Respect. Society. And you.

Respect.

Society believes that you (we) should respect our elders.

Personally I don't believe that. Respect is a two ways Street and is deserved regardless of age, sexual orientation, gender, ethnicity, etc. They (society) also says the golden rule is to Treat others How YOU want to be treated. I agree and disagree with this. 50/50

I will not, 100%, will not put you on a pedestal if you are hateful, rude, or just a plain bully. If you disrespect me or insult others, you do not (in my eyes and heart) deserve respect.
I see this everywhere. It's annoying.
People will bully others and when they taste their own medicine they don't like it. They can't handle it. Don't you dare dish it out if you can't eat it yourself.

Reading this or any of my posts you might think, "oh, he is just a teenager who rants."
So what if I am? I have things to say.

But anyways, respect.

If you respect me, I'll respect you. If you are a jerk to me, I will not tolerate it nor will you receive respect back.

In all honesty people need to be accepted and respected regardless of anything society may want you to believe.

-"Taste your words before you spit them out"-

-Chris 

Sports!

So this may seem small, but to me it was huge.

All my life i have HATED sports, that includes the sports in P.E.

Today we were playing football. And there is a LOT of kids (GUYS) that love it and can play properly. I of course am not one of them. I walked into the lockeroom with my mind telling me "Today is your day."
We did our regular fitness warmups, and went outside to play football.

I actually tried today, but the one time I had the ball, I ran it to make a touchdown.  Feeling like I was amazing, i found out that because of the previous fumble, my touchdown didnt count. That pissed me off. Today was supposed to be MY day! My P.E teacher said it was bad, and the other players said it was bad. Words were exchanged, and i was BEYOND angry. The ONE time I actually TRY, like seriously.

Anyways.

My team was about 10 yards away from the opposite team's goal. If the other team threw the ball, they'd win. I stood infront of the QB named Conner.  My 7th grade year Conner HATED me. we've slowly patched it.
He looked me in eyes and whispered, "Run."

He tossed me the ball, and I ran. And the other team didn't catch me! (Flag football)
I made a touchdown.  We still lost, but in the end, i did something i have never done before. Conner Made me smile(:

Tech. Teens. Socializing.

Music.

            I see everywhere I go, students and teens avoiding social situations with music. To be more specific,  earbuds and headphones, they draw us away from social experiences.  And not just music, any modern technology. Cell phones, music, etc.
People are constantly on their cell phones or have an earbud in their ears.
Kind of annoying might I say, but you know, they're free to choose whatever they do. "They" being people. 

         Music has a strong effect on us Teens, and everyone in general. Personally I don't care if you listen to bands like Black Veil Brides or Taylor Swift, Or really anything in between. Anyways, one example of my point is today. This morning on the way to the bus stop I had my headphones on, listening to A Drop In The Ocean by Ron Pope, and soon enough I was on the bus heading to school. NORMALLY I hate when people try to talk to me while I have earbuds or headphones in/on, but because of this recent "problem" I've noticed, I shut music off during school or on the bus allowing me to have a chnace to have a face-to-face conversation with friends.

    

Speaking about face-to-face, TEXTING. Something we all know, something we all do, something that can be an...issue of sorts. Granted it's highly convinent in some situations, some friends I know use texting as their....literal "Cyber-World", meaning that they talk to people, socialize, through their phones as opposed to talking to their face. A friend of mine recently broke up with her "Boyfriend" because he lived in Iowa, (We live in Utah) and she met him through an app called "MeowChat", some of you have it downloaded onto your phones, others or all of you have heard of it. The point is, teens (some of them anyways) don't and won't know how to do things properly, such as ask a girl out. (;  Anywho, this is my post/rant. If you understand the idea, maybe leave a comment? 

I have a lot to say about everything, some may come off as rants, others make sense. 

-Chris

Teens

         10/7/14

          Lately I have been noticing how girls in my Middle school are changing, or have changed. Not physically, but emotionally. Depression, self-doubt, insecurities continue to plague some girls. Why? My guess is because around the time of 13-16 the brain is developing in teenagers, it's a time when we started developinig relationships and emotions; stuff like that. 

As my Health 8 teacher put it, 

"Teenagers feel more strongly than adults or kids around this age because since they are growing, and their minds are developing, they'll be impacted more strongly on how they feel or how they react to certain situations...."

Makes sense, right?
Anyways, back to my topic, 

I hear constantly how girls will put themselves or others down, calling themselves names, or just being insecure about daily things. It's truley heartbreaking because every girl is beutiful, every girl has worth and importance. Growing up in the LDS church, I have learned that we are all created in the image of God. So, why put yourself down? God, the almighty being, blah, is perfect beyond comprehension, much like him the teenage girls (Every girl, and woman) are beautiful beyond comprehension. 

(Directed towards Girls here)

You are beautiful, you are Gods definition of perfect, so don't settle for any less or any more. you don't have to be apart of the "IT" crowd to know that you have worth in God's eyes, You are put on this earth for a reason, trials in our daily lives are something we learn to live with. Trials make us stronger, and remind of us the tender mercy's of the Lord. You aren't alone, and you never will be. 
You were given the LIFE you have because you are strong enough to live it. 


-Chris