It's crazy to think how different we view other countries and their cultures. In other countries, people are greeted differently, there's a different meaning to what it's like to have a get together, there's a different meaning of having fun in general.  We as Americans with a different mentality and culture of greeting people with a handshake or even just saying 'sup' are our greetings, and having a get together is usually a party of only one certain age group and very mixed type of people involved, and having fun in general is facebook and being with friends so, when we go to these other countries, yes we are blessed and thankful to be in such a country but yet we are all so quick to judge their culture.  If we see two men giving kiss on the cheeks while shaking hands as a greeting, we automatically think whoa did that really just happened? How are men comfortable like that?  We don't realize that there is no country that has a perfect culture where nothing weird will ever happen.  We assume that America has the best culture and everything we do is 'perfect' and 'not weird'.  Just imagine how these other countries think as well.  We are outsiders no matter where we go.  We are always going to be exposed to different types of cultures.  I think most people will agree that we are one of the most diverse country since we have so many different ethnic groups surrounding us, but that's what makes America America.  Others probably won't see what we see normal, as being normal.

2012

I don't know about anyone else, but for me as a person, I sure never expected that our society would become like this today.  Today all you see are headlines about celebrities dying, yet they are celebrities that we have stopped caring about, and then all of a sudden once you hear that they have passed away it seems to be the end of the world for everyone and it's all you see on news headlines for weeks and weeks.  We start to loose the sense of what's really important, like having American soldiers being sent day after day to the middle east to fight in wars that shouldn't have started in the first place, or children and families dying in Africa from hunger, or the fact that Global Warming is getting worse and worse and all we tend to care about is when the new iphone will come out or what next hollywood scandal is going to happen.  I won't lie, I'm one of those people who have become obsessed with the gossip and the Hollywood news rather than what is going on everywhere in the world, and it breaks my heart that I could be so careless and find things out today that have been really going on for months and months.  People are starting to loose jobs, and more crime is rising, but yet all we care about is who has the most friends on Facebook or who has the nicest stuff in town.  Technology has taken over more than we know. To the extent that I have to go online to make notecards on a website rather than just write a notecard by hand and the notecards are so unnecessary because they are suppose to be for a Junior English research paper.  What ever happened to just writing a simple research paper? No notecards, no online bibliography and etc.  There is not much we really can do now because it is too late, our expectations have been risen so high and so much more pressure is being put on people and due to that, you start to see more laziness, suicide, and people just taking the easy way out by taking pills or drugs to calm their nerves down.  But hey, this is 2012, all we can do is "live it up" and "hope for the best" because as long as we forget the rest, we'll make is somehow, even if it's not what we had expected as little kids.

organized vs unorganized

What does it say if you are an organized/unorganized person? Being organized means many things including, but not limited to, a career plan, organized closet, punctuality, etc. The benefits of being organized is simple. Organized people succeed on time. They have more clarity in the daily obstacles they tackle. However, an unorganized person might not know what career he/she wants to achieve, may lose a shoe or two in his/her closet, might be late a few times too many, etc. Unorganized people may lose sight of what they really want because of "cluttered-mind syndrome." Many thoughts and what-if's run through their minds. The similarity between organized people and unorganized people is that being either way might "work" for their lifestyles.