YOU ALWAYS WANT WHAT YOU CAN'T HAVE

Envyous people are not confident and yet the worst people to hang out with. A person that is envyous will always want the worst to happen to you, just in order to keep his/her self-esteem ''high''. Envyous people have a really low self-esteem, since they always want what others have and they think others don't deserve that desire he/she has. Being envyous makes you have certain anger towards a person that has something you want, it even makes you want the worst for him/her. We need to learn to be authentic, being ourselves and be thankful for what we got. Sometimes people are so materialistic, and they always seem to want what other people have not really realizing what they have. When we start to value what we have our lives start to make more sense, we start to be less worried about non-important things and start worrying about what we have and maintaining it, like our health. Looking and wanting what you don't have, being materialistic or a person that seems to feel less that other people for what they have and he/she lacks just makes our life more complicated, as if it wasn't already. We never know what we have untill we loose it, star valueing what you have and be thankful for the fact that you are even alive, at a good school, that you are even dressed. Don't look at others as if they are luckier than you, you are really valueable to be worrying about what you may don't have that others do have. Listen to your friends and family who know you and will tell you just what you read in this blog. Remind yourself every morning how lucky you are for being alive, be thankful to your friends and family and tell them they've done a great job forming you as a person. KEEP SMILING, SOMEONE COULD FALL IN LOVE WITH YOUR SIMLE!

THEY CALL ME HEARTBREAKER

It is proved that after a relationship break up, a persons' self-concept is affected. Self-concept is the way I see myself, and it is really connected with self-esteem, both are or might be affected after a break up. Since we are not here to find ourselves, but to create ourselves, we sometimes underestimate our abilities to carry on in life. Some people who are close-minded, get stuck on a feeling or an idea, and don't really get to continue living a normal life, yet, for example, they can't get over the person they just broke up with, or they feel less than others. Valueing yourself is the best way to carry on with your life after a break up, because if you don't have a high self-esteem or a positive self-concept, life will be much harder than it already is. We need to understand that every relationship is an experience that will prepare ourselves for marriage, and how are we are going to deal with it. Of course you are going to be sad about a break up, but what will you get if you just sit there and cry about it? Carry on not worrying about girls/boys and the need of a girlfriend/boyfriend, life is a perfect plan and they will come to you just stop searching. Stop searching for a boyfriend/girlfriend, don't every worry if you don't have one, and don't ever feel the necessity to have one, just have fun instead, paty and take formal responsabilities, you have better things to worry about! Live your life, continue having fun and never get stuck on an idea that you know will not help you carry on. In life there will be alot of people who love you, hate you, nice people, mean people, players and serious boys/girls that will value you and will treat you they way you are deserved to. Just be yourselve all the time, be prepare for the worst but always expect the best out of things including relationships. Take experiences as lessons, lessons that will help you not make the same mistakes over and over again and will improve you to be a better person everyday. Be who you are and don't worry about what other people say, IT'S BETTER TO BE ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS THAN ABSOLUTELY BORING!

16 YEAR OLD DEMANDED HIS MOM FOR HAKING HIS FACEBOOK

A 16 year old adolescent demanded his mom for haking his facebook and writing scandalous comments. The mom haked his facebook and his e-mail, and changed all the passwords. The adolescent had charges against his mom to demand her, but his mom says she has all the right to control what his son sees on the internet. I think this is a total lack of communication amog the family. The mom was not confident with what his son was doing or writing on facebook that she tried to figure out the incorrect way. I do understand the mom, since she was somehow worried about his son, but the way she tried to take control over the situation was abusive. The adolescent felt overprotected by his mom at first, then finding out she had written all of this things that personally humiliated him made him feel the necessity to demand her. This is why family communication is really important as it is to maintain confidence among parents and children. If parents have confidence on their children, they won't be worried as much about what they do on facebook, because they would know that what their doing is innofensive. The adolescent had all the right to feel his mom had invated his privacy, but if he have had communication with her in the first place the mom would'nt find the necessity to do this desperate move. I feel that this kind of news makes people aware about their own personal confidence towards their parents. Children should always win their parents' confidence and their privacy will never be invaded. Communication is really important amog family members, this will reiforce confidence and make the family relationship much stronger.

WHAT-A-TAN!

Many people, including myself, love tans. But most of the time, people don't really expose theirselves to the sun that much, they don't really have time to lay down by the pool to get a tan, or their skin is simply really difficult to change it's color. Tanning beds are a really easy way to get a tan, but just as easy it is to change your skin color, it is to get skin cancer. Tanning beds as we all know produce ultraviolet rays, which reacts on your skin making melanin glandules rise to the skin's surface. There are even special creams that you apply to your skin before getting into the tanning bed that force melanin glandules to rise, as I said, to the skin's surface to be able to get a much brozey color tan and makes the process really fast. Really harsh UV like the ones produced on tanning beds affect your skin in many ways: it produces premature wrinkles on skin, if you have freckles it makes them more abundant and if you don't they appear as premature age spots. It is dangerous to everyone, but specially children under 16 years, because their skin is more likely to be damage by those harsh UV rays since their skin is much softer, but still teenagers among ages 16-18 should never be allowed to use a tanning bed. Repetitive sun burn, for those people who get into a tanning bed regularly, is the main factor that causes skin cancer.

Spray tans are a really safety way to get a tan, it won't last as long but you health will. Just find a good spray tan and stick to it, don't risk your health by going trough processes that will affect your skin just to make it look attractive. Take care of your skin, don't harm it what so ever. You might look tanned and beautiful, but stop to think if it is possible that a simple vanity can affect your life forever?

WHAT ABOUT THEM?

In my personal experience, I've seen most human behavior based on egocentrism. Most of the time we think only about ourselves, what will happen to me?, what affects me?, what benefits me?, but what about them? What about society?, how are you affecting society in a good or bad way regardless of your actions? Being egocentrist is a serious problem, that most of the time people don't really notice it. Why is a person a hero?, simply because people named that person so, his/her actions where benefitial in some way. Sometimes we say things without thinking about what we are saying, if that might hurt someone or not, if that might affect someone emotionally, or not. People that help you, people that understand you, people that would risk their life and sould to save you, those are the people that everyone loves to hang out with. Who would like to be friends with someone who just talks about theirselves, who doesn't really listen to you, who seems not to take care of a relationship?, not being egocentrist myself, I'm pretty sure anyone. Boyfriend and girlfriend relationships for example, the couple will soon break up if either one is always thinking about himself/herself and not cooperating with the couple's communication. Taylor Swift quoted: ''I realized you love yourself more than you could ever love me''. Just as we like to be listened, cared, advised, loved, so do others. Always help someone without expecting something back, but I do believe that person will advise you when you need it. Be humble, don't brag about what you have, I'm sure no one likes to be around someone who is always taking about what they have, or crying for what they don't have.

''Stop looking at what you ain't got and start being thankful for what you do got'' -T.I.

Humbleness is one of the values that I believe is missing on today's society. A humble friend, boyfriend, mom, dad, brother, or any other person will always helo you and be there for you. But we need to remember that just as we want to be listened, loved, cared, etc. others have those needs aswell, just respond to them, and I'm sure those people you helped will sooner or later retun the favor.

SCHOOL STRESS

Us as students, we experience stress almost everyday, but why? HOMEWORKS, PROJECTS, ASSIGNMENTS, AND SO MUCH MORE! School work is probably the highest stress a student has to deal with. Throughout the years, I've learned that stress is mental, if you just relax yourself, organize yourself and to everything on time, you don't necessary have to deal with stress. But sometimes, stress seems to be uncontrollable, for example, when a teacher sends loads od homework to do at the last minute. A person needs to learn how to deal with stress, not to mention stress causes wrinkles and small, annoying break outs on skin.What I suggest doing is always organizing yourself, with a planner or an agenda. Write assignments with its dates on its particular order, and find time to do them before the last time, not one day, hour, minute before the due date. When your stress levels are too high, it might seem there is not time to rest, but that is all you need. You need to relax, breathe in deep, listen to music or do something you like that can keep you from thinking about stress. When you feel totally relaxed, come back and do your work, you will see that ideas, thoughts, everything will come to you quicker when you are not just thinking about stress. Stress sometimes makes you do things wrong, so why do we stress on our work if we know things are going to come out wrong? We need to be responsible instead, always doing things with time, not stressing ourselves at the last minute. This way, why would you have to worry about ever dealing stress? Relax and organize yourself and time will be enough for you to complete your assignments successfully.

IN N OUT

Fashion tells you what's on style every season, but how do I combine personal style and trends? First of all, the beautiful thing about fashion is that it always comes back around, you never have to throw things away like those galdiator shoes you wore last season just wait, they're comming back. If a trend sets certain shoes on style like open toe anckle boots, and you love to wear cowboy boots you should stick by your trend, never feel pressured to wear a trend when you can be original and just dress the way you want or even make a trend of your own. If floral print dresses are in, but you love, again, your cowboy boots, but the models wore it with sandals, wear the floral dress with your boots and you have the perfect trend- personal style match. Personal style its what's going to define your appearance, and so your first impression. People that often follow trends as they are settled might end up being just one of the bunch, but instead if you are original you can tottaly have fun with it! Personally, I think we should dress to impress when we will present ourselves formally, but on our daily basis, we should dress for ourselves, never try dressing for other people, you will just end up feeling unconfortable. If you want to be fashionable but sticking to your personal style, try mixing them up. Never see dressing as an issue, in the other hand just have fun with it, and try new things. Wear that dress you never wear, make a change and try not to see dressing as a problem you face every morning when you are trying to decide what to wear. Be yourself all the time, that is what makes you interesting!

WE ARE THE WORLD

Seeing all of the pain that happened just a couple weeks ago in Haiti is heartbreaking. Imagine yourself in that situation, being trapped for weeks not knowing if people will ever find you, or if you will ever see your family again, not knowing if they are alive or not. We need to preactice the value of citizenship and careing for others, and not only that but seriously understanding and feeling what they are passing though to be able to help. There are various ways in we could help, but to be honest, the most important one right now are resources. We need to provide these people with water and food, some of them had passed 12 days without having a glass of water. Imagine how they feel, imaine their anxiety and desperation. We need to know that we are not the only ones in this world, and if people are having a hard time, what an incredible way to practice our moral values and help those people and have them to smile and say thankyou. I'm sure that when we help, somehow it leaves us a great feeling, just by giving without expecting something back. Haiti needs us, lets stand up for those who had suffered. Let go of all the selfishness and share the love.

SPICE IT

Salsa is probably the main condiment that characterize mexican gastronomy. Mexian salsas had become really popular to foreigns, since it adds a really tastefull spice to our everyday food. There are a great variety of salsas that are produced by different companies, and there are gaps in the levels of hot spice each salsa contains. There are different ways we can enjoy salsa in our foods, such as in snaks. A great way to eat a healthy snack but still delicious specially for us mexicans who love salsa are fruits with this condiment. Salsa just makes healthy snacks don't feel like healthy snaks, who doesn't like cheating on a healthy diet? I consider salsa one of my everyday condiments to add to anything. I may say, beware of adding too much, since salsa may be bad for your stomach and it may cause you irritation. Still, salsa is delicious to taste and must be added with caution!

Lack of self-confidence

One of the most recent problems I've personally seen on society is the lack of self-confidence leading to low self-esteem. Some girls, for example, present low or no self-confidence at all because she doesn't like her body. She feels less by seeing models on magazines or television thinking that they have the best bodies, wanting to be super skinny like them lead to horrible disorders like anorexia or bulimia. I consider that as a society we need to remove from magazines, and the fashion designers should stop hireing super anorexic models and start promoting health and nutrition among society. Lack of self-confidence may also lead you to wrong decisions. For example, I love architecture and I finnish college so I am looking for a job, there is this really great opportunity that a company is offering me but I have fear of rejection and fail, so I consider mysef inble to fulfill this job because I don't believe in mysef. Chances are: I will take back the fact that I didn't chose to take the oportunity not being able to do anything about it, wanting a job that I really want, but I consider I'm not that good for it. We have to be able to have self-confidence, just look at your role models, if they can do it you can do it too. Never ever give up on your dreams, even if people tell you you cannot do it just hear don't listen to them. We need to remind us everyday that we are capable to do what we desire and it doesn't affect somebody else. We need to know that all those things that we have and others lack, even if it's a couple pounds of weight, are what makes us unique and special. Remember that nothing's held back, when it comes to fulfilling your dreams, no is not an answer.

''Tell me I'm older, tell me I'm slower, tell me I can no longer fly, I WANT YOU TO'' -Michael Jordan

SAVE THE EARTH

Glaciers are melting and the ice caps are disappearing into the oceans. What is all this causing? The ocean is growing and in other words we can say that the meters of the ocean are increasing even more. Now at days scientists confirmed that Earth is melting at both ends. All this can bring terrible consequences and damages to the coastal cities and villages.

We can be finding new effects around our world but even though the experts and scientists are giving us an advertisement about this problem we continue damaging the surroundings. Maybe we are thinking that we aren’t going to presence all this destruction, but imaging if a volcano erupts or an ice age come, or an incredible hot weather rule the earth. Imagine that, we weren’t going to be capable of doing anything.

Probably, humans are going to disappear or maybe some of us are the only ones with luck; but this problem is unpredictable, the time pass and even more trash and contamination is recollected in our atmosphere, our soil and our body.

But the problem right here is not the lack of solutions, because we have them (enough), but we can’t make them work because we don’t have the culture to use all this sources. The world is ending even more every time. There is also a theory of 2012 that the world is going to suffer a big change and tremendous destruction. So, please think about it and try to start from here, by cleaning your homes, your school, because we can’t change the world if we don’t start from zero.

Global Problem: Deforestation

Everyday we get rid of paper, specially us students who use notebooks, impressions, etc. so often and when we don't need them anymore or the teachers finnished checking them, we throw them away to the trashcan. We are not considering that all that paper that we are wasteing once was a tree, cutted down by humans, and the excessive cut-down of trees to the point it affects our environment is calles deforestation. Deforestation destroy the environment, such as millions of homes constructed by animals. Now a days deforestation has increased its level so much, and many of this workers don't plant new trees, not considering that trees provide oxygen for our longs. Greenlands are disappearing because of deforestation, we need to learn to use and produce paper in a moderate way. We should be able to recycle paper to its maximum, like for example in schools, recycling paper should be obligatory. Teachers should ask students to use recycled sheets on their works, this way students will be able to contribute with this cause in a repetitive way. We do need to cut trees, but whenever a tree is cutted down, a new tree should be planted, this way there will be future expectatives for a tree to arise in that specific area. Taking care of the paper we use everyday might be a significant task for us, but why can't we fulfill it? Also, having a trash can separately for paper algo helps peope that work on garbage identify and recycle paper and it not to be mixed among the other trash that is wasted, creating even more trash everyday. Save a tree by saving paper, recycle old notebooks, give out books to others who really need them. And finally, each one of us should plant one tree for all of those that have been cutted down.

Global Problem: Ground Pollution

Every time we get rid of our everyday food and it's packaging, plastic bags, boxes, hardware, just our everyday garbage, leads to ground pollution. When we think of how many garbage we get rid of everyday, it's not comparable to the garbage that industries get rid of. But, where do all that garbage go? Also, when we are so unconcious of ground pollution, we throw garbage to streets, water, etc., this is not only contaminating, we are also endangering many species that live in those environments. Some garbage like cans and bottles might be recycled, but what happens to the rest of it? There are certain processes that this non-recycled garbage go through, but it ends up filling the groud. Why should we throw garbage to streets, geenlands, water etc.? Sometimes people don't really realize what happens when they throw garbage where it's not supposed to. Animals, I believe, are most likely to be affected to this issue, since animals are the ones who have to live on a certain environment they are used to, and if we contaminate it, this specie will face a huge change on its surrounding. We are challenging this species in their own environment, why would we want that? The simple action of putting garbage in its place could make a difference. Another action that could make a difference is separating organic and inorganic garbage. Organic garbage such as food and inorganic garbage such as plastic packaging. Separating paper form garbage is also really helpfull, since this is something that can be recycled (cans and plastic might be good to separate too, since this may also be recycled). Help the environment, make an effort in making the world a better place for everyone.

Global Problem: Global Warming

Global warming might be the most complicated issue on the world today. I will start by defining the term Global Warming' is ''the warming that happens when certain gases in Earth's atmosphere trap heat. These gases let in light but keep heat from escaping.'' (environment.nationalgeographic.com) The consecuences that follow the earth's atmosphere to overheat are the melting of glacieres, which causes the seas to oververflow, species like the polar bear, which is already an endangered specie due from man's hunting, to die because this animals depend so much on iced seas to hunt for food. We are causing so much danger for polar bears and millions of other species who depend on cold, icey climates to survive, and we are destroying their environment. How are we contributing to global warming? Everyday. When we use our car exessively, we need to know we are not the only ones who use a car in the world, just imagening how many people drive for hours and how many carbon dioxide is being liberated is unbelievable. We can make a difference, by just changeing daily attitudes and activities that due to the cause of global warming. Some of this changes might be tuning off lights when not needed, people should open windows insted, being lighted by daylight instead. We could ride a bike when we don't need to go too far, people are exerciseing themselves and at the same time helping decrease global warming. Simple everyday tasks like the ones mention will make a difference, be concious of your doing everytime you turn on a light, or a car, and ask yourself, how can I fulfill this actions but at the same time help our environment? Spread the word and make the action.

Global Problem: Illiteracy

We are lucky to recieve education on a private school since kindergarten, but not everyone has that privilege. Families with economic problems are less likely to attend to school and fulfill necessary education. Some kids, teenagers, adults don't attend to school either because they habe to work to support their families or they just are not aware of illiteracy and how this affects a person totally for the rest of their lifes. We might see computer as one of our day to day machines that helps us out on out daily activities, but there are people who don't even know how to use it, because they have never had access to one. This problem shouldn't be happening, I think that even if people are working to keep up with the economy they should still be able to attend to school. Public schools are the best way to solve this problem, but still I believe people aren't able to buy school materials like pencils, pens, notebooks, books, etc. I suggest this should be provided by the government. The government should be able to take illiteracy as a serious problem, because our generation is the future. I also believe there is no certain age for education, even adults who didn't recieve a full education should be able to have access to it. It's never too late to learn something new, maybe you could be someone who will mark a difference in society.

Global Problem: Water Scarcity

Water, the most important resource for every living thing, without water, we would be dead in just a couple of days. It seems that most of us don't really realize what would be if water would disappear one day, or not to go too far, the day when water wouldn't be enough for all of us. I know that there are alot of campaings that are promoting the care of water, and people might see it everywhere, might hear it form everyone, but really, are we doing something about this issue? Just a few of us that are coincious of water scarcity won't make a huge differece, we need to promote this issue and make people decide their future for themselves and upcoming generations. We need to be less selfish, people might be dying of dehydration at the same time that others are taking half an hour baths. We need results, we need to act, do something about this issue, not let it pass and act as we care when we really don't show it with our actions. In simple everyday duties, you can make an effort on not wasting water. Take 5 minute baths, use a cup of water to wash your teeth, use a bucket to wash your car you don't really need much water to fulfill this duties. We share our world, and people from all places should be recieving the necessary amount of water they need, which they are not. Let's do something about it, spread these words to become actions.