This is why i am a huge fan of RUSSEL BRAND.

'I find the potential for mayhem exhilarating - society's only held together by a few ideas. I know those ideas are quite entrenched, and the reason we have a police force and an army is to maintain that status quo, but at moments like this, that whole apparatus can suddenly look quite vulnerable, and i find that thrilling.' Russel Brand

He presents himself as an idiot, but for me that is the art of what he stands for. So many mistake his extremist approach to 'matter of fact' for ignorance. He has experienced so much in his life and has hung around with the likes of heroin addicts living on the streets one day, only to go to a celebrity party the next day. In fact no, he has been a heroin addict on the street and also been a celebrity at a celebrity party. He understands the humour behind the illusion of society, and he speaks about it so freely that people are shocked, people laugh because they are shocked that he says things 'you just don't say'. He is intelligent and he is knowledgeable but most of all he is real, he is real above all else, above his own dignity at times. It seems there have been points where his straight forward approach to his beliefs have actually given a contrasting impression, making him appear weird, 'lost the plot', stupid, unworthy of respect, deranged.

I just think he is a brilliant example of someone who has persisted in who they are, and there direction despite judgement, times of struggle, self doubt from others as well as himself and huge periods of blindness and feeling lost. An inspiration for anyone feeling the pressures that the individual inevitably does. I would highly recommend his first book if you struggle to see the man behind the obvious joke. I am yet to read his recent release.

FEEL THE FEAR AND DO IT ANYWAY!

My friend Jourdan is proving to be a very inspiring indervidual. Still carrying out his degreee, he has taken it upon himself as a young entrepreneur to acquire the help of non other than o2 to back his new venture. He has already been offered there sponsorship and is now just gathering location details, photographers, act's and finishing details to his plans. This is going to be big. Watch this space...

Ever had an idea and felt it was a million miles away? The only person that can prove the million miles to be non other than phone call's and preperation is you.

Food For Thought 5 - What is your true passion?

I have recently subscribed to an interesting site called possitive provocations. They are running an article at the moment called 'knowing your true self'.

I hadn't realy thought about things from such a direct angle before, to understand your trueself you have to take time to think in depth into things that generaly people just dont think about. Today people generaly live to live, think to progress through the task at hand and behave how is expected from those around them.

This article takes you back to basics, giving you tips on how to relax and take a step back...followed by asking you questions such as what makes you realy smile so so wide? what do you love to think and talk about? and what would you do without having to think about money, what is that one thing you would do for free?

Seems to me as if the modern lifestyle prevents these questions from seeming relevant, you go to work (the average person working 9-5) and then in your rare spare time you spend it by watching fiction on television, running errons, keeping up with friends. Everything moving at such a fast pace that being run down is an accepted reality. At which point in all of this are you meant to truely relax? (i dont mean watch tv, a film or sleep. I mean centre yourself, be calm, enjoy the moment).

Unless you relax, you can never know or answer the questions above! you could guess or give a group of possibilities but to know these things you realy do have to think outside the box. The box being the bubble you live in, the routine you have subjected yourself too, the illusion of life you believe in.

Unfortunatly the majority of people dont ask themselves these questions until a later period in there lives, leaving most feeling it is to late. The amount of times i have heard people of an older generation telling me how they only wish they new what they do now when they were my age. There seems to be this on going cycle of knowledge and regret. Dont wait, make the change today and instead of offering knowledge acquired by regret, 40 years down the line, you could offer advise acquired by unforgettable moments and memories that you hold dear.

Closure comes to those that have felt hate enough to enable them to recover love. Regretted enough to be thankful. Suffered pain enough to understand strength! Then thought long and hard enough to forget what the hate, regret and pain felt like...only then can you learn to forgive.

Someone once told me life is just one big lesson, at the time life hadn't educated me enough for me to understand, now i do.

Gun's On Clothing.

It is only to often that people get the wrong impression, or jump to the wrong conclusion about people wearing hooded or 'baggy' clothing. With propagander like this rolling around and images like this in media everywhere, is it any wonder?

Gun crime is deep and something i dont have personal experiance in, but i do know that someone unfortunate enough to get involved knows, a smart person NEEDS a gun, while a dumb person WANTS one. THINK!

There are belief's that 'Nigger' originaly meant God, in africa. I dont know the in's and out's of this but somewhere along the lines this was lost in translation during the horrific period of the slave trade. Possibly Nas and Kelis are making this statement here, i dont know. What i do know is that since that terrible period the word has been used to degrade and catagorise people sheerly because of there colour, the definition found in most dictionary's and websites is 'nigger n. extremely offensive term for a dark-skinned person', ' Nigger(n.) A negro; -- in vulgar derision or depreciation.', one incredible definition i found is 'nigger Noun1. (ethnic slur) offensive name for a Black person; "only a Black can call another Black a nigga"'.

The point i am making is that a definition is found from the general use for a word, the general understanding of a word. It is communication, clothes communicate, you communicate, words communicate. What are you communicating and who are you communicating to? Take what you want from what i have said above, the main point i am making is THINK about what and why you are communicating what you are and when THINKING, think beyond the obvious.

THINK!

'Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.' - Marianne Williamson

Food For Thought 4 - Confused? It's quite straight forward. Think!

Seriously now, is everyone just confused lol.

I found out today that the trend often seen in America and now also in England involving pants falling so low that people's underwear and for lack of a better word, arse's are hanging out, actually originates from prison mates. In prison, people aren't aloud to wear belts in case they hang themselves and back in the day, maybe even today, 'inmates' pants would fall down. Now why would you imitate this? The thing that, in my opinion makes it even worse is, the majority of people sporting this trend don't even know what it represents.

Why have we all become so lazy, no one thinks anymore. Everyone is so quick to get offended by stereotype's but the majority are aspiring to be one.

I know so many mixed race people raised in English white family's and suddenly they hit a certain age and everything about them says 'black Jamaican' or acting out every stereotype put upon an african, by all means embrace your roots, embrace any culture but be true to yourself. So many people come into contact with a new crowd, a new belief, a new approach to life and they just diminish. Strength of character is to take lessons from life, experiences, knowledge and keep hold of it, build on that. Don't let other people's views erase yours. You are erasing who you are, you are mimicking other people, it is wrong on so many levels; everything originates from somewhere and to walk around representing something you know nothing about is not only disrespecting a culture and history but it is also disrespecting yourself and your history.

I see people walking round with pictures of Gun's on there clothing and I'm thinking what message are you trying to give? Nine times out of ten if i bring such a query up with a person, they haven't even thought about it.

All the girls i see that kid themselves, thinking they are respected by men when every man see's them as a 'link' or 'easy', in other words not relationship material. Now those girls could very well have depth, they could have been raised to have such respect for themselves, they could have been through alot and it is just a reach out for love, who ever they 'really' are or whatever the reason for their change, it doesn't matter, because when encountering a different approach to life they have followed it without thought. So reasoning goes out of the window, they may have no idea of the consequences of there actions but non the less the consequences, judgement, stereotype, disrespect all comes. Fair enough if they are inderpendant and are doing it for themselves, but too often this isn't the case.

'EVERY ACTION HAS A REACTION'.

'IT IS NOT WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU THAT MATTERS BUT HOW YOU DEAL WITH IT'

Now this also applys for men, in my oppinion. Why on earth is a girl a slag for sleeping around and a man a legend? Everyone jokes but everyone agrees, yet no one admits to being sexist and no one has a real reason. Religion and culture aside, we are equal being's, we have equal desires and equal rights. Now someone said to me, 'i wouldn't want my future wife to have slept around!' Well i wouldn't want my husband to have either. Yet woman are expected to just accept this? If you are an individual then think like one, if you think woman are inferior or feel differently and have different needs to men in any way then fair enough but you are by definition Sexist, if you don't feel this way then behave how you would want your partner to behave.


Some cultures do, or have classed woman as inferior. Ever THOUGHT how that might have come about? Physical strength is the first thing that springs to my mind. when all is said and done, remove money or any modern civilisation methods and we are back to animal instincts and means of survival, the strongest survive. So i guess it comes down to how you view it, more spiritual ancient cultures such as the Egyptians view woman as sacred, as woman produce life. Google 'Egyptian Ankh'. To me we are equal, one does not go on with out the other, i think everyone should respect that.

It isn't difficult, male or female, rich or poor, black or white if you behave a certain way or wear certain things then you are giving an impression. Practice what you preach, take note of the messages you are delivering before doing so.

Food For Thought 3 - Rational Thinking

'The greatest thing a soul ever does...is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way'

'Everyone has a potent inner wisdom not mediated by the rational mind' i.e. everyone senses a hell of alot more than they take notice of, but they do sense it non the less, intuition does excist whether it is accepted as reasoning for feeling and thoughts or not. I havn't spoken to one person who doesn't know what i am talking about when i tell them about my intuitive experiances, often they have a few themselves or just know it has happend to them but cant pin point when or what happend. The most likely reason being that they have just shrugged it off as it isn't accepted as normal to feel or think without reason.

I have had times when i will walk past somewhere or go somewhere and i have instantly got an uncomfortable feeling and want to leave, for no reason atall other than the feeling. I have thought about someone i havn't spoken to in months only to recieve a phone call or bump into them later on in that same day. My grandma woke up out of her sleep and called her eldest daughter instantly, only to find she had just then that moment gone into labour. So many things put down to coincidence or more often than not, ignored.

LISTEN to yourself, there is a reason for everything, why must everything be rational?