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Misunderstood – Weston’s Response

“Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — ‘Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.’ — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Misunderstand: fail to interpret or understand the words or actions of someone.

One of the greatest protest songs of the post-civil rights era was Abraham Martin and John, referring to three great ‘misunderstood’ heroes. Why is it that society seems to shun greatness? What is it in change that scares so many away from it? It is a common phrase – ‘change is inevitable’. The proof is in the details; change happens. Change is always happening and it is impossible to avoid.

However, the only way change happens is when people fight for it. You can’t say that change is bad until you have brushed up on your facts – look at what change has given us. Without misunderstood people, important changes in our world would never have happened, and will never happen again. Without them what would our world be like?

Change is inevitable in this world; but only if there are those willing to fight for it.

Misunderstood

Author: Deirdre Smith

“Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — ‘Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.’ — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson knew over one-hundred and fifty years ago that what he wrote was true. Through every generation, great people arise from the ground and show the world something incredible. These people are always, no doubt about it, misunderstood.

That’s how some teenagers feel. The ones that are popular in school are the ones people feel they can relate to on an outer level, therefore they cling to them. Their ‘golden circle’ quickly fades after college to a dull brown, and the popular kids become old news. About this same time, the really misunderstood kids rise up and achieve their full potential. They go on to change our world and become our nation’s leaders. They are the ones that find the cures to deadly diseases and make great discoveries.

When Copernicus realized that the sun was actually the center of the universe as opposed to Earth, no one really believed him. They didn’t understand why he would even think to prove something set in stone as incorrect. He understood what he was doing, and that was all that mattered to him.

One day, the misunderstood kids who only had a small circle of people they could trust will rise to show their true greatness, whether people get it or not.

Reliving the Past

If there was one part of your life that you could relive what what would it be? Perhaps it’s the second grade when you got your first “B” or the sixth-grade when you had your first crush. Maybe you want to fix something during those years. There are some parts of my past that I would relive for that exact reason. It would be much easier though to just forget about them.

“It’s history…”

Perhaps a phrase you used to comfort a friend or to convince someone to calm down. What ever your use for the words the intent is very true. We live in the present, whom ever lives in the past may not see the present and those that live in the future have missed it. Kids are dreamers and look to the future, sometimes missing what they will soon want back. Doesn’t it make sense to live in the present so that we don’t have to relive it later?

Just a Kid

I started this blog because I believe that kids have more to offer this world than economic stimulus in the clothing sector. A mentor of mine once told me that teenagers are more like their adult selves than children. Let’s face it – we know about adult issues and many of us have started to participate in solving national issues. Although we’re still not adults yet, we’re past all the whining and screaming and we know how to act “mature”, whether we do or not. We are more like our adult selves than we are kids.

However, as much as adults we are, what is adolescence but a time to be wild? Sometimes we just need to shed the “adult stuff” and be kids. Push the boundaries of our limits and try new things. Sometime after you’ve pondered maturity, finished your conversation about current events with your parents, done all of your homework and checked over your final draft of an essay, finished putting the finishing touches on your latest blog about the idolatry of celebrities and their effect on society… sometimes you just need to be a kid.

Living a Dream

Living a Dream – Click to Listen

An Original.
Words below:

Dream
Dream a dream you like
the world’s all yours tonight

Cause at the break of day
You’ll have to give it all away
to reality

but take comfort in
the fact when this day ends
You’ll get it back again

But really what’s a dream
but an endless thing

and one day I woke up in a dream
and realize things weren’t as they seemed

and I was living a dream
oh living a dream
I was living a dream
of some poor boy
and I was living a dream
of a lonely man
and I was living a dream
and was satisfied it seems
I was dreaming away a dream

American Dream

“If your problems start with my car, my house, my computer, my iPod, etc. then your filthy stinken rich…” ~ Tyler Strange

What are your problems? Are your problems with what you see in the mirror or with the what’s in the fridge? Are your problems which fridge to buy or how your going to pay for food to put in it? Are your problems how your going to pay for food or where you’re going to find it? Are your problems in your wants or your needs?

The American dream is supposed
to be a simpler way of life but how often does a modern society make the simple things incredibly difficult? Youth today live in a crazy world filled with drugs, sex, guns and violence. The norm has not only been changed into well dressed ditzes, but well dressed ditses who are told they are the future. However, those that will prevail are the thinkers.

“Thought leads to speech, speech persuades action, action changes the world.”

Little Toy

Little Toy – Click to Listen

An Original.
Words below:

“Hey there little boy this here’s a big boys toy
and I would let you see but you know
this here’s a gun
cause with your eyes you’ve seen
the fury and the mean
and with your ears you’ve heard
the silencing of the birds
and with your mouth you could shout
to end this bloody spout
but you’ll follow me and finish what’s to be”

Hey there big boy this here’s a little toy
I would let you see but you do not care
of this that is peace
cause with your eyes you lust
over things made of dust
and with your ears you seek
out the small and meek
and with your mouth you shout
flow bloody spout
not only are you the meek
your the small and the weak
and what you despise
will be your own demise
forgive me if I don’t follow you

Sandbox

Sandbox – Click to Listen

An Original.
Words below:

In the sandbox in my backyard we learned how to feel
On the swings in your backyard we learned how to fly

Well time it always passes by
but never seems to satisfy
and after all the years gone past
we find our bodies in the grass

In the sandbox in my backyard we learned how to think
On the swings in your backyard we learned the things they don’t teach

Well time it always passes by
but never seems to satisfy
oh as we study the clouds in the sky
we lie there making truths out of lies.

Rules

Rules are nessesary to have a “civilized” society. Enforcing the rules is a difficult problem because not everyone in society is the same. That doesn’t mean that special treatment should be rewarded to those “good” people. Explain how each scenario is just.

Scenario 1:
A student is walking down the hall after the bell has rung, he’s not walking fast. The principal catches him and gives him ISS. However there is no rule that says he gets ISS for being late to class.

Scenario 2:
A straight a student, who’s never got in trouble, is late to school in his rush he doesn’t realize as his ID gets caught on something in his car. As he walks past a teacher the teacher tells him to put his ID on he looks down and realizes he forgot it somewhere. He starts retracing his steps and is stopped by the principal who without question throws him in ISS.