Life Inspirational Flames + some Yoda and Turtles Awesomness

I like turtles... I wanna live my life just like a turtle... They're like, so chill, so relaxed about everything. They don't hurt anyone. They don't give a shit about what others think of them. They're just like, "Hey man, I want to swim, and maybe eat some lettuce. But I'm gonna take my time getting there, I'm not in a rush. Because I'm a turtle." Plus they can kill Super Mario! September 25, 2012 Sure, on retrospective 2012 sucked. The economy sucked. The housing market was lousy. And jobs became tougher to find. You thought 2012 was your year to break out on your own. Create your own life – physical,emotinal, psycological and financial freedom. But then AnimeSeason had a bunch of specials, you had to find out what happened on the latest anime(and blog about it), and, what is that?… There's a new Sherlock TV series? Frankly, you blew the year with distractions. It is easy to do…I mean…distractions are so…well… distracting. It is so much easier to chat about the latest Laurell K. Hamilton novel and her sexy french vampires, or how Starbucks is adding stuff to their coffee to make people want to buy an accompanying muffin. Hey, those are much better topics, I myself freely admit it, reality sucks! But that doesn't mean we can live on Neverland forever. Do you dare to take a peek through the looking glass? Then read on… Here's how you can sail trough this crisis infested waters, avoid major depression icebergs, and live the life of a pirate! Wake Up! – Get up early in the morning, every morning, even if you don't have anything to do, you won't accomplish anything by spending your life asleep in your bed. There are plenty of things to do everyday but, guess what, they all take work. Plan on learning about something. I mean really doing something, take bellydancing lesssons, learn a foreing language or two, get a cooking and pastery degree. But do it passionatly, either do something or don’t do something, don't go half hearted into it, don't live your life that way. "No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try."- Yoda. Depression Sucks – Stop overthinking it. Cease to be so afraid of life, "Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering."- Yoda really had it all figured out, don't get sucked into the dark side, live your life free of fear and happy in the light. Stop doing “serious work” and start enjoying what you do for a living. It is easy to get a job. There are lots of jobs available out there even in the middle of this crisis, there's lots of stuff that, at the end of the day,get you the money you need to live. But there's also lots of jobs that in the end of the week didn’t earn you a dime but feels like you did something. Before accepting any job, ask yourself, “How much is my time and self respect worth? is it worth this ammout of money?” If you can’t answer a big “yes,” in the short term… move on to something that will. Don't think long term, life is short you could be dead tomorrow, and then what good would the money and the hard work do you? Change is the key! Nowadays with the job unemployment rate, you get pretty much the same lousy ammount of money regardless of where you work, what you do or for how long you have been doing it. Take advantage of that and stop making up a million excuses “why” you couldn’t do something. Take this time to start your own business, take risks, strive for more and better, by taking chances and trying out for jobs you wouldn't normally do, you might find you like or even have some talent for some really unexpected stuff. "If no mistake have you made, yet losing you are ... a different game you should play"- Yoda. Live on the today! Don't spend your life mourning your past fortune. Set new dreams for yourself. Quit saying one day you'll be happy when you have this and that, or you never will. When will you get this or that? Set a deadline (an actual date and time) and tell friends to kick you in the ass if you don’t meet it. Get yourself back on track to your goals and dreams. Quit Bitching You Big Baby– The world owes you nothing. Life Sucks… get a helmet. Some people spend more time making excuses than it would have taken to use that same amount of time to just do the damn thing. Just do it already or quit whining about it. Whihning and complaining won't get you anywhere. "In this war, a danger there is, of losing who we are"- Yoda once again knew it, and tells you that in the middle of hard times one must hold on to one's own streght and pride with all one's got. Don't let yourself be dragged down by the general self-pity party, we seem to be having, live your life with pride and streght! Stop Twittering, Facebooking, and playing Farmville. – That huge sucking sound in the background when you fire up Facebook is the sound of your life going down the drain. You are not a real farmer and you are not “keeping in touch with your friends” – you are maintaining more than one narcissistic website all about you. If you wanna write about you, write a blog, or a journal. Don’t make excuses that social media is anything other than that. Want to talk to a friend? Pick up the frigging phone and call them – it probably automatically forwards to their Facebook account anyway. I hope you have a great rest of 2012 and a bloody awesome 2013. If you don’t, it is probably your own fault.

To Have Your Dreams Fall in Flames and Yet Rise Above The Ashes To Fly Stronger and Higher Than Before

My life is not hard, it never was. But that doesn’t mean it’s easy. I’m just one of many girls, post-university struggling to find paid employment and make ends meet. Actually, it is quite a lot like everyone else’s situations :) only I’ll, very soon, have to stop sponging off my parents or have delusions about being someone great that will “go down in history” or anything like that. I did study literature at university, I had dreams and I still do. I don’t expect to be a writer right away. Neither would I want to. But I always wanted to do something within the industry, and thought (perhaps naively?) that studying my passion would allow me to work with it in some way. Editing, Book PR, translations, freelance writing for newspapers and magazines, that kind of thing. People aren’t lying when they say the job market’s hard. I know other people think that graduates should stop moaning about being unemployed because LOTS of people are unemployed, but it really is an indescribably demoralising experience to come to the end of those 3/4 glorious years, in which you have worked hard, despite what some people think (ok, I could have worked harder). But I achieved good things, and was ready, am ready, to knuckle down and really make myself invaluable to an employer. Thankfully I’d worked part-time before, and my university is still not over, so I still have time to search and my mom will keep me from starving and living under a bridge, at least until graduation. At first I tought I ought to hold out for that big break, but as time passed I started looking for part-time work. Any part-time work. I guess I got desperate, the end of the semester is fast approaching and I just don’t wanna be a burden to my parents. People tell me I need to lower my standards, but I’ve applied for so many things: Jobs in hotels, airports and turism, cleaning jobs, dogsbody stuff, bar and restauration work, comertial, even those awful sales jobs where you stand on the street annoying people. Part-time work is my compromise: “Yes, I will go into the job market, I will work every single day in something that I do not love, will probably never enjoy and has absolutely nothing to do with the field I’ve studied all those years for. And not only will I be underpaid to do it, but also I’ll apparently have to practically beg for it.” But I’ll not do it full time. I’ll not accept that as the interity of my life. I’ll keep my dreams alive. I’ll not accept the status quo. It’s demeaning. Like adding insult to injury. I’m a person, I maybe a young person, and I’m not saying I’m entitled to more than anyone else, but I certainly should not have to settle for less than I deserve. I’m not asking for favors, and I’d really appreciate it, if people stopped treating me like I am. I’m just asking for an opportunity to prove that I can do this. Work. Prove myself. If I suck, for heavens sake- Fire me! But Gods, please give me an opportunity to screw up first, before automaticly assuming I will. The good news is, I’ve the right “fresh-out-from-university-looking-for-a-job” profile: I’m good looking, and friendly, active, easy-going, responsible, fast-thinking, hard working... I’m very hireable, even without much work experience. But I was born like that, there’s nothing to be proud of in that. I’m using all my skills because I have to, because starting in a few weeks, I’ll be all alone. By myself. And still waiting for my big opportunity, my dream job. I’ll keep signing up for it; I don’t know if they’ll be able to employ me, they say it’s the economy. Perhaps it is, but I think it’s the mentality, this loser mentality, this "I’ll even work for free if you just give me an internship with your company, because my mom and dad pay my bills, and I’ve to tell them I’m doing something with my life, or else". I refuse to do that, I refuse to accept a reality in which I busted my ass for others during 3/4 years, in which I studied and I (well, my parents did but you get the point) paid for a higher education, to do what? To work ridiculous hous, full weeks, with no guaranties, no security, no carrer opportunities or goals, for pratically no pay! Am I supposed to be okay with that? I’m sorry NO! I’ll say no, and I’ll NOT be sorry about that. Everytime people offer me an internship or an underpaid job, I’ll say no, and scream it if I have to. Scream it with all my power, with all my will... above that little voice in my head, that sounds suspiciously like my mom’s, and that says I must get a job. I will refuse to be a willing slave. I’ll say: “I’d rather starve”. For, it’s true that you cannot eat dignity, but you can die in your mind, in your heart and in your self-respect with plenty of food in your stomach. I’ll never willingly accept that as my fate, I deserve better, Gods I know I do. I don’t know if this is the way, but I’m positive that it’s a step in the right direction. I just wish everyone would do the same: Put their foot down for what they believe in! If we all said no, they’d not do it! The mentality would change, the productivity would rise (because people would actually want to do the jobs), and I’ll be dammed if the economy wouldn’t rise with it! I don’t really like to say that it’s my way or no way, but with my life, it kind of is. If nothing else, than to fail spectacularly will be a liberating experience. Students, graduates, friends... Unite! Fight for what you believe, and never, ever give up! Sara ♥