So I just wanted to post an update on my blog here. I hope some of my posts don’t come off like I’m this doom and gloom guy. There’s definitely things in life to be happy about and enjoy. I’m a big proponent of people having hobbies and things they do for personal enjoyment. Something that requires a complex skill is best I feel. Something that will take time and effort to get good at or master. I’ve chosen DJing and music production. While we are definitely living in “1984”, I do understand that it’s not as brazen as that book or movie portrayed. Our reality’s version is a lot more subtle and there’s more wiggle room. Sure you can’t ever quit working. I mean you can, but the alternative is homelessness and endless hunger, which to me is not much of an option. Even if you were adept at building personal dwellings you can’t just go to the beach and build one. They’ve locked that up so anything you live in has to be zoned, meet certain codes, and you have to pay property taxes on it. All of that requires procuring income which requires working in some capacity for monetary gain. I’m sure there’s people that would love to build their home on a piece of land, and have their daily work be the gardening that they do to grow their food and maintaining their household. With that being said getting along in the current state of society is not very difficult. Just grit your teeth and go to work daily. Make your money, pay your rent, buy your food and try to find a piece of happiness between all of that. That’s about all we can do at this point. DJing and music production is my outlet and I enjoy them very much so. Like so many people it feels like there’s never enough hours in the day sometimes to do all that I’d like to do. Sometimes you do want to just gel and do nothing or zone out watching Youtube videos. I need to finish some other sections of this site which I plan on working on during some upcoming vacation time. I also want to get into my Bible a lot more than I do. With that said keep scratching, keep mixing, and keep loving those tunes. Til next time….
Month: June 2021
Gut Health…
So gut health is very important to a person. The flora and fauna living in your stomach and intestines are very important to regulating your mood and how you feel. When you eat mostly fruits and veggies, and drink a lot of water, your gastro-intestinal system starts to manufacture healthy gut bacteria which makes you feel better and improves your life outlook. When you’re eating junk food and “food” like McDonald’s, it produces nasty bacteria that makes you feel depressed and like crap. Working musicians, which includes DJs, are very prone to having a poor diet. If you’re traveling with a rapper or band on tour, it’s hard to maintain a good balanced diet. They mostly eat fast food or generally food that’s very bad for you. In my last post I talked about people snapping, and this all ties in. The food advertised to people is mostly very bad for them. Burger King, Taco Bell, McDonalds… all that food is trash. Most people are living paycheck to paycheck and that type of food is cheap so it’s what they go for. It’s still a vicious system and either the people in charge of our society are not very bright, don’t care, or they are doing it on purpose. People are being underpaid and having crap food pushed in their face on TV and other media, they go out and buy it and it makes them feel bad and generally unhealthy. They end up at the doctors which sustains the fraudulent healthcare industry in the country that mainly cares about money and getting you on medications. People usually do bad things the worse they feel which feeds the prison industrial complex. The US government really needs to invest some of those aircraft carrier billions into healthy eating initiatives and things to help people become their best self. Let McDonald’s peddle that poison in some other country. Sure they provide jobs, but the farms and systems needed to sustain healthy eating initiatives would employ people as well. It’s really a big mess and it’s going to take intelligent people being put in charge of things to make the necessary changes. How long that will take who knows. In the mean time, do your best to eat better and exercise. Definitely don’t start your children on the path to lifelong obesity and health issues by giving it to them at an early age. Til next time.
People snapping…
Sometimes we see in the news where some guy has gone off and started killing people at random, or he goes to his job and lets off at everybody in the building. I think that’s an extreme answer to a situation, but to quote Chris Rock, “I’m not saying I would do it, but I understand”. Dealing with people is not easy. Whether they are purposely trying to get under your skin, or they just DO that, it’s easy to see how someone can get fed up with things. Top that off with the state of the world and it’s easy to see why shooting sprees are happening more and more often. The way our cities are setup are catalysts for people losing it. They’ve done studies with rats where they put them all on top of each other in a small area. Some of the rats start to exhibit signs of mental illness and psychosis. Does that make the rat that this happened to “bad” or is the environment sick? It’s no coincidence that every morning it seems like everyone is on the same roads going the same way. It’s the ‘packed in rats’ every day for most people and it’s enough to drive a person mad. Top that off with the nonsense that goes on at jobs and I’m honestly surprised there’s not many more shootings happening. One of my internet buddies once told me he will never work retail again because of the attitude people have and the way they treat you. Those people are just pissed about traffic every day, the price of a tank of gas, the price of their apartment, the low wage they are paid among other things. They end up taking it out on the retail employee adding to his personal misery. It’s an endless vicious cycle. Where does it stop? Maybe it doesn’t and someone wants it that way. Who is that someone or someones is the question we need to be asking as people living in a society. Some people feels it’s “being negative” to complain about those things or to talk about it, but it’s a topic that needs a light shined on it. Until it is, there will be more guys killing everyone at work or in the house… more mothers drowning their kids in the bathtub, among many other aggressive, lashing out situations that occur in our society. I don’t claim to have all the answers, but I definitely understand the question. Do you?