WORK

Starting a new job is never easy You have to learn your duties, where your place is in the business, get to know your co workers, and most importantly, get to know your customers. When you are a customer and you notice that the person thats helping you is new, please take the time to be patient, be a little forgiving, and please if you get frustrated dont show them; it tends to make them even more nervous. Just hang tight and remember that you once were new at a job too and it wasnt easy for you either.

Medias standard of beauty???

I've been thinking a lot about how bad I'm always feeling about myself. I'm constantly picking at my body just trying to find something that doesn't fit in with the worlds view of beauty. I was talking to a friend of mine the other day and she asked me why I felt the need to put myself down. I thought about it and came to the conclusion that most people that are bombarded with the media would also judge themselves harshly.
TV, Radio, magazines, and even books constantly put pressure on us to be perfect. Whether its a male photograph with a six pack and a perfect smile in a teen magazine or on a commercial, or the sexy woman portrayed in a romance novel, guys and girls are both surrounded by the medias ideal look. I don't usually use another persons work but this time I'm making an exception.
Johnny Diaz wrote an amazing song about a girl who though she was never perfect enough.




MORE BEAUTIFUL -Johnny Diaz

Little girl fourteen flipping through a magazine
Says she wants to look that way but her hair isn't straight her body isn't fake
and she's always felt overweight

well little girl fourteen I wish that you could see
That the beauty is within your heart
And you were made with such care your skin your body and your hair
Are perfect just the way you are

There could never be a more beautiful you
Don't buy the lies disguises and hoops they make you jump through
you were made to fill a purpose that only you could do
so there could never be a more beautiful you

Little girl twenty-one the things that you've already done
Anything to get ahead
And you say you've got a man but he's got another plan
Only wants what you will do instead

Well little girl twenty-one you never thought that this would come
you starve yourself to play the part
But I can promise you there's a man whose love is true
And he'll treat you like the Jewel you are

So turn around you're not too far
to back away be who you are
To change your path go another way
It's not too late you can be saved
If you feel depressed with past regrets
the shameful nights hope to forget
Can disappear they Can all be washed away
By the one who's strong can right your wrongs
Can rid your fears dry all your tears
And change the way you look at this big world
He will take your dark distorted view
and with his light he will show you truth
And again you'll see through the eyes of a little girl.

Although its written about a girl, it can also be applied to boys.
No one should feel bad about themselves. I know it's been said over and over again but every person is unique. It's our differences that make us special. Don't let any one tell you, you're not beautiful.

hold on to your childhood

Life seems to fly by as I get older. Things that seem important and so eventful such as holidays and birthdays seem like ordinary days. As a kid I couldn't wait for spring to come, bringing with it my birthday. I would begin my count down in December, the long four months seeming to last a year. Now its as if the years come and go in the blink of an eye. Suddenly I'm all grown up and birthdays and holidays aren't magical days that bring new hopes and treasures. They bring bills and responsibility. I look back and remember myself longing to be grown up so I could hang out with the other grown ups and share their world of secrets and private jokes. Never would I have guessed that being grown up would mean maturity and responsibility. Sometimes I see a little boy or girl pretending, in their world of make believe, that they are the parents. I long to tell them its not as easy as it looks and they should be a child as long as they can because innocents and fairy tale dreams eventually are replaced by corruption and reality.