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| Speed of Confusion | February 22, 2009, 10:01PM |
 by: Satchell |
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Forgive me if this is misplaced, its one part philosophy, one part short story, one part poetry. -- The familiar colored stripes of my coffee mug smudge. The orange becomes acquainted with red and the rim is pushed ever so slightly upwards. It is a smear of porcelain. At first, they vaguely resemble a snail. No, that would be silly. I convince myself that this isn't happening. Not in real life. Not to me- here, now. Hyperventilation slides up to you like a close friend. What are you? My hands dissolve into the sidewalk and my arms crawl, working their way into the landscape. They slink into mother earth without hesitation because this is the natural flow of the world. Skin becomes the mat your face is compacting onto. Thrown Judo-style from the little old lady that plays bridge with grandma. Your thoughts fade into the shrinking distance between nose and floor. Your hair shrieks like a dirty mop of horrified wind chimes. Eyes open up like your 7th chakra. Impact. The ride is over. You get off the bus and return to the daily life but it really isn't yours at all. You're 2rd-hand account to life is being washed and recycled to make two billion paper cups. Life is like a bowl of jellyfish they say. What the hell is that supposed to mean? Don't question it. You can't stop here. Move on. No time to explain. Hey, you're holding up the line. Run, run to catch up. No time for a coffee break now. Sacrifice lunch for the status quo. Sacrifice your first born, your lover, your favorite marble. Here you are again. Back to the mat. Impact. Where the toaster did that come from? Why do I keep finding myself here? For the love of god, explain yourself! You're back, hanging a foot above that mat. You stare down the white sponge inching it's way to you. The mat grins in contempt for your very being and it knows exactly what happens next. It's read this part of the manual. It knows what to do. It enjoys every minute of your enlightenment. Your advent of human awakening. Don't you dare. Don't you dare. Don't you- Impact, impact, impact. Tossed again and again. Often, and with great enthusiasm. In every moment of every day we are being thrown into life and it is up to you to recognize the moment when it comes. The beatings will continue until zen is achieved. But,... I am zen. You try to explain. You won't mind another toss then. You're being too much in your head. Too many words, too much 'understanding'. We will crush you like a discarded can if you don't pick up the pace. It is our purpose to bring you out into this beautiful place we call consciousness. We get these brief moments of pure understanding, pure mindfulness, pure- right here, right now, uh-huh and then we go and muck it up with- Impact. You don't understand yet. Don't try. Zen is already here. Sit with it. Sit with it. Sit with it. Sit with it. Sit with it. Itch the foot. Sit with it... Gah. Itch the ear. Think about the dog. Sit with it. What was I going shopping for? Zen!! Zen? Got to go buy that meditation pillow. I need one for- SIT WITH IT!! Is my pizza done cooking? Zen in 3... 2... 1.... This finite zebra makes contact with the real world. Press the little red button. Pull the little lever. Eat the yellow fruit. Get paid your big bonus. Sit with it. Sit with it. Sit with it. There is no moment without that impact. I am the sock without a mate in a dryer. I hit every single surface on the way down. When this wave of emptiness washes over me, something else takes over. I stop moving my own hands and I simply watch. This ghost manipulating a husk. I don't know. I close my eyes and nothing. Something echos inside me and spills out of my mouth unto the page. I see veins on my arms and know that I am alive. I know my nerves send signals, convincing me of my physical presence but I seem to always come back to that question. What is more real, the beach in my mind or the snow in my boots? I have a story. I come from somewhere. This ghost does not. Maybe I am just tired, I don't think that is it, but we can entertain the possibility. I like to call it a hallucination so I keep some sort of distance from it. Impact. Impact. Impact. Delirium kicks in and we become unsure if our feet are even moving. Gliding over pavement with our brand new sneaks. Unsure of which way we are falling, we take comfort in the self- we all know the feeling. When you find that you are so much more aware of your entire body. You retreat into yourself during uncertainty. We hermit back into our caves and in that moment, we are so very sensitive to the wind. The slightest brush feels like you were just decked by a linebacker. Swimming out into the ocean, it's the moment the coral drops off and you realize that if something DID come up, you'd be boned. Totally out of cover, retreating. It's a beautiful moment, to be sure- if you can appreciate it. Its a defining moment and can mean the difference between a great experience and one that you will never come back for. Impact. Zen. Here, now. Pushing yourself into the speed of confusion, life blurs before your eyes. Unsure the nature of the core of your being, you press forward. We make that leap from rooftop to rooftop without estimating the distance. It's that moment that you realize it is much further than imagined. That wide-eyed bushy tail moment of "Oh. Well then." You remember lifting up your right leg and pushing off with the left. You remember placing your right foot forward but it doesn't respond. You don't know the current status so, you either try to keep running or take a sidewalk sandwich. Impact. It is all over. You're not getting up from this one. | |
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| We can't condemn attraction, Attraction and Action are two different things. | February 21, 2009, 6:43PM |
 by: MyLastBlkRose |
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I have a question which will result in controversy and anger. What is the "Laws" of attraction, in a rational state of mind? The truth needs to be brought up at one point or another, correct? So if your a guy reading this right now, you were "chose to be" attracted to woman...correct? And if your a girl you were "chose to be" attracted to males, correct? Wrong. No one has chosen who to be attracted to. That’s a bunch of mislead media persuasions and societal influence. I'm a girl and I'm attracted to girls, so I ask you, does that make me a sinner? Does it make me a horrible person who will burn in hell? This isn't to make you all change your opinions on any subject I bring up right now, but It needs to be brought it up. Our society tells us who we can and can not love. It tells us what makes us horrible humans who deserve to die, and what makes us saints worthy of Heaven or what makes us acceptable in this world. I guess the point is that, why do we listen to every little thing we are told? Why do we hang on every strand that is spoken? People lie, people are persuaded, things happen and we aren’t all the same. Get used to it. We tell ourselves to listen to our parents and listen to our elders. Why do we, in all honesty? Most of the beliefs your parents have they were brought up with, and their parents before them, and so on and so forth dating back to the beginning of time when there was no such thing as an open minded, rational person. We were closed up to reality and forced into believing things that make no sense whatsoever. You can pull your religion and the bible out on me, go right ahead. I love God, and I believe in him very much, I turn to him when I need help, but the Bible isn't God, or Jesus’ spoken word. The bible was written by everyday "normal" close-minded humans. His disciples wrote the bible on how they thought Jesus would feel. Jesus himself did not right the bible, and that is a known fact. You can pull out "humane" and "normal" on me as well. Who is to say that love, no matter WHO we love, is wrong? I guess first I should bring up the topic of homosexuality, which has already been lightly discussed. The bible says "Man shall not lay down with Man" and if you do than you'll go to hell, correct? Did you know that in that same passage of the bible it later on goes on to state that if you eat shellfish than you will be damned to hell because shellfish is an abomination? Did you also know that later on in that SAME exact passage it states that children who disobey their parents shall be sentenced to death by stoning? Go ahead and tell me I'm wrong, go look it up, can’t find it, open up the Bible itself. Homosexuality was removed from the Official list of mental disorders awhile back. The reason is because some human finally came to rational senses and fought against it. There is a reason it was removed. Even if Homosexuality was still stated in that list along with Depression and anxiety, it doesn't mean you’re a horrible person. However it has been and therefore Science see's nothing wrong with it, and we do not know whether God or Jesus did either. ? Oh and if you plan on pulling out your Adam and Eve excuse now, than it brings me into my next subject, Incest. Technically if you want to go there, than we are all "related" which makes this world very incestuous. Like I have stated earlier we can’t control who we are attracted to. Should a four year old little girl be stoned and burned to death because she has become attracted to her father, or the same for the father attracted to his daughter? No, they should not. Attraction doesn't mean that you act on what you think. It's actually stated in common, but unknown knowledge that the first female attraction is to their father. It only seems normal, am I correct? If a four year old little girl wants to hug and kiss daddy, how do they know that it’s not "normal" as society would put it. Children see their parents hug and kiss in much different ways than they do with their children, and they see what their parents do as love, so who are we to condemn them? Am I saying that a man should commit sexual actions with his 4 year old daughter, NO. I'm simply stating that attraction isn't controllable. The everyday father would pull away from his daughter when she acted on her urges to kiss her daddy in the same way her mommy does, because she wants to be loved. He would explain to her that the love between mommies and daddies is different from the loves between daddies and their little girls. He would go on to explain that neither love is less or more and that he loves his little girl more than life, and that this is normal, but that it’s not okay. He would be gentle about it; he wouldn't yell or be disgusted. Of course I'm speaking of a GOOD father, one who loves their child and isn't an abusive asshole, which abusive parents are a complete other story, so lets skip over that for now -_-. This slowly leads me into the subject matter of pedophilia. Now before you sit there and think "eww, ugh they should die" let me explain. Being a pedophile does NOT make you a child molester. There is a HUGE difference, one that society likes to push to the deepest recesses of our minds. I will explain this to you. Child molesters ARE pedophiles, yes that is true, but that doesn't mean that ALL pedophiles are child molesters. Pedophilia is listed as a known mental disorder. So I ask you, if pedophile and I were standing side by side him having the disorder of pedophilia and me having my many disorders of the following, OCD, PTSD, Severe Depression and Severe Anxiety, also Borderline Personality disorder traits, and "an eating disorder" that he should be shot instead of me? Neither of us chose to be put on earth with our disorders but we also can’t do anything about them, medicine and therapy only go so far with some things. Technically I would have more problems than this supposed "horrible man" with the disorder of pedophilia, so why shouldn't I be shot and not him? Should I be beaten and raped and sent to prison, than to hell because I have these uncontrollable illnesses that I never got to decide upon having? I would certainly hope not. Pedo means "Child" in Greek, and Phile is a derivative of Latin, French and Greek meaning of "love". There for Pedophile means Child Love? How the hell is that wrong? I ADORE children, but would I ever touch them in a manner other than lovingly? NO!. I would not touch a child in a sexual way, and most Pedophiles wouldn't either. So think before you choose your side of this debate. Being attracted to a child isn't a crime, and never will be, so we must get used to it. However acting on the attraction, is and very well should be. We can NOT condemn attraction and throw people in jail for being attracted to anyone or anything. Let me share a few small pieces of my past if I may, to further explain my meaning behind a few things I'm trying to express in this "article". When I was two years old I was molested by a man named Jason and to this day I still hate him, which is very hard for me to say because I only hate two people in this world. Technically by law I was raped because there was penetration. He never went to jail because I was two, I was too afraid to say anything to the police although there was solid evidence, I was two, and what can you expect. Our government seems to sometimes be so corrupt, again that’s another story. However he did end up in prison because he didn't quit his lewd acts after he took me as his first victim. When I turned four, I'm sure I was a fairly happy little girl with a good life, except for that traumatic event in my life which I believe at that point I pushed too far for me to reach or think about. However three months after I had turned four my father passed away. He made the mistake of making a deadly cocktail of Heroin, cocaine and alcohol. It took him within hours. The only memory I have of my father that I remember currently is the day of his Memorial Service. I was dressed in all white, I looked so cute. Everyone was dressed in black and it confused me ever so much. When I saw my father I was so excited I ran over to him thinking he was only but asleep, I climbed up on the stool next to his "wooden bed" which I would later understand to be a casket, something that once you enter you don't exit. I kissed his cheek and I remember him being ever so cold. I remember thinking "Daddy is cold, I have to get him a blanket". I guess I don't need to go any further this has made my point and I don't feel like going into a mental breakdown at this very moment. Those are my first two memories, and until a bit later, about 6 or so I remember nothing of my childhood except for those two traumatic events, Trauma never ceases to brand itself into your mind. Since I can remember I have had an attraction to much older men, an attraction that almost lead me to deaths doorway. I loved to call older men daddy, mind you this was over the phone or internet because it was such a horrid time in my life. I loved how they treated me, and took care of me. I also had an attraction to pain, torture, abuse and rape. In a rational mind I might have been able to put it all together and realize it was a direct consequence of my rape and the loss of my daddy. When I finally came to grasp with the fact that I had this attraction and these urges I talked to my therapist who pieced it all together for me. A girl’s first attraction is to her daddy, and when I was two I had already been violated by lewd sexual acts. Not having my daddy around at the age that little girls first start feeling complete attraction, I had no man in my life to explain that it was wrong. The only men in my life were my mother’s boyfriends which used and abused her. These attractions lead me to some stupid things. I became terribly attracted, and I don't mean by looks to a man who was 34 at the time I was 14. He had four children whom he seemed to love dearly and treat great. He was very much interested in me as well and we talked for months, when I finally told someone about this, she was deeply concerned and helped me make a plan not to talk to this man anymore. When I told him he had said that he had my address and my last name and school name, which I never gave this information to him. It scared me because in the many months we talked he told me he would kidnap me and breed me like a bitch. This has a point, I swear! I am not saying that some pedophiles are not horrible men, I'm just simply stating that many are not. This man who targeted me at such a young age planned on taking action on his attraction, and although he had never touched an underage girl before he was going to, so I do believe some pedophiles are horrible people, like I said however MANY are NOT. I decided to write this to open up some peoples eyes to reality. And unintentionally to open their eyes to something else totally unplanned, safety when it comes to internet predators. My main point of this article would have to be... Attraction and Action are nothing alike, so think before you jump to unnecessary judgment. | |
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| New Post Icons | January 17, 2009, 12:55AM |
 by: eon |
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A small but useful update has been added to both the forums and groups. Now, when viewing threads, you will notice that an icon appears to the left of each thread indicating what type of thread it is. (Poll, Video, Locked, Pinned, Regular Post, etc.) These icons will change color depending upon whether or not there are any new posts in the thread which you have not yet viewed. If there are new posts waiting for you, the icon will be bright. If you've already read all of the posts in a thread, the icon will appear to be darker. This should make it easier to skim forums and groups and see what threads you need to catch up on. Enjoy... | |
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| Childrens Development In An Alternative Lifestye.. | January 8, 2009, 6:37AM |
 by: Digital_Fxxker |
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“Allowing a child to be exposed to be exposed to alternative lifestyle is damaging to their development”-Anonymous online source. Many people, after reading the given statement, would be fully supportive of it, with the argument that they were brought up in a conventional family environment (heterosexual parent or parents) and they turned out a respectable person. So in their views any other way of life is inappropriate or damaging to that person’s outcome. However, these people also claim that they are open minded and fair but, by stereotyping individuals and groups who have had alternative upbringings as having ‘corrupt minds’ or are ‘deviants of society’ this cancels out there claims of being fair and shows them as being close minded and unjust. Does it not? If you were to do an experiment and compare two children, from separate upbringings and look at their personal views on life, and everyday situations at influential stages of there life, you would most likely find that Child A- the child who had the typical heterosexual parents- who lived by conventional values would be closed off, distant and un-accepting in unfamiliar surroundings and communities. This child would grow up thinking that same sex relationships are ‘un-natural’ and ‘wrong’. Where as Child B- the child who has had an alternative upbringing and have same sex parents - would be more understanding and accepting to people’s different lifestyle choices as they have been shown out in the open to them. And without too much difficulty, these children would be able to adjust to unfamiliar setting. By comparing these children at different stages of their life’s it is evident that even from a very early age the children have similar views on thing surrounding them such as good behaviour and appropriate manners. But a difference in their development is hard to see at such an early age which child is which. However, by the start of primary school it becomes more visible as child A may find it harder to make friends and the friends that they do make they have a close connection with them as they are usually also from the same family setting. Child B will find it easier to be make friends but will find it harder to feel a close connection with these friends. In their teenage years the divide is a lot more visible as Child A (conventional upbringing) shows more signs of being a typical teenager with a small group of friends and is socially more accepted with a conventional appearance and is offended by the opposite lifestyles. Child B (alternative up bringing) appears to be more approachable with their peers and there appearance may reflect there directness towards people which in turn they get ridiculed for by children in group A. These teenagers would possibly be more daring and willing to try new things. These choices and opinions stay with them thought their adult life and acts like a window to their development. by observing they types of people in a variety of jobs across the uk it shows that people who are open with their views feel suited to a position inside the alternative community –by either running an alternative club to being a protest manager-.and the majority of those brought up conventionally have ordinary jobs. In spite of the given examples, it’s true that this is not always the case, you may have heterosexual parents who believe themselves and show there children that there is more than one type of family and that same sex relationships are around and accepted by different societies and that they are also normal. By giving that child un-biast information and allowing them the freedom to have their own views on different communities and there lifestyle choices it allows that child to grow up with a fair and accepting view on different situations. Personally, I disagree that “being exposed to alternative lifestyles is damaging to a Childs development”. because the way I see it, is if a person is brought up in a sheltered environment and told the only one particular way of life is right, then that person is being held back from making there own decisions and judgement. Indirectly is stopping that person growing as a person compared to someone who is aware of alternative lifestyles and having the mental capacity to acknowledge that it is accepted. So incidentally it appears that being exposed to different lifestyles is in fact beneficial to a child development as it allows them to understand and feel comfortable about being in different situations through out life. By Leah Cameron | |
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| Has Christmas lost its true meaning? | December 25, 2008, 6:56AM |
 by: Syn |
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Some see Christmas as getting free gifts from people who love you. Others see it as a day to get with family and be around the ones you love and who love you back. Then you got those who go to Christmas mass. Which brings me to the next part of the article. It is a mixture of many things one being spending time with family on this of most religious days. Yes it was originally a religious day. Christmas is the day the Jesus Christ was born. As you all know a lot of people no longer celebrate it as the day that he was born. A lot more people are using this day to spend money on outrageously over priced gifts on those they love. Has it really come to this? You may ask. Yes it has, many people across the globe who celebrate this day are no longer looking forward to spending time with their family or to celebrate the day that a icon of religion was born. I personally do not believe in the same god or savior. I believe that there was a man named Jesus Christ, but that is besides the point. My point is that we the people of this planet, those of us who celebrate this day but don't believe in god or Jesus Christ, need to stop being so materialistic and concentrate on our families. Your life cannot be that bad that your parents do not love you enough to spend 300-500 dollars on you for a game system. Obviously they love you. So today go spend time with your family, eat a good dinner, and enjoy this holiday. | |
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| Have yourselves a good one. | December 24, 2008, 8:05PM |
by: eon |
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I think I would be remiss as a webmaster if I did not wish the entire site a wonderful and joyous holiday season. And since I live in unmitigated, abject terror of the possibility of being remiss: Have yourselves a wonderful and joyous holiday season. I hope your Christmas is the best fucking Christmas ever and that your New Year ain't too shabby either. All I ask is that you find yourself a mistletoe to share with someone or just do something really nice and unexpected for someone for whom you might otherwise not. One or the other, it's your choice. ILUGUIZE, be good and be safe. | |
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| A few small things. | November 23, 2008, 1:46PM |
by: eon |
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Just a few small updates to the site today: 1. Image uploading. a. It is now possible to upload an image from a URL. For example, if there is a picture you have already uploaded to photobucket or some other site, you will now find a place where you can enter the address and it will be copied over to your gallery on DarkStarlings. This saves you the step of having to download and then re-upload images that you find on the web. b. Previously, there was a 2 MB limit on the file size of the images that you could upload. In consideration of growing file sizes (and lazy people) I have upped the limitation to 5 MB. Note, this will have no effect on the final image which appears in your gallery. This simply makes it easier for you to upload images if you have large file sizes. (Normally, you'd need to resize or compress a large image before uploading, now you may be able to upload it directly.) 2. Friends. a. You will now receive a notice in your comments when someone has added you to their friends list. In the notice, if you have not already added that person to your own list, you will have links to easily add them back or (if they're really gross and ugly) to remove yourself from their list. b. When browsing your "friends of" list (the list showing people who have added you to their friends list), you will now have a convenient link to add people back if you haven't already done so. This will make it easy to quickly scan for people who have added you, who you haven't added back and allow you to easily add them or remove yourself from their list. As always, watch out for any creepy-crawlies and enjoy... | |
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| Can you be fat and fit? | October 18, 2008, 9:18PM |
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Men and women who are judged fit on a treadmill test but who are overweight or obese have a lower risk of death than those of appropriate weight but have low fitness levels. In a study published in the Journal of The American Medical Association researcher and exercise physiologist Steven Blair of the University of South Carolina tracked 2,600 people over age 60 years to determine how physical fitness and body fat affected their death rates over a period of 12 years. Blair found that those in the lowest 5th of fitness levels were four times more likely to die than those in the top 5th of fitness levels. This level of fitness provided protection against death whether an individual was of normal weight, overweight, or obese. Blair thinks his findings are important because people in the US and many other countries are increasingly inactive and obesity rates are high, and at the same time many of these countries populations are aging. "We should not ignore obesity," Blair said. "But what happens all too often is we focus nearly exclusively on obesity and forget the activity and fitness part." Blair's team assessed participants' fitness using a treadmill test, seeing how long they could walk while the treadmill's workout increased in intensity. They measured body mass index (BMI) a figure that is calculated from a person's height and weight, as well as waist circumference and percent body fat. Their results showed that even a small effort to improve fitness levels provides a health benefit and that people who are sedentary now don't need to take drastic steps in exercise frequency or intensity to make gains. "If you're overweight or obese and you're sedentary and unfit and you start taking three 10-minute walks a day and you do that at least five days a week, you're not going to lose an enormous amount of weight," Blair said. "You're going to still be heavy. But you're going to be much healthier if you do that," Blair said. Blair also recommends healthy eating patterns, including lots of fruit, vegetables, and whole grains. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), more than 1/3 of the US adult population is obese; obesity is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD), some types of cancer, and type 2 diabetes. The CDC has also found that more than 1/2 of adults in the US do not participate in regular physical activity. Exercise can cut your risk of dying from CVD, as well as lowering your risk of stroke, colon cancer, hypertension, and type 2 diabetes. (I did not write any of this. found here | |
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| On observing articles come and go... | September 29, 2008, 3:13PM |
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On observing articles come and go I've watched several start with a good idea, continue well and then deteriorate into the same old self-righteous garbage every angst-ridden teen tries (And usually fails) to spout. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying all the people who write these articles are angst-ridden teens. Far from it. I'm just saying that this is the sort of stuff teens wish they could come up with. Sometimes these article authors just sound like grown men and women who never grew out of being an angst-ridden teen, and now have the vocabulary to express their stunted views. At the same time I've seen many well-written and well-established articles detailing some interesting and challenging ideas, only to be shot down by the idiocy that is "You suck, this is gay" comments every article seems to attract. My point is simply this, and it's not a statement more than it is a question: Why is it that almost all good ideas are demolished by ignorance? This doesn't necessarily have to be just about articles, this is a wide-reaching inquiry. Debate at your leisure. | |
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| Tips for adapting to low buget lifestyle | September 25, 2008, 9:04PM |
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( The following is my slant on a timeless copy feature about the economic decline I wrote as a Lotus Leaf staffer at the request of our adviser, Gail Price. [The Lotus Leaf is Monroe High School's newspaper.] As this is journalistic writing and timeless copies have a 300 word max set on them, the feature has been edited down [I had to edit out 200-some words o(>.<)o] and a few tips have been removed, but it does get to the point and the remaining tips are hopefully helpful for those who aren't sure how to adapt to the changes the economic decline is causing. For those of you who don't know what a timeless copy is, by the way, it's a journalistic style story that can be run at any point in time for a certain span of time. For those who don't know what a feature is, it's essentially any journalistic story that isn't straight news or straight sports. There are five kinds of features and an example of a feature is an editorial or an opinion feature which is a lot of what show up here in the articles section of D.S. ) (P.S. I went over by one word. XP) BYLINE: Alyson Knezevich Recently the news has become a constant reminder of the economic decline in the United States, but why should this matter to you? Well, look around. Who’s missing? Lately everyone is struggling with their budgets; in particular, keeping roofs over their heads. Foreclosure rates are at an all time high and with so many people having to face this personally, everyone has to learn how to adapt. However, this is more difficult for some than others; so here’s a few tips to make adapting easier. Tip one: don’t be stubborn. If you want something, but it’s over budget, don’t get it. Of course, depending on what you want, you could get the cheaper, generic version that complies with your budget. You could even rent or borrow it from a friend if it’s a media item. Just don’t go out of your budget, otherwise you’ll regret it. Tip two: consider substitutes. Some activities are more expensive than others. So instead of going to say... that big concert, check if a local band you enjoy is playing somewhere closer for cheap or free. Tip three: be optimistic. Don’t get upset because you can’t do everything you used to. As they say, the best things in life are free; so cherish what you have. Enjoy that walk to a friend's over driving somewhere out of town. Just think, that walk is not only money in your pocket, but good for the environment. The final tip I offer you is… be open-minded. Remember, change is good. If you have to move out of town, keep in touch with your old friends, but be open to the new people you’ll meet and new experiences you’ll have. Don’t shoot everything down because it’s different. Embrace all those opportunities waltzing into your life and use them for self-improvement. Tips | |
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