My Beliefs about Karma and Soul Mates
I believe a few things about karma. One, karma is cycle and patterns. Two, these cycles and patterns can be seen throughout a life and sometimes they can be broken. Three, these cycles can be carried over from previous lives. Everyone has a pattern-- whether it be that they date people who cheat, they can't seem to find love, or when someone is attracted to a certain culture or a certain time period.
In everyone's life, there are ebbs and flows. Sometimes money, friends, and love are in an abundance; other times you can't pay a bum to hang out with you-- mostly because you don't have the money but also because there wouldn't be one who wanted to be around you. This is just the natural cycle.
What happens in one lifetime can be made up for in another lifetime. For example, if one person had good luck and fortune in one life time, that pattern can either continue or it can b the opposite that they'd have bad luck and misfortune.
Sometimes we have karma with people. It might be unfinished business. It might be that we are changing roles through several lifetimes, like within our families and close friends. This leads into Soul Mates. To my understanding, there are several types of soul mates. There are people who come in briefly into your life and they help you in some way. There are your family and close friends that are meant to be in your life for the long haul. Then, there's the romantic love soul mate-- the one and only. However, I believe that throughout many lifetimes, our souls are going through journey of attaining goals and they're reaching different levels in their journey. Sometimes, we meet with our soul mates before this life and decide whether or not to meet them during this life. It might be that we need to attend to a goal for our soul journey and that goals is so intensive, we won't meet the soul mate.
In conclusion, karma is the cycle of a lifetime and over the course of several lifetimes. Soul mates include many people, including helpers, friends and family, and romantic love soul mates. We can decide to not meet our soul mate in this lifetime.
Friday, October 28, 2011
Sunday, October 16, 2011
You're Branded
You're branded. You've been branded from the time you could remember and on. First, you had Fisher Price. You had all these things that Fisher Price made. Then, you moved onto books and movies. All of those are brands. Then, you were at the peak time of consumerism. You wanted toys, you wanted movies, you wanted music, video games, game consoles; you wanted the same brand of backpacks as everyone else, the same clothing from the same brands. You didn't want to be the kid that didn't have those things. Those weren't the cool kids. They were most likely poor. And being poor was looked down upon. You didn't want to be seen as poor.
Today, kids have Disney. Disney brands just about every kid with adventure heroes, princesses, Tinkerbell, and Disney Radio. These princesses and heroes have a character already. There's no need for kids to display any sort of creativity because they know how Belle, Tinker Bell, and Jasmin would react in any given situation.
I really think that any shirt that has a company logo should be given out for free or they should pay you to wear it. You are advertising them. You know these shirts-- Old Navy, Ambercrombie, American Eagle, Ed Hardy, etc. There is no point in buying these shirts. You are advertising for them. Even if it's not obvious, we are aware of brand names. Some people can tell you about an Express shirt or a Calvin Klein shirt and know when they see them. You are still advertising them even if it's just by the tag on the shirt.What sense does it make that you are paying to do their advertising? It's like you're paying to be a walking billboard for them. It's not advertising that you shop there-- although in some circles that would be considered cool.You are just advertising the company.
We've also been branded by jingles, slogans and commercials. While no one wants to admit the power of the influence of commercials, no one wants to admit, either, that there isn't much choice. If you know the name of the brand, then you are likely to buy the name that you know. How many times have you seen a brand you haven't seen before? When you have, have you passed it up to get the name brand? The other day, someone said, "Don't get mad, get glad." He was branded. He's telling me something to kind of make me laugh but at the same time, it made me upset because he's branded. He's identifying that he's branded. He's trying to get me to admit that he's branded and I'm branded the same way. I know the commercial that he's talking about. There are times when the younger generation has no idea what I'm saying, although there's only a few years of difference between us, and there are times when I have no idea what they are talking about because I don't have the same commercial and slogan base that they do.
When I didn't have a TV, it's been interesting to see how people relate to each other. They watch the same shows, start talking about the story plots and where it could possibly go, they talk about the characters they like and who they despise. At least today, people can communicate to the shows and producers, which some shows and network advertise, such as HBO. There is some interaction. Before, there wasn't. You watched what you watched and that was it. You could discuss it and be part of the cool kids who watched the cool shows.
Even the people who don't think that they are branded are still branded unless they go out of the way to not be branded. If they get hand made clothes or choose to make their own. And the people who think they are rebellious by dressing out of the norm or dying their hair-- are still getting their clothing and hair dye from somewhere. You can't run away from being branded. It's not easy. You can't even run away from being a consumer. You're always a consumer and a slave to money.
Now, choose which brands you really want to advertise and what you want to say about yourself when you choose what you wear in the morning or afternoon and night. Also, consider buying dolls and toys from toy shops. No, not Toys R Us or K.B. Toys. I'm talking about the little toy stores where there are educational toys. These places also have princesses and ballerina and action figures that don't have a defined character-- meaning that kids can actually use their imagination to create characters, stories, conflict and resolution.
Today, kids have Disney. Disney brands just about every kid with adventure heroes, princesses, Tinkerbell, and Disney Radio. These princesses and heroes have a character already. There's no need for kids to display any sort of creativity because they know how Belle, Tinker Bell, and Jasmin would react in any given situation.
I really think that any shirt that has a company logo should be given out for free or they should pay you to wear it. You are advertising them. You know these shirts-- Old Navy, Ambercrombie, American Eagle, Ed Hardy, etc. There is no point in buying these shirts. You are advertising for them. Even if it's not obvious, we are aware of brand names. Some people can tell you about an Express shirt or a Calvin Klein shirt and know when they see them. You are still advertising them even if it's just by the tag on the shirt.What sense does it make that you are paying to do their advertising? It's like you're paying to be a walking billboard for them. It's not advertising that you shop there-- although in some circles that would be considered cool.You are just advertising the company.
We've also been branded by jingles, slogans and commercials. While no one wants to admit the power of the influence of commercials, no one wants to admit, either, that there isn't much choice. If you know the name of the brand, then you are likely to buy the name that you know. How many times have you seen a brand you haven't seen before? When you have, have you passed it up to get the name brand? The other day, someone said, "Don't get mad, get glad." He was branded. He's telling me something to kind of make me laugh but at the same time, it made me upset because he's branded. He's identifying that he's branded. He's trying to get me to admit that he's branded and I'm branded the same way. I know the commercial that he's talking about. There are times when the younger generation has no idea what I'm saying, although there's only a few years of difference between us, and there are times when I have no idea what they are talking about because I don't have the same commercial and slogan base that they do.
When I didn't have a TV, it's been interesting to see how people relate to each other. They watch the same shows, start talking about the story plots and where it could possibly go, they talk about the characters they like and who they despise. At least today, people can communicate to the shows and producers, which some shows and network advertise, such as HBO. There is some interaction. Before, there wasn't. You watched what you watched and that was it. You could discuss it and be part of the cool kids who watched the cool shows.
Even the people who don't think that they are branded are still branded unless they go out of the way to not be branded. If they get hand made clothes or choose to make their own. And the people who think they are rebellious by dressing out of the norm or dying their hair-- are still getting their clothing and hair dye from somewhere. You can't run away from being branded. It's not easy. You can't even run away from being a consumer. You're always a consumer and a slave to money.
Now, choose which brands you really want to advertise and what you want to say about yourself when you choose what you wear in the morning or afternoon and night. Also, consider buying dolls and toys from toy shops. No, not Toys R Us or K.B. Toys. I'm talking about the little toy stores where there are educational toys. These places also have princesses and ballerina and action figures that don't have a defined character-- meaning that kids can actually use their imagination to create characters, stories, conflict and resolution.
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