Random Rant

It's Sunday night. I am sitting on the couch trying to figure out how to explain our Company, and describe what has been going on in the past two years since it was created, and the steps we took, and projects we succeeded in to get here, all for an article to be published soon enough in a national magazine. Sounds easy right, not really. While I have a brain block, I figured it could be a good time to rant about some stuff that floats around in my mind lately. Enjoy!

The other day while watching the movie Seven Pounds, I came to re-realize something that I tend to ponder rather frequently. In the end of the movie, there is a scene where Emily walks into a chorus performance that is choreographed by Ezra. What comes to my mind as Emily walks in is this: The purity, and beauty, in the quoir of children, maybe in first or second grade, maybe even third grade, singing "I'm Into Something Good," that cannot be matched. Children less than teens, sometimes even less than double digits, are some of the only existing "Pure" things we can embrace in the world right now. The sounds and the energy and pure beauty in their voices as they sing! It is beyond words. It breaks the heart almost.
Society and Marketing and Sub Cultures and so many other things are almost forcing children to live as adults, or place themselves in adult situations. Negligent parent(s) as well are looking to be more of a friend, than a parent, thus catapulting the "Adult" or "Mature Lifestyle" in these children. While the majority of us are so immersed in ourselves, and the life we are creating around us, and the status symbolism we try and portray, we almost forget to stop and simply enjoy the fact that we are alive, and that there is a beautiful creation surrounding us, that we have the privilege of experiencing everyday and night. That we may be a motivation for what's to come, we can be an example, on what can be done to keep things beautiful. Keep things pure.

You can't stand in the lines at a grocery store without glancing over a magazine cover with title(s) associated with gluttony, judgement, deception, lust, envy or betrayal. Turn on the television and out of 500+ channels we could be so lucky to catch a show worth watching that does not leave us in thoughts of the same. Our radio stations find the need to purposely use noises and innuendos associated with sex and domination and fornication in advertising their names and products.
Children below the age of sixteen wondering around in the streets at midnight, one, two a.m., cursing like sailors, rattling on about the "hook up" they had or are going to have. Pregnancy beginning to be the norm in children as young as 13. Drug addictions starting at 10 years old and sometimes younger. A baby boy no older that 18 months being made an Internet icon through video because he is smoking 2 packs of cigarettes a day. I have personally heard 13 and 14 year old kids, talk about their hangovers and drug binges from the weekend before. The hook up they had or how they wanna hook up with this new one tonight.

Icons today are no longer moms and dads, coaches, teachers, revolutionaries, preachers, one of a kind ground breaking musicians, presidents, versatile and creative actors, athletes with exceptional talent and motivational drive, educated business man and woman helping to create products to change life, veterinarians, astronauts, painters, race car drivers. No, the icons of today seem to be Sloppy, Drunk, Drug Induced, Half Talent Actors and No Talent Musicians, sons and daughters of millionaires living off mommy and daddy's moneys. One Liner Comedians with movies that run on and on about the same topics ad same jokes in every film. Athletes that are found Guilty of Drug Crimes, Inhumane Crimes against people and animals alike. Hip Hops Convicted Murderers, who rap about how much money they make on drug sales, Rock n Roll & Pop stars and their albums devoted to getting wasted and sleeping with everyone who offers as well as the degradation on woman. Anything that can be Marketed, WILL be Marketed and we will be force fed it, as long as we are watching and listening to it.

Another major fallback that becomes more and more trendy, that we all in the network are falling victim to - Social Media Engines. The ability to make "ME" or "I" a market tool. How do I make "ME" be more wanted, more watched, more followed.
I read an article the other day in Relevant Magazine, that talked about the use of Social Networking, and how it has the ability to create and destroy yourself in subliminal manors. The ability to "Create" yourself, make yourself interesting, make yourself more than you are. How the Social Networks have created a dual destruction in youth and mid twenties of today. By utilizing the self-constructed pages, we can create a profile or fan page devoted to ourselves or our product. Thus making something for everyone to look at, as well as ourselves.

How often do you check your own Social Network Page? How often do you look at your own photo, read your own status, check your own information and attributes? It's Narcissism. That can lead to some very destructive roads once you begin to keep the focus on "ME" and what i can do to keep "ME" happy.

Also mentioned on the list of created trip ups. Exhibitionism. Not just in a Sex related way, but a self centered, satisfying way, to know that someone takes the time in their life to "follow" you. To "watch" everything you are doing, because we openly "share" everything and anything that is happening at that exact moment in time. Thoughts, photos, ideas, aggravations, interests, all thought words, videos, and small bite size exhorts. One minute at a time. LIVE!
It goes on to explain how the Social Networks can be a great tool for marketing and socializing, but can very well be the gateway to addictive and self centered behaviors. Taking us away from life, and immersing us in "Right Now Gratification."

We should try not to get caught up in instantaneous gratification. We should start to look at life again with new eyes everyday, with thanks in our hearts. Make time to see and hear the purity in life, the sounds of natures, the sites of the scenery around us, and the enjoyment of silence. There is so much to be had, when we step away from addictions, and just sit back and enjoy whats left in the pure Earth.