Lies - Part 1

Like the man says, "everybody lies." How true these words are, for everyone lies about one thing or another. Lets focus on the lies between people for this discussion shall we?

The typical person is insecure about themselves in some way regardless of how comfortable with themselves they are. When we meet someone for the first time the primary concern that fills our minds, provided we care to know the individual for any period of time, is whether or not they will accept us.

There are two responses where at one end of spectrum a person will fabricate a complete story of themselves in hopes that they will be accepted. Then at the other end of the spectrum a person will be completely honest and forthcoming in order to protect some aspect of themselves that they do not want the other to encounter.

At this point it would be reasonable to ask me to return to my basic assumption that all people are insecure in someway when they meet someone as the primary motive for a person to lie. In order to validate this assumption it becomes necessary to examine what it means to be in a truly wholesome relationship with another individual. The greatest example of this is the union of marriage (at this point I use the term marriage as the union of two people, lets not get into the whole gay/straight debate for now shall we?) where the couple is committed to each other through good health and illness, and to death. That level of commitment requires the utmost trust in each other, to be completely open and vulnerable to another person.

Imagine if you will, two medieval castles that agree to an alliance to the greatest degree possible, what belongs to one belongs to the other and they promise to come to the others aid should the occasion arise. In agreement both castles build a strong, armored and guarded path to each others domains. At this point the lords of each castle open their gates to the others armies and troops making their lands vulnerable to them in their trust from the alliance.

In the same way two people are joined they trust each other irrevocably and make themselves completely vulnerable. No reasonable person would enter into such an relationship quickly and would much prefer to test the waters before taking the dive so to speak. Every person fears rejection by another that they hold in esteem and thus seek to shield any quality they feel may be seen as undesirable with lies of one fashion or another. In their effort to be accepted by the other people can create such intricate lies that they fashion a whole different person that they believe the other will accept that is completely devoid of the original person they are.

To fight this war and survive we require protection of the greatest quality.

The Stories We Live

Our lives are the stories of who we are, how each of our stories unfold is based upon our own decisions. Our lives can be miserable if we so choose to live that way, no one can make us feel anything, we feel what we feel because we choose to.

Sometimes we need to feel misery but for a short while, it reminds us that we are still human, capable of experiencing both great happiness and sadness. But in the end we decide whether or not we carry that misery with us for the rest of our lives and let it burden us and color our every decision henceforth.


What is your story?

The Future?

So senior year is fast approaching and the great protective womb of college is preparing to kick us all out in to the overly bright, cold and cruel world.

Less than a quarter of our engineering class has managed to find an internship for the summer and or for this up coming school year. Sending out billions of emails and jumping at every opportunity, still nothing.

Surely I can't be the only one freaking out about my future can I? Graduating college in nine months with no internship and limited job experience... And with this current economic situation no one is going to be hiring any interns, and just about everyone is on a complete hiring freeze. So what are we suppose to do? Most of us are going to be up to our necks in debt when we graduate and even if we do manage to find jobs it will likely pay only 30K a year for the first few years. And because of that most of us will end up living on top ramen like we were still in college.

How bleak is your future? So anyone got an internship for a Civil Engineering Undergrad who had job experience both in and out of the office?

Hawaii Blackout 2008

So during my stay at home this past Christmas a blackout occurred leaving the entire island without power for approximately twelve hours. This was the result of lightning hitting a transformer that tripped the whole power-grid across the island.

Now what gets me is not so much that I was having dinner with my family at the time the power went out, its the news headlines about it. Go ahead search "Hawaii Blackout" on Google all but one of the hits will say something to the effect of, "Obamas without power," as if the rest of us on the island didn't exist. Jeez they make it sound like a bunch of Hawaii Republicans were pissed off about the election and went and cut off his power.

Don't get me wrong, I like the guy and all but shouldn't we be more concerned about the rest of the state instead of only one person?

First Post

Welcome to my blog I've got no real idea what I'll be doing with this or where I will be going with this. It is however the first day of class and I've got nothing to do, also I'm rather hungry at the moment.

Here is a picture I took of Waikiki while I was home for winter break, I suppose I'll just use this to show off pictures I take from time to time.