Saturday, February 14, 2015

Valentine's Day

It's that time of the year again.  I know Valentine's day is supposed to have a good meaning behind it, but I feel like that meaning was ruined because of Marketers and business people.  This is the one holiday for overcharged candy, flowers, jewelry, and going out for a bite at a restaurant.  But in all reality, is this such a significant holiday?  Do we really need a holiday to express our "love" for someone?
 Also, what about all of the single people that don't have Valentines?  The ones that don't have Valentine's feel bad that they don't have anyone in their life.  It's almost like society will force you to make Valentine's Day a fiasco for the ones that have someone, and then the ones that are single are upset.

Honestly, if you even think about it, having a date with that special guy/girl is equivalent to any Valentine's Day.  The only difference is, they are not in a brainwashed society state, and nothing is overpriced. What do you think of Valentine's Day?  Comment below!

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Her Eyes

What is in her eyes?  What do her eyes say?  She’s quite beautiful in the moonlight when she’s lifted up.   Her eyes are a distorted reality where she feels everything is a black and white path.  Sometimes everything is ok, and it feels like a shooting star.  But sometimes she feels like she’s falling down.  She’s sick of being someone she’s not to the outer world.  She screams for spring to come again, and she wants time to be reversed.
Behind her green-brown eyes, she wants to feel like a human.  She wants to be that dancing swan that has been covered up for millenniums.  Her heart has become black.  She expresses herself through words and her imagination.  At night she dreams of memories from another time where she was actually singing.  Sometimes she feels like she is a 5 year old in a 16 year old body.  She’s always been blinded from the world, since birth.

She often hides herself behind objects that possess her emotions.  Those objects take her away from her reality, and it engulfs her in comfort. When she wakes up in the morning, she walks to the door, and walks out, and is in a sleep trance.  When she gets to the building, her mask starts to form quickly as if leaves are falling down on a tree.  She takes a mental sigh, and continues walking through the building.  She’s in a building with people that she’s known for centuries and could read like a book, but they choose to not know her.

The months and weeks continue, and she now drops deep down into the ocean.  She wakes up on a beautiful island by the time spring has arrived.  On the island, everything is positive.  All of the darkness in her soul starts to leave.  She now feels more confident, she becomes more talkative, and happy.  When she wakes up in the morning, she feels the sunshine hit her icy cold face, and she feels the warmth.


When she walks right into that building, everyone gives her a whole hearted hello, and she feels warm.  She’s not the sad girl anymore, she doesn't feel blind either.  She has arrived.

Saturday, February 7, 2015

Idea

The other day in STAC, my teacher mentioned that he wanted to do a play on Bullying at one point as a project, and perform the play down at my school district's middle school.  My idea for the play would be this: A student in middle school living with Asperger's syndrome, or a rare condition called Non-verbal learning disability (NVLD).  Why Asperger's Syndrome or NVLD ?

Asperger's syndrome, and NVLD are both disorders that cause someone to not really fit in at school.  With either of these disorders, you can't really pick up on social cues, you learn differently than most, and you get really anxious as a result, which can cause bullying, and ultimately depression, and suicide in some tragic cases for some.

Something that is not really put out there is Special Ed Bullying.  Students in Special Education get teased because of their disability by teachers, and kids on the school grounds.  Some teachers will down talk them as if they're mentally retarded, and so do kids.  The kids call the ones in Special Ed cruel names such as "Sped", and "Retard" by humiliating them behind their back, or by name calling in the hallway.

I feel like there could be a lot of material done with this if developed the right way.