anything but love, right?

so it's funny to think that any movie could have such an emotional, yet mental effect on anyone. I think that after viewing 500 days of summer I realized my true purpose, my true calling. I think that love is something uncertain, something unknown, and undiscovered. this being the fact that all lovers find their way in some form or another, but none in any ordinary fashion. love is something unshared, unnoticed, and untraceable. it is in this way that love always finds it's way no matter the time, the place, the relationship, or the situation. the amount of love in this world is almost unbearing as love seems to be the catalist in everything bad. we always rely on love as the answer, when most times it is the exact opposite. I think that by watching this movie I realized that love is not merely what someone adds to to your life, but what that same person takes away when they're not around. love isn't what you get, but what you earn.

Welcome

So I think it is only fair that there by a place on the web where we can all complain, as complaining to those around us only brings drama, frustration, and more complaining. This blog is something that I never imagined creating, but I feel as if it will become a place to relieve anger while bringing real life solutions to the vast problems that plague our society today. I want to learn from the posts of others. I want to create a discussion among brilliant minds, creative spirits, and everything in between. I think that blogging has become the new social network of today and will continue to take over more and more of the common conversations of the past. Technology not only has created an ease in our world with the development of computers and equipment, but also stripped the basic human characteristics that have survived thousands of years. So this is the questions/experiment that I am bringing with this blog. I want there to be confusion, heartache, discovery, debates, etc. The only thing that I do ask is that a common respect of the mind and all its opinions must be maintained as a member of this blog. Blogging should be a place for exploration of the human element. This idea came to me as I reflect in my spare time about what I have really learned within my short term on this planet. What ideas have I brought to the table? What lives have I influenced? What capabilities have brought out my best potential?

It is in these simple questions that I find myself curious of the true path for me. I dont want to be limited by a title or position. I dont want to have to wake each day knowing I'll be in the same spot doing the same things. I dont want to miss out on the fun times. I dont want to feel too busy or too overwhelmed. Most of all, I want to do everything and anything. This will be my first complaint. The social system we live in today is constructed based on position, title, worth, ancestry, celebrity, and the vast other social-specific classes in our world. The fact that our country provides the best living conditions in all of the world yet plays host to the most judgmental culture in the galaxy blows my mind. How can we succeed when we are consistently placed into these classic social groups of in the in-group and the others. This post takes me back to a class I had my junior year about management where they described the theories X and Y. These two theories involve the classification of the employee.

Theory X describes the latest generation of workers (yes my generation) as: "...employees will show little ambition without an enticing incentive program and will avoid responsibility whenever they can."

Theory Y, on the other hand, describes the generation (baby boomers) as: "They possess the ability for creative problem solving, but their talents are underused in most organizations. Given the proper conditions, theory Y managers believe that employees will learn to seek out and accept responsibility and to exercise self-control and self-direction in accomplishing objectives to which they are committed."

Now taking these two theories in mind I think about how my generation has become such a money hungry social system only defined by the value of your bank account. It is more common to talk about what things are worth rather than their functionality or 'coolness'. I find myself thinking of the true reason behind poverty and conflict within this country as the result of being members rather than individuals. It makes me think how we are classified before we even make it in this world. It has created such a social glass ceiling that, without luck or extreme success, we are unable to break through. The social classification of 'everyone is equal' has not been abolished, but merely transferred into a new social area. The segregation of the past has transformed into the classification of the now. We live in a media and socially divided world. Now its our duty to change that.