Hollywood

The other day I went down to Hollywood to check out Amoeba Music. That place is enormous, it was my first time being there. Very cool store with lots of choices in music and amazing posters.

But what really made me think was the ride back as I thought about everything that I had seen when I was there for only a short time.

I think I have a love hate relationship with Hollywood because everytime I go there it leaves me with a feeling that I can't explain. A part of me always feels excited when I'm there. It leaves me with a hope that I can be someone. Almost like I can do anything I want, and a hope that I can get far with music, which I love so much. I have a strange fascination with it because there are so many kinds of people there that are all intermixed. People of different race, style; I saw a man with a six inch mohawk in fact, it was colored black and a red orange color. That's cool to me. That when you're down there, you can be anyone you want to be and nobody thinks strangely of you for it.

But the flip side to that is that it always leaves me with a somewhat sad feeling as well. On the way out, there was a homeless man walking in circles, and a man talking to himself. There is so much poverty there that can be seen around every corner, and no way to really help any of them. You see alot of misleading things, and realize that there are many spiritually lost people.

So I am always puzzled as I drive out of Hollywood and head back home on the crowded freeways as I think about how interesting and exciting and yet at the same time how sad it is.

That feeling gets me everytime...I suppose it's just one of those things in life; Everything in life has a sour and a sweet...I guess that's what makes the world go round.

Isn't it strange?

Do the things you do everyday seem the same? Or does it ever strike you as odd sometimes?

Everyday we wake up and have some sort of plan for our day of things we know we have to do and want to do and how to accomplish that.

For instance, when we are driving down the road. Most everybody does it everyday several times...doesn't it ever strike you oddly that every person in every other car on that road is coming from somewhere and going to somewhere? And that each person has a story that they carry with them. A story of their life, and good events, and bad events. And people they know. They could be people you know, or they could be people you don't know...that's something you may never be able to tell.

And isn't it strange to think that we are living in this bubble we call Earth, that has a sky and an atmosphere that keeps everything contained within itself. And we have created giant metal tubes persay, with wings and fuel and we fly tons of people around everyday to and from countries around the planet.

And sometimes, it seems really wierd that we have animals, living, in our houses with us. And we baby them and talk to them, and treat them like other people. But they are animals, almost like anything else from the wild.

I'm pretty sure that I think wayyy too much BUT you should really think about it sometime, and tell me what you think...isn't it strange?

Silly Foolishness

Is it foolish to think that someday I'll find a man right for me? A man who loves God, and man that has some country, some cowboy in him, a man with a kind heart? Personality? A man with a sense of humor, fun to be with? I know some people who seem to have already found their perfect somebody and others who are beaten down and worn out looking because it always seems to fail. It seems so strange because we have only just begun our lives at the ages of 18, 19, 20 even. Is finding your true love just fate, like the fairytales all say? I'm sure it must have something to do with who you are and where you are going. And yet still some friends seem to settle for anybody just to be able to let the words 'I have a boyfriend' slip from their lips. Is it foolish to feel discouraged sometimes. To feel it may be forever before you're there with the person who you are supposed to be with. Or maybe it's foolish to believe that instead of settling for anyone and trying to pretend, that soon you'll find them in the most unexpected place and the most unexpected moment, who knows...And certainly it's foolishness to imagine yourself with that someone running through the rain in an open field, throwing soap when washing cars, taking a thousand and one photogrpahs of eachother. It must be foolish to image that someday you'll be with someone who you can talk to about anything, not exactly the same as a best friend, but more. It couldn't be the same for women always have a woman best friend. But they would be your best friend. Is it foolish to think, you would like to go into something without the intention of getting divorced an remarried a hundred times, and actually spending the rest of your life with that person. Is it foolish to think that one day it will just click when you realize that you are best friends and you find yourself wanting to spend more and more time together. Sometimes it seems it should fit together in that foolish fairtale order, right? I suppose then it would also be foolish to believe in love songs and romantic movies, wouldn't it? And it most definitely would be foolish to get a slight boost of hope we we see or hear these things. So is it foolish then to believe in hope? Foolish to believe in some kind of fate? Foolish to believe that what seems impossible, isn't? That seems foolish in and of itself at moments to believe that those can't be true...but if it is true, then it must be foolish to believe in any love at all, which I know isn't true. So maybe because I am young, or maybe because I can't help getting that bubbly feeling inside when I hear a love song or watch a romantic movie, or maybe for the sake of believing in the impossible, I'll stay foolish for just a bit longer <3

Just some inspiration and thought...for I have heard all the stories out there.

Introduction

Basically this blog is just about Life & A Bunch of Other Nonsense...simple enough right? I was interested in creating a blog to write out things that I come across in my life, and things that I think about. Because really, what good are your thoughts if you never share them with anyone? A question I have long since pondered. Anyways, I am interested to see where this takes me, if anywhere. I hope to help bring a new way of thinking, and just to cast things in a different light for readers if I may.

I'm going to give this blogging thing a shot and I would be glad to hear from anyone...just post some comments below and let me know what you want me to talk about if theres something specific, ask questions, give me your feedback, basically anything you'd like.

I hope you have a great day...and I'll see you around on the blog. : )