Prisoners' letters of advice to their former selves

I don't know about you guys, but I rarely remember dreams.  In fact, when I do remember them, they're usually intense and frightening as hell.  The dreams I tend to remember are a few varieties of the same dream.  I'm either standing on something that breaks and I begin to fall, or doing something very stupid and/or very illegal and going to jail.  I'm sure somewhere there's some obnoxiously pretentious therapist thirsting for the opportunity to overcharge me for their brief and of course callous interpretation of my life and my fears being manifested into a dream of hopelessness and confinement, which in turn, is fueled by fear of commitment and abandonment...or something like that.  Regardless, one's choices made in life aren't always driven by stupidity.  Everyone in jail isn't there because their life path was cloaked in crime and brutality.  Sometimes, probably even often times, these choices were instant, split-second decisions, more often than not influenced by someone else, or forced upon them by a string of bad choices that led them to a life of incarceration.   I certainly regret sounding like a criminal/prisoner apologist, but this exhibit of prisoners' letters to their former selves is brilliant.  I couldn't not read them.  The psychology of criminals, prisoners and prisons in general, have always fascinated me.  See if you find it as fascinating as I do.  

http://cavemancircus.com/2014/02/28/portraits-inmates-letters-advice-younger-self/

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Estatic vs Exspecially

Ecstatic vs Exspecially

People.  No.  Stop butchering this language.  It's not difficult.  The improper use of the English language is laziness...nothing more.  When you add letters on everyday words that don't belong, people think you're dumb.  That ESPECIALLY includes me.  Maybe you are, but if you're not, please stop being stupid on purpose.  The charade isn't at all funny.  Next time, take the time to read a dictionary.  Take the time to ensure you know how to read the pronunciation guides with those funny looking characters found in that oh-so-intimidating reference guide.  If you don't, no matter how old you are, it's something good to know.  Learn it and use it as a tool to bounce through this sometimes unfair and hapless life.  I'm sick of hearing these two particularly, but there are literally hundreds more.  I'm happy to expand upon this word list of ignorance and apathy.

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2013

To say my life has been in a transitional phase is an understatement.  I've traveled the world, pushed my mind and body to its limits, made some great new friends, and sadly laid some to rest.  I've made more mistakes than I care to admit, but 2013 began to shine a little light.  You know it's funny how people perceive others, even those whom they know and know well.  I feel very privileged and lucky for so many things in my life and it's regretfully been a long time since I've felt that way.  Sometimes it seems, despite people telling you how envious they are of your "life", it's far too easy to get lost in the tempest of feeling sorry for yourself and refusing to give happiness an opportunity to cleanse you.  This year gave me so many opportunities to break; mentally, physically, and emotionally, I was pushed to the breaking point. Here is part of the journey back.

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A Stroll Through Time.

As many of you know, I'm not one for celebrating "thankfulness" on social media.  I'm not sure why, but I'm much too cynical for that expression of gratitude.  I have been asked to blog a little more since I haven't done this in months.  That said, I have been collecting many photos throughout history and like a few of my posts in the past, I'm going to share them with you.  America may not always be right and we might not always be lead by the someone that represents our ideology, but what we are is a nation of people that believe in freedom.  So many of our ancestors have suffered through unimaginable peril so the people after them can live their lives as God intended.  That being said, I hope you enjoy these and I hope they mean as much to you as they did to me.  Happy Thanksgiving.

Working out on the Titanic.  Too bad someone couldn't whisper in his ear that his rowing would be more fortuitous than he can imagine.   

 This is not Sylvester Stallone in Cliffhanger.  This is not a blue screen.  This is a dichotomy of huge balls or small brains.  

This is the result of battle in the South Pacific during WW2

 Their crime is simply being black.  

This is last public execution in America.

"First Do No Harm" would be a tall order.

Gross Anatomy 1890

This is one of the saddest pictures I've ever seen.  

Hitler and his contemporaries admiring the largest caliber single fire weapon ever created.   

50 years ago, the world mourns the loss of John Fitzgerald Kennedy.  

A slave showing just a few of the visible scars.  Those hidden are too many to count.  

Kent State terror.  1970

The hearse of Abraham Lincoln

Marilyn Monroe in a Funhouse.

Medical School 1800's.   

MLK Jr. and his son remove a cross burned in his yard.  This is how you bring people together.  What an amazing Leader of Civil Rights. 1960 

A soldier removing Hilter street sign and replacing it with Roosevelt in WW2. 'Merica!

Harriet Tubman and rescued slaves pose for a picture.  

King Tut's unopened tomb.

US exploding a German U-Boat

Yes it is. Vietnam 1965

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Guten Tag

Since Heidi's divorce from this, she's been getting naked and tweeting.  All I can say is, awesome.  I truly don't believe there will ever be a day when her blitz doesn't light my weinerschnitzel. Oh, one more thing...that's after four kids...yeah yeah..let me guess, "If I had a personal chef, plastic surgeon, and personal trainer, I could look like that."  That's when I trail off and walk away.  

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F You Rolling Stone

If I or anyone else gave two shits about reading Rolling Stone they wouldn't be grasping at straws with this heinous attempt to stir controversy for the first time in like two decades.  How can this liberal POS call themselves, or better yet, be considered journalism?  I'm not exactly sure why they think this is ok, but I'm sure it boils down to me not being edgy enough or smart enough or open minded enough to not judge him before he gets a trial.  Go f yourself.  This is man is blatantly responsible for the murder, anguish and/or terror of hundreds if not thousands, while all the while being funded and inspired by the oooosopeaceful followers of Islam.  To me, this is nothing but an anti-war slap in the face to all the men and women that have spilled their blood defending this shitty magazines freedom of speech/press etc.  Of course, Rolling Stone has every right to put whomever they want on their cover, just like I have every right to protest and not buy it.  The water you're bucketing out of that sinking ship, you and Playboy for that matter, will never be enough to save it.  I'll be glad when both go down.  Arrogance always loses.

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We simply must do better.

I don't know much, but I know mass sex appeal when I see it.  This ain't it.  Kate Upton turned 21 this past week.  Most hot girls could slam 2 pizza and a twelve pack and lose weight when they're 21.  Also, those same girls have thighs that actually change shape around the hips and then again around the waist. Not Kate.  She's dedicated to turning her body into a FedEx package with huge sagging breasts.  I honest to God don't get it.   If her face were stunning, I would be like, "ok...I see that", but that's not even the case.  She looks like a chick you'd see on the beach in Jacksonville or Daytona on her vacation from Youngstown Ohio.  You know, lots of blonde hair, but also lots of black roots.  Would someone please explain the hype around this chick.  There are sooooooo many genuinely hot girls out there:  Kelly Brook, Irina Shayk, Alessandra Ambrosio, Alison Brie, Alex Morgan, Katrina Bowden, Blake Lively, to name a few.  I saw girl in GameSpot today on GT campus prettier than Kate Upton.  That's a lie.  Pretty girls on GT campus don't exist.  They're like unicorns and fire breathing dragons...speaking of fire breathing dragons, GT students love Dungeons and Dragons, but that's neither here nor there.  The point is, please break some ammonia and take a few deep breaths because we have to stop this nonsense guys.  I can't get behind, literally or figuratively, a two-time SI Swim Suit cover model that has a stomach that looks like play-dough and breasts that look like they've nursed Cleveland.  21 years old?  Come on.

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