HOT

We are in the end of August, and the weather has been so terribly hot!

But it's okay since all I do is go to the beach, swim, play beach ball and get an awesome tan.

I love the beach. The sound of the crashing waves, the kids running around or building things out of sand, laughing out loud, having fun, good music, meditating, reading books at the beach...

Oh so wonderful!

I love tanning. I think it's awesome. I love to be brown skinned. Laying under the sun at the beach is my favorite thing to do in the summer.

But that was yesterday... Until I saw this lady.

A lady came to the beach and lied on the sand. I looked at her and couldn't stop staring. Her body was very brown-tanned. Her skin was so wrinkled. Like she had so many lines (wrinkles) on her skin. She looked so damaged. It was like as if she was wearing some kind of a plastic bag on her. It was awful.
She looked something like this picture:








This made me think about so many things.
I knew that the sun is not healthy. I knew it makes spots and wrinkles and cancer. But I always ignore these facts and still do it. But is it worth it?

The lady looked horrible. She must loved the beach when she was young. Probably she still does. But how can she continue doing this when she's looking like that?

I don't want that to happen to me. Sun damages can only be seen by advanced age... Probably after 10 years or so. It's like I'm risking myself by this stupid thing, and for what? To look good for only some weeks? Tan fades fast! It doesn't last and every time I lay on the sand for that tan I just observe more UV. It is scary to look that repulsive.

Some people think, if you put on any sunscreen you won't get any tan. But it's wrong, sunscreen prevents burns and blocks the UV sun rays. It still can make us look brown, because it is still hot. It only will not make us look red!
Maybe you won't be brown as fast as you'll be without the sunscreen, but it doesn't mean you'll stay white.

I guess the best thing to do is to go for a sunless tanning lotion! It will give the looks and keep us healthy.
Speaking of damage and cancer, Smoking is the worst thing ever.
Nothing good comes out of it at all. Bad smell, bad breath, yellow teeth, addiction and all kinds of cancer in every part of the body.

The other day I was in an event. A lady came to talk to me, she had a very damaged mouth. She was speaking to me and I was looking at her mouth... Yellow damaged teeth and a very black gums. It was the first time I see someone like that in front of me. I know many smokers, but I guess they are all still young or not that heavy smokers. She looked so disgusting.

Smoking is like tanning. Both are fun and maybe cool at the time. But the damages and diseases happen only after years, and then the repentance comes.
I don't find smoking cool in any way. I respect who doesn't smoke much more. For me to see a handsome man, looking so good, and a cigarette is in his hand, ruins everything. He becomes disgusting.

Do you really want to have this mouth?
Think about it.

Forever Young?

So I was listening to the song "Forever Young"... And thought to myself, NO I don't wanna be young forever!

I know the song does not mean it literally, but when I first heard it I imagined if I really stayed young how boring will it be. Not growing old? Growing old is fun. It is really fun to be young and party and have fun, but to everything there is time. It will be boring to do the same forever. Just as fun as it was being a kid and a teenager, I look back and smile but I won't go back. I did have enough of that phase in my life and moved on.

I like being at the age where I am right now, it is fun to be a college student and an employee. I have dreams and I would like to move on trying to accomplish them. Dreams to one day be successful, to be all that I can be and for those who love me and been there for me forever, to be proud of me.

If I stayed young, how will I accomplish all those things? I also would like to get married one day, have a family, love and teach my children, pass on my wisdom and experience. These things are fun too! I would like to be in that place someday.

Being a grandparent is also fun! Taking care of the garden and the dog, Telling stories and history, being cute and loved, watch the children getting married and having kids and teaching them, and I sit there and watch them proudly and happily... Isn't this great? These are the things that I look forward to and would like to have.

So I do agree with the song "Forever Young" because the meaning is to not waste your youth, but while you're young, act as if you will stay forever young without any worries about the future. Take chances and act, so that you will forever stay young in the eyes of others. You're gonna always be remembered by the things that you have done while being young. So it doesn't matter how old you'll get, you will be loved and cherished for the things you did young.

I like the video:

I like when he says:

"Hope for the best but expect the worst."

"Fear not when, fear not why."

"Life is for living, not living uptight."

"Through the darkest blocks, over kitchen stoves, over Pyrex pots, my name shall be passed to generations while debating up in barber shops."

"With a little ambition, just what we can become here."

People

Someone told me that there is some evil in each person. Each one has a dark side. No matter how good a person may seem to be, his evilness will appear one day. Whether it's by committing a sin, hurting someone, lying to others or being selfish.

This could be true, humans aren't perfect.

But why do we have to look at it that way?

Why don't we look at it the opposite way? I think there is some good in each person. No matter how bad that person may be, he has a bright side.

Even a murderer, psychic or the worst person on this planet, would have some mercy. Some love.

It all depends. But it's there.

So, why do we always have to see the bad side of people, why don't we search for the good side in them? We are all the same, we all have some good and some bad. Some are mostly good and some are mostly bad. But if we must think about it, lets think about the good that we have in us instead of the bad.