High use of language.

I hate using big complex words. Apart from the fact that I don’t understand most of them, I find it highly unnecessary.  Maybe sometimes you can express yourself better by using a word which is of a high calibre, which is fine. However, sometimes I find people whose vocabulary consist only of a high calibre and I find it most annoying! Conversations with these people are tedious and boring. Some literature that I have to read is of extreme high calibre and I hate that too!  

The reason I hate it is because at the end of the day when you say or read a sentence there is only one point to the sentence. In the end it all means the same thing. So why do things need to be made complicated by using very big and hard-to-understand words? I don’t want to sit with a dictionary every time I read or speak to someone. I find high use of language to be somewhat artificial…maybe I’m crazy, but that’s just the way I feel.

Stress causes illness

The worst thing to do in life is to stress. All of us are guilty of stressing, because we are human and that’s okay as long as it is not taken to the extreme. It’s always a guarantee that at the end of whatever it is you were stressing about, you find out that there was no reason at all to stress.

I hate stressing. I can’t stand it. Life is way too short to stress. Some people stress all the time about things that don’t even matter and they cause a lot of tension and even heartache due to this unnecessary stress. People need to learn not to take things so seriously and to get over themselves! Haha!

Stress makes you ugly. You can see when someone is stressed –short term or long term. It affects your entire being, your aura, skin, the way your face looks…just EVERYTHING!!!!!!! Many terminal illnesses are caused by stress and people don’t realise this. If you are happy you have a higher chance of being healthier and living longer. So stop stressing and be happy!

Why I have conversations?

I love having conversations. Conversations are so important to have in life. What would life be without them? Time spent on having a conversation is like soul food – obviously if you have meaningful conversations.

I base majority of my conversations on ‘why?’ ‘Why’ conversations, for me, are the most interesting ones you could ever have. You learn so much about anything you want to learn. It’s as if you have information at finger tips. You however have to be cautious of what you hear, because the sources may not be very reliable.

I also have conversations where I share my knowledge with others in hope that I can help them. This is not necessarily academic or factual knowledge, but life experiences. I have lots of conversations where I share life experiences with friends or family.

Sometimes I have conversations to flirt too. These are quite fun! I do suck at them though haha! Then I also have conversations where I talk the biggest load of nonsense ever. The point of having these is to have no point, but I see them as important. These conversations help me to just forget about life for a moment and unwind and not take anything seriously. I love having these conversations.

I have conversations because they are fun, because you learn from them and because it’s interesting to hear other peoples’ views of the world. Communication is one of the most important aspects in life….never forget to communicate, especially with those close to you.

100 things to do before I die.

Here it goes:

1.       Travel the world

2.       Buy my own car

3.       Get another degree

4.       Have my own company

5.       Become an extreme adventurer as a career

6.       Become a boss

7.       Buy my own house

8.       Design my own house

9.       Build random things just for the sake of building

10.   Become a professional soccer player

11.   Become an engineer

12.   Become a geologist

13.   Maybe adopt a child (that’s still up for negotiation)

14.   Influence the world in some way for a good cause

15.   Create a law

16.   Become the president for a while

17.   Become a professional skateboarder

18.   Build my own skate park

19.   Become a music producer

20.   Buy a house for both my parents

21.   Never age

That’s all I’ve got for now and this is more than enough to keep me busy for a looonnnnggggg time. It’s all so exciting to be young because there are endless opportunities for you to explore. If you fail it’s okay, at least you have experienced whatever it is you wanted to and you learnt something from that experience. Failure is never a bad thing.

My big fat BIG dream…

I never really dream in my sleep….well I guess you always dream in your sleep, but I hardly ever remember my dreams. It is very rare that I do remember my dreams. I do however have many dreams for myself.

I have set many goals for myself which I would like to achieve for myself, but I am taking it one step at a time in achieving them. I sort of go through the motions of life and set my goals and dreams according to what I want in my life. This has changed many times, because as time passes I see things differently or I learn something new.

My big fat BIG dream? I don’t really know what that is right now at this stage of my life. I’m actually at a very awkward time of my life, where I feel like I’m floating in the middle of nowhere, just going through the motions, just doing the bare minimum. It really sucks, because I usually know what I want. I still do know what I want, I just can’t wait for this phase to pass.

I wish that this phase I am currently experiencing in my life was my big fat BIG dream, because that’s what it feels like. I wish I could wake up and realise that it is not my reality, but it is…

Conventional is a good fallback position isn’t it?

Hmmm this is something I will have to think about…conventional is tricky. It’s tricky because who created conventional? To me, conventional in human terms is conventional set by someone else or based on past events or experiences made. I don’t really like conventional to be honest. I do agree that in some cases it helps to be conventional as it may create some order or structure and in that case yes, it is a good fallback position. However, in most cases conventional is stupid.

People live their life based on what they believe is conventional. I see this happening around me everyday…even if they hate what they have to do and it makes them hopelessly unhappy, they do it because it’s ‘how things are supposed to be’.

To me, people who live a conventional life (no offence to anybody) don’t take time to question life or challenge ‘the norm’ and they don’t think further than what they should. In short, I believe that people who live a conventional life don’t live their life at all. I strongly believe that people shouldn’t live their life because that’s how they were told or taught to live their lives. You have a brain, a unique brain, a unique personality and your own character –use it and don’t be afraid to use it! Ask a lot of questions, create your own theories, don’t be afraid to fail, don’t be afraid if your opinion differs from most people’s and don’t be scared to pick yourself up if you have failed. Just never, never live a conventional life because you think you have to…nothing ever has to be a certain way!    

My sore teeth

I’m sitting here at this moment in time with terrible tooth ache...it’s so sore!!!! I feel like screaming! Everything is so sensitive and I feel like I can’t even move my mouth. I really hate the dentist though…maybe that is why I have sore teeth in the first place.

Whenever I went to the dentist as a child they would always end up hurting me and then when I got older I made the choice to just stop going to the dentist because they were way too violent and I always left crying. All my experiences at the dentist have been bad. One time I went to the dentist (I was in matric already) and my dad went with me because I was scared because they were going to extract my tooth. I was sitting in the chair, my dad was holding my hand and the dentist was busy doing his thing. Then, next minute he starts pulling and tugging at my tooth and I start fighting with him because he is hurting me and I start crying and my dad is scolding me on the other side – it was a disaster! That is just one of the many bad experiences I have had.

 I guess that a few minutes of being ‘dentist-bullied’ is not as bad as the toothache experience? Maybe I should start going to the dentist again because I’m starting to realise that these are the only teeth I have left in my mouth and I don’t want to end up with false teeth….:/