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"Don't be humble...you're not that great."
22.CSULB-Graphic Design and Japanese. From Sunnyvale. Reside in Long Beach. Working on my portfolio -- ecgminfinitus--
A Lighter Image by Earl Miguel
I looked myself in the mirror and could notice the fact that I'm getting fit again. It feels great, and the rush of excitement is just overwhelming. The ego has landed, and I wanted to stare at myself for hours. Typical though that many people would start taking pictures and lets face it, you would too. I wouldn't doubt it for a second if my subconscious lead me on for the next 15 mins and took half naked bathroom pictures in a very scenester pose that even GQ magazine would die for.
But putting Facebook in this picture is almost just as normal as your life. We live double lives and its the truth. We have a social life that connects us to the real world and we have an online social life that connects us to a world that is still open but having a disconnect.
I just recently got this facebook thing and i started to slowly fall within the void of reality and the double life we live in. A myspace, a facebook, friendster or any other online social bridge is something im familiar with but slowly getting to know again for this reason. I wanted a facebook because just like you, i didn't want to be the only person in this world who didn't have one. And I can understand people who are ANTI-everything and ANTI-whats-cool-now-will-die-later. Sooner or later, you'll have that account and clicking on every single soul you know will be just as addicting as a rusty needle to a vein.
I noticed that I'm reliving friendships again with people I haven't talked to in years or having long senseless intellectual conversations with people I do not really talk to. I know when people are leaving for work about 45 mins ago to knowing if they feel utterly content with their boyfriend or girlfriend seconds ago. Its almost pathetic.
I also noticed that I am caught between this dramatic irony of an episode of knowing friend A's problems because she's not friends with my Friend B. Its like a new-age high-tech highschool drama for the online addict. When that realization kicked in, I stopped myself before I dug myself a grave between the riff of real world and online world. Then the excitement of meeting new friends and meeting old friends slowly died in the fire I thought was awesome. Soon, extra space in my pocket that was reserved for my digicam was filled with just keys and my cell.
And so I met someone, but like every person I meet every semester in college, this one I know is going to hit the fan and be out of my life in 4 months and counting. Its not that I care to keep this person and make it work, its just something I cant control. And oh man, control I do not have and it drives me crazy. Through her stories, she made me realize that there is excitement, just dont try to find it in meeting loads of people online or socially. Experience, and you will get results. For the good and bad. The world around us from within an arm’s reach to a flight away is just phenomenal to experience. That feeling of excitement came back and it set such a new bar for me again. I felt like I just started college again in a new area, but this time I’m seeing the smaller parts and living it up. Foolish of me to think that this awesomness was with facebook’s capability of connecting peers.
Facebook kills the image you have and I guess you can say there are rules. I mean if you have 1000 pictures, cool but dont boast your bicep if you photoshoped it. That’s the disconnect that I have to get across because the real world is happening around you regardless. And yes, it happens in facebook and your online social identity, but the real identity still lies outside your QWERTY keyboard and moniter. But that excitement and fresh feeling of it is outside this Helvetica Regular Type Face, size 10pt.
Did I mention the ego has landed? Back to the bathroom mirror.
Time by Earl Miguel
When an urgency or threat to human life or at any life is on the line, a natural instinct takes control. Mother nature gave this to us and it is to release our id and simply survive. Death can be an option, but we can not take it to account; we take the ladder.I would never think that in my lifetime I would see a black president. I would never think there would ever be one because of the fact that not even 50 years ago we as a nation could not see pass the profiling. To look at our history books from here on out would be nothing more than nostalgic. From where ever you were watching: the bar, a lounge, at home, at work, a pool hall, or even grant park itself, history was made again; still an awe to actually see the real magnitude of what just happened. Can you believe that a descendant of a slave, a person without a name and denied of everything but essentials; if even, is about to lead this country. I wonder what our fathers would have said about his speech, his campaign, his ideals.I feel that America was being really threatened by the fear of everything and anything that they might die soon. This is the scary part: usually when we feel fear over something we cannot control, we busy ourselves in our homes. Can it be that the ---media--- took this long but surely got the accomplishment of brainwashing America of electing a black president. Economic crises cannot be this unstable... someone artificially made it. Its probably solvable, but someone made you think that it was 'the worst' in years. we have reforms and structural laws that make sure we do not decline again; mathematical equation. So when you were voting, did you have a sense of 'your own' will to think, or was it already planted for you but didn't know.Didn't vote for mccain, but thought that obama was just on spotlight for a 'new age.' Something doesn't feel right.