To All My Friends

I wish for one day that everybody could all just get along.
And I wish that for once people stopped judging others and jumping to conclusions.
Don't you think life and friendships would be a lot smoother if we learned to accept and be grateful for what we have? To cherish the time we have together and not to focus on the time that we don't?

People grow up. People change.

It's time to let go of the negative and welcome the positive.

Positive people. Positive activities. A positive lifestyle.

I think people need to seriously consider their lives and stop and think for a moment about who their real friends are.

Who are the people who are going to stick by you through good moments and bad? Who are the people who accept you for who you are? Who are the people you can trust with your secrets-big and small? And who are the people who actually want to spend time with you?

For me, that list seems to be shrinking. But at least I'm true to my heart and know who to spend my valuable time with.

Let's just say this. I'm not going to waste my efforts anymore on people who could care less to spend time with me as a person...but more time judging other aspects of my life.

So here, here to my real friends. You all know who you are.

Tupperware and Mops

I happen to be hair illiterate. I don’t know how to curl or braid nor do anything fun to my hair whatsoever. I have this friend who will always do my styling for me so when we go out, my hair looks half decent and not just a mop sitting on the top of my head. She’ll pull and yank and I find myself yelping at the tugs. She responds with “Beauty is Pain”.
If beauty is pain, and I can’t even handle the pulling of hair strands, how do people like Heidi Montag, Meg Ryan and numerous other celebrities receive loads of painful plastic surgeries in order to look, well, worse?
As most people know, but for those who don’t, Heidi Montag (The Hills) recently had TEN surgeries in order to look her best. Excuse me?! Ten surgeries? Oh. And that was at the same time! How do you smile? How do you sit? How do you even move?! That must have been one painful day…and she doesn’t even look good. She was such a pretty, down to earth girl when she was first introduced on The Hills. Now she looks like “Triple E Barbie”.
I can understand wanting to change a certain aspect of your appearance if your entire life you were insecure about your large nose that always stuck out of your face…your A-Cup when all of your friends had C’s or D’s…or get liposuction because every time your girlfriends were exchanging clothes you couldn’t because you didn’t fit into their Small’s or Medium’s. I get why if you had the chance to change something… you would; because if you hated something so much about yourself, you would finally be able to sigh in relief at your new confidence.
But why ten different surgeries? Why announce it to the world that you hate yourself that much that you go and change ten different things about your body? I’m curious if Heidi realizes that everyone thinks that she looked better before her very first surgery. But I guess if it makes her feel more confident and better about herself, then what are we all gossiping for…right?
Regardless…If beauty really is pain and the end result has you looking like you are a piece of Tupperware...I’ll take my mop hair any day of the week!

Metal Skin.

No matter where you live, there is a large variety of places to go for a meal. Let’s face it. A good chunk of our time is spent eating-whether that is in our own homes, out in a restaurant, or in a fast-food joint. It seems that every time we eat breakfast, lunch, or dinner-in or out-we critique it. With so many different genres of food (Chinese, Japanese, Italian, Canadian etc.) there are endless options. For most people, going out for dinner is a social affair-to experience a meal that you don’t cook for yourself (unless of course you are at a trendy “grill it yourself” restaurant) and in general, have an enjoyable experience. In the restaurant industry, customers arrive expecting the best possible experience from their servers and their food. Obviously, this can sometimes be an impossible task. Servers are not robots. They are human. So why are there certain customers that just don’t seem to understand this? Customers come in a restaurant demanding outstanding service from their servers and if they don’t get 100% perfection, they show signs of disappointment-or worse-anger. And, alas, who gets the final blow? The servers. Half the time, it isn’t even the server’s fault that, say, there was bacon put on the plate instead of ham, or there was a hair in the chicken. Sometimes, it’s the cook that makes the mistake, but they get to hide out in the back. Or a good quarter of the time, it’s the customer’s fault-that they accidentally ordered the wrong thing. Servers know this, but there they are-smiling and offering free dessert. The whole point of going to a restaurant is to enjoy your experience, to have a good time…not make a College Student cry over bacon. I give props to all of those who are servers-they are the toughest kinds of people I know. They answer to orders like they are servants, smile and nod when a customer is unhappy, and are understanding and sympathetic. So be kind to your servers-remember that they are trying to make their way through school or just life in general. Remember that servers are not robots-they are people…people with metal skin.