Still Time To Try Try Again

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
George Bernard Shaw

I believe that any man who can win fight is a winning  man, but a man who can pick himself back up after he's fallen is the better man.
We may not relize that sometimes even though we don't always win or get chosen, sometimes the respect we gain and the friends we make along the way are more precious. I know for a fact that every time I've ever made a mistake and not just laughed it off and tried again, that I was looked down upon more for giving up. For people who though that I didn't want it as bad as others, I always despised. Until I relized that I wasn't the only one who made mistakes; that those people who know did make it were very talented at whatever it was they wanted because they wanted it bad. Plus, they had the confidence to say that they were okay with either outcome.
So I guess, my mission statment for this post is that never give up because of a silly embaressing mistake because 9 times outta 10, if you can just smile about it, the world will hand you something in return.

Still Time

"In Texas they lynch Negroes. My teammates and I saw a man strung up by his neck and set on fire. We drove through a lynch mob, pressed our faces against the floorboard. I looked at my teammates. I saw the fear in their eyes and, worse, the shame. What was this Negro's crime that he should be hung without trial in a dark forest filled with fog. Was he a thief? Was he a killer? Or just a Negro? Was he a sharecropper? A preacher? Were his children waiting up for him? And who are we to just lie there and do nothing. No matter what he did, the mob was the criminal. But the law did nothing. Just left us wondering, "Why?" 
This quote was from the movie "The Great Debaters" It spoke to me and said that evil will always triuph when good men do nothing.
It's funny and yet so true. I recommend that no one ever be just a bystandard. I've been there and stuck up for alot of people and things I believe in, but when I missed just that one opportunity, I thought about it every day for a long time. And even to this day, I still do. I'm sorry.
The only thing can think to do now is to make sure it doesn't happen again.

Still Some Evil

I guess the title of this post still contridicts my whole pupose of making a blog in the first place, but there's someting you should know about evil: Without it, we are selfish...even though selfishness in itself is a sin.
I think that without the bad, we couldn't appriciate the good. I kinda learned this lesson as a kid. When things seemed all but good, the only though that comforted me was "things have to get better because they can't get worse." I guess you could say that once things actually did get better I did nothing but enjoy it. Of course, I still always wanted more, but I was content and happy, some might even say.
I watched the movie "Devil" by M. Knight Shyamalan and it said something rather moving towards me...If there's such thing as an evil like the Devil then God must be real too.

Still Hope

“A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” -Einstien

Only if we could all widen our circle of compassion, even to those who we may not think deserve it, we could make one more smile and one less tear. So my mission for all my fallowers is that if you believe that there is still hope and good in the world, and even if you don't,  spread some kindness because maybe, just maybe, someone will show you the kindness in return.