The Film Director's Magic

Film Directors have magic powers--everyone knows that. You watch a movie and they talk about "movie magic."

Some directors are better at it than others.

But to be a movie Director means that you have honed your ability to understand human beings. The director's main responsibility is to portray real human beings in unreal circumstances; but to do that, they need to know how humans think, act, react, feel, and express themselves.

Whether sadly or fortunately, the Film Director's "magic abilities" extend to real life: they know better than most people how others around them are going to think, act, react, feel, or express themselves. These others can be friends, loved ones, family, and even enemies.

Few people understand the depth that a film director can perceive--nor do they trust in their experience. But after everything is said and done, it was the film director who chose to take this responsibility. In society, film directors are responsible for making mankind know and understand its biggest strengths and weaknesses: it's people.

Bad People

Even bad people have consciences.

Though we don't know his true motivation, Hitler's motive for killing himself can be narrowed down to a few things:
1. He realized how many people he killed in his quest for global domination
2. He realized he could never achieve the things he wanted to in life
3. He wanted to die for the things he believed in and not be captured like others who came before him (Napoleon)

I find comfort in these three motivations because, 1) shows that even he had a conscious, 2) reinforces that bad people will never succeed, 3) we can rest assured that in order to do such evil things you really do have to give up your life to them, and very few people throughout history have given so much of their lives to one thing so evil so there will be very few incredibly bad people.

Consensus, Competition and Universal Balance

This is a photo of plants competing for sunlight.

I was going to include a picture of the yin and yang, but I think everyone knows what that is, what it symbolizes and what it looks like.

Competition is in the Yin and Yang just like it is in this photo. Universal Balance can be seen in this photo and the Yin and Yang--universal balance is the yin and yang! But where is consensus?

When you observe life, consensus is found in rhetoric. It is found in every tongue of every living being. Consensus is a large part of the glue that holds society together. Consensus is supposed to be a tool created by mankind that achieves universal balance peacefully.

However, the natural world does not use consensus. It doesn't need to. It just competes.
And although the man-made world uses consensus, it often uses consensus to the benefit of one group of individual over another group of individual. The difference is that in the name of consensus the mighty either force the weak to submit to their demands or the weak force the mighty to make sacrifices. The mighty, though never completely hobbled, will still continue to shape the weak in whatever way they want, they will merely be forced to deal with additional setbacks along the way.

Consensus is not the end all of the universe; balance is. Things will happen that are supposed to happen, no matter how hard you try to prevent them or slow them down.
The masters of the universe are those people who are mighty--those who are capable of making sacrifices because those sacrifices won't set them back, and those who are capable of making advantageous deals, because the weak are weak enough to submit to them.

In the end every action has an equal and opposite reaction. You choose this day who you will be in the future . Will you be weak or mighty?

Great Places

The last time I was in Ogden around lunch time I went to a sandwich shop in Riverdale called Honeybaked Ham.--it was AMAZING. I had never been there before and my experience was top notch-- I went there with a coupon for buy one get one free, ordered one meal and one sandwich. The meals include a side and a drink. 
As I was talking with my girlfriend over what side to pick the attendant offered to give me the other one we were deciding between for free. I was happy! Then, while we were eating the attendant was replaced and the new guy talked to us briefly and ALSO offered us a free drink. So I essentially purchased a meal and got a meal for free. To add to the excitement, my girlfriend's punch card filled up and she gets a free sandwich next time...

Some days it won't stop raining.

Horizons

I like the concept of Horizons: they are where the human eye can no longer perceive detail and so the mind blends it all together--but they are as far as the eye can see.
They are also where sky and ground meet in a distinct line. 
There is a lot of distance between here and there--many obstructions and obstacles.
...but there really isn't an end. The earth is circular, so the real "end" is behind you.
There isn't one single horizon for everyone, everyone is in a different position and everyone faces different obstacles in reaching the horizon--some have steep mountains and some have smooth green plains.

Whatever you think is the end is not the end.
The world is bigger than what you see in the distance.
We're all traveling towards our horizons.

Surveys

I like surveys. They not only help other people realize my opinions, but they help me realize a thing or two about myself simply because they force me to think about my opinions...

Please take this questionnaire! :)

Whining

I feel as though I can really appreciate this singer.

Some people whine whenever things go bad. Some people cry when people leave them (Kanye) or when they have to leave people (Fergie). Some singers make a career out of whining (Swift).

Whining doesn't solve anything other than to bond two people together in negativity. It makes the world a worse place.

This song/video is about a girl who gets a "sharp knife" stabbed in her heart by a boy and rather than make an annoying song about how horrible men are or how relationships suck, or how you don't know what you have until you've lost it. She refers back to a classic poem by Tennyson about how sometimes it kills you when your heart is broken. --She doesn't blame anyone. In fact, most people think this song is about dying young.

Sometimes, even though you're saying the same thing, the way you say it can change the entire dynamic and people can respect what you're saying more.