Exposed to the Naked Light

The curious eyes that wander upon what was once a well kept secret hidden right in the public eye. 

The genuine written words formerly spoken have now caused demoralization. 

What a pity.

Last day

My last day in Cape Town, i've got to admit, i've been pretty shit at posting picture updates, but this was due to the lack of photo's taken during the trip, everything that i took seemed repetitive, so i didn't bother to take any more after a while, but i'll put in a few nice one's that i liked.

I love South Africa. This was my second visit here and it definitely wasn't a let down. The people are wonderful, the country is gorgeous, and there is much to do, you definitely wont get bored of this lively place.

However, as much as i enjoyed my vacation here, i'm quite excited to get back to 'home'. I've missed some certain individuals. I just dread the long 10 hour airplane ride, but you gotta do what you gotta do.

Oh, and i just finished a book that i've been reading nonstop this whole vacation. 'Not Without My Daughter', definitely the best book i've ever read, so touching. Truly compelling, a favorite indeed. I highly recommend it!

November . 18 . 2010

It's hard to support something when everyone else is against it.

It's hard to be agitated when everyone else is calm.

It's hard to live in the present when you long for the future.

It's hard not to be annoyed when someone is whistling.

It's hard to be yourself when you feel misunderstood.

It's hard to be happy when you're missing someone.

It's hard to concentrate when something is constantly on your mind.

nevertheless

It's easy to feel blissful when you have someone amazing in your life.

It's easy to feel beautiful when people tell you so.

It's easy to be at peace with yourself when everything seems so effortless.

It's easy to enjoy an everyday routine when someone else is beside you.

It's easy to see the magnificence in the world when people are kind.

However, it's extremely easy to be together with someone when you know they cherish the time just as much as you and incredibly hard being apart from them.

Day Three

Spier Stables

Day Two

Franshhoek

Franschhoek

Horseback riding in the South African Vinyards

Day One

"You & me have seen everything to see from Bankok to Calgary.
The souls of your shoes are all worn down, the time for sleep is now."
Hotel Room view into Cape Town

Airborne Update

As I'm sitting here on the airplane to Cape Town, South Africa, having nothing better to do and already watched two comedies, I turn on a Romance. 'Letters to Juliette'. Now, i must admit i'm not a big fan of the whole Romeo and Juliet concept, or the reenactments. Truth be told, the story line hardly appeals to me.

Nevertheless, as I sit here watching the movie, I become quite..intrigued. A woman, well at the time (50 years ago), a mere 15 year old, wrote a letter to 'Juliet' seeking help. Like any teenage girl thinks she is or has been, she was in love and she was going to get married with the 'man' whom had swept her away. However, she backs out, she's scared, she's confused and most importantly, she's young. 

As 50 years rolls along, a young woman stumbles upon this letter and decides to reply, not being fully convinced the letter would even arrive at its destination. 

Yet, as if it were fate, the letter reaches the targeted person. The receiver of the letter, whom remembers this love of hers as if it were just yesterday races off to Italy, to find her 'Lorenzo'. For days the search continues because the love has not died, only blossomed into something that fuels the passion and adrenaline pulsing through her veins. She wants, she needs, to find him. 

With no luck, she gives up, and only at that moment, does she stumble upon what she's been searching for, for fifty years. The fire has returned to her life, not only through vivid memories of long summer nights spent on the earth floor, under the stars, but now in reality.

Back to the one whom replied to the 50 year old letter in the first place. She realizes her fiancé is not the man she wants to spend the rest of her life with, but someone whom she can live without, someone she wouldn't miss. She decides to break it off, to move onto something closer to her heart, a man she believes she has fallen madly in love with, can't get out of her mind. Yes yes, i know, it's cliché at it's finest, but I guess that's just why it gets to me, everyone seems to look past it, when our whole life is a movie we've all seen a hundred times.

I guess what i'm trying to get at is..the person you could possibly be spending the rest of your life with is somewhere on this planet. Either a hundreds of thousands of miles away from you, or right next door to you. The world is a strange place, and you should always fallow your heart because its the one thing that will always be honest and true to you, it can't lie or deceive you. 

So, as cheesy as it sounds, fallow your heart, fallow your dreams and don't give up, love has no time limit, although, you wouldn't want to waste away your one life chasing false aspirations that you have tricked yourself into believing.

Climax

Culmination of the past few months. 

Don't ever change, 

you're beautiful inside & out.

Extermination of the Senior Citizens

This was a piece written for an English assignment, using the outrageous theory from 'A Modest Proposal' as inspiration. Hope you see the humor in this, and keep in mind, I'm not being serious...or am i? Enjoy! 

In most parts of the world, population is an issue, either kids are dying at young ages, or the fertility rate is too high. Everyone is so focused on fixing these issues that no one pays attention to the developed countries, where population has been stabilized, where it may not seem like an issue. Yet, no one thinks about the excess amount of people there are on the planet whom are not of any use, or whom are not destined to do any good in their lives, people that will not make a significant difference if they were to... Perhaps, not be here at all?

The world could use less stress from all the supply and demand, supply and demand. A little break, per say. Everyone needs a little vacation once in while, why should our earth have to keep on going 24/7 for billions of years, when a lot of us get breaks every 5-6 days.

You might be asking who these excess, useless people would be? Well, let me enlighten you, starting with old people. Who needs them? They have already served their duties on earth, or at least they should have, so why are they still hanging around? All they do is use up space that could be freed for the incoming human activity, they are causing traffic! If we just eliminated this group of people, things such as healthcare demands would be lowered drastically and Florida wouldn’t be so crowded! Therefore, you wouldn’t have to be put on a waiting list for you annual check-up, or miss that nose-job because some geezer needed a hip replacement. Plus, the beaches wont be packed with bitter seniors walking their dogs, which if I must add, pollute the nice sand we like to make sand castles and burry our friends in.

Might I add, the seniors get discounts at attractions such as amusement parks, movie theaters and museums? This is outrageous, it will only tempt the old beings to attend these various places, only harassing us with their slow pace, and enormous walkers. Not to mention, if you ever happen to bump into you, they carry on conversations about the most random events, and let me tell you this, these conversations have no significance in your life whatsoever, you can’t learn from their mistakes from ‘back in the day’, you need to experience them yourself, but how will you be able to do that if you have to stand around all day listening to the elderly ramble on and on and on….and on?

Therefore, I have come to a conclusion, all elderly people, past the stage of retirement, will have to be exterminated.