Week 5 already?!

I was sitting on my couch the other day, eating barbeque potato chips, when I realized that I was literally becoming a couch potato. I then realized that I was sitting inside my house on a beautiful, sunny day eating chips when I could be outside, enjoying myself while staying healthy at the same time. Why in the world would I choose sitting on the couch? It beat me.

Yes, I am guilty of being a couch potato, but I’m pretty sure everyone is, or has been. I am not realizing how great it is to get out and do things outside more often. Now that I’m a healthier person, I can’t understand why I wanted to sit around on the couch all day. What is it about being lazy that attracts human beings? Why would we want to sit and eat, all day and feel gross, on the inside and out, because of it? Now that I see the light, I don’t understand how anyone can completely ignore being healthy and exercising.

I understand that fatty foods are delicious, but I’m not only talking about food. I’m talking about staying healthy in general. After eating junk food and sitting around the house all day long, how can one feel good about themselves? If I watch the television all day, I feel like I just wasted my day away. Not only that, but I then realize that I ate a ton of junk food while watching TV and I just feel disgusting. What is so hard about eating, at least, some healthy foods each day and getting a little exercise each day? To me, it really is not difficult.

There are so many different steps that a person can take to stay healthy and feel good about themselves. Not just steps, but little steps. I went from eating 0 pieces of fruit a day to eating an apple or banana each day. I even decided to change my snacking habits. Instead of eating almost an entire bag of chips for a snack, I will munch on grapes, or a granola bar. They make me just as full, and make me feel better inside. Just knowing that I’m staying healthy, puts me in a better mood. It really does help. Try it.

school writing vs. my own

I have noticed, that when I write in school, vs. out of school, I do write a little bit differently. I guess, because all throughout my school years I was taught to write a certain way, I continue to write that way in school even to this day. School, especially when we are little, is edited when it comes to teaching information. School normally only wants the students to write about good experiences and things that other students will be able to relate to. When I write on my own, I don’t care if anyone else can relate to me, because I don’t plan on showing my writing to anyone else. Not that I want to write about bad things, but I just think that I hold myself in too much when I write for school. I’m not daring and out there because I’m afraid of what my teachers or other students will think. If I’m writing in my journal I pour every ounce of what I am thinking onto the paper. When I’m writing in school, I hold things in and just write what I think would be best for the paper. Another difference that I have noticed between my school writing and my writing that I do for myself, is the fact that I can completely pick what I want to write about when I’m writing on my own. All throughout high school, I was mainly told what to write about and never got to choose for myself. Although college, is better about letting the students write what they want, I still sometimes feel like what I’m writing is not completely me. When I am writing in my journal, I do not hold back. I write whatever is on my mind at any interval during my writing. Also, in school I have to keep my thoughts organized. In my head, my thoughts are swirling through my head uncontrollably and it is sometimes hard for me to organize them all. In my papers for school, I have to think more about how I want to word things. In my own writings, I can put things wherever I please.

it's your life

It probably gets annoying, hearing about how important it is to keep our environment and our Earth clean huh? Well just take a moment to think about how keeping our planet clean is actually worthwhile. Just think of all the things that your mom nags you about and compare. I know, my mom is always telling me to clean my room, make my bed, do my laundry, do the dishes, and so on. Although it can get on my nerves, I just think about how it will help me in the long run. In comparison, every little thing that we, as human beings, can do four our planet will help in the long run.

How is it that there are so many little things we can do to help our environment, and most people don’t do them? What can possibly be more important than keeping one’s planet healthy? Although you cannot see the results immediately, just think about the future. What if our planet has a breakdown while we are still living? Although it seems improbable, just keep it in mind. Even if nothing were to happen to us in our lifetime, just think about our kids. Most people plan on having children. Our children may be affected by the fact that we don’t take care of our planet.

There are so many little things that you can do to keep the planet clean. It’s not like it’s a big deal to recycle. Keep a recycling bin in your house or in your garage and there you have it. Everyone knows to throw trash in the garbage can, so do the same thing with the recycling bin. Just get used to throwing your plastics and cardboard boxes in the recycling bin and it will become a habit. Another little trick to keeping the planet clean, is to actually throw trash away and not litter. A lot of people end up littering because they are driving in their car and don’t have a trash can handy. Just keep a garbage bag in your car, or even a plastic bag from Wal-Mart. Even if you don’t litter, go around a few days a week and pick up some trash along the streets. It will not take too much of your time and will significantly help the environment. Just think, if everyone were to pick up just a few pieces of trash every day, it would amount to a massive decrease in litter.

writing is life

Writing to most people, is living. It is almost impossible to go a day without writing at all. I know for me, writing is essential. Writing conveys who I am, whether it be writing in class, writing on face book to my friends, writing in a text message, or writing to myself in a journal. Writing is a way of expressing myself to others and even myself. I am the type of person that has many things to do and not enough time to do it all. I like to cram a lot of things in my day, and so I don’t always get the things done that I want to get done. I am the same way in my writing. I always have so much to say, and write about, that I don’t know how to fit it all in to whatever it is that I am writing at the time. Not knowing how to fit everything I want to say into my writing happens in everything I write.

When I am writing for school, I sit in my room for long periods of time just thinking about what I want to say. When I finally feel like I can start writing I type far less than everything I am thinking in my head. It is so strange to me how it happens, but I just can’t get everything I am thinking on to paper. When I am finally done with the entire paper, I read over my work and find many things wrong with my writing. I always feel like I’ve left out too much information. When I try to go back and enter in things that I have forgotten, it seems like I’m trying too hard and end up with incomplete thoughts. I have to be on a roll to get in everything I want to say.

When I write on my own in a journal, or actually just a cheap notebook, I find that I still can’t fit in everything that I want to say. My thinking processes are very detailed and I can never fit in all of the details that are in my head. Even though I know I’m talking to myself in a journal and don’t need to specify things that I already know, I do it anyways. It’s such an odd thing to do. I will be writing about a person that I know, such as a family member and I will end up writing, “…and allison, who is my cousin, and is 18 years old…” and therefore lose quality on the more important details of what I am thinking. Although, the writing I do in my own journal is much more laid back than the writing I do for school.

In all, my thinking is very detailed and complex, and my writing is just bits and pieces of my thought process. I hope to become a better writer, in that I can write out more details.