Thought - December 31, 2014

Try to imagine (or remember) what it is like to be anxious all day long. First your body is being put through a high amount of physical stress and secondly, your mind is overworking itself-a true understatement. Depending on sleep schedules or when anxiety kicks in your body will eventually yell STOP and slow down its processes, which biologically will affect your thinking relatively soon after. 

Let's say you are anxious from the moment you wake up. Most likely your body will give in to the stress around the evening. The sudden decrease in stress on your body and mind will make you feel more physiologically depressed than you would if you were decompressing from a "normal day" (a day with little to no anxiety).

The feeling of your body shutting down could make you lose appetite and cause you to lose interest in things, symptoms often associated with depression.

If you are a normally anxious person, or your thinking tends to speed up faster than it should at this time. If that starts to happen you may have more depressive thoughts (or thoughts you would normally not have) because your brain may recognize your body's depressive state from a previous time of depression.

Now that your mind is in overdrive, you could end up staying awake for an extended period of time (and therefore also thinking depressive thoughts longer) if you have an anxious mind.

If anything along this list of event happens it is already unhealthy on its own, but now consider if you eventually fell asleep at an unnatural time for your body. You would have unbalanced hormones when you wake up and you wouldn't be fully charged. So your chances of having anxiety that day are much higher than they would've been if it weren't for the previous night.

Then the cycle could continue on and on for quite a while until either you consciously reduce the anxiety, or your body forces a restart and eventually properly compensates for the lack of rest.

The unfortunate part is the first option is pretty hard to do if you are already anxious and the second one doesn't prevent the problem from happening again, it just gives your body a relatively fresh start.

This cycle could end up making you feel more depressed or lead to depression, and increase anxiety over time.

Possible things to take away:
1. Try to reduce anxiety when your body isn't as stressed
2. Getting proper sleep, even if it is extremely difficult, can help give your body a fighting chance to be less stressed.

Remember, everyone is different, so some of the things in this post won't directly line up with what you may or may not feel.

Advice - November 11, 2014

I know for a fact a lot of teens and just people in general have this problem or something similar. The world makes them feel down, stressed, depressed, etc. So if you ever feel like that about the world try this: Think about all the bright points of your day, NO MATTER HOW SMALL! Everyone has a bright point in their day, something good that happened. So if you think of it about 8 BILLION bright things happen each day, at the LEAST! Sure the world has it's problems, but there are countless good things happening too 

Advice - July 27, 2014

This one is going to be a bit of a stretch but maybe it will bring insight. 

In life we can't look at someone else's paper and get the right answer. We are all taking a personalized test, that measures us and challenges us and no one else. That said others can helps us. For example one person is trying to solve 2*3 and another is doing 2*4. We can get the same answer but the way we solve them is almost identical. We can learn tools and adapt them to our needs, but we can't just copy the answer. We gain nothing and solve nothing by copying the answer.

Now I'm going to do something new. I will rewrite this for people who don't like tests.

Imagine your own favorite furry pet. If you choose one just because someone else did then it may not be the perfect companion for you. When you bring it home you read a book on pet care for your furry pet. The book could suggest to get a water bowl for your pet but if you buy the same one that your neighbor got (the neighbor with the giant furry pet) and you bring it home to a Small furry pet you would have a water bowl for your pet but it wouldn't be able to reach the water.

Don't cheat on life.

Advice - May 26, 2014

Our lives are quite like that of the butterfly. We go through a metamorphosis and eventually emerge with wings.

We begin at birth as a caterpillar. We are cute, innocent, and dependent on our surroundings. What we take in may very well be a part of what comes out in the end.

Then as we start being independent we form a chrysalis, or cocoon where we change and grow our wings. I like to think that the rest of our lives are spent in the cocoon, where we develop our wings. We expand them with the people we influence in the amount of time we have on earth. We make them beautiful with good deeds, distasteful with the bad. The magnificence is made by our contributions and impact on the world.

I hope my wings turn out big and wonderful, as I hope the rest of your turn out :)

Quote - Return of the Poetry - May 12, 2014

On February 26, 2014 I wrote a post containing a bit of unfinished poetry,
"A new original quote that I wrote a while ago and wanted to document before I forgot . 

"Pure joy writhes through my veins, /
A happiness which cannot be compared, /
as if the gods have infused my limbs with...

Shoot last word is illegible, when it comes back to me I will edit this post with the correct word  

I was considering putting this in a poem at the time so pardon the weird formatting and slashes  

Have a good day everyone, don't forget to smile "

I have remembered what the last word was so now, here is the complete poem, or stanza,


"Pure joy writhes through my veins,
A happiness which cannot be compared,
as if the gods have infused my limbs with grace"

I hope you all enjoyed :)

Have a happy day everyone!

Quote - The Glass - March 13, 2014

I was thinking of the famous question, "Are you a glass half full or glass half empty person?" and I said aloud,

"I'm a glass completely full person"

Garret walks up to me and says,
"Yes, it's always full with air and water"

and I lit up with a big smile :O Best logic ever. I hadn't ever thought about it like that, and it turned out to be a great metaphor for the world :D

Quote - February 26, 2014

A new original quote that I wrote a while ago and wanted to document before I forgot . 

"Pure joy writhes through my veins, /
A happiness which cannot be compared, /
as if the gods have infused my limbs with...

Shoot last word is illegible, when it comes back to me I will edit this post with the correct word  

I was considering putting this in a poem at the time so pardon the weird formatting and slashes  

Have a good day everyone, don't forget to smile