it’s going to be a good summer

I can tell. I’ve already got some fun stuff lined up for next week, and I scored four 3-Day Passes for ACL. Which I know isn’t even in summer but what I’m trying to say was that today was a good one.

My Summer To-Do List:

• Take a trip to the PNW. Like Seattle or Portland and the surrounding areas. That region is fucking beautiful. We’ll see if we can afford it.

• Schlitterbahn with some friends. It’s like an annual thing I guess. You go, have some fun, get a terrible sunburn. You know.

• Spend more time Downtown. As much as I love Downtown Austin, it’s not a frequent place I go to, but hopefully with more free time I can drive down more often.

• Develop my friendships further. I’m not really interested in making any more friends than I have now, which isn’t really a ton but I’d rather just make all my friendships deeper. I’ve gotten to this point where I feel like I’ve met pretty much all the people who I can tolerate for extended periods of time and who I really enjoy being with. So I want to make those friendships even better (i.e spend more time with those people.)

• Get in better shape. Here’s my cliche one. So far my exercise is limited to like three swim practices a week plus dry-land and a once a week meeting with a semi-personal trainer. I’m hoping to boost the latter part up to twice eventually as well as getting another gym membership. I didn’t want to have to pay for LifeTime anymore haha. I also want to jog, but since I run like this:

          I don’t really see that happening. Plus I can’t get up in the morning.

So yeah. That’s my summer. I don’t really see it as a game-changer, just another few months hopefully full of memories, fun shit, and a bit of personal progress. Okay who the fuck am I trying to kid? I will not be jogging at all this summer.

Delta Spirit: California Lyrics →

deltaspiritofficial:

I want you to move to California for yourself,
I want you to find whatever your heart needs,
I want you to move to California for yourself, but not for me.

I want you to go out there and find somebody else,
I want him to treat you like I know he should,
I want you to find somebody new for…

I need to get out of here. 

I really fucking do.

Muslim xenophobia

This was the highest rated comment on a Yahoo! article reporting on how the FBI is routinely monitoring Muslim Americans in California. This bigoted, ignorant, and pathetic comment was thumbed up and was supported by many “Americans.”

I’m scared. I’m scared for the average Muslim-American: good people whom I have personally met and gotten to know. I’m scared for them and I’m scared for the increasingly theocratic racist zoo this country is becoming.

This xenophobia is unacceptable in a modern society. It is pure fear mongering and has no place in current affairs, and quite frankly anyone who can generalize 1.5 billion people (20% of the human population) into such an awful little stereotype is a moron who cannot see through anything but black and white lenses. It’s reasonable for there to be a lack of understanding, and some ignorance, when considering the relatively small size (only 0.8% of Americans) of the domestic Muslim population. Most people have never personally met a Muslim before, never experienced an Islam-practicing family moving in down the street.

I think this is incredibly significant. My mom told me a story about her grandmother. She was very racist towards Mexicans, and could not stand them. She always loved little children, though, and when a large Mexican family moved in next door she got to know them through the children, whom she came to adore and then denounced all of her previous hatred. I feel that if all people had a chance to meet your average, All-American Muslim family, then people would realize that humans are not able to be placed in boxes. I think people of all ethnicities have felt this discrimination at one time or another.

I have fear for America, but I have hope too.

storms make me think and relax..

why is it that I’m at my most peaceful state when outside, nature is at its most chaotic?

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Feeling rather redundant today

Feeling rather redundant today

I can’t comprehend

Whenever I choose to read comments on Yahoo News stories, I die a little inside. It is literally page after page of moronic, ignorant, mean-spirited, awful comments. It truly lends insight to how stupid and petty and narrow minded people choose to be.

Notice choose to be. In this day and age, someone with a computer and with internet has absolutely no excuse for the mind-boggling level of ignorance that I see online. You can see some slight racism and stereotyping, all the way to suggestions of destroying countries, murdering women and children, and annexing the territory. It’s not even just the comments that infuriate me- It’s the fact that people actually support these comments with thumbs up and replies of agreement. Here’s an example- this is a man talking about solutions to our problems with the border of Mexico (and this isn’t even close to the worst I’ve seen):

“Lets do what Ghenghis Kahn did, which was kill ‘em all, burn everything to the ground, and lay waste to the land itself… they’ve  pissed us off one time too many.”

I used to wonder why so many awful things happened in this world. Why hadn’t people stopped Hitler? Why do people let genocide, or street-beatings, or gang violence take place?

I’ve now come to the conclusion that an incredibly majority of the world is stupid. Not just stupid, but so incredibly dimwitted and hate-mongering that when together they contribute to some of the foulest atrocities the world has ever seen.

I didn’t mean for this post to come off as elitist, or to suggest in any way that I myself am an intellectual of any sort, but simply to illuminate the fact that ignorance and belligerent stupidity is like a tumor, it just grows and multiplies and it will kill something from the inside out.

Schneeballen

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