Knights of Cydonia

No one's going to take me alive

Time has come to make things right

You and I must fight for our rights

You and I must fight to survive

All that needs to be said is here. We live in America. The strongest, most free country on the planet. We have rights and privileges that almost all other people on the planet will never see. We're allowed to say what we want, we're allowed to vote for who we want, we're allowed to believe whatever we want too. We have the right to disagree.

We have life so easy. And frankly, we don't deserve it. We complain about things that we shouldn't, we don't deserve the easy, easy life were given. Sure some of us have hard lives, I don't know how bad it gets for some people, at least were not eating dirt. Point of this is we have it easy, we have rights and as put by muse, we have to fight for these rights, so don't abuse these rights.

Now people join the military for this reason, I'm not saying we should all take up arms for this, but at least do something to improve this country. Do some community service, give back to this country. Yes it's not perfect, look at the mess were in right now, but that's OK, life isn't perfect. Stand up against corrupt politicians, something that improves this country. Do anything you can to make this a better place then it started.

The lesson I'm trying to convey here is, this country is great, you have a obligation to make what you have last for generations, and if you don't understand this, you don't deserve it. So don't try to "beat the system" make the system better.

Just Think About It,

Tufte

Lessons of Muse

I'm a self-proclaimed Muse addict. I have a playlist that's only Muse. They're just that good. But as a sit here and listen to them I know this. Why most bands have people write music for them Muse doesn't. Matthew Bellamy, their lead Singer and guitarist, writes their music. It's poetry. It's absolutely amazing. This ties in with my blog because as I look back all my blogs are about lessons. Things we can learn from and things we can change. It's all about lessons. So here are 16 muse songs and my interpretation of their amazing lyrics. You can look them up and disagree if you want too but my next 16 blogs will reflect on why I think these songs mean the things they do.
1. Knights of Cydonia- We all have a right to live and a right to be free, but if your not willing to fight for them you don't deserve them.
2.Hysteria- Some things are so good, and so worth it that without them you can't survive, so go out and grab them and never let go.
3.Super Massive Blackhole- Some things are blackholes, they draw you in whether or not you want it too, and hopefully we'll get out of the pull.
4.Butterflies and Hurricanes- When your time comes don't ignore it, take it make the most of all your opportunities.
5.Invincible- When your with someone who truly means the world to you, you can get through anything.
6.Starlight- Precious things are like starlight- they appear only rarely, and can fade away just as fast.
7.Time is Running Out- Life is short and always getting shorter, so no ones going to stop me from living it.
8.Newborn- anger is like a baby in the womb, if you don't stop it it's only going to grow.
9.Unintended- When things get hard, the most unintended people can hold you up.
10.Take a Bow- The Things you do in life will come back to get you.
11.Muscle Museum- When you miss something good and try to get it back, you usually make things worse.
12.Endlessly- You have to tell people how much they mean to you or they'll never know.
13.Blackout- Life is short, so don't waste it while your young.
14.Showbiz- If you never show how you feel eventually your going to go insane.
15.Sober- Sometimes you just need a rock to stand on when time get tough.
16.Uno- You could be great at something, but you have to get a chance first, so go create one.

Mock Trial

Yes I'm writing a blog about mock trail. I'm a geek to the extreme. O well i don't give a damn. I'm still doing it. Well let me start by saying that this is probably one of the funnest things I've ever done. I must thank Shelby and Steven for convincing me to do it. At first i thought is was kind of an interesting thing to do but a one year thing. And know I'm pissed that it's over.

First let me describe what it is. You get a case, this year it was about a kid accused of setting of fireworks in a forest and starting a fire that kills two people. Then you either have to prove him guilty or innocent. There's 6 witnesses, all played by students, and you do the whole trial thing. All of it. Yeah nerd central.

I guess the thing is that something as simple as this, something that friends had to rope me into doing, can become so important. 8 of us spent 5 months preparing our questions, learning accents, and practicing objections, and we never realized we were good. Until Friday. We lost, we got a 247, a score worthy of a state team, and we lost. And now i miss it. Alot.

I miss having something to do. I miss the case. The thinking. All the work i tought was useless. All the times spent yelling hitler(inside joke). Most of all i miss the people. I miss all the stupid jokes and all the time wasting jokes. Hah and it's only been done for 2 days. Pretty pathetic.

In a very odd roundabout way i guess i just wanted to say you never realize how important somethings are until you lose them. And that feeling sucks as i'm sure almost everyone knows. So i leave you with another challange. Don't wait to lose things. Go out get them and keep them.

Just Think About It,

Tufte

Migraine

Well i sit here and write this blog with an annoying little headache. Nothing bad I really don't care but it makes me think of Dec. 8Th 2008. I went to school that day to become an acquittance of a massive migraine. Ended up in the hospital. Throwing up. It was a fun day.

But see then that makes makes me think of Christmas break when my entire family became infected with the flu throwing up all over the house. And then I think about my 7Th grade year when I got the flu and threw up then too. And then i think of of during that same year when i tore my MCL and missed and entire year of soccer. I wanted to die.

But now to my point. I had a headache, but yet I just remembered every bad thing that's happened to my body in the past 3 years. See I'm sure if you think about it you could give me a detailed list of every bad thing to happen to you in the last year. Bet it would take you about 5 minutes to finish too. But if I try to think about the good things that have happened the list is much shorter.

Garrison Keillor today said on a 'Prairie Home Companion' that Minnesota is full of complainers. He's right except it's the united states. We live in a sociaty full of complainers. Not all of us are and some of us deserve to be but honestly how bad can it get. Almost everyone can remember the bad things but we acutally have to sit down and think extreamly hard to remember the good things. We live in america for god sakes. At least when we get migraines we have hospitols to go too. At least it's the flu not malaria.

We live in the best place on earth yet it's our job to remember how "bad" we have it. What the Hell. Is america that self-centered? I don't want to know the answer to that question, i don't think i'll like it. Point is, can we just take a break for a day and enjoy the fact that our lives are so much grander then the rest of the worlds and not complain.

That's my challange for anyone reading this, Pick a day this week and spend that day not complaining. Not once.

Just Think About It,

Tufte

Oh Shit (Again)

Well this is the second of what I'm beginning to see as an on going thing. I have this thing with forge ting. It's a family trait, my mom and all my brothers are the sames as me, we always forget. Sometimes we procrastinate, we do that too, but usually we just forget. But hell, here goes everything I've forgot.

I've forgot to blog, I had 8 blogs in November, 2 in December, and 2 in January, Ha there goes a grade.
I forgot correct some of my math assignments and we had a check today, well there goes another grade.
Forgot about my private violin lessons 2 weeks in a row, parents are pissed, great.
Forgot about doing the closing arguments for mock trial and competitions tomorrow, this is just getting better and better.
Oh, and I forgot to care about how what I do and say affects others.

Like I said Oh Shit.

Thing is I can fix all of these with a little effort, except the last. People remember everything bad that happens to them. I could tell you every bad thing that's happened to me since i was 10. It's not hard. And well I've forgotten about everyone else lately. I can try to fix others opinion of me but it's only a covering to the deeper crack I've created. You know who you are and I apologize, I apologize to those I forgot to care about, to those things a forgot and never did, and I promise to try,and to keep trying to fix the problem.

Well this is just me but what about you, what have you forgot lately. Who have you forgotten about. What are your "Oh Shit", moments? Are you going to fix them? Or are you going to just sit back and keep forgetting, I know I'm not but hey, that's me, the rest is up to you. All i can say is if we apologize and we try to fix are problems and our forgetfulness we can finally make a change.

So I ask "How will you remember, and will you prevent your own 'Oh Shit' moments?"

Shoveling the Shit,

Tufte

Two-Faced behind a Curtain

Ah, hypocrisy one of the greatest things in the world don't you agree? The art of saying one thing and the doing the opposite. The ultimate lie. It's bad when someone does it blatantly, when they know there being a hypocrite. Thing is many of you have written about this same thing but i realize it's actually worse when they don't. When someone says one thing does the opposite and doesn't realize it's even worse.

See when you don't realize your being a hypocrite, you don't do anything to fix it, now your just an ass. I realize know that you really really have to focus and try if you want anything to be different. If you want people to believe what your saying and what you want them to think of you, you can't forget. If you do you look like your two-faced.

Maybe that's appropriate, forgetting is a horrible horrible thing to do when people are counting on you. It's a horrible thing if something important is going on and you forget. Maybe looking like a two-faced liar is alright if you forget. I'm the king of this. I forget things all the time, I never look ahead and remember what I have to do. It's a very bad habit, I advise you never do it.

Thing is while everyone else sees you as a two-faced liar, you don't. Why, because you don't realize it. Your not being arrogant or anything you just don't see it. Maybe were just all in are own little world too concerned about ourselves to notice, but I pray that's not true. In the end all we have to do to keep are promises is come out of the curtain of self-protection. If we stop being concerned about ourselves we can come out of that curtain and worry about remembering what we promised.

Some people are two-faced, some people aren't, but the reality is in the end we all have a curtain. Question is when we will we all come out and bother to think of what we say to others?

Just Think About It,

Tufte