Your Choice

Life is always hard, and it will always get harder. You will have people leave you, you will have people hurt you, and eventually you'll realize that you are the only one that you have in life. No one can do what you do, can think what you think, feel exactly how you feel, or be who you are. You are only as strong as you let yourself be. At some point it might seem that someone has ripped your heart out and everyone sees it, so they continuously beat it until you feel that there is nothing left to beat. But giving up isn't the way. Your decision to give up won't matter to anyone, because it doesn't hurt them, it doesn't change them; they are left unaffected, clean of any misfortune or regret. But you will have to live with your decision, live with what you make for yourself, so why not make it what you want?
You can dwell on the things that have hurt you and regret doing something different at that specific moment, but that won't make it happen. Sometimes it's best to just let things go, including people. One of the hardest things in life is knowing which bridges to burn and which to keep. So, this will be a hard decision, but it's one that you have to make. Whether to forgive or forget.
Making a decision like this doesn't make you a terrible person; everyone does this. And no one has the place to tell you who you need to keep in your life. That is completely your decision, one you must make for yourself; to benefit you, to keep you from falling every time something hits you. This is so that you can live your life, without as much pain and sorrow. Do it to be happy.

Rant of the week

With each passing day, it seems that life gets harder and harder. More complications occur, more problems come up, you get stressed and start to lose faith. It's unfortunate that we end up feeling this way but regardless, it happens. We all go through times of hardship just as we go through those days of bliss. It's inevitable; you can't have one without the other.
Sometimes we make it hard for ourselves. Sometimes we get ourselves into unnecessary situations that result in our own misfortune or heartache. We get involved with the wrong people, or the right people but at the wrong time. We end up in the middle of something that we never should have got into in the first place. But who is to blame but ourselves?

We are our worst critics. We take blame upon ourselves too easily. We are judgmental, hypocritical, and we lie. At one point in time, we all are like this.
Some spend eternity searching in the dark for something we may never find, but instead of giving up, we keep our eyes wide open in hopes that we may stumble upon that item we long to find.
Emotions are blinding, eyes are deceiving. A touch may be real but that feeling is genuine.

Transformers

Sometimes there really is more than meets the eye, or more than what there seems to be in other words. Sometimes we look so far into something that we convince ourselves that a certain thing is one way and can't possibly be the other. This isn't always what's best though, sure most of us know this, but we don't actually take it into consideration, we don't train our mind to see past our presumptions. Most of the time, we go along with the thoughts our mind creates for us replacing the facts and making ourselves feel dejected. If you look at it, we do it to ourselves, we train our minds to think this way. And when you really look at it, you tell yourself that it's not something that can be changed, that its inevitable and you will always think this way. But that isn't true and we know this.
Change isn't impossible, it's just complicated. Nothing in life comes easy, especially if it's something we really want. It takes time just like everything else does. And good things come to those who have patience, those who do for themselves and aren't dependent on everyone around them, and those who take responsibility for their own actions.
If you can take notice to what you're doing wrong or what you can be doing better, you are one step closer to fixing the problem or taking action on what you would like to change. This is how we can fix the problem of our mind garbling our thoughts and keeping our actual facts and simple opinions. Change is hard, but it's not impossible.

Sunday

Seattle at Miami
Seahawks:19
With two touchdowns, an extra point, and two field goals.
Dolphins:21
With three touchdowns and the extra point after each

Oakland versus Carolina
Raiders:6
With two field goals.
Better luck next week guys, lets get in the game and quit messing around!!!
Panthers:17
With two touchdowns and a field goal.

Yes We Can!!!

This day, November 4, 2008 shall be a day to remember throughout history. Today, America voted to turn a new leaf, we voted to start new and begin to live life the way so many of our Fathers had always dreamed we may. Today, we elected Barack Hussein Obama to be our leader and to steer us in a new direction, to get us out of this dark hole that we have slowly plummeted into, and to be our first leader who is not an elderly white man.
It is time for a change, not only economically or politically but it's time we changed the way we saw each other. It's time we saw each other as equals and Barack Obama is a great step in this direction. I have faith in this competent man and I believe he is the best choice for America and the change we so desperately need.
Through Obama's speeches of wisdom, he seems to be fully capable of taking on the responsibilities of our nation, but words mean nothing is what most of us are thinking. I will not doubt a respectable scholarly man such as Obama, and I am not. I'm simply saying that he can talk the talk, now he must prove to America that he can walk the walk.
His speech tonight was remarkable and honest and I am ecstatic to see that someone is finally seeing America through not just the fortunate's eyes but also seeing how us not so fortunate are living too. Obama has not only realized but pointed out the flaws in how America has recently treated our employed, and he has offered his views the Democratic way.

"We measure the strength of our economy not by the number of billionaires we have or the profits of the Fortune 500, but by whether someone with a good idea can take a risk and start a new business, or whether the waitress who lives on tips can take a day off and look after a sick kid without losing her job, an economy that honors the dignity of work."

An economy that honors the dignity of work, that's something I can look forward to. It's something that we should all be proud to have and should of had all along.

"What is that American promise? It's a promise that says each of us has the freedom to make of our own lives what we will, but that we also have obligations to treat each other with dignity and respect."

This is one of the many parts of Obama's speech from tonight that spoke out to me and told me that he, like so many of us, is ready to see America change, to come together instead of being parted. To come together as people, soldiers of our own lives, the American family that we were meant to become. We may not always like each other, but he speaks the truth when he says we are obligated to treat each other with respect.

"Ours is a promise that says government cannot solve all our problems, but what it should do is that which we cannot do for ourselves: protect us from harm and provide every child a decent education; keep our water clean and our toys safe; invest in new schools, and new roads, and science, and technology."

Government can't solve all of our problems, he is right. But they can do at least this for us as he mentioned. He can see these problems, and the first step in solving any problem is to first be able to point out the problem and then map out a plan to fix them.

I am proud of our decision today America, and I have complete and utter faith in the decisions that our newest leader might make for our nation, though I understand that not all of his decisions will be agreed with. May the four years following January twentieth two thousand and nine be blessed with new starts, open minds, and careful and beneficial decisions for and from our people.

Football

Favorite Football teams are:
Oakland Raiders
Seattle Seahawks

At the end of week nine, both teams are holding two wins and six losses.
Going into week ten, Oakland will be facing the Carolina Panthers at McAfee Coliseum.
Seattle will be facing Miami Dolphins at the Dolphin Stadium.

Schedules

Oakland Raiders:

2008-Currently second in our division, right above the Kansas City Chiefs.

Week 1- VS Denver, 41 ; 14 (Denver)
Week 2- AT Kansas City, 23 ; 8 (Oakland)
Week 3- AT Buffalo, 24 ; 23 (Buffalo)
Week 4- VS San Diego, 28 ; 18 (San Diego)
Week 5- Bye
Week 6- AT New Orleans, 34 ; 3 (New Orleans)
Week 7- VS New York Jets, 16 ; 13 (Oakland)
Week 8- AT Baltimore, 29 ; 10 (Baltimore)
Week 9- VS Atlanta, 24 ; 0 (Atlanta)
Week 10- VS Carolina,
Week 11- AT Miami,
Week 12- AT Denver,
Week 13- VS Kansas City,
Week 14- AT San Diego,
Week 15- VS New England,
Week 16- VS Houston,
Week 17- AT Tampa Bay

Seattle Seahawks:

2008-Currently third in our division, right above the St. Louis Rams and San Fransisco 49ers.

Week 1- AT Buffalo, 34 ; 10 (Buffalo)
Week 2- VS San Fransisco, 33 ; 30 (San Fransisco)
Week 3- VS St. Louis, 37 ; 13 (Seattle)
Week 4- Bye
Week 5- AT New York Giants, 44 ; 6 (New York Giants)
Week 6- VS Green Bay, 27 ; 17 (Green Bay)
Week 7- AT Tampa Bay, 20 ; 10 (Tampa Bay)
Week 8- AT San Fransisco, 34 ; 13 (Seattle)
Week 9- VS Philadelphia, 26 ; 7 (Philadelphia)
Week 10- AT Miami, 21 ; 19 (Miami)
Week 11- VS Arizona,
Week 12- VS Washington,
Week 13- AT Dallas,
Week 14- VS New England,
Week 15- AT St. Louis,
Week 16- VS New York Jets,
Week 17- AT Arizona