RAK

Random Acts of Kindess

Wanna change the world?  Stop thinking about yourself for a moment and do something nice for someone today!  ) Whether it’s a kind word to someone, holding the door for someone, letting someone merge into the traffic, buying someone a cup of coffee….whatever it is, JUST DO SOMETHING and DO IT ON PURPOSE!!!

Why?  Well, first of all, it’s just nice and nice people are cool.  Besides that, doing something for someone and not expecting anything in return makes you feel good inside and blesses the person on the receiving end.  It’s a WIN-WIN! Can you imagine what the world would be like if we all put our pride aside and reached out to help someone?  We all face the same problems in life and we all could use a friendly gesture sometimes.  Do your part and you’ll see that one of these days, someone is going to do something nice for you and you’ll totally appreciate it!

Live Life on Purpose!

Poly-Ticks

Why do politicians (small time to big time) who are running for office always seem to bring up stupid, insignificant things like “My grandmother struggled to raise my mom and the six other children. She was single after my grandfather died and had to work two full time jobs as a secretary and a waitress just to make ends meet.  She had an ulcer and gray hair by the time she was 29.  That’s why I’m here today.”  OR “My dad was a mechanic and my mom stayed at home with us kids.  We barely had enough food to survive.  But now, here I am, here for you.”  Did they have to walk uphill both ways in 3 feet of snow, too?  Ugh!  It seems nearly everyone’s parents, grandparents or great-grandparents suffered, not just politicians, so why they use this as a tool to make them more appealing to the crowd is weird.  Weirder still are the folks there cheering after such statements are made.   

Personally, though I feel for your grandma and all her hardships, I don’t care to hear about them now.  It’s old news.  It won’t make me vote for you.  How about we just figure out what to do about the hardships our people are facing today.  Focus on the present and future.  The past is over with.  Let’s learn and move on.  Clearly, you politicians are doing so well because of all of your predecessors efforts, and that’s why you have to talk about THEM…because maybe YOU never faced it yourself.   But, locally, I’ve got teens in my town with NO home, no parents who will sacrifice for them like yours may have for you.  15 year olds who are still in the 7th grade.  Teens turning to drugs for “comfort”…drugs some of them are DOING with their parents.  Absurd to me, but real.  They’re rejected by the people who are supposed to love them most, so don’t you ditch them too.  They are worthy of time and effort.

Let’s just stop all the “fluffy” talk and schmoozing and get down to business.  AND let’s be adults and not slander each other to make ourselves look good.  That’s just lame.  Just be real.

I’m just saying…

One of the funniest things I’ve heard recently is from a teenager.  She says that her Dr.  said she couldn’t use a regular cell phone for texting.  She should use one of the expensive ones with the full keyboard on them because she COULD get hyper-extended thumb muscles.  Seriously???  Could anyone REALLY text that much?  Do any of YOU have this problem?  I don’t text people, so I guess I can’t say first hand whether this is true.  I have been typing at about 70wpm for about..oh…20 years and my fingers have survived.  Granted, now that we have computers, I make a whole bunch more errors because it’s so easy to erase, but if anything, that should be causing my pinky great damage.  Maybe I’ll never really know the extent of my pinky damage until I’m elderly.

Oh what a scene of troubled teens…(poetry)

Tossed away like out of style jeans, oh what a scene of troubled teens
Looking for love in all the wrong things, oh what a scene of troubled teens
when will we learn as a society
that there’s more to life than you and me
and do what’s right for the kids you see
we must take responsibility
or the grief we’ll make for future’s sake
the lives we break
through the things we take
it’s such a shame
this same old game
who’s to blame
I want there name
And so we keep on feeding
the old folks needing
more money we bets
creates bigger debts
creates huge regrets
but hey….it’s for the vets
do they really need another park
with another plaque
that will sit in the dark
what about the child
that’s growing wild
with the crazy dad
for the life he had
and the long lost dream
of a future man
with a future plan
and a future scheme
and what about the kids around
and the kids downtown
and the way they frown
it’s such a shame
to know their name
and to see them in
to be stuck in sin
to be hooked on drugs
like helpless bugs
under a scope
hung by a rope
and bound by dope
do we help them
nope.

WHEN WILL WE GIVE THE FUTURE OF BERLIN NH THE SAME AS WHAT WE GIVE TO THE PAST GENERATIONS
DO WE NEED ANOTHER MEMORIAL TO REMIND US OF OUR PAST?
DO WE NEED ANOTHER FACILITY TO TAKE CARE OF PAST GENERATIONS?
BUILD MORE FOR THE KIDS!!!
BUILD MORE FOR THE KIDS!!!

By Pastor Joey Roberts www.dcnne.com

Who Controls You??

There have been many times that I’ve heard teens say something like this: “Aw man, I hate that girl, she’s bad mouthing me and I’m gonna kick her A-double-S!’  Or “That kid is always picking on me I just want to punch him!”  It’s not just teens, either, it’s adults too, but teens are what’s on my mind at the moment. 

What I wonder is how you think punching someone will make things better.  Maybe for a few minutes you might feel like your the strongest, (big deal) but what if you really hurt them?  What if they fall and whack their head and they die?  Is fighting over “mean words” worth the possibility of jail time?  Are you going to beat everyone up that says something bad about you?  Because if so, you’re going to have a long, hard road ahead of you.  Ask yourself this…are the words true?  If yes, why bother fighting over the truth, if not then ask yourself why their opinion even matters.  They’re just doing it to get to you.  And personally, I believe that people who pick on other people do so because they feel bad about themselves and putting you down makes them feel like they’re “better.”  Clearly, they are not.  Unless, of course, you let them be.

I mean, being picked on isn’t fun. I know, I was a teen once and, unfortunately, it even happens to adults.   I’d even venture to say no one escapes being teased.  But, when you get angry about some name calling , you’ve given that person control over YOUR emotions.  You’ve given them the POWER to make you mad.  Personally, I don’t like ANYONE having that control over me.  I like to control me.  So, whenever someone says or does something mean to me, I get to choose how I want to react.  So I say fight with your mind, not your fists.  Control yourself, don’t let others control you.  And, walk with pride knowing that the bully is really much worse off than you, and secretly, everyone knows it–even the bully.