Some Normal Stuff..

Well, something a little different today. I've found I'm cynical. That may get in the way of actually expressing my gratitude for my friends and family. It also makes me very critical of people. So I just want to get something out there..

In general, I think people are good. They have good in them. The good may be incredibly small, but it's still there.. Years of working in retail has clouded that truth. Through my time working in retail I've come across so many people that you wonder how they made it out the door in the morning. Along the way I've let that experience rule my thought on people. I really have two options: Keep that mindset, or find out why I think that way and work on changing it. The best thing for me to do would be work on it.

Now, the other thing starts as bit of a rant, but there's a point to it.. I'm frustrated by the standard of beauty forced on the population by the media. If you're not a twig you're not pretty or handsome. I don't believe that for a second. Ray Stevens was able to put it best with the song "Everything is Beautiful." Basically, everyone is beautiful in their own way. Yes, there are people who are outwardly beautiful. There are many who are inwardly beautiful. There are even some who are both. Of course, the thing is a lot of people take the outside at face value, forgetting that the person inside could be stunning.

I'm not completely immune to judging the outward appearance. I try not to. It does happen. However, I firmly believe that everyone is beautiful in some way.

Halloween and the Monster du Jour

It's been a while since I've had time and energy to sit down and write something on here. Last night I had many things bouncing around the ol' noggin. One of them I'd like to write about today..

Halloween...

I'm Canadian. I went trick-or-treating when I was a child. I ended up quitting around the middle of elementary school. As I've gotten older, however, I'm finding myself more and more apathetic? about Halloween. I mean this weekend I was working at 7-Eleven (Yay new job!!) and there were people coming in from costume parties. People anywhere from high school age to people in their 40s. I don't get it. I guess there's the idea of being somoene other than yourself for a night. Then again, you can get the same experience through games like WoW.

Maybe it's my inability to deal with people. Even dressed up as something or someone else I still don't want to be around people very often. The fantasy element doesn't really go for me either.. I mean you can dress up as a zombie, a fireman, Spiderman, or a bag of leaves, it doesn't really change the concept.

The other thing about Halloween that's been bothersome for me the last few years is the "It" monster. A couple years ago it was vampires. Unfortunately, it was vampires who doubled as disco balls, but that's another story. This year, it seems to be Zombies. There are video games where you shoot zombies.. There are video games where you can be the zombies. There are shows about zombies.. I feel there's a small zombie overload.

Again, it may be the cynic in me, or maybe it's just the way I am, but Zombies do walk amongst us now. They're the ones staring at their cellphones texting away while standing beside the person they're texting.. They're the ones glued to the tv screen or the computer screen drooling at whatever they're looking at. They're the ones drunk out of their minds walking into everyone and everything. They're the ones stoned out of their mind, unable to function. Zombies are amongst us already. Why become a different type of Zombie?? And really, what's the next monster-du-jour? Will it be the Wolfman? Bring back all the bad werewolf movies? Or will it be mummies? Really then all people need to do is wrap themselves up and act like Zombies..

I don't know. It's been bothering me for a while. I finally decided to put it in writing today. Agree with me or not, it's just my opinion... I could be wrong..