You have to be really careful touching religion now-a-days, right? It seems that more people are prone to get offended if you poke fun at their belief or even misinterpret their belief. And, from what I've seen, it's gotten worse. I can't even so much as joke about believing in another deity without someone being upheld by it.
I joked about the fact that some people (I don't know if they did it jokingly) made a religion of Celestia and Luna, and one of my "dedicated" christian friends was up in the air about it. And the reason I quoted "dedicated" is because he sometimes, more than often, contradicts himself on his beliefs.
Honestly, I don't care what you believe in. I'm not out to challenge your beliefs. Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, whatever religion you may be, I'm not out to challenge you.
Please, don't try to kill me if I don't follow the word of God, Allah, Buddha, one of the many Hindu gods, Celestia, Spaghetti Monster, Justin Beiber, Harry Styles, That Homeless Man Out By The Dumpster, Scruffy the Janitor, Uncle Ben, Doctor Who, The Elder Gods, Leon S. Kennedy, Dzhokhar Tsarnaevor (A group of women believe he is too cute to have done anything wrong. Can you f***ing believe it.), The Pillsbury Dough Boy, Santa's Little Helper, The Tooth Fairy, The Muffin Man Who Lives On Drury Lane, or Xenu. (Trixie is another story)
So, in the near future, if you happen to come by me and I joked about something religiously and I offended your beliefs in anyway, I will apologize deeply.......... for offending you. Secretly, I will pat myself on the back for making a witty remark.
Well then. It's my birthday today. Cinco de Mayo, and I'm also hispanic so that's something interesting.
My birthdays are alright. It's nice to know that I've, somehow, survived another year, and, frankly, I'm surprised I'm still alive. I get myself hurt every other day, sometimes by choice. And when I say by choice, I don't mean that I cut myself or hurt myself because I hate me. No. I mean that I would get myself hurt because I was dumb enough to do something that would for sure hurt me, like intimidating a rottweiler (which I actually did once).
For now, I just want to say that I'm glad my birthday is not on a school day. Why? Because it is super awkward (and kinda funny).
I see it happen all the time with other people's birthdays and I'm glad I've been blessed from that torture. In class, when the teacher finds out it's your birthday, she makes the entire class sing 'Happy Birthday'. Sure it's a happy song, but, when they sing, I feel like I'm at a funeral. They sing as if they just had the life sucked out of them, all monotone and no enthusiasm. And who could blame them. I sure as hoof don't want to sing 'Happy Birthday' to someone I don't know.
And then the 'Happy Birthday dear, *insert name here*' part. This is the awkward part of the song where you find out just how well known you are in the class. If someone doesn't know your name, then they mumble the tune. So if at that part of the song you hear more mumble than your actual name, then you just had a rough idea of how many people don't know you and/or have a mumbling problem.
To finish off, I don't know if this happens at other schools or not, but it sure happens in mine. I always enjoy myself when one of my friends is put in the awkward spotlight. It's funny and we always get a good laugh.
Stress is a hell of a thing. It's horrible. Of course, everybody knows what stress is and how it could affect us, yet a lot of us don't know we are under stress until it starts to get out of hand.
The most common stress that most, if not all, of us have experienced is stress caused by school related matters, whether it be from studying for tests, getting an important project ready, or making sure Billy next to you doesn't find out you have gum.
People react differently when under stress. The two different reactions to stress are mainly anger and depression. Some people experience only one of these while others experience both of them, like me. I do have to say, for the past 3 days, I have been close to just bursting into tears in class and at home because my stress has just been mounting up. Little advice: get a partner if you have to create a solution to solve a current problem for Engineering Design and Problem Solving.
Stress is also very slippery. It can build up without you being aware of it. It's like Play-Doh. Take stress from having to deal with siblings, add stress from having to write that book report due very early, and mix it together with stress caused from your cat constantly showing their love for you by peeing on you (I think it's a territorial thing. She does it once every other week, or when I touch another cat in the neighborhood. I still love her a lot even though she does that). What you have now is a big stress ball created from other stress subjects. The more stress added on, the bigger it gets, and the harder it is to control it.
Now, beating stress is very simple. Just relax. Your mind has to be taken away from your worry. Listen to music (happy music), have a laugh by talking to friends or by watching stand-up comedy, or write your thoughts and feelings down. That's what I'm doing right now. It feels nice to write something down a maximum of 10 people will read.
Stress will not completely go away. It will lessen to near zero, but it will not go away. There will always be stress in life, no matter who you are. All you have to do is overcome it and move on.
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