A Glass Ball

It's a small round, glass sphere. I took a picture of it yesterday. See how the light reflects off it in one picture and how it's different in the next? Wondrous isn't it? This one sphere can make so many different colors appear on the surface yet at the end it's still a clear glass ball.

People are like this glass ball. We can be so many colors. We can be sad for someone. We can be mad at someone. We can hate someone. We can love someone. Yet in the end we are who we are. It doesn't matter if at the end of the road of life I hate you, I love you, or I don't care, in the end I'm still Logan Tufte and all you know is what you've seen.

Honestly you don't know who I am. I'd really like to know who you think I am. I'd love you know what people think of me. I have this way about life. I call it "The Wall" I've managed to control myself enough that I can block any feeling from showing. It may sound stupid but oh well it's true.

I don't like to show things to people. I like control, I want to be able to shape the things around me but I can't anymore. I've finally been shown that it's time to let the wall down. It's high time I drop my glass ball and let the myself shine through. You know who you are, and you know what you've done and for that I am eternally in your debt.

So my question to all who read is this. When are you going to let your glass ball drop?

Just Think About It,

Tufte

A Broken Link

Family. The closeness of it all. Definition of a family, a group of people related to one other by blood or marriage. But what about the other family, what about your friends? What about the family that know you away from the home. What about your related family that knows how you feel that knows your real soul? That's not in the definition.

My analogy of a family. It's and iron link chain. Each member is a different chain. Gray links that grip together to form a working unit capable of many many different things. And families will fight to keep that chain together. Have you ever thought, what would you do? What would you do if someone in your family did something illegal. Would you turn them in? If they stole something? If they committed some act that you wouldn't dare speak to anyone else? What would you do?

Don't just say I'd turn them in. I know myself if someone I loved as family or maybe even more did something that bad, I'd still defend them, I need that chain. I believe that everyone needs that chain. If we don't we spiral. If we lose that team, that gray link that grips us together we can't support ourselves. You see it everyday, you see it in the eyes of someone lost to a family, someone left behind by parents in friends. You see them failing at life because the support is gone. I know I can't let that happen to my family.

So here's a question to you. What happens when a link cracks. What happens when someone screws up, what would you do, can you do what's right by the laws of a country when it destroys what's right by the laws of a family? I honestly don't know. My question too you, do you?

Just Think About It,

Tufte

Time for a New Year, With the Same People

O yes, it's 2009, it's the new year, time for a fresh start. The time where we all say something small we want to change. For some it's losing 20 pounds. For other's it's just to eat healthy. Others it's to take up and instrument. But alas it usually fails, we remember how much we like a good burger, or forget to go running everyday, or we don't have time to practice music. Ha, what an ironic holiday.

Well what can you say, change is hard, even with little things. It's not something that comes natural to people. Even the little things that we don't notice in our lives are hard to change. We call it a New Year, a time for change, well it is a year, just not the time for change.

The time for change is everyday, of every month, of every year. It's not when a new year starts, it's when you realize something needs to change, so you change it. It's not "Hey it's 2009, I'll lose some weight," it's "Hey I'm overweight and I don't want to be." People have to realize that change doesn't just happen you have to try, you have to make a conscience effort to make things better. It's a simple concept, that for some reason people just don't notice.

Well it's 2009, and I'm the same and your the same, but maybe just maybe, at the end of this year, I'll be a little different, and so will you.

Just Think About It,

Tufte