Brains before Beauty


A blog by Veronica Garcia


When you’re a kid you are told to eat your vegetables and keep that music down. And when you’re an adult you turn the music up and stuff another French fry in your mouth on the way home.


Those of us adults who are lucky enough to remember the 80’s remember growing up with an anarchy side to us simply because it was a cool thing than. As adults we also remember how much we idolized rock stars and punk stars and rappers and any one who was in the public eye for whatever reason, be it a good place to be or not.


Media feeds the mind. True or False?


Media feeds the mind and the body on a constant daily mass intake of both positive and negative output.


In this day and age a lot of us are in a state of mind, thinking the world has reached its capacity for potential. But in reality I challenge this hypothesis, saying that the world has not reached its capacity for potential, we have reached our capacity for absorbing the output of media and the world at large.


In other words, not enough peace, too much noise, that is, too much noise from the inside of ourselves leading outward through the many layers that make up our human self as well as our higher selves.


How many times have you been disappointed by someone you had loved or by someone you had looked up too? If you are like me, a few times, however, I did not allow this to mar my self view. I simply took it as an opportunity to better myself rather than those I had looked up too by not making the same mistakes they had. In doing so, I helped those who I looked up to, to see that I had a brain and that I did care for them. How, you say did I show them I cared, by caring about myself. By improving upon the ground they had all ready laid before me.


Everyone has a brain, and don’t tell me they don’t, because every living human being does and they have a heart and a spirit and soul.


So, how many of you men and women are attracted by good looks and good taste in someone? You know, like a great personality and a hot body, woow woow, teehee?

Be honest to yourself, there is a reason I am asking which I will get too in a moment.


If you are like me, the answer is heck yes. I am not one to not notice a pretty faced man all Prince Caspian style walking by or a hot dude who has a killer smile and a great attitude about life not to mention the way awesome confidence level, teehee.


Ok, what am I getting at, well, let me ask one more question, has anyone heard that song, by Terry Clark, Easy on the Eyes, Hard on the heart? Well I will post a link to it on the bottom of the page, it’s a good one.


In truth, I think we make our quick decisions too quickly concerning how good someone or something looks and all though we may get a lot of pleasure at admiring it, and playing with it, lol, in the end, how often does it really end up being all that good for us? Hmmm, I don’t know about you, but I don’t think humans were meant to be ‘played with’ know what I mean. Of course you do, why am I even telling you this right, you get it, I mean gosh you are beautiful, you have had your heart broken, right, right.


Well, let me say it this way, true or false, is it easy to look good all the time? Well, if your human and I know you are, please don’t give me some argument you’re an alien or immortal whatever ok, your views on that are all yours and that is not what this is about, ok, lets continue shall we and get to the point before someone has to beam up or step into something more comfortable like a coffin. LOL


Ok, what I am saying is this, we don’t feel very comfortable right now do we in this world, I mean, we don’t seem to feel very at ease about anything anymore, from finances to our kids futures to how we will meet our basic needs tomorrow or the next day. There is a joke, below this blog about how God created fruits and vegetables and all the healthy things we would need to eat and than somewhere along the line Satan created Mickey D’s. Than God created running shoes to get us healthy again and Satan created cable TV and people got fatter and lazier but they were having a good time and the food was good.


Of course, the foods always good these days when you’re not thinking about what you’re eating and how often you eat it without thinking about it. And of course, entertainment can be cheap and easy, well sort of, and after all the entertainment value of the media is far more important than anything that might make us feel better physically. And after all relationships can come and go and the kids know so much these days they can feed themselves with microwave meals and mac and cheese.


Have you ever been sitting there at your computer, or playing a video game or watching movies and you suddenly feel anxious or like there is something else you want to do today, anything but be here right now? Do you ever feel rundown or even sick as you do the things you love and than one day, the things you love just don’t hold enough interest to you as they once did? Internally, you know, you wasted a lot of time, but most of the time, you don’t pay attention to that internal clock and checker. Have you ever just taken a drive to pick up your kids or maybe you had to go somewhere nice one day to run an errand for someone and you suddenly stopped and took a deep breath and you were like, wow, this is nice. And just for that moment, something touches you inside, whether the weather is cold or hot, you suddenly want something. And then the thought goes away, very quickly, replaced by internal noise and you speed to pick up the kids, and you rush to get that errand done. For a moment, you still wanted that moment back, but you say, nope, that moments is not for me, not for now, in the summer maybe, at Christmas maybe, maybe never, gosh I’m cold, I’m gonna be late, the kids are gonna get pissed off, my husband is gonna get on my case if I don’t make something good for dinner, I’m hungry. And so on, and so on and so on. And than there is that moment, I hope something good is on tonight and everyone will leave me alone so I can watch it. But than, deep down inside you feel this way, but you won’t admit it, I wish he would hold me, or give a hug without me asking for it. I wish she would hug me for once and notice how I looked at her instead of yelling at the kids and ignoring me.


So, another point here, can anyone guess? How many times a day, are our senses overloaded by everything around us, in the media and everyday life? And how much does that affect our health and well being as well as our sanity and our emotional health? We are more sensitive than we will ever really admit to ourselves or anyone else. Why is that you ask? Because, as a people, many times we are taught that sensitivity will not get the job done. Period. Just like Tom Hanks said, “There is no crying in baseball!”


But here’s the deal, in the past our parents and their parents probably weren’t aware of the things we are now aware of, and let’s face it, our kids are smarter than we are with all the new learning tools being implemented in schools these days. I mean come on, learning to use a computer in kindergarten, wow. I could barely remember the basic colors in Spanish like rojo when I was in kindergarten. I was lucky if I made it through school a single day without spacing out and forgetting everything by the time recess came around. LOL


Ok, thing is, you don’t have to be crying all the time or complaining or anything like that, what I am saying is, from your own life experiences pay attention to when your inner alarms go off and say, I really don’t need to watch tv right now, my kid just told me something and I ignored him because I wanted him to throw the trash. Or, wow, that’s the second sweet I have had today, and I am a diabetic but I am still hungry. Or, my husband just looked at me funny, but he always does that.


Sometimes, sticking up for ourselves means paying attention to what IS important to us and we very well know it, but because we have spent most of our time internally rebelling about how we feel and what we know to please others or to shut out the negative physical feelings which are only magnified by negative emotional feelings, we tend to forget about a thing called, former experiences.


So, even though our kids are smarter then we were at their age, we are still the adults and we have experience in ways they do not, yet, I hope, that is. In truth, the thing is, now is the time to pay attention to those inner sensors going off, but the only way to properly gauge them is, to quiet your heart and mind and spirit and learn how to find that, aha moment, this feels good, and I know this feels good, because, it is not hurting me, and I don’t feel like I am doing it out of spite or anger or to be that teenager I once was again. I know what is right, and I remember how that thing I used to do made me feel bad all the time and I did it for the wrong reasons too. I have the right to treat myself well and my family. No one, television, radio, or music, or even my friends have the right to tell me, have another cheeseburger, take another pill it will make your problems better, play this game it will help you ignore your life for a while, have another sweet, what is one sweet today, another sweet tomorrow, another sweet the day after that and so on. A little bit, won’t hurt you, will it? You have all ready hurt yourself, no going back now. Or is there, Yes, there is, RIGHT NOW.


There is a new movie, I mentioned it, Prince Caspian, The Chronicles of Narnia, within the movie, Aslan said, nothing happens the same way twice. So if you’re hitting the soft spots the same way you did in the past and for some reason what made it better doesn’t work anymore, ask yourself why. Change the rules of how you live, don’t give up your right to choose for yourself and your family.


In the movie, Twilight, there is a scene where our vampire romeo said, ‘the way I look, the way I smell, the sound of my voice, is made to draw you in. I am a killer, designed to kill, everything about me, is designed to attract you for the kill.’ Ok, maybe not in my same words, but basically, yeah, it’s the same thing he said almost. See what I am saying now.


In finality, never miss an opportunity to rise above the influence, and that means media and life in general. Brains before Beauty, if it looks too good, well you know the rest, easy on the eyes, a waste of time on your heart if you know what I mean that is.


Oh and by the way, the color rojo, is red.

And all the movies I mentioned are great movies to watch.

Take it easy with the butter for your popcorn though ok.

Luv and blessings, Veronica

Beam me up Scotty!

[link] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfEO_ZQm_Ek

I LOVE A WOMAN WITH A GOOD SET OF BRAINS............

God Bless you, you are good person!