Emoji DIversity

In time the emoji will soon have more diversity. Big news to all those tech savvy emoji users.
 Soon there will be emojis that show a more cultural diversity, which we are now seeing come across. Instead of the yellow familiar emoji there will now be five new skin completions of the emoji ranging from a pale skinned emoji to a darer brown skinned emoji. The launch will happen in June 2015. I feel as though this new emoji racial diversity will work with our cultural diverse world. Of course like everything it takes time for things to change and with technology the culture goes hand in hand and finally since 1999 when emoji was brought to life it will come another change.

Do Away with the Catcall

Has anyone seen this viral video yet? When I first watched it was is this accurate? Is it really a view in the life of women walking the streets having to deal with daily cat calls and harassment? My questions then lead me to thinking of my sister and my girlfriend. When hearing things said to them do they think it is a compliment or do they feel threatened.
Take a look in the video and you will see there is a guy that walks beside her silently for five minutes, Is this not a threat? Who can watch this video and say there is nothing wrong with how our world is handling the situation and interaction with women. I feel that it comes down to two basic principals: 1. Young men no longer have a male role model to look up to, to show them how to interact and respect a women and 2. What we see is what we do, too many video games, television shows, and movies depict that this is acceptable.
We need to treat women with more respect and as a person rather than as a piece of meat. If roles were reversed would men like this? Yes it is nice to hear compliments on beauty and appearance, but it is in the way its done with respect. No one wants to be disrespected and no one wants to be followed and made uncomfortable to where they feel their safety is threatened.
What will you do as a man the next time you see an attractive women? Will it be the disrespectful catcall or the nice respectful approach to say hello and give a compliment? SO many guys do not realize that the simple manors we learned at an early age will get us farther in life and simply being a gentleman will never go unnoticed.

Stress and your Emotions

So these past few weeks I have struggled internally with dealing with my emotions and not knowing how to express them in a positive way. After talking to people that care and somewhat trying to get a handle on things I realized a few things. One is that a person can't hold everything in. Its simple just as Newton's Law of conservation of energy states, energy is neither lost or destroyed, it is simply transferred from one object to the next.
So with this everything I had been experiencing I was simply letting things go or push over as if nothing would bother me, not knowing that eventually it would show up later. All the energy I had stored up inside me was causing me to be a ticking time bomb and eventually if I didn't get a hold of things it would cause destruction.
Anger can cause some serious issues with someone's psyche in causing depression and making someone become distant, changing their entire attitude toward life and everything. I can attest this is me. Usually so positive with every situation I encounter I had become angry with everything now. I was grumpy all day everyday and pretty much did not want anyone to talk to me or bother me. Went from a nice person and a good friend to where my own teammates and friends I was angry at and always isolated myself. It was basically in my eyes me against the world.
What I realized is that there are people that care and that anger can't be held in, it has to be expressed in a positive way and the world isn't against you. All the stress on your shoulders doesn't have to be on you. A simple conversation with someone can take some of the extra stress away.
As a guy sometimes you need to cry and let go, its hard to admit and do but the energy and stress is not healthy on yourself holding everything in.
In researching and reading about ways to deal with stress there are several techniques and ways that are helpful

Manage Anger

Control Anger Before it Controls You