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You Cannot Win

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(Fire in the Forest by William McCullagh) With a title and painting like this, you as the reader clearly know this isn't going to be a happy feel good post. Well, I'm afraid you are right. Now before we go any further I want you, the reader, to raise up your right hand and repeat after me. I am a human being, I am not perfect. I have the freedom of speech. I should not judge someone, as someone should not judge me. Very good! So lately I have been coming more tired with Facebook. All the cute happy photos of weddings and baby photos are starting to show up less and less on my news feed as once again, another social issue has shadowed over our nation. Something that I clearly would not want to talk about, because there are so many issues that came about before this one, and I know that more issues will come after. Transgender bathroom issue. No! Wait! This isn't my view on that topic! I know so many have already stated their opinion on this matter that I know you

The White Knight Complex

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(Knight Painting by Leighton) Due to the popularity of my last post, I decided that I will keep posting on these type of topics that are more reflected on people around my age. With that being said, I am sure all my readers can reflect on these topics in one way or another. As almost everyone has had throughout their life, I have had people that I would find attractive. People that we like are known as crushes. So when I would have a crush on someone in my school, my main focus was to make sure that the girl never knew that I liked her, and that maybe she would randomly approach me and some how we would be boyfriend and girlfriend. Well, that would never work so as I was going into high school, I had to think of someway for the girl to like me. Now this is out on a limb, but I would talk to her, and treat her with respect. Sometimes my crush still would not like me, due to her going for someone I deemed a "bad guy". Every time I had my heartbroken, my friends would

Relationship Status

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( Royal Splendour by Sophia Baddeley) Other titles for this post was going to be "All the Single Ladies", "This One's for the Girls", "Love: Whats up with that", and "(Insert some generic title that will falsely advertise this as something other than what you are writing about, such as some good absurd title like, "why I don't love my wife" followed by your post discussing about some scripture, which no one would read unless you had some edgy click bait title here)".  Since I was a little boy I knew I would have to experience many challenges in my life that everyone would experience at one point. Making friends, losing friends, having feelings, having a crush, drivers licenses, graduating school, going to college, finding yourself, make mistakes, make more friends, get a college degree, get a successful job, and then what? I guess maybe it is time to start a family. Believe me I'm in no rush or anything  like that

The Bat

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(Stuffed Bat by Vincent Van Gogh) The ending isn't that scary is it? The bat was such a peculiar creature. The animals welcomed him into the forest with open arms with him being the same as the others. He would seek advice by the bear, yet never applied anything he learned. He wanted to be like the wolves, and at first he could have been on of them, but he was impatient. Wolves went for greater game, yet he went for scraps. He was humble when he came into the forest not knowing anyone, but as soon as he became comfortable he knew who he would call friends and who he would call enemies. The bat wasn't strong minded, but would always fly high before he began to talk down upon the animals he saw as threats. The bat knew what to tell the animals, and he even convinced some of them to follow him. The only reason why they did was due to his ability to fly, which made him appear to be powerful. The only animals that could oppose him was the hawk and the owl, but they did not br

The Mountain Lion

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(Early Morning Turkey Hunt by Rob Dreyer AFC) Are you afraid? The mountain lion could have been the best thing to have ever come into that forest. The mountain lion would slowly make herself present to the other animals. She was fierce to the animals among her. Only the foolish animals tried to bring her down to their levels and failed. She was not to be taken lightly because her mindset was focused on the one thing the other animals did not want to see come into fruition. Change. The mountain lion could bring change and she did to that forest. Only few animals could climb the trees as the forest was washed clean. The wolf became occupied, the bear faded, the stag in a distant land. The forest needed a leader, someone to follow, someone that could make the forest to it's former glory. The mountain lion could be the only one that could make the forest what the forest was suppose to be to the animals. The mountain lion was strong, but sadly, I don't think strong enough. Sh

The Hawk

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(Red Tailed Hawk by Steven Nakamura) Where did you go? The Hawk is my friend. Never really became tangled with the web that was that forest. He always flew high above looking down as the animals would call for him to come to them. That was how the forest called all the animals into those long twisted branches. The hawk only came down when he knew he could fly away once again. The hawk was never afraid of the forest, but just did not want to be apart of the fight to climb up the mountain. He knew he could visit any of the animals that climbed it, and knew that he could take over if he wanted to rise above those animals. He just never had any interest to be apart of that life. Having wings gave him a wide span to explore where the other animals could not follow. I was only one of his many friends that would smile with glee when he came to see us in the forest. He was friends with many of the animals, and yet with many animals that knew him, he only was drawn to only a few of the a

"Who Watches the Watchmen?"

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(Night Watch by Rembrandt) … I know the plan that my friends always advise me to adopt: "Bolt her in, constrain her!" But  who can watch the watchmen?  They keep quiet about the girl's secrets and get her as their payment; everyone hushes it up. Hello everyone. This is really just another update video into what is going on with me and my life at the moment. A lot of stuff has happen recently and I feel that a good way to express myself is through my writing. I hope all my readers are doing good and thank you for reading my blog! Ever since the Dear Elizabeth series, I wasn't sure what to write about next, but I think this could be a good intro to a knew part of my writing. So this isn't my first writing of how I am feeling, and it most certainly will not be my last. I think I need to redefine myself. These last couple of months It appears that I may have begin to lose what my calling is in my life. I feel that God was calling me to help the peop