that's on there is negative stuff about people dying, President Trump, or LGBT. I guess that's what everybody is worried about now a days is if someone next to you is a little different than you, who cares. This picture made me feel some type of way. This picture was taken in 1976 in South Africa when student began to protest for certain things they wanted in their school systems. This really hit me because my dad was born in 1955 and he tells me about all the thing they had to go through back in the day and i understand that but you never really know what it was really like unless you lived back there. One day i hope we can all come together and i feel like it can happen. If you look at it, everybody back in them days that we're on either side, racist or non racist are going to be gone soon and i feel like the millennials are more accepting and if we're willing, we can make a change. 

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Caged Bird

Wings Spread open
going wherever the wind takes me
but not too far.
usually we fly in flocks without second guessing
the mob mentality gets the best of us.
you ain't a man until you stop following ya friends
but in my case i'll never learn because i'm a bird.
With the illusion of flying where ever we want
us birds are still chained to the sky
flying by myself now but i still feel limited
Like a caged bird.