Short and Long Term Goals.

Short Term Goal: My short term goal, will be to just try and make someone's day a little better. Whether it be with a smile, or saying good morning to someone. Just try to make their day, a little happier. Or put them in a good mood if they're feeling down.

Long Term Goal: My long term goal, will be to help homeless and/or abused children. In any way I can. Not necessarily open up like shelters or anything, but maybe like volunteer at different shelters, and donate things I don't use. Just things like that.

Inner Peace

What is 'inner peace?' To me, inner peace is just like, being happy with yourself. It's the happiness that you feel inside of you. It's all the little things, even the big things that make YOU happy. It's feeling calm, and at peace with yourself. It's being able to be in stressful situations, but still being able to handle them with calmness, and not getting mad or stressed out. It's being able to deal with things in a calm and understanding way. Inner peace is a state of being mentally and spiritually at peace with enough knowledge and understanding to keep oneself strong in the face of discord or stress. Inner peace is just being able to be happy no matter what, being able to accept things how they are, and still be okay with it all. Just, being at peace with yourself.

Opinion Piece

                News is shown everywhere on television, on the radio, on the internet, in the newspaper, there’s even applications so you can get the news on your phone. So I would say that people are definitely informed about what’s going on around them, but is everything they are hearing actual facts, or have the stories been changed a little?

                Hearing the news is pretty much inevitable, you are going to hear it whether you are looking to hear it or not. But people seldom take the time to see if what they are learning is true. The news information gets changed from channel to channel, radio station to radio station, website to website, nothing is consistent. So there is really no telling in what is true and what is false unless you take the time and actually do your research.

                So will this add to creating a peaceful world, or take away from it. Not knowing the truth about information will take away from the peace factor, because well we don’t know what to believe or what not to believe. News is just like background music to our lives, we hear it all the time, it’s just part of our everyday, but eventually I think people are just going to stop paying attention to what they hear. So it definitely takes away from trying to create a peaceful world.

On Sunday May 2, 2011, Osama bin Laden was killed, and I saw on some news channels on the bottom of the screen it said, “Obama bin Laden has been killed” and I even on some radio stations I heard them say, “Obama” instead of “Osama.” Now even though we all know it was Osama and not Obama that was killed, I doubt that many people caught that. But it’s just because, like I said, it’s just background noise to everything else that’s going on around us.

                In order to make peace we need to be informed, we need to know what’s going on in the world, and we need to know the truth, all the facts so that we can make it a better place for everyone to live. And if we don’t know what happening, well there’s no way we can make things better, because we won’t know what needs to be fixed or what needs to be worked on.  

                To make the world a peaceful place, we need to know everything we possibly can to achieve that peace goal. And we need to take time to check out our resources make sure we know the truth about what’s going on. The world isn’t going to get any better unless we do something about it.