I was looking at different quotes and this one seemed to catch my attention.

The old ways are dead. And you need people around you who concur.That means hanging out more with the creative people, the freaks, the real visionaries, than you're already doing. Thinking more about what their needs are, and responding accordingly. Avoid the dullards; avoid the folk who play it safe. They can't help you any more. Their stability model no longer offers that much stability. They are extinct, they are extinction.
Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 16. The world is changing. , 08-22-04

I believe that you need to be with people that challenge you, in good ways of course. That make you work to do things that you may not have done, or would not think to do. If the you hang out with people that don't agree with what you believe in then eventually you may change your point of view without realizing you are. I think that Hugh Macleod is also saying that more people should be open to the creative people, the freaks, and visionaries. Many times people just have an opinion of somebody before they even got to know these people, and don't get to see what they believe or have to say. What they believe could actually be the same as what you do or similar to it.

Invited 22 years late

There was this article in firstcoastnews.com that talked about how a lady, Theresa, just recieved the invitation to her nephew's high school graduations 22 years ago. Her family just thought she did not respond to the letter because she lived in Oregon and they were in New Jersey. The thing is that the letter was even opened before she ended up recieving it. I really wonder what had taken the letter so long to get to her house; they say that it may have been stuck in the machinery or misrouted. But how could the letter be stuck in a machine for that long, you would think it would be noticed. In the end though Theresa was just happy to get something, for the first time, that she had lost.

Man Wakes From Coma

This man in California just woke up from being in a coma for about 18 days. Moments before he woke up his family decided to take him off of life support because he would have had severe brain damage. This was because after having a heart attack he went without oxygen for 10 minutes. I thought this was amazing that he woke up from a coma, and that it was just before he would have been taken off life support and died. I wonder how this happening in his life will change how he lives it. I personally would change how I lived if my life was almost taken from me; spend more time with the people I love and do things that i actually enjoy to do. It's sad to think that people only have this change of mind when something like almost dying happens to them. Everybody should be living like its there last day everyday that you wake up in the morning because you never know what will happen that day. It's easy to say something like this and hard to act on. Many people get so caught up in doing the same routine that they forget to live everyday to its fullest.

13 year old becomes a father

I read an article in "The Sun" about how a 13-year old boy just became a father.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2233878.ece

I was shocked when I found this out. How could a child take care of anoth er child? The mother of the child may be 15, but still at that age no child should be worrying about another life. I feel like children younger and younger are having sex, and there may be no way to prevent this to happen. Many of these children don't understand the outcomes that sex brings. Most of the time they won't get pregnant and have a child, but there are other things, like STD's, that could be transferred. The new generation has to be more aware of how their decisions may affect their lives or of those around them. For example, the teenagers that just had a baby, can't support the child, let alone take care of it. The baby will probably be put on the parents because the mother and father will be busy with school, and other activities they have. This means that the parents have to put more money into support this new life, it could be money that they don't even have. As a 15 and 13-year-old I wonder if they really understand how much effort is put into taking care of a child.

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