summer...

so this is my first day of the official start of the summer. school is done until september and i find myself questioning everything. how will i do at my new school? will i like the people? and the teachers? what about my friends i left behind??
everything is jumbled and thrown across the board. im not quite sure ill enjoy myself at the new house. moves are too complicated and ruin things that were fine the way they were.

so this is definitely a new beginning..did i want this to happen? HELL NO! is it going to happen anyhow? unfortunetly, yes....
over the next year, ill be blogging about the move and how im managing it. brutal honesty will be used so its up to you to keep yourself posted :/

organ donation

this is usually a touchy subject for quite a few people. i for one, support organ donation and would like to heavily encourage others to do the same. many people can benefit from organ transplants and it can save up to eight lives. i feel that everyone who is eligible and able to do so should definitely donate their organs after death. if someone happened to pass away before they were able to consider or register for organ donation, the family should, in my eyes, let doctors and others in need of their organs benefit from this. 
i understand death is a hard thing to deal with and a lot of people would not like to be bothered by the government and other organisations over body parts and whom they should go to after death; however, saving a life feels great even in sad situations as the passing of a loved one. 
i, myself am an organ donor and i also plan to give blood as soon as i am able to do so. i believe in humanity and the best life for everyone. when i decided to become a donor, i felt i was contributing to life and something greater than myself. i felt i was doing what was intended for for humans to do - help each other...and you should too :)

i dont usually do this but...

this personality test has sparked my interest. a few things that were mentioned i already knew about myself; however, it brought certain traits of myself to my attention which explained aspects of me


for those out there who know nothing about me, here is a link to figure it out:

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Social Change in Music

Timeless...

this is by far one of the most interesting topics to discuss in the social sciences. little by little, it happens every day. it moves our world forward. without social change we would still be stuck in the same bland world we were at 1000s of years ago. we have moved forward; even evolved!

the good ol' days...

to me, the most interesting and relevant in my lifetime, is music and how it is presented to us daily. most of the time we take our technology for granted. we always expect it to be there when we need it. the form of music has changed exponentially. almost every year since my birth there has been a new way of presenting it. 
the basic timeline of music: radio, cassettes, CD's, mp3 players, iPod's (including every generation).


who knows what will be next?


technology has driven us to great heights; it has made us. i always ask myself if music would still be classical if we didn't have fancy recording studios and voice-over editing programs. in my parents time, music was music. there was no way to change and 'make it better than what it was'. an artist was only as good as his talent. nowadays, talent like that doesn't exist anymore. people rely on technology too much. it has changed and i don't necessarily think it was for the better either. the only new talent i can think of with original talent - without voice editing programs changing it - is Adele's voice. it has power, emotion and a story. her talent is exceptional to today's talent. 


i hope technology will slow down to a more gradual rate in music. social change needs time to catch up to its state and i feel like it is clear that things are too rushed. music is perfection and perfection takes time...

AMAZING is all i can say. Philip Zimbardo's book about the Lucifer Effect. he is a phenomenal writer and a great psychologist too. his book moves me and grabs the reader's attention. if you get the chance, read this book and be prepared to be aaaaamazed!

Gender Roles

Controversial. that's the first word that comes to mind. a lot of people are split when gender roles are discussed. my parents, for example, are very old fashioned and believe the woman should stay home and take care of the children, cook, clean, wash and maintain a positive attitude which pleases the man of the house. the man's role is work. earn money, provide for the family and take care of taxes as well as other expenses. 
i completely disagree with their views! i think it's unreasonable to make a woman do all the dirty work while the man can go out and live his life. i don't necessarily care if he's in an office cubical for most of the day because it still beats staying at home. when i get married and decide to have children, i will make sure my husband is aware that most of the work will be split between us. i will have a job and we would take turns staying home and taking care of our child. i would expect him to be able to cook and clean just as well as i would be capable of. 
in our class, we had a mini-survey asking which roles belong to whom and if they're split, which percent goes to whom? of course, the roles were old fashioned where the women cook and clean and the men work and provide...
surprised i am not; however, disappointed i am. when i filled out my gender roles survey, i tried to make it as close to realistic as possible hoping it could actually be that way when i am an adult. in my eyes, 50/50 would be perfect! but i am aware that isn't necessarily possible in today's society. things like who picks the kids up and who cooks dinner are still a woman's job where men might take on that role every once in a while. they feel a woman should do anything related to the children and cleaning and the man works with the occasional handy-man job. these things bother me and other feminists. when i grow up, my goal is to have an equal family where there is balance between the roles of my husband and i.

Dreams...

theyre interesting..hard to remember..kinda weird :/
all in all, i like them :)
if you know how to 'interpret' them, you get to know a bit more about yourself and thats cool cuz its difficult enough already to describe yourself in a few words. for example, if i told you i was intelligent, short and complex, it wouldnt really tell you who i am. but now if i told you my dream, it could let you go a bit deeper and really let you in on the secret i like to call myself. everyone claims to be someone but when you think about it, everyone can be anyone...it makes sense but it can be confusing. i dont really know who i am, but i can tell you what i dreamt about last night and relate to my everyday life like this.
i think it would be interesting to be a dream analyst because it's fascinating stuff and you never stop learning!
waking up in the morning and being able to remember your dream and interpreting it is soooo captivating. sometimes its the weirdest things but dreams really reveal your deepest thoughts which you technically dont control since dreams are a part of your subconscious mind; but thats what makes it so captivating.
i dont know.
this sort of thing has always grabbed my attention. its the stuff i cant get enough of. and every once in a while, dreams seem to jump ahead in my life and when my life catches up with the dream, i get extreme spells of deja vu. sometimes i even get flashbacks from my very early childhood. i know the memory is close to incapable of remembering events and people from this timeframe in a child's life but somehow i feel like i've already lived my dream. for me, these are the most vivid dreams with colour sounds and faces to the people. not every dream has this; usually theyre faint with no faces and unusual sounds and words which dont make much sense...
enough about dreams now, take this to the pillow with you and think about it when youre about to fall asleep, and in the morning, i would love to know what you dreamt about :)