The seven emotions, Harris Burdick inspired

"the seventh one ended up in France"


This first poem was inspired by a Harris Burdick piece.
     

               
There are many different things you can feel,
Some say there are millions of different emotions you can feel,
but an emotion is like a color,
you can take a certain amount of original colors to make a new one,
There are primary emotions,

1) Anger is an emotion characterized by antagonism toward someone or,
Something you feel has deliberately done you wrong.
Anger can be a good thing.
It can give you a way to express negative feelings,
or motivate you to find solutions to problems.
2) Fear is an emotion induced by a threat perceived by living entities,
Which causes a change in brain and organ function and ultimately a change in behavior,
Such as running away,
Hiding,
Or freezing from traumatic events.
3)Disgust is an emotional response of revulsion to something considered offensive
Or unpleasant.
Because disgust is an emotion with physical responses to undesirable or dirty situations, studies have Proven there are cardiovascular
And respiratory changes while experiencing the emotion of disgust.
4) Contempt, 
Findings on contempt are less clear,
Though there is at least some preliminary evidence that this emotion
And its expression are universally recognized
5)Joy, is much less attainable,
Yet the most rewarding.
Many people never find joy,
Always living in a world of sadness.
6) Surprise is,
To cause to feel wonder,
Astonishment,
Or amazement, as at something unanticipated
7)Sadness,
Affected with or marked by unhappiness,
As that caused by affliction.
The seventh emotion,
The most hated by everyone,
Yet the most necessary.

Art walk

So, this is not the exact painting that I was given, and it is also sideways, but this looks very similar to the one I was presented. This reminds me of the time that my family and i went to the beach with my neighbors. We lived in Virginia beach at the time, and we all decided to take a trip to the beach. So we loaded up the families, and drove to the beach. The only reason that this memory stands out very much to me, is that my neighbors kid, he was like, 3 at the time got stung by a jellyfish. My neighbor ended up having to pee on him, which was really gross, but kinda cool in a way.

Lady Pink Profile

Lady Pink is a graffiti and mural artist based in New York City.

Nicknamed the "first lady of graffiti" because she was one of the first women active in the early 1980s subway graffiti subculture

My reflection, a horror story

My reflection

      I pulled my hair up into a tight ponytail, ready to leave for the night. I’m staring in the mirror when suddenly my reflection smiles, laughs and turns and walks out of the mirror entirely, leaving me looking into a pit of darkness. Fear shot through me faster than a bullet. My heart beating faster with each second I stand there in shock. I closed my eyes ad reopened them, nothing, but black. I reached my hand out to touch the mirror. The tip of my fingers past through the glass. Instinctively, I jerked my arm back. Then the curiosity won over and I reached in again, this time sticking my whole hand inside the mirror. When I went through the mirror, I could feel the pricks of something unnatural grasping my skin.

      Then I was in. It was a shade of opal all around me, I could see nothing but the other side of my mirror. I decided that I have seen enough, so I turned around and tried to leave. When I reached my hand through the mirror all I hit was glass. I saw my reflection looking back at me, smiling, pulling her hair into a ponytail. Her eyes were not my eyes, they were all white. I have dark brown eyes, maybe someone will notice. And at that though, her eyes faded into my shade. She laughed again and waved goodbye to me.

      I turned around, and started to run. There had to be another way out. I ran, and ran and there was nothing. No way out, I was trapped. I began to walk back to the mirror, in hope that the portal would reopen. Then I felt a cold wind flow from the direction of my mirror. Then something that felt like a hand was making its way up my leg. I screamed and tried to shake whatever was touching me, off of my body but no matter what I tried it kept on going. It inched its way up, not missing a spot. I collapsed and began to scream out for help. The hand made its way to my face and opened my mouth. The lights flickered on for just half of a second, and there were billions of creatures surrounding me, but there was nobody touching me. I tried to reach out and touch whatever it was that made its way near my neck, and I felt nothing. Until I reached behind me and felt a body. It was a woman’s body, and the lights flickered on once again. I quickly whipped my head around, and it was me. My reflection grasped my neck and then there was nothing. 

Dan in real life questions

Dan in Real Life Questions

1.       Dan writes a column on parenting advice but has a lot of trouble parenting. Do you think it is important to write about what you know?

A-I think that you really don’t need to know exactly what you are writing about. If you are giving advice, then all you really need to have is experience. People can learn from, not your infinite knowledge but, your experience, and your mistakes. I’m sure that there are many parents that learned from Dan’s single parenting mistakes.

2.       What are three Tips you would give parents of teenagers?  

A-“Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature. Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. Most things are good, and they are the strongest things; but there are evil things too, and you are not doing a child a favor by trying to shield him from reality. The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil.” ― Walt Disney Company  Treat your child like a person who needed your help. Offer to them your wisdom as an equal. That is all that we ask for.  

3.      Can you fall I love with someone in three days?

A-Personally I think that you can fall in lust with someone in only three days, but I think that love is a whole other level. “I never thought true love existed and then I met you. You showed me so much of love and have filled my heart. I never want to lose you. I never want to be apart. Hold me in your arms and let me live there for the rest of my days”. - Ronny Clarke This quote shows that really it is just different for everyone. 

Quotes from Heathers, a fantastic movie

 

Movie for reel

movie for reel 

       My favorite movie of all time is Joe Dirt. I love this movie because no matter what mood i'm in, it will always make me laugh. My favorite kinds of movies are the one that make me laugh. I cant stand it when a movie is gutwrenchingly boring. Like, westerns for instance. i absolutely hate watching westerns. I watch all kinds of movies all of the time. generally, if i am watching any form of television, chances are, it is a movie. I do this at least once a week. My favorite thing to do during a movie is to cuddle up in a blanket. I also like to eat cheetos while i watch movies. cheetos are the bomb.  

YOU ARE 100% EXTRAVERTED.
You are extraverted, outgoing, active and high-spirited. You prefer to be around people most of the time. 

YOU ARE 25% AGREEABLE.
You are hard-headed, sceptical, proud and competitive. You tend to express your anger directly. 

YOU ARE 75% CONSCIENTIOUS.
You are dependable and moderately well-organised. You generally have clear goals and are able to set goals aside. 

YOU ARE 83% EMOTIONALLY STABLE.
You are generally calm and able to deal with stress, but you sometimes experience feelings of guilt, anger and sadness. 

YOU ARE 100% OPEN TO NEW EXPERIENCES.
You are open to new experiences. You have broad interests and are very imaginative.
       I think that they hit the head right on the nail with this survey.  
       If there were to be a movie based on my life story, if we are being honest, it wouldnt be the brightest movie ever. I had a pretty rough start, but it is all good now. So my movie would be one of those sad in the beginning, but feel good in the end kind of film. I would want melissa mcCarthy to play me. I think she is pretty cool. 

My Future

Future plans

I found it really interesting that there are so many stories to tell about being a military brat. I always thought that being a military brat isn’t as interesting as he was outing off, considering i am one. Another thing i found interesting was that his child was the person to inspire him to become a writer. I liked that we had a discussion about his kid in class. i think it is the coolest thing to have started writing because of a crummy children’s novel.

In about five years i will already be enlisted in the Navy. I see myself having moved up a little bit in the ranks. In one year i will be in basic training. in ten years i will be an officer. After that, i may settle down and start a family, but possibly not.

The field trip, inspired by Edward Hopper

The field trip

Today is the day that we are traveling to the zoo for our class field trip. All of my fellow fruit buddies are very excited. I have heard a lot of good things about the Homo Sapien exhibit.  I heard that one time, one of the humans busted through the glass and tried to eat some fruit. But I don’t really put much stock in stories like that. From what I have learned, the humans can actually be very peaceful. They used to celebrate strange holidays, and host random get-togethers with their friends. But then it all went bad. One day the humans had gotten a new leader. This leader was not a nice man though. He decided to mutate the fruits and vegetables until they were of an appropriate size, then he would feed us to the hungry people of his country. One day, a great ancestor of the orange had enough. He gathered all of the fruits, and the vegetables and we started a war. Without the humans eating us, they became very malnourished. We won the war, but we decided that we didn’t want all of the humans to die, because they did help us when we first began to form. But we instead put them in the zoos, and the local schools all take field trips to visit them. It is good to know your history, so that you can respect who fought for the very freedom we have today. 

Into the mind of Lady Pink

The deer was skipping along,

Nothing abnormal about the way it skipped.

This deer found a pile of acid.  

The deer licked it up as quick as he could, wondering why the food on the ground tasted so strange.

Then he went to sleep.

“Wake up son.” he heard off in a distance.

She was beautiful.

The lady deer was so majestic, and luscious.

Then he looked under this magnificent beauty, and saw God.

Walking through a meadow,

A meadow full of flowers,

Laying in the meadow,

For very many hours,

Nothing in the meadow is real,

Because it is all gone,

Nothing you can touch or feel,

Until you wake from the meadows song.

memorable quotes

newspaper inspired piece.

The photo from the newspaper that I was inspire by, was a woman and her daughter holding an ancient Indian artifact.  This woman is holding it with extreme care. It is in the shape of a pyramid, and it is covered in jewels.

          She held the ancient key. She held it ever so carefully, making me worry. She found it in her grandmother’s closet. The story is that he who is worthy enough to open the amulet if everlasting life, is granted everything they desire. Upon opening, you can never die, never feel pain. Ask and you shall receive.

          We tried for hours to open it. But alas we weren’t worthy, so we placed it back and hoped that one day we can open it. 

memorable passage

““You are a side effect," Van Houten continued, "of an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives. You are a failed experiment in mutation.” 

I have never thought of evolution being a prominent theory happening so often. This line, gave me a sense of what was really going on, that evolution is happening. And not just in a million years, but now. 

if i were in charge of the world

If I were in charge of the world

          I would take away religion, and replace it with fact

          Let go of hatred, and fill it with love

          Throw away rudeness, and in its place have kindness.

         

          Let people think the way they want,

          Dress the way they want, act the way they need.  

          Pray to no one other than your friends,

          Rely on no one other than your family,

          To always love yourself

Be a {blog} reader

·         I read this book about a year ago, and i fell in love with it. I love how even though we don't really know what sex A is, there can still be a bit of romance. "I looked at this excerpt in a way that I understand what the main character is talking about, he saying that he gotten used to the fact that he simply has gotten numb to the fact of changing bodies every night." I love the way you worded this. Has simply gone numb to the fact, is really cool sounding.

·         "And someone who forgets to wipe would be classified as a human". What?? Creative??

·         This is probably my favorite post of yours that I have read so far. I love that you respect the book, because books are pretty rad. They don't really need any further defiling.

·         "The first line last line thingy thing" Your title is quite pimpin' if I do say so myself. I have not read either of the books you wrote about, but they sound pretty cool. I think you should read though, reading is pretty cool. Some people don't have the ability to read, so you should cherish what God has given you.

·         "I am a cave, empty yet deep." This is a really good line. I love the way you describe yourself with such detail. Right on!

·         " and also Curse words" I love that you think the world would be better without swearing. I do disagree with that though. Now, i don't think people should go around making fun of one another and swearing at each other, but its a way to express yourself. When you are angry you are not going to scream about gumdrops and unicorns. You are going to swear, because it is a way to get it all out.

·         " I want to be able to take my kids out for ice cream to celebrate their good grades, or the end of another year of school. Having a family would make my life (especially my adult life) complete, because I would always have people to come home to, rely on, and love." You are probably the only teenager i know that dreams of having children. I respect that a lot. I think that more people who have kids should want to have them. Too many mothers are out there, who treat their kids like shit, just because they were an accident. I think that you will be a great mom, and i hope very good things happen in your future.

·         This is a gorgeous piece. I legit got chills when i read this line, "Silence is a dead man’s breath". Thank you for that, keep on writing.

·         "I am a mind too wise for its time, bound to misfortune" that makes you sound like a kind of kung fu master. That is pretty cool.

·         Rock on, man!

·         "We fear being humiliated at the hands of others due to our short comings" That is ever so moving. It really speaks to my soul. 

6 word memoir

So? I know I’m a dick.