Now I know that I haven't posted here in a long while, and that's only because I've been working on my book (for which I'm finished with chapter 8 and am currently working on Chapter 9 right now), and so I've been mostly devoted to that, however when you happen to be where I'm at right now (which is homeless) and am subject to nightly service shots (meaning that you're getting forced to listen to the Word even if you don't agree with what they happen to be saying in the first place. However this morning I was listening to my radio station here in Fresno of Alice 96.7 (http://www.myalice967.com/) and a song came up that I just had to talk about not just on my Facebook page, but also here, on my blog as well. Though on my Facebook page, I put a link up to the YouTube video for everyone to see, the song was P!nk's "Perfect".
Now the reason why I'm hitting two, and I slightly went in on this in a previous posting, I did talk about religion (which is something that I don't happen to like to much, actually not at all, and I'll be explaining as to why here), but mostly on the political side of the whole thing. Now with what I have to go through at the Fresno Rescue Mission (since that's where I'm currently living right now by choice at least for a little while right now), is a nightly religious service that talks about everyone needing to be saved by God, however with how they do it, they expect people to come up to receive Him. Only problem to that is that you have those that go up there each night that happen to be the same people like crazy, and the thing that they will not get is that (and it doesn't help that the message is the same each night too), is that once you're saved, you're saved period, there is no turning back at all period (unless you're apart of a religion that says that if you screw up you have to confess and then resave yourself).
That's one of the reasons why I happen to hate religion, I have a relationship with Jesus, and the end result of that relationship is a far, far better understanding of his Word, and everything that's happening in the world around me. Now I know that there are people out there that will hate what I'm going to be writing here, but I'm only putting out the truth here and not against the people, just the organization. The prime example of religion is the Catholic religion, that religion right there says that they have a rep on Earth for the people in the form of the Pope, and that you must confess to a human priest in order to have your sins cleared. Sorry but that's not how things work at all in the least, you confess with your mouth to the Lord and savor Jesus the son of God Himself, confessing to a person isn't going to do anything in the least when it comes to getting rid of your sin, after all the only one that can get rid of your sin is Jesus, the true son of God. That's why I happen to have a relationship and not a religion, and I do pick on the Catholics a lot, but that's only because the organization is completely screwed up and they refuse to fix it ever (so yeah I'm going to peg on them when ever I always get the chance, like I said the organization not the people, the people are just the innocents that have been duped over the centuries (and if any of the Catholic higher ups see this and say that I'm excommunicated from God, that's kinda hard when I have him in my heart and a relationship and not a religion, plus I'm Christian and not Catholic at all).
Now when it comes to the song that I heard P!nk's "Perfect", that song brought to mind everything that's been going wrong lately when it comes to teens (boy or girls doesn't matter which sides) thinking that they have to try and primp themselves up, actually they don't. They are perfect no matter what they do in life.
Back in school (elementary through to high school and beyond), I got picked on and teased a lot, all to the point that at times I was in tears. Mostly it was teasing, but that doesn't matter it was still bullying and that's why I happen to hate bullying today, not only because it's gotten worse these days, but because it's still around. Students are being made to think that they have to be something when in fact they can be anything that they want to be in life. My life is a perfect example of that behind the scenes that no one ever knew about at all.
Back when I was in school, no one knew how bad things were at home, then again I never talked about it that much either. I was constantly shifting between what I wanted to do when I grew up (though it wasn't till I was nearly out of school that I realized what I would end up being, of course no one really saw it coming in the least), and the one person that was constantly putting me down on that was in fact my own mother who was always saying that I would never actually get anywhere in life with what I wanted to do at all. Believe me, getting told that you're not going to go anywhere in life is not only crushing, it tends to make a kid think that they're worthless, and about 90% of the time, that's in fact what I was thinking. Hell I couldn't get to either go to or get to do most of what the other students at the time were doing, where I lived at I couldn't go anywhere on Sunday's at all because I had to travel by the bus system only and they never ran on Sunday's, and then most of the time when I went any place with my mother even she was putting me down, though never in front of others ever.
Then what ended up hurting the most was the nick name that I had gotten back in school, which I will not write here, but those reading this will know that nick name, it was very scaring, and when mom tried talking to the teachers about what was going on, we'd end up in a loop since the teachers actually wouldn't do anything saying that kids would be kids. I hurt a lot those days and I still bear the emotional scars from those times to, and with a partial photographic memory, I can never be rid of them either.
Teens these days don't need anything like that, they should be encouraged towards everything that they do no matter what it might happen to be, so that they can find something that they're good at and go for it with all of their heart and all of their mind and devotion. Personally I would love the chance to be able to go back to my high school and talk to the students about what they're going through since I'm often reminded of it my self, and they shouldn't feel like they need to compete in any way shape or form. They are perfect just the way they are, period.
'Nuff said!
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