Blackouts Remind us to count your bruises

So this past week the Southern Western United States and Mexico experienced its 2nd biggest major blackout in the past 30 years and it was all due to one person, one man, .....

Who's identity is still unknown

Being without power you tend to think/hear about things like: damn there goes my xbox, I cant charge my phone, or , hey, why is mom taking all the batteries in the house to her bedroom and locking the door?

but looking at it from a point of view that I had to sit here all day without a/c or anything was kinda shitty for the simple fact I've grown up in very cold areas at night

& Also have known to be "Coooold Bloooooded"

and the fact I had to sit in the dark with my room mates and sit talking in a circle about life and things made me realize one thing that helped fuel the thought in my mind the whole night....

I fucking hate every single one of you


So to kill the boredom one of my room mates, Alex, and myself headed out around the town at night to see what was going on.

(Pictured belowAlex)

(Pictured below myself)

and as we seen all the places closed or trying to stay open for business you saw how life really was outside of technology. On the good side you have families walking and biking with each other up and down all the trails and giving themselves a chance to really spend time with each other, also there were others walking around or simply having a picnic in the front yard .....it was pretty gay but on the other side you see the people who bitch about people not knowing how to drive; you know the ones im talking about the ones who bitch for people for driving too slow as their going 110 in a 70 zone, that couldn't figure out a simple four-way stop. The only super market that was open switched out their normal Red Cross collectors for 4 Sheriffs with badass shotguns and a dog named Kujo.

 Dont let it fool you, It's heart is as black as night

You go inside and see there are absolutely no shopping carts, no meats or deli, all milk and dairy half off and a line that literally was a 2 hour wait to get from the back of the store to the check-out stands which mind you all were open......oh and no ice.....tooootalllll bullshit. You go to all gas stations and so forth everyones either freaking out about the apocalypse and family and look quick to ran-sack a place or even worse grab a shotgun to just protect what they have with their hasty mindset.

So by this time I got back to the house and realized we don't have much food or much of anything but we have cell phones to remind us that life sucks and seeing as Verizon was the only working it was worse because people tend to forget, everyone and their mother is trying to use the network even police, new casters, and the guy who got screwed out of a 7.99$/per min sex session digital call. So the more and more everyone and everything is trying to add and push harder the more clutter there is. Then we get the last point of this for now, We think damn no microwave, No Tv, no Ipod charger. But do you think of the other thing that has happened to everyone else?

you jackass...

People were in the middle of getting surgery done
A baby was being born
Someone was washing sky scraper windows 150 stories up in a basket
People were in elevators trapped
Someone was in the middle of a tattoo being outlined
Kids are at amusement parks on rides
etc....

all run on power and need it to keep like roll'in, so to speak, and before you get all uppity and so forth on me remember, generators dont just kick in right away, for as many situations that they can and are needed how many times is it being used. You can have your computer on sleep mode but it still has to boot up and get those few moments till its running at full capacity.

All this is caused by one persons choice, decision & action

then at 1:4-somethin in the morning after the whole day of missing the 'Friends Marathon',  I was sitting on the phone and the power came on and at first I didnt really notice it but then it had hit me that although I could feel so low to a point in the complete dark of night, A light came on then once that one did many more came to follow. And then you know me I go and take everything I observe and make it into a life lesson for myself.


The Pledge 
The situation of power will be our metaphor for what keeps us going, the Power Line could be anything you choose it to be, your heart, your emotions, your bitchin' Cadillac? and then the prestige shall be described in the aftermath.

So you live life thinking to yourself that theres good and bad, great days and shitty ones, Black and white.

 No not that kinda of black and white

And although you have days were you look were you have everything you want or nothing at all theres always someone or something there to be there for you. Now realize this, this whole blackout situation occurred cause of one simple person. Now apply it to yourself, your whole day could be going great and then one simple person makes it into something that doesnt seem to fit or feel right. You have feelings of fear, hurt, doubt, anxiety, etc..... or your having a bad day and you have that one person who turns it right around and you feel lifted, happy, excited, smitten, etc.... So going out on a limb to say thats not true because you "depend on yourself" or "have many people who make you feel those ways" would be acceptable but dont single out all areas it could be posed towards: A parent, lover, friend, enemy, ex, adult, child. And what ever the case take the one person in your life right now you know has the biggest effect on you, then put them in a good and bad decision then think of how it would affect you.

If bad: You let it ruin your days, sometimes get you down to where you cant think straight and puts you in that funk that only as much as you wanna try an laugh its really kinda sad

 like other things in life

Or good: you take it for the small things and move forward with all you know you do and do have and take it for what it is to find the better part of it and roll with it.

The Turn


Now you look at how your going to take it and roll with the punches. Do you panic feel or good about it?
Thats entirely up to you, that power system has now been effected and the point if you let it affect you is completely a thin set of lines that cross over.

Example: Lets just say you loose all the motivation and "power" with someone and or something, You have nothing  you can do to bring it back on or have it work since obviously the spark (pun intended) to light it is gone. Now you could either A) use it as something to productively move on and forward to better yourself and the situation B) Take it the other way and assume whatever your doing is better, more like making you feel better for the moment and end up like Robert D. Jr in the 90s

So what do you do if its productive how can you go without power you say? Well the honest truth is like remembering the days of having to run in school or even now-a-days. Your thinking with your side burning like crazy " I can go on any further im dying, I cant breath, bitch bitch bitch"
yet...... Your still running, moving forward, and trucking along (as your bitching) to get back to where you need to go so you dont just get stuck in the middle of no where. Or maybe you did pass out and die, I dont know but i highly doubt that your reading this. Well the same goes on with life, when the power is gone we are quick to say that it doesnt work as a form of phrase. But is it broken? no, it just doesnt have the means to preform its task at the moment, then when the moment is right it goes right back on again,

 There are too many ways to use this joke.

It took one person to make the entire lives of 50 million change for a moment and it took much more to clean up the aftermath and get things back on track.


Life is the same way, it only takes one person to ruin a moment or a day and sometimes that can be someone close, anonymous, or worse ourselves but because it happens doesn't mean that it cant be fixed sometimes it just takes alot of effort and others to make that happen positively and have that power line connect back to what it once was.

The Prestige 
So we see that alot of what people do and go through can be scary, shitty, and unexpected but thats what life is, no assurance. But thats how we learn, grow and start pimpin

commercially or privately 

The Cellphone part is like your heart and mind, you cant let yourself try to run it with a ton of others trying to as well at the same time as yourself, but you need to allow yourself to shut it off and let you yourself collect thoughts and actions before letting the network back in, or its just a giant cluster fuck to be stalled, lost and frustrated in. People with guns and rash decisions? thats simple to say that when your in a panic or worried about anything you tend to put this wall up for you and maybe others but with defense for alot of people comes haste and with haste comes bad decisions. The not having food part? well we always have food, people who have nothing in the house not even a can of beans, have no food. We just choose to half ass our way of life and thinking to where a little is never enough and that straight in turn fucks you over. We as people tend to get caught up in convenience that we tend to forget what comfort and life is really about and it sucks because in the end when it you look at what is around you, the potential and possibilities and sometimes it takes just the power to go out and loose all function to really see how much you can do with and without things, it s just the hardest part sometimes, but well worth it in the end. The lights will come on at the most of random of times and remind you although the lights are gone and your down and out, its coming back on sooner than later

it just depends on you....








"Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts. The first part is called "The Pledge". The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to inspect it to see if it is indeed real, unaltered, normal. But of course... it probably isn't. The second act is called "The Turn". The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you're looking for the secret... but you won't find it, because of course you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled. But you wouldn't clap yet. Because making something disappear isn't enough; you have to bring it back. That's why every magic trick has a third act, the hardest part, the part we call "The Prestige"."