So, this is basically kind of a rant for Valentine's Day.
First, people who have no girlfriends or boyfriends are shown how much they are alone and sad on Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day brings light to couples and darkness to people who have no partner to spend it with.
Second, Valentine's Day is great for companies to get people to buy things. Chocolate companies get a great chance to promote that new product! And other companies like those that make cards and happy lovey stuff and heart-shaped jewelry can get lots of cash in. Basically they use Valentine's Day for that purpose very successfully.
Third, the aftermath of Valentine's Day is worse than during. When people look around they see couples holding hands, hugging, maybe even kissing depending on how much PDA is acceptable in public. Those who have "nothing" feel lonelier because those who do have the spotlight on themselves and basically show the world they are happy. I'm not saying I'm not happy for them. Of course I'm happy for them.
Forth, Valentine's Day creates this opportunity for even fake relationships to seem real for just a day and maybe another day after. But once that heat of love is over, things can take a terrible turn. I've never had a Valentine's Day sweetheart so I can't say anything from real experience but we are only human so I can guess that some people might take advantage of Valentine's Day and ask that girl on a date or take a day with that boy. Valentine's Day makes people sweet and happy and good and peaceful... most of the time anyway. So, that boy you hated might be worth spending the day with even if that means you might never be permanent.
People HATE being alone on Valentine's Day. Most people anyway. It's supposed to be special and romantic. So even if you have to hurt your heart afterwards, at least that day can be happy, right? Wrong. (I've always wanted to do that "right? Wrong." thing, haha, point off)
It's just not worth it to hurt yourself in order to be happy on Valentine's Day. Heck, I don't even celebrate the day anymore because its just sad and lonely and pointless and I'd have to spend money to get a boy to look at me. Love shouldn't cost anything in the first place. If any of you reading this long blog, and you are without a partner, make sure when you find someone that you don't have to buy his love. Chocolate being the start of a relationship is pretty shallow in my opinion.
There now. I think I've lost track of thought for a moment. Back on the point. A relationship for just one day, just one day called Valentine's Day which wasn't even meant to be a special day (Wikipedia Valentine's Day and you can find interesting information), IS NOT WORTH IT.
So, any of you who are lonely, don't be. Valentine's Day wasn't even meant to be a day anyway. What a funny story, huh? You're sadness has been a waste. Only those who are really truly lucky will even find their honey-bunch on Valentine's Day. And I mean lucky.
Did my point even get across? I don't even know if this whole thing had a point. Oh well, it was more like a rant anyway. A rant to people who say they are lonely on Valentine's Day and to the fraud of Valentine's Day.
Monday, February 17, 2014
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
The "new" Miley Cyrus, say what?
This will be a short post.
Surely we've seen how Hannah Montana changed into the twerking, tongue lolling, half-naked like Miley Cyrus.
But as I was watching interviews of her on the Ellen Degeneres Show 2013 on Youtube, I realized one thing that had been bugging me for a long time.
Is the Miley Cyrus--the one that we are so used to seeing since Hannah Montana--still in there somewhere?
The answer is yes. Sure, she has some...pretty... interesting views on some things... but the bubbly Miley Cyrus is still under there once you give her a chance and see past all that surface stuff.
Miley Cyrus, hope you continue to be yourself and never forget who you are. It's the most important thing.
The End.
Surely we've seen how Hannah Montana changed into the twerking, tongue lolling, half-naked like Miley Cyrus.
But as I was watching interviews of her on the Ellen Degeneres Show 2013 on Youtube, I realized one thing that had been bugging me for a long time.
Is the Miley Cyrus--the one that we are so used to seeing since Hannah Montana--still in there somewhere?
The answer is yes. Sure, she has some...pretty... interesting views on some things... but the bubbly Miley Cyrus is still under there once you give her a chance and see past all that surface stuff.
Miley Cyrus, hope you continue to be yourself and never forget who you are. It's the most important thing.
The End.
Monday, February 3, 2014
J.K. Rowling regrets character match-up: SPOILER ALERT (sort of)
Today I saw an article about J. K. Rowling coming out that she regretted matching up Ron with Hermione. This is a case of character match-up regrets. I can feel her. Totally. I mean, when you start writing, working on a plot, planning all the way through, its different when you actually start writing the story. And, finally, when you leave it alone for a couple months and go back to it.
Am I making any sense here?
When I did my first NaNoWriMo, I outlined a plot. Since I don't normally outline a plot it was kinda tricky at first. My main character, Chelly, was initially supposed to go to a young police officer to help her find the island that appeared in her memories and go with him to that island and find connections to her past she couldn't remember because of amnesia. She was initially supposed to fall in love with him, forget her past, never remember, and finally settle down and have a family.
But it turns out when I was writing the story, following the plot, her remembering was becoming a big part in the story so, I changed it. She did go to a detective and they kind of find each other's past in their eyes and well... love, see? I'm the kind of writer who changes plot as I go along. I tweak it here and there, but making sure I never lose track of my initial goal for the story; Chelly needed to find love again and live happily ever after on the island she washed up on from the ocean. It had to happen one way or another.
This is my way.
J. K. Rowling seems to be one of those people who come up with dense plots and follow it completely. I'm not saying she definitely does this because I've never met her and I'll have to look up interviews and stuff I don't feel like doing right now. You can do it if you want.
But,
as a fellow writer, I can see where she comes from. I understand that in the beginning, the very first plot is like your baby, your child, your pet that you don't want to let go. Her pet was that Ron and Hermione would get together and in the movie it was obvious that they may soon become an item. It was clear Harry and Hermione were just friends. Friends to the end, that is. Such special friendship *tears up a bit and smiles*
My point is that I understand why she went on not changing the original plot. And another thing, once she made it seem like it was going to happen, then brought girlfriend possibilities for Harry, it was like, "No going back now, J. K. Rowling."
Personally, I think it would be interesting if someone, maybe even J. K. Rowing herself, had the guts to rewrite the whole series with the aim that Harry and Hermione would get together and Ron would... idk... who else was there... Luna Lovegood or someone else... maybe there can actually be someone NICE from Slytherin that can be with him. I did like though, how Malfoy (I'm not spelling his name right) had a heart in the end. You know, his parents did take him away but, he did waver for a second. I kind of would be interested to see his side of the story through the whole series and afterwards.
Though it always takes me off guard when the main character suddenly switches and I have to change perspective completely, for the writer its fun to think "What was happening to the secondary character when the main character was doing that? What was the secondary character thinking? (If he is a bad character) What were the real intentions behind his doings? Could he possibly have re-thinked his actions?"
Sorry to J. K. Rowling that I have not read any of the books. Just the movies. But I really like the fact that she involved herself completely in the movies because it is true some great books like the Hunger Games, can be totally ruined by the movies (my opinion). I should not have read the book beforehand. Or maybe I should not have watched the movie.
Same reason why I'm never going to watch "The Host" because the book was my first ever page-turner and really, really, really good. I'm really, really, really afraid it'll be ruined forever by the movie. It was SUCH a good book.
If J. K. Rowling ever comes across this post and miraculously reads to the very end, I would like to tell her that she is an amazing writer. Persistent, imaginative, and someone I can never be on equal ground with no matter how much my friends tell me I could be. NO. NEVER. Not even in a million years.
P.S.
Did someone just say, "Hey, N. J. Folettia looks a lot like J. K. Rowling! Yo stealing the idea for a pen name buddy?" Well... not really. But I had no other idea for a pen name but...I really wanted to use my middle name for SOMETHING. In Japan, people don't have any middle names so I never use mine. EVER. And... on a writing site, Figment, I use this pen name that is half my real name and half my fake name. And I kind of like it. So I thought, well, I don't really want people that I know to find this blog by my real name and see what the heck goes on in my crazy mind. And my mother doesn't really know about this World Problems blog. Only the Saving Wildlife one. And she doesn't read it soooooo...
No, I'm not copying anyone. It just happened to be that way. Well, maybe I did use her pen name idea as base. But at least its not J. K. Folettia or N. J. Rowling, right? It's my own pen name. So, yeah, that be 'bout it, buddy.
Am I making any sense here?
When I did my first NaNoWriMo, I outlined a plot. Since I don't normally outline a plot it was kinda tricky at first. My main character, Chelly, was initially supposed to go to a young police officer to help her find the island that appeared in her memories and go with him to that island and find connections to her past she couldn't remember because of amnesia. She was initially supposed to fall in love with him, forget her past, never remember, and finally settle down and have a family.
But it turns out when I was writing the story, following the plot, her remembering was becoming a big part in the story so, I changed it. She did go to a detective and they kind of find each other's past in their eyes and well... love, see? I'm the kind of writer who changes plot as I go along. I tweak it here and there, but making sure I never lose track of my initial goal for the story; Chelly needed to find love again and live happily ever after on the island she washed up on from the ocean. It had to happen one way or another.
This is my way.
J. K. Rowling seems to be one of those people who come up with dense plots and follow it completely. I'm not saying she definitely does this because I've never met her and I'll have to look up interviews and stuff I don't feel like doing right now. You can do it if you want.
But,
as a fellow writer, I can see where she comes from. I understand that in the beginning, the very first plot is like your baby, your child, your pet that you don't want to let go. Her pet was that Ron and Hermione would get together and in the movie it was obvious that they may soon become an item. It was clear Harry and Hermione were just friends. Friends to the end, that is. Such special friendship *tears up a bit and smiles*
My point is that I understand why she went on not changing the original plot. And another thing, once she made it seem like it was going to happen, then brought girlfriend possibilities for Harry, it was like, "No going back now, J. K. Rowling."
Personally, I think it would be interesting if someone, maybe even J. K. Rowing herself, had the guts to rewrite the whole series with the aim that Harry and Hermione would get together and Ron would... idk... who else was there... Luna Lovegood or someone else... maybe there can actually be someone NICE from Slytherin that can be with him. I did like though, how Malfoy (I'm not spelling his name right) had a heart in the end. You know, his parents did take him away but, he did waver for a second. I kind of would be interested to see his side of the story through the whole series and afterwards.
Though it always takes me off guard when the main character suddenly switches and I have to change perspective completely, for the writer its fun to think "What was happening to the secondary character when the main character was doing that? What was the secondary character thinking? (If he is a bad character) What were the real intentions behind his doings? Could he possibly have re-thinked his actions?"
Sorry to J. K. Rowling that I have not read any of the books. Just the movies. But I really like the fact that she involved herself completely in the movies because it is true some great books like the Hunger Games, can be totally ruined by the movies (my opinion). I should not have read the book beforehand. Or maybe I should not have watched the movie.
Same reason why I'm never going to watch "The Host" because the book was my first ever page-turner and really, really, really good. I'm really, really, really afraid it'll be ruined forever by the movie. It was SUCH a good book.
If J. K. Rowling ever comes across this post and miraculously reads to the very end, I would like to tell her that she is an amazing writer. Persistent, imaginative, and someone I can never be on equal ground with no matter how much my friends tell me I could be. NO. NEVER. Not even in a million years.
P.S.
Did someone just say, "Hey, N. J. Folettia looks a lot like J. K. Rowling! Yo stealing the idea for a pen name buddy?" Well... not really. But I had no other idea for a pen name but...I really wanted to use my middle name for SOMETHING. In Japan, people don't have any middle names so I never use mine. EVER. And... on a writing site, Figment, I use this pen name that is half my real name and half my fake name. And I kind of like it. So I thought, well, I don't really want people that I know to find this blog by my real name and see what the heck goes on in my crazy mind. And my mother doesn't really know about this World Problems blog. Only the Saving Wildlife one. And she doesn't read it soooooo...
No, I'm not copying anyone. It just happened to be that way. Well, maybe I did use her pen name idea as base. But at least its not J. K. Folettia or N. J. Rowling, right? It's my own pen name. So, yeah, that be 'bout it, buddy.
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