Writing feels good

As an amateur blog writer, I honestly feel that this process makes me feel good about myself after putting pen down to paper, or in this case, laptop keys to laptop. Sometimes you just need to get those thoughts out in order to feel productive in other things. Its like writing a journal entry every so often except for the fact that people may read it. This helps too in writing because if you know that people will be reading it, you’ll be more likely to say something that people can better relate to. The whole point of writing is to get your point across to viewers and a blog does this perfectly as it provides snippets of what you think about. These are good because we do not have the time to sit down to write everyday and at length. I honestly hope that I continue to find time in writing these blogs every once in a while.

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The Wayans Bros

 

One of my favorite shows of all time is The Wayans Bros. It is a mid 90’s comedy sitcom that stars two real life brothers acting as brothers while living together in an apartment. They go through life perils as Shawn the suave one runs a newsstand in the apartment while Marlon the goofy one is always up to no good.

It is indeed funny, but I feel like its value comes from the central point that despite everything that happens, that your family always has your back. For example, there were many times when the younger brother Marlon would do something stupid and get himself into trouble and the older brother Shawn always did what he could to bail him out of it. In the same way, I am the oldest child in my family so I look after my siblings and I am thankful that they haven’t been in deep troubled situations, but if they were, I wouldn’t hesitate to bail them out.

Competition

Life is full of competition from the get go as evolution and survival of the fittest are very evident. Every goal we achieve and job we get and level of school completed is all a race to live a better life than anyone else. We go to school in order to have a successful career with good job or jobs. However, being in school it is so difficult to get a job because employers look for experience. While there may be ways to build experience such as work study, it is not available to everyone. Businesses don’t hire people because to train and pay for the training of an inexperienced person is a wast of both time and money. Thus it is better to get an experienced person who will require little to no assistance in working at a company. That’s why it is so important to volunteer and get internships done to get the best jobs out there.

Yik Yak the Worst College App

For those of you who don’t already know what Yik yak is, its an app that is only college appropriate where people can post what they feel like, up or down a post and comment on posts anonymously. This can be harmless in instances where people choose to complain about a big test coming up or promoting something going on in the Student Union. However, the problem lies when people post stuff that speaks down on a race or a religion for the sake of getting likes on an app that doesn’t even show who has the most likes. Despite the fact that -5 downvotes or receiving a net amount of 5 downvotes deletes the post, more people tend to agree with the prejudiced thoughts than those that disagree or feel offended. This is detrimental because the anonymity ensures that the perpetrators cant be caught and questioned. I feel that this can be solved by having Yak representatives checking posts and deleting those users with derogatory posts.

The Life of a Sports Fan

One of my favorite things to do is watch basketball, and my favorite team is the New York Knicks. However, being a fan of a big sports team, no matter the sport, is an experience on its own. By claiming a team is like being in a relationship where you have no control over what happens but yet you stick around because you want it to work regardless, for example watching your team come close to winning a game, only to see them miss opportunities to win the game.

 

Also, you are not only pledging your allegiance to this team, but now you have to keep up with every aspect of the team including players who left the team in the past. This is because other people like to test your fan loyalty to ensure that you are not a bandwagoner, or someone who simply claims a team temporarily, either for the following of only one player, their teeam in a losing streak, or another team that seems favorable.

 

 

The Value of Kindness

When I think of kindness, I often get that feeling of Christmas during childhood but from the perspective of the parents who get their children gifts to make them happy. That feeling of giving someone a reason to be happy from the kindness in your heart while expecting nothing back in return is such a golden thing to life. It is not often in this world that people tend to do generous things for no reason so when you see live examples of it is like a sign of hope that the world is not full of despair. That’s why I often look up to philanthropists such as Michael Bloomberg who donated over $450 million last year. Some critics will say that he may have donated the money in the effort to look better in the public eye but I feel he could have done so in other ways. Also, kindness is partially the reason why I am here in UB today through the help of scholarships, which is money you don’t pay back, meaning that people out of their hearts want you to succeed to the point where they will financially support you.

Stress is Really Stressful

Life has stressful situations for sure, but that doesn’t mean we always have to make it even more stress filled. In many situations, stress can be controlled to a certain degree, like what can happen if you don’t pass a test or trying to keep a drunk friend out of trouble. Two words that you need to keep in mind is both confidence and composure. The confidence comes from believing yourself that you have prepared for what is ahead. The composure aspect comes from a great deal of focus from trying to get the task done rather about worrying the result. Like I said, stressful situations are inevitable, but once you displayed these feelings of confidence and composure, knowing you tried your best, you can only look at yourself and be rest assured that you did what you could. Thus you just learn from your experiences to prevent such circumstances from occurring again to the best of your ability.

Who Is This Blogger

That is one of the hardest questions I currently face, “Who am I?”. If you ask this question, I can come up with answers like listing my interests such as sleeping, playing basketball,travelling and hanging out, but that does not answer the question well enough. I can state my beliefs and values like how I go to church, or that I feel it pays to help others when they’re in need or even that I believe that stress is only something you choose to feel. These too do not exactly explain correctly what it means to say who I am.

WHO AM I

The truth is, I cannot answer this question and be satisfied because I do not truly know who I am, at least yet. I am not worried though because that is what I feel college is about. When  you think about the constant interactions with people of different backgrounds and of different levels of authority whether it be a fellow student or a professor that you go to office hours for, trying to build a network. Also there is the massive responsibility of taking care of yourself whether it be academically by choosing classes or by making sure you and your roommate follow the rules to stay out of trouble. College is what begins to mold you into adulthood by establishing that identity you need.