Heros

        Dovahkiin, Superman, Thor, Spiderman, Mario

         The list of make believe heroes goes on and on. All make believe, and before all the die hard fans attack me just hear me out. Why? We live in such an advanced world, there's crazy amounts of technology, there's people everywhere, organizations for just about everything.
So why, there are obviously heroes everywhere, people taking time out of their day to help, to carry an injured person, to sit with someone through the night. Why is there a need for these make believe characters?

         Some people have planted themselves in history, but it's pretty plain to the eye that a lot of people get looked over and taken advantage of. There are some people in this world, that would give someone the shirt off their back in a heartbeat. And the only thing that someone can muster most of the time is a "Thank you" and a backstab later. (I'm well aware that some people are genuinely thankful for peoples help, but there are quite a large amount of people who don't care to be appreciative.)

         I've done my fair share of being hero for people, but its been quite a while since I've done any crazy amounts of hand holding. Don't get me wrong, if someone wants to talk to me for a bit about something, I'm all ears, and I'm definitely not above giving someone a hug or giving them a lift to church if they ask. In fact if anyone asks me to be some sort of helper for them, I'd do it in a heart beat. But, I don't search for people who need help. Because most of the ones you find (at least in my experience) are the ones who do it for attention. And attention seekers are the ones that will get you.

         You can try and flip the world over for them, put a halt on your day, and put everyone around you on hold, but they will only care for a moment, if they even care at all. Let me repeat this ONE more time, I'm not saying this is all people, just a fair amount of them, so don't go getting angry. But there are some people who will take your good intentions and stomp on them. They will try and bring you down, and try and put you below them, reading to far into things you say, insulting you, jumping to conclusions when all you said is a "How can I help?"

         It's a mad world.


         

        

     People take advantage of things 

       It's painfully obvious that people are disrespecting the tragedy that happened today.
If you go on instagram and look up anything to do with Boston you'll find someone posting endless pictures strictly for likes or to make fun of them. It's really pathetic. The worst offenders are of course the young people, who think that having any sort of empathy is looked down on. And I guess in a lot of instances it is. But I'd rather be someone willing to sit down and hug someone, rather than walk by with my nose up.

       People have poked fun at me for a lot of things, mainly my religion and things associated with it. My purity ring causes snickers and stares, I get weird looks when I talk about my blog.
  

      Yeah I'm kinda a Jesus freak go ahead judge me. 

                            Friends are difficult. 

    Don't get me wrong, I love my friends to death, but sometimes they just test you and push your buttons. Even if its something stupid and really isn't that big of deal can hurt you pretty bad. Like, if your group of girls goes out without telling you, or, something bigger, like them talking bad about you. They are just difficult.

    But I believe that God puts people in your life for a reason. Some are there to make you turn tail and run back to the light, some are there because He knows you can help them, and bring them home, and others are there to make your life a happier place, and take you out to movies spontaneously. But I don't think we ever really know why God placed them with us, until we do some deep reflecting, and even then we still may not know. I've had friends in my life, who were dragging me to such a dark place, and now that I look back at it, it made me run back to God with arms as open as I could manage and a heart being held together by thread for fixing. It's given me a testimony, that one day could help someone else. I also have friends that stand together with me and run with me towards God, they are always there when I need them, and bible study with them is a blast. Then there are my friends that can be generalized as difficult. I don't mean this in a rude way either. Some are stubborn, others have been dealt a hard time, and refuse to see light. It's just a struggle.

   "God is interesting in building you up" -Notes from Roger Archers sermon on 4/13/13

   Sometimes these friendships result in chaos, hurt and loss of trust, and we just ask God, why, and we question him. Some can even turn away from him. It's just for character building, because when we think about it, we wouldn't be the way we are now if something didn't happen to us. If we didn't face someone stabbing us in the back, we wouldn't pick friends that were beneficial to us. If we didn't have a bad influence 1.) We wouldn't know how bad our parents punishments could be c:, and 2.) We wouldn't have the morals and rules for ourselves that we have now. There are endless examples of this.

  In the last few months I have seen such a change in myself, in my personality, in my attitude, the amount of people who want to talk to me, the jumping around and acting a fool in public places has defiantly increased. I just feel a ton better, and it's a result of me coming back to God.

 I had every intention of ending with a nicer point, and I also had the intention of not making this a wall of text, but I guess both of those didn't work out did it? Well, on a sidenote I'm going to try and get three posts in a week. It sounds like a valid number and something that I could easily do.

- xo Julia