Perception creates reality

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halfawake
adj.

The state of being in school. Made worse by internet addiction.

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Revision #1

I like to think of myself as a writer. I am working on two different novels right now and writing large amounts of poetry.

I am an internet addict. I'm trying to recover from my internet addiction, but the hardest part about it is that I don't want to be entirely without the internet. It is relatively easy for me to "pull the plug" so to speak, but that honestly isn't what I want to do. I would much rather just learn to have moderation to be able to go online occasionally but I'm not sure if I can do that. Time will tell.

I hate all kinds of drugs. This includes the things normally classified as drugs like alcohol, and prescription drugs. I will take prescription drugs if I have to, but I don't like taking them.

I love spiders. I once saw a spiders so tiny that I thought it was a speck of dust at first. Needless to say, I have very little fear of spiders.

As for my friends list, I add people who interest me. If anyone wishes to add me, feel free, you need not ask permission. But please leave a comment on one of my public journal entries so I know you've added me to your friends list; I will most likely add anyone who does this back.

If I ever manage to become a famous writer, which isn't likely, I'll be an Emily Dickenson style writer. I'm publicly rather shy, despite being otherwise online at times.

Also, I would like to remind me of another of my favorite quotes from my psychology book:
"If you think your mission is finished, it's not. You're still alive."

Another of my favorite quotes was said by none other than Ben Franklin: "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

In conclusion, I'd like to quote a plaque which appears inside the Statue of Liberty:

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

Is the United States living up to Emma Lazarus's words? I leave it up to you, the world, to decide.

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Revision #2

What is life, but a series of seemingly random coincidences? Is there such a thing as fate? That I do not know, and I never will know. But the more I live, the more I wonder.

Maybe fate does exist. Maybe it doesn't exist. But what I do know is that if fate really does exist, that phrase I mentioned earlier of a series of random coincidences is probably a better term. If fate exists, it may put you in the right place at the right time to change your life. But it just puts you there, if you don't take advantage of being there, the opportunity is lost.

Taking advantage of being in the right place at the right time may mean one of many different things. It could mean anything, depending on the circumstances. It might mean asking someone out for a date, if you find them interesting. It might mean asking a complete stranger if she is in the middle of a club meeting. It means not letting life just happen, but making life interesting and fun.

The saying that the best things in life are free is only true if you think of money as the only kind of cost. That certainly isn't the only definition of freedom. In my opinion, true friendship is the best thing in life. But it isn't free. It may not cost money, but it isn't free because it does cost time. If you don't keep talking with friends, your friendship may very well wither and die. And if you don't try to talk with strangers, you will never make new friends.

What have you got to lose? A little time perhaps, the chance at having wasted some effort, is much better than never growing and experiencing new things with different people.

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Revision #3

Imagine a world without borders, where everyone is free to go everywhere and anywhere because everyone is a part of the same country.

Now imagine that same world with only one country, one political system, one voice, controlling what its people think, feel, and even eat. Sounds like Big Brother, doesn't it?

But there's more to Big Brother than just the government; corporations are just as much a part of the consolidation of information into one source - one image. Which is why everyone should read as much as possible - read the newspapers, not just the mainstream ones, but the other community newspapers as well. Read the magazines, the ones online as well as in print.

Or not, what you do is completely up to you. But keep in mind that with all our problems, all the world's problems, that perhaps having the world divided into so many countries that many of us cannot remember the names of all of them might not be a bad thing.

Thanks to persist_resist, who created the layout Frozen which I am using as the basis for my current style.