Monday, November 18, 2013
Shopping
Dashing down the aisles, getting the best deals, swiping your credit(debit) card and enjoying your time us what shopping is all about. There are different types of shopping nowadays. There is the physical shopping, when you physically go into the store, online shopping when you shop online and put your items in your mini shopping cart, and there is window shopping. Window shopping is when you look around but don't buy anything because either you are just looking or once you see the price, you leave right away. When you go shopping, you buy what you want and you could enjoy time by yourself. When you get great deals on items you want is the best because you spend less money.
Walking along the beach
In my opinion, walking along the beach helps me clear my mind and enjoy the scenery. The feel of the breeze on my skin makes me feel better. You feel like you're free and nothing can cage you. You feel like you are alone and you have the whole world in your grasp. The feeling of total freedom is within your reach.
Take a ride
What's so cool and relaxing, taking a ride in your car. Taking a ride in your car and letting the wind go through your hair, helps you relax and get your off of things troubling you. You get transported to your own little wonderland. As you drive around, you feel like you could be alone. If you feel like you're suffocated, then you won't feel as suffocated and pressured anymore.
Saturday, November 9, 2013
Instruments
Music is what basically completes my day, my week, and
my life. But funny enough I don’t know how to play a single instrument… the
recorder does not count for me since I actually use to know how to play it but
forgot how to. So where I’m going with this is that learning how to play an
instrument could be the key to solving boring moments with nothing to do at a
given times. Instruments are really amazing things that one can learn how to
use. Plus there is such a vast variety to choose from. There are string
instruments, brass instruments, woodwind instruments, percussion instruments, and
each section has many instruments in them. Instruments all range from size to
sound, to color, and the material it is made out of. They are even electrical
or acoustic. Trust me it is pretty mind blowing to learn how to play an
electric violin or the piano, or even the banjo. You get a sense of accomplishment
and or completeness added to your life. And the best part is that once you
start to learn and practice an instrument you get sucked into your own little
world that only you appear with your instrument, letting your creativity loose,
and the beautiful sounds guide you.
Sports On TV
I’m not much a TV type of person. You would usually
find me flipping through channels only to find out what the weather will be
like this week or the locals news. But that is all a thing of the past… Well at
least for now it is. It is soccer season, better yet football season and on top
of that the eliminatory matches that decide who is going to participate in the
FIFA World Cup 2014 are still going on. It’s pretty intense if you’re a fan of
the famous cup game. But none the less this can be a really good thing to do if
you’re bored or have the time to. Watch any sport matches that you are in too
on your TV. Whether it be soccer, baseball, American football, even golf, enjoy
it because they are actually quite fun to watch.
Reading
Reading is a pretty cool think to do, but sadly there
are times where we tend to do less and less of it each day. It makes sense
since we are living during a technological point in time... that needs a book?
Most of the day goes by either watching television or surfing the web and I’m
guilty of doing so as well. But that is no reason to give up on picking up
reading books during leisure time. Reading can be quite beneficial; you can
expand your knowledge and also your culture by picking up history books. With
that you understand the past events that occurred or why certain cultures have
certain traditions and so on. Also,
reading books or stories can be like an escape, an escape from the world you
live in, at least for some time. You can let your creativity flow while you
imagine and feel the scenes occurring in the story. And what I find to be more
beneficial about reading is being able to expand your vocabulary and the ways
to express your ideas to the others in a simple and correct form just by
reading different works of writing...
All these reasons help express how reading isn’t as bad as some think it
is.
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