Poet

My poetry is going quite well. To date I have written sixteen poems. Most of them are very good [but i would say that] and a few of them are well 'artistic' [but again i would say that if I meant bad] or as it would be called in one of those hip London bars 'modern' or 'sophisticated' but I don't buy any of that post-impressionistic crap.

It's either good or it's not. Together they are known as 'Perspectives' and are being drafted in a poetry book or anthology i imagine...by me. So look out world for the poetry of nonohino!

As i describe it, poetry is the amalgamation of several unrelated ideas into one creation in a singular moment of true inspiration when the pen touches the paper. And the only thing relating these ideas in an underpinning idea which can relate the entire universe, if the reader is apt enough to understand.

Songs of the forest of men

I feel inclined to inform you of a recent development in my life. I have become a poet. Yet who can say if it is just a passing phase, or something i am committed to.

I find myself writing poems about things i have not quite experienced, but I know they are there. There was once a time when i was not inclined to poetry, though we did tend to do a lot of it is school. I think that perhaps my horizons have grown and i am expressing myself in different ways. However it could just be a deep seated yearning to return to those days when life felt the same, but now i look back it was different.

Your potential is unlimited, if you wish to apply yourself. Success is not how much money you have from a job, but how happy your job makes you, and then how that happiness makes other peoples lives better

A Picture Suited To All

You want to live your life? You Want to live it to the full? Then get up! Go outside (whatever the weather) and do things and meet people! If you just walk down the street and blend into the background of everyday "life" passersby will forget about you. But if you step out of the norm, out of your comfort zones and do interesting things, people will want to know more. Don't let this world stop you. You try to do things and people put rules and guidelines in your way, which mean you have to fill out form after form just to do something you could have done in an afternoon. If we as people don't experiment with things how can we invent new things? Sometimes it's a stroke of genius, most of the time, it's an accident. So go! Get up and achieve something!

The Moment Between Thinking and Doing

Practise. If you want to do something, practise. There is no quick way around things. I have tried for many years to find quick ways around many things and found nothing. So if you want to pass your exams (GCSE, A level, driving test, whatever) practise at doing the things they will assess you on. Oh and don't leave out the bits that you can't do. Why? Because it will only drag you down later on. e.g. the exam day. If you don't understand something, ask. Don't be scared if you don't know, you want to do well in life? Then ask until you understand and can do it without it hurting your head from thinking. I have a great deal of respect for people who can do things i can't; sing, dance, shoot a bulls eye every time, remember seemingly unimportant details, and so on. But if i could be bothered practising, i could learn to do most of these things. Then all it takes is time. And like most other humans who have a life. I have precious little time to myself (or so I seem to believe). So what can i do? Well I could stop going to college and thus skewer my future, or I could get my priorities straight. Thus allowing myself to waste not a second of my time...
This is the real world however and i'm sure there would be days when i just couldn't be bothered.

Checking out the news

You know whats good? Staying in touch with family. It's made really easy by things such as skype or msn, especially when parts of your family live overseas due to better weather (well not at the moment). As our culture has advanced so has the speed of communication so we can get up to the minute news from the entire planet. But this speed increase usually means our lives have to speed up as well. And sometimes that's a bad thing indeed. We need peace we need relaxation in order to enjoy life. If we don't whats the difference between us and robots? ( it comes from the Czech word robotiti: "to work as a slave or a drudge") and I'm sure non of us are slaves since it was abolished in 1807 (in England anyway). So enjoy work but also enjoy life. Since work is a larger part of peoples lives, it makes sense not only to enjoy it but also to be around people who you get on with, so they can make your job seem a little more worth while.

Making Choices

It has always been an opinion of mine that, when making a decision I should think it through for a couple of days first. Weigh up the pro's and con's and then tackle the main issue head on. I only suggest this because i have not done so before in other situations and it has ended very badly. I am a great lover of music. I enjoy most types and have a massive collection, mainly from the 70's, 80's, 90's, 00's. But i have older and newer music than these. I enjoy pop, rock, ska, techno, blues, metal, country, classical and so forth. But now i reach a choice. Do i collect only music i like/know, or do I collect it all. Every song by every band for the last 50 years. The first would refine the collection and make it mine, make it personal. The second would make it a database, for my friends to look up songs by. After several weeks I'm still torn and both seem pretty good to me. So I'm going to try my best to weigh up the pro's and con's and then I'll make a decision.
Not to make a decision is to not live life to it's fullness. And i definitely want to live.

Life That Holds More

So, here's the thing I want a good job when I'm older and I want whats best for the future (family and such). The best piece of advise I found, is what i learnt the hard way. Start young, be prepared to make sacrifices for your work/revision, but get your priorities straight. If the extra work is taking you away from your families, forget about it. If the revision is making you grumpy/angry, talk it through with someone, it could make all the difference. And I'll be honest here, sometimes i don't see the point in having lots of money. I can have a great time without spending a penny (or more commonly these days a pound), but i do agree that as we grow older, more money means a better environment for your family to live in, and means you can give your children a proper childhood. Where do we go from here? If your at school, college, work, ect it's never too late to learn something new. Learning something new will help you and the more effort you put behind it the better, but the catch is all things in moderation. Too much of anything can change a person, too much power makes a person big headed, too much money makes a person believe they are better, when in fact we're all equal in every single way. Sure some people are more tallented in one area (i'm never going to be a world famous painter because i dont have a great love for art). It's how we use our skills to make our lives better that counts.