The Music Industry Exposed

I'm Proud Of You

I truly believe that the word " I am proud of you" is very underrated. It is a word that many of us truly need to hear from time to time. 

Usually when you tell someone that you have been trying so hard and finally achieved an accomplishment they will tell you something sarcastically  like " you wan't a cookie"???

We know how our friends are and sometimes they can be real stupid but there is 2 individuals and sometimes even 1 person and that is our parents to tell us how proud of us they really are.

I remember getting into an argument with my parents a couple years ago when I was attending college. There was a point in my life when I felt I needed a break from school and all they kept asking me was "when was I planning to register for school again and that it was really important for me to do so in order to be successful in life". I'm the kind of person to really hold things in and not express myself when I was mad but this time, the anger inside me just blew off and along with a lot of cuss words and in simpler words I asked these following questions…

• Why did you not tell me that you were proud of me when I would work full time and attend school full time?
• Why were you not proud of me that I stayed in all if not 98% of the weekends to finish up on h.w and would stay up endless nights doing so even on the weekdays?
• Why were you not proud of me that I was actually in college but once I'm not, you guys were all on my face about me attending again?

I didn't really gave them a chance to say anything and went straight to my room and laid  on my bed and started thinking about how wrong of me was to go off at them like that when they went through so much to get into this country so they could provide a better life for me. Not only that but both actually became citizens of this country. And never once did I tell them I was proud of them… 

In the end, it was my job and responsibility to go to school and try to make something out of myself. Sometimes we crave that "I am proud of you" but sometimes those words are meaningless if you are not proud of yourself. Truth is, people have their own problems and struggles and many of us don't receive that appreciation or praise we want when we accomplish something. 

But as parent's or future parents we need to realize what most of us went through as in being in gang infested communities to tell our children the following…

• I'm proud of you for not joining a gang.
• I'm proud of you for not coming home stupid drunk or high from parties.. ( well, sometimes we may have but most of our parents were sleeping,lol )
• I'm proud of you for graduating from high school and more importantly college.

As I said, people shouldn't rely on being told that they are something to be proud of …. but why risk it ? I would rather thank my future son for directly coming home from school and for him to know I am proud of him for doing so, because it would mean more if I told him that rather than in the contrary for him to immediately go after school and hang around with gangs and for them to tell my son that they are proud of him for killing a rival gang member.

John 3:16 - The Story of Love

Just wanted to share this story/video with you all. I enjoyed it and I hope you do too.

Double Standards

I'm starting to get annoyed with females that say.."How come it's o.k that a man could sleep around with a whole bunch of females and he is celebrated for it, but if a woman sleeps with a whole bunch of men, she is considered a whore.

Think about it, it's how society perceive women and men to be.
To a females advantage, an image of a real woman is to be PURE, have morals, have self respect, and so on.
Society perceives men to be horny, macho, man whores, and so on.

Why would a woman have the audacity to complain that it is not fair that men could get away with things such as sleeping around.

Are women not happy that society makes them be the better half of a relationship, the backbone of a marriage, the glue that holds a family together… let alone that society looks at women as more moralistic than men???

Do they really have the nerve to say that it is not fair that men could sleep around but when in a group of females, they will gossip that "Brenda" is a whore because she sucked off the whole crew and let a group of 5 men run a train on her?

It is really stupid and it is not fair to say that a woman cannot commit an act but then judge a woman for doing that act.

There's a saying that says, "behind a great man, is a greater woman"…

So females should be proud to be women, and men should be proud to be men, because as much as society makes me to be less moralistic, I am proud that I am not as bad as society makes me to be and therefore, it makes me feel like a true man because I go beyond the standards of a man according to society.

SHUT UP !!!

The devil is good at observing you but does not have the power to read minds. So why say out loud what your weaknesses are, it being women or men or even money. He will use the exact same weaknesses you say you have out of your own mouth to bring you down and try to keep you down.

Haters also do not have the power to read minds.. but once you say out loud what your goals are, they will hate on you and make up the stupidest lies and rumors to make sure that you don't accomplish those goals..

So sometimes it's better to SHUT UP!!!

Not everybody needs to know your goals, everybody has goals but not everybody has accomplishments. Let your accomplishments speak for you because accomplishments are done because of actions and goals are just words..and actions speak louder than words.

Not every is trustworthy, but be grateful for those who are.

Complaining about little things...

We have all done it, complain when something bad happens to us… "WHY ME!!!!! ???"
Blah Blah Blah.. nobody likes a whiner , lol, just kidding...
Have you ever thought to yourself? Is this happening for a reason? And most likely, it is happening for a reason.

I've never been a person to complain about stuff especially after one crazy moment. Let's just say I was supposed to go to a place where I wasn't supposed to be going and doing stuff I wasn't supposed to be going. Deep inside I had a bad feeling, so I backed down. Later on I get a call from my friends and they told me something really bad happened and they are glad I didn't go because they barely escaped out of a bad situation. I immediately realized.."JUST BECAUSE IT DIDN'T HAPPEN, IT DOESN'T MEAN IT COULD'VE NOT HAPPENED"

When ever I give advice to my friends, that question comes up and I ask them, "If it didn't happen to you, would you be complaining right now?" The answers are usually, "of course not"…So I ask them afterwards, "if it didn't happen, would you be appreciating the fact that it didn't happen??? The answer vary with that,lol

In a world with many ways to die, we are literally living each single day by the grace of the BIG GUY upstairs. I've had many near death experiences and I KNOW I could've been dead a long time ago. But God knows I thank him most of the mornings for granting and blessing me with another day of life, I could do it everyday, but sometimes I wake up late, but even if that happens..for now on, I'll thank HIM first.

2012.. Here I come!!!!

     2011 was a pretty decent year for me. It wasn't the best but it sure wasn't the worse.
2011 was a great year to me because I spent a lot of time with my family and built respect back with my brothers and show them a good example of being of age to go drink and party but choose not to because I had important responsibilities in the morning.

     Other than that, I tried NOT to do the same things that I did in 2010. I did so much this year that I never thought I would ever do…BUT I DID IT =)
It is such a great feeling to know that I'm not falling into dealing life as a conformist, but rather wanting to break that and go above and beyond of what I thought I possibly could do. I also reconciled with God this year and that was the best thing I could've done.

     Therefore, in 2012, I will try my best to do way more photoshoots, travel to places I've never been before to capture great shots. Make the most money I can possibly make so I can pay for school in the summer and fall semester and most importantly, grow spiritually and get baptized by the summer.

     Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year !!!

-Osvaldo Alvarado