The corncobs that were eaten by Me and my cousin’s wife are on the left. His is the furthest on the right.

Who do you think has mastered the Art of Eating Corn?

I’m sure everyone has heard the age-old phrase “Practice makes perfect” and while nothing is ever perfect, we are able to get close enough to it that we actually get the next best thing; we get things RIGHT.

As you know I recently got an iPhone and I’ve been taking full advantage of it by getting “Infinity Blade” (among other things). This game however does have its obstacles such as the “God King“…. 

and the “Wood Jesters”.

These two enemies, especially the Wood Jesters, were a nightmare to deal with. I kept being unsuccessful with them every time and it was frustrating because they stood in my way from finishing the game. Yet, I kept going against them and each time I did, I learned something new. Mostly though, I learned what to expect from each attack; where it would come from and what were the tell tale signs before it happened.

I kept at it, I practiced at how to beat the “Wood Jesters” and applied that to the God King as well. Eventually…….. I got it right.

I wasn’t perfect, I didn’t go through it without getting hit once but I did finish him off and I did finish the game. So rather than focusing so much on getting it to be perfect, I’m much more content with getting it right.

So it looks like after this little alone time with the game, it’s time to apply it to everything else I do.

It’s very easy to feel inadequate, it’s very easy to feel like you have no good qualities at all yet in reality that is not true.

It’s because the good qualities we have are expressed enough that it has become second nature to us and when things are second nature we just do them without needing to consciously think about them. Our bad qualities though, since we don’t focus on them day to day, have not become second nature to us so we think about them a lot easier than our good qualities.

I guess it is human nature to focus on the bad because we want to solve it in order to get to the good. But once in awhile we need to remind ourselves of the good qualities that we possess.

All it requires is a pen and paper and your willingness to really look at yourself to pick out your good points. You may surprise yourself in the end when you see that the good outweighs the bad.

Today is about getting close with another person; whether that means intimacy or friendship is up to you. We all get closer with another person when we get to know them better. When we find out who they are and what they’re all about.

But in the end I feel that there’s no greater intimacy nor closeness with someone than by knowing what their thoughts are. Now I don’t mean you interrogate them or force them to tell you everything. I mean that they trust you enough to confide their deepest thoughts as well what’s on their mind in that moment without the fear of facing ridicule nor contempt.

That is when you know you’re really close with that person.

I was reading an interview done with a role model of mine and it got me thinking about being anonymous. This thought came into my mind because the other interviews I read before today, she had always talked about how she’s doing her best to live a normal life and how she wishes to have Anonymity. Today’s interview was no different.

Now within everything that makes up my “life”, I feel that I am well known to a certain extent. However, even if I feel that I am known within a network of people at school and in this city, the reality of it is that there is a bigger world out there.

This bigger world extends beyond the walls of my school, beyond the limits of the city I live in. And in this bigger world, they could care less about who I am and what I do.

In this bigger world I have Anonymity, the one thing that my role model actively pursues.

Interesting how me being the one looking up to her, I have what she wants the most…Funny how things work in this world.

On Monday I voted in the Federal Election for the very first time in my life. Up until then I never really paid much attention to politics as I thought that most of the time it’s just filled with parties bashing each other as well as lots of disappointment.

Now though, have my views changed? Maybe a little. But it has allowed me to actually look into what each party was offering as well as give myself the chance to choose which one worked best for me.

I say what ”worked best for me” because even though a politician can say that they will do “such and such” once they are elected, they may not always follow through with their promises.

But I don’t say that they are complete liars so that’s why they won’t follow through with everything but I am saying that they can’t or rather won’t follow through with everything.

Sometimes its true that they can’t. OR maybe they just don’t care to, who knows? I’m not in Parliament, I can only say what I can from what I’ve observed. But what I do know is that by keeping that in mind, I was able to choose which one worked best for me because even though they may not follow through with everything that I like, they will follow through with some of the things that I like.

I was recently presented with a situation that made me want to turn back time and redo it all in an attempt to reach “Perfection”.

I started to become consumed with the idea that “If I had a second chance to do it, it would be perfect” as well as “How was I so stupid to not realize that I could have made it even more perfect”?

Well, if I was the Prince of Persia then maybe I’d have a chance at changing the past but since I’m not, I’m going to have to deal with it. Luckily enough though, as quick as those thoughts came into my mind, they left just as quickly.

I let it go with no fuss.

I did it so easily not because I didn’t care about what I did but rather because I’ve grown from who I was before. Back in the day I would’ve been so consumed with the thought of “if only I had a second chance then I’d do it perfectly” but now I see that I’m not perfect.

I’m not perfect so I can’t achieve “perfect” results, there will always be something that I will tell myself I could get better at and that’s fine; it just means that I’ll continue growing indefinitely.

“I Rove Rice!!“… Incase you didn’t know.

instantly thought of Fallout New Vegas when I saw this.

Action Shot!