Ringgren

I know there's good in all of us, regardless of what we've been taught to believe. Some times people just can't see past their own nose. Yesterday I saw an episode of Glee (no judging!) and it had me in tears. The theme was bullying, and being different. Right then I decided that when I'm done with my graduation I will of course get a job, but somehow get involved in some kind of organization against bullying and possibly something related to LGBT rights. I also heard the news of young Jamey Rodemeyer who was involved with the "It gets better" community, took his own life, because of bullying. What is this world really coming to? We aren't allowed to be ourselves anymore? I see it this way, I don't think that sexual orientation matters... Until you've made a choice, chosen a partner, settled down with someone you love with all your heart. Even then, why would it matter if it's two guys or two girls that are together? In my world, love is lo

Is it growing up to realize that not everyone has your best interest at heart? Knowing that people will be your friends and then later the friendship might falter? Looking inside your heart and knowing that life will never be the same - it will always be full of changes and new things? Not even if you tried could you stop your life from changing. Even if you were a hermit never coming outside or speaking to people, stuff would still happen that would make the day a little different than the last. I guess coming to terms with this fact makes it somehow easier to accept that things change. People disappear from your life or enter it. Nothing lasts forever, and why would you really want it to? Okay, except for some things like marrying the person you love, keeping that one friend who's always been by your side, there can be no growth if nothing ever changes. So embrace the changes. I for one know that changes are good things, if you treat them as such. I decided long ago that I wa

Where to begin... Entourage has been a part of my life for a long time now. Something I've laughed with, cried with and been insanely pissed off with. Everytime a new episode rolled through I would be giddy for the anticipation of what they were up to now. How Drama would get himself into trouble. E would embarass himself with being overly sensitive. Turtle trying every which way to use Vince's fame to get laid. Ari and what kind of expletives he would use this week, and of course Vince. How he would go from high to low constantly but his friends stayed by his side. It was camaraderie and frienship that is hard to come by. Even though that in the grander scheme, their daily troubles seemed trite and unimportant, in the end all their adventures made me care for them, without even knowing it. Sneaky bastards. There are only a few tv shows out there that have made me care this much about the characters, and not many that did it so sneakily. It was never about big emotions and

It's funny how you can miss a feeling that you once had, and how you can recall everything just by thinking of a certain moment when that feeling occured. I was driving home from a party a few nights ago and passed a road I've been on so many times. When I looked at the street sign, all of these memories flooded my mind. They were good memories, but of a time long past. I don't miss the circumstances I was in, but I miss the feeling they gave me. A feeling of belonging somewhere and knowing that I was safe. Having somewhere to hang my hat (so to speak) a place that was my home and that was full of love and happiness. It was weird when thinking back on that time. I've changed and seen so much since then. I'm not the same person, so if I could go back and have that feeling again, I don't think it would bring me much pleasure, now that I'm a different person. I still want to feel that sense of belonging and I do have hope that I'll find it. It just takes

I'm a big nerd, and I love all things comics and movies. I must say one of my biggest reasons for wanting to go to NYCC (New York Comic Con) is to meet the one and only Kevin Smith. Ever since I saw Clerks I fell in love with that man and how he had a way with dialogue. Ever since Clerks, I've enjoyed all of his movies. Well, except Jersey Girl, that was not a great film. My favorites would be Chasing Amy. For some reason that movie just grabbed a hold of me and I was hooked. Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and Mallrats were awesome too, but I'm sure that the new "Red State" will have me hooked as well. That man really found a way to make me ponder about life and faith. Especially in Dogma. Whether he intended to or not (haven't researched it) but I found myself having a newfound respect for my own faith after watching this movie. How he could continually question faith and why we as a people want to believe in it was amazing to me. My favorite is st

I don't know why, but sometimes I just love sitting down somewhere and look at the people passing by me. Sitting in my own world, listening to music that takes me away. Making me feel things and ponder about life and it's many wondrous experiences. You see people go by and wonder how they're feeling. If they are happy or maybe if they feel incomplete. What their life story is and what they're going to do that day. It reminds me of something I've always been fascinated by. When taking a picture, there's no telling who you might capture with you. Someone you don't know, a stranger, that forever is captured in a picture with you. It's a strange thing. You don't know them, but there they are. In a picture - like a statue. You will most likely never find out what their name is or what they do for a living. If they have kids or recently single. There are so many possibilities and there is no way to figure out what the right one is. We so rarely try to re