Who Are You...Is that honestly you?

So yes...it is yet another late night adventure in my mind and honestly, I'm going to let my mind take a venture on the this one. Honesty it's something were taught from a young age. I was taught that honesty is a key, with friendships, family, and deeper relationships that could lead up to a girlfriend and marriage. When someone can honestly look at you and tell you i honestly don't like your attitude toward (____) fill in the blank that person is..."being real." This Idea or thought of honesty and as many people put it "brutal honesty", which to mean means you say what you know to be the truth even it could in turn hurt another feelings. Now at the moment i feel like I'm giving a lecture i want to get away from that and get i guess deeper. I just watched a movie called "Catfish." (Warning!!! if you haven't seen this movie and want to stop reading now!!! come back and read later) I'll start of saying the Internet is a a portal for many things. To me it seems that the Internet can be a way to promote a business start a business or even just talk about business this is more of the E commerce side. Then you get into the informative side where i see that you can go from website to website trying to find sorurcable information that can be used to not only gain knowledge but to inform others about a topic. there are more but i really guess i wanted to hit 3 of them the last one is the biggest one it's social networking or even online dating. The Internet is an escape from reality...the space that takes up cyber spaces allows billions of people let them be whoever there want to be. which for many can be a fun prank to play on another friend but...when the joke makes up your life and portrays a part of you that has remained hidden..to me it allows you to fall into this trap of being some one that your not. Whats even worse is people have made it more of a habit of lying to people too, to make it more convient to better their needs and I'm making a challenge to my self and all you that read this start off your day with a fresh cup of Honesty and try as hard as possible to be yourself don't let anyone fool you into believing that to do what you want you must change who you are!! :)

You can bet on it

When you and your best friend get into a disagreement about something silly or maybe even something that you are "sure" about, many times you say "I'll bet you." i get this small feeling that this has been going longer than we can imagine. in reality unless we see it for our selves it might not be a sure thing. I'm stopping and thinking right now what makes us think that some thing is a sure thing. Physical proof? and emotional state where we feel right? When it comes to belief's many of our day to day beliefs or practices are from our home life. Now having a belief is all fine and dandy but when we believe in something don't we try to support it. For me this has been a life time struggle. not necessarily the believing part but the acting. When it comes to love, i show it with open arms do i always do it at the right time...no i don't. i tell people this story and it makes them giggle....but when i was little kid if a kid fell of the monkey bars..i was the first to help him up. I've always had a heart for people both of my parents have told me this. I try to hold my friends to a high standard about being there for me not making it a one way street and it really bothers me that i can honestly say i have very few honest friends and friends that are there. but again..I'm not always there either so i again condemn myself. My relationship with god has truly had it's moments not ones where i stop believing but where i might not necessarily be where i could be. The one thing i can bet on is that he'll always be there for me...never forsake me... and knows what i need in life to keep going. so i guess what I'm challenging you or asking you to even stop and think about it for one second. What are thing things that you truly bet on? i know it's going to be different for every one. :)