Monday, April 30, 2012

America's Beauty....

America's beauty is different for each person, and can be determined by how each person interprets it.  I am inspired by a beuatiful place that can only be found in America.  Door County, Wisconsin.  This can be found on a map, off the shores of Lake Michigan. 
                                                    
Door County is a place special to my heart, its holds several memories with myfamily, and my cousins.  The condos we stay at is known as Glidden Lodge, a rustic yet temporary, simple cozy space.  Tenniscourts, bike trails and a pool can be found.  As well as the gorgeous Lake Michigna, on a clear day the Lake is almost clear and you can find the sand bars, the spots out in the lake where it's surprisingly shallow. These were the destinations my cousins and I made.  Now I was probably about seven years old, and it was the first time I had ever been to Glidden Lodge.  We had just unpacked and from our patio you could see the lake not even a hundred yards away, it was the most spectualr site ever.  My sister, cousin and I knew instantly what we were going to do, go swim. We change as quick as we could and ran our litte bodies downto the beach, we hadn't brought towels or even considered the consequences yet, we justwanted to get into the clear water.  We ran in and the water was soon up to my hips.  Only then did we realize what we did.  Lake Michigan felt like a plunge into Artic water, we had never felt anything so cold.  We instantly ran out, that's when we realized we didn't have towels.  We were shivering and knew we need to get warm, my sisters lips were a slight shade of purple.  That's when we noticed our parents wathcing us, and laughing.  Although within a second our mothers disappeared and reappeared with towels.  Together we raced our little bodies up the trail and ran for them each grabbing a plushie, thick, warm towel to wrap up in until our bodies returned to the natural body temperature.  Still to this day, when I look out at the lake I think back to that day, I also think how majestic the lake still looks a decade later.
   
    

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

The Poem In My Pocket

What hope means

Hope is bright shining light which keeps darkness at the bay
Hope is gentle cold breeze on a hot summer day

Hope is to remain positive when going gets tough
hope is seeking more when others think u had enough

What hope means

Hope is dreaming of tommorow
Hope is simmering under sorrow

Hope is sparkles when tears in our eyes
Hope is a beautiful thing & beutiful things never dies

What hope means

Hope is as light as a feather
Hope keeps all of us together

Hope is ubiquitous and free of cost
Hope is the last thing ever lost.....
Vineet Bansal

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Injustice

Many times in a single day we experience injustice. Although, many of us don't view it as injustice. It can be from a single comment you overhear, to judging someone based on the color of their skin. Racist, and sexist comments are part of injustice in this world. Moments that aren't fair to evreyone, that's injustice. Excluding someone, ignoring someone, bullying someone, these are all forms of injustice. Acts of injustice are truely in the eyes of the beholder. The world we live in is very unfair, and I have seen acts of injustice, several actually. Although many times, I don't think realize it's injustice.

Plus, standing up for injustice is hard. A couple times I have stood up for injustice, although those times were typically cases of bullying or comments I didn't like.  Nothing too extravagent.  One major injustice I do stand for, or would if I got the chance is animal cruelity.  Animal cruelty a vulger act, taht should never have existed.  The stories are sickening and the animals are helpless, they couldn't protect themselves at all.  I have been fortunate and never seen true animal cruelity, therfore I've never showed my beliefs about it.  Yet, if I recieved the chance, animal cruelty is one injustice I will always stand against.

Friday, April 6, 2012

The Best Advice Ever

Now, there are countless pieces of information I have been told over the years that are fantastic.  Yet, only one piece of advice has truely remained in my mind, its from my Uncle Randy.  "Don't worry if you screw up, your a Welser, its what we do.  Plus we've all screwed up so much, we won't ever know if you screw up.  So go for your dreams."  Now, I know it's a common thing to hear, don't worry, go for your dreams, yet this time for me it wasn't just about the saying, it was also about the speaker.  My uncle is never a serious person, he's the kind of guy who does the things we all see on T.V. the things that say, Do not try at home.  When he said this, I could tell he was serious, and I was having a bad day and questioning some choices I had to make. He assured me no matter what, my family will always be there.  And to me, family comes first. That day I decided that as long as I'm happy people's opinions don't matter to me.  Now, to an extent people do matter, but I realized I can't please everyone, there's alwasy going to be at least one person who disagrees. 

Now, I've actually had the pleasure of meeting one of these people, and I could tell she wasn't truely happy because she spent all of her time worrying about others and their actions.  Even though she says she is happy, you can tell she's not happy at all.  She never really went for her dreams, and worried too much about screwing up.  She doesn't know that her family will be with her, standing behind her the entire time either, and she lives in a world of fear.  I know I will mess up at times, and I'm prepared for it, or at least as much as you can be prepared, and because of it, I don't live in a world of fear, I live in a world of my dreams.