Behind closed doors.

"Behind closed doors, that's where the truth is, that's where the lies are." - Peter Andre, 'Behind closed doors.' (I know you're all now judging me, please don't...)

They say silence is golden, and in come respects I agree. Like when you come in after a long day, and there's no one home, and the dogs being quiet, and you can just chillax. But in a lot of ways, it really isn't. Silence is bad, it's time we started talking, like properly, none of this "I'll Facebook them." or "I'll drop them a text." it doesn't work, in a society where everything is done through technology, we never really seem to know when people actually need us.

See, I've come to the conclusion that for some people, walking out of the front door in the morning is like becoming a new person, sometimes, I can be one of them, I'm a different me in the house, with my friends, with my family. Don't get me wrong, I don't have multiple personalities (well at least I don't think I do...) I'm just different around different people.

But, my point is, in a society where we take everything written on the Internet or sent to us in a text to be the truth, we've forgotten to show our true emotions, and how we much we actually care for people. Maybe part of the issue is that it's easy to be someone online, and try and keep it up in person, but it's also easy to say something online if we're not going to bump into anyone.

I can't really say want I'm trying to, maybe that's just because there's some parts of me that don't really know what I'm trying to achieve here. But what I do know, is that it's time we started looking at people, and getting to know the 'real' them, the one behind the closed doors

"Behind closed doors, that's where the truth is, that's where the lies are."

Distractions...

Okay, so I figured, I've not written a blog post in a while, actually it's been too long since I last posted, and I wanted to fix this. 

Today I'm supposed to be revising for my exams, well actually I've been doing this for a while, but I always seem to get distracted by... Just stuff. Like right now for example, I came to the library in the hope of beginning some revision, yet, here I am, fixing my blogging habits. But, I think I'll let this one slide.

So why am I blogging about distractions? Well I guess the thought first came into my head after attending a fireside on Sunday. Then, I was casually sitting on the bus on the way to uni yesterday, when I realised how much time I actually allow myself to get distracted, and how pointless some of these distractions can be.

Take social networking sites for example, you know the ones I'm talking about, Facebook and Twitter. Don't get me wrong, I think they're great to keep in touch with people, find out whats going on, and updating people with different information. But, there becomes a stage when they become the distraction from reaching something better. 

See I look at myself, and then I think about my degree, if I put as much time into getting my degree as I do when updating my Facebook page, I think I could do a lot better. In fact, I don't think this, I know it. At the time, Facebook and Twitter seem more interesting, but refreshing the page obviously isn't going to get me anywhere...

There's lots of things that we can get distracted by, and sometimes I think it's good to have the break from the constant study, or constant work on something else, but I guess it's finally clicked with me. I need to learn to just switch off from Facebook and Twitter, the world is not going to end, I'm not going to miss out on something majorly important that I can't find out from others.

Now, I've just picked on Facebook,Twitter and uni because right now they're the things that obviously relate to me, and I am the only one that can fix or change them. 

I guess what I'm trying to say is, don't let life's little distractions take you away from seeing the bigger picture, whether that be getting an education at any stage, passing your driving test, or just reaching that little goal you've had for a while. But, make time for the little distractions, they can be good, and often help you motivated to reach your goal.

Steve Jobs once said "You've got to find what you love... if you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle." - Maybe this is why I keep getting distracted from uni work, I've not yet found what I'm looking for? But, whatever the reason, I'm pretty sure I wont find it on Facebook, or Twitter for that matter.

Anyway, now that all that's off my chest, it's back to revision... What were the theories that underpinned the design of your school? :S