Hating Valentine's Day

This year it seems as though I am destined to hate Valentine's Day [again]. Don't you just love it when the person you like hates you? Cue the sarcasm. Well I've never been the 'girl-y' "O-M-G I TOTALLY L-U-V HIM!" So, maybe, you can understand. Here are all the reasons why I hate Valentine's Day.

#1. The love. Or shall I say the fake love. There is an unneeded amount of wasted paper going towards flimsy red hearts with curvy handwriting proclaiming their love. The more I think about it, how many people who truly love each other give their respective others flimsy construction paper valentines? Not many I should think. Maybe, the more sentimental card, with a greater meaning would make more sense. But all the "HEY, HE GOT 100 VALENTINES, HE'S SUCH A HEART BREAKER!" business has got to stop. It irks me beyond belief.

#2. The movies. I do not want to see a cliched Romantic Comedy. I do not want to see an original Romantic Comedy. I don't want to see a romance. Period. Is it wrong to want to see an action packed film? But instead, my television is clogged up with an innumerable amount of advertisements for romantic movies. Completely unneeded. Not to mention, even some of the good TV channels are filled with romantic movies! Spare me! I do not wish to see "Enchanted!"

#3. The spirit of Valentine's Day. Oftentimes, Valentine's Day etiquette dictates that we should wish someone else Happy Valentine's Day, if that person wishes you. No thank you! Everyone seems to expect this is the one day where you'll be off in la-la land, thinking of some elementary crush with a dreamy look in your eyes. Everyone seems to expect a chocolate from you. Everyone seems to expect an annoying heart-shaped candy that has irritating sayings on it. Thank god I don't hang out with the "in" crowd. I would never survive amongst the pink-dyed hair, and millions of hearts.

#4. The lonely hearts. I don't like being the person who likes someone and is left out of the crowd. Thankfully, I haven't ever had to be that person yet. But I know this Valentine's Day, it will be like that. And I loathe that. I don't believe in Valentine's Day for Pete's Sake! And then watching the multitudes of people either moping about their impossible loves (i.e. Justin Bieber--EW), or stupidly hoping. Please, it will never happen. I'm sorry, but it's the truth. Think realistically please.

#5. Proposals and Weddings. I think Valentine's Day makes a day to propose or marry too easy. "Oh, look, I don't know when we should have our wedding...Oh, what about Valentine's Day! So romantic!" Gag. No, it is not. Usually. Unless the day was completely random, or had a special meaning to you, why one earth would you do that? Why would you want to propose to your love, or marry on such a cliche day? It makes no sense, whatsoever.

Now, I could ramble on and on about how I hate Valentine's Day and every aspect of it, but I think it's time to stop the rant fest. What will you be doing on Valentine' Day? Having a party? Kissing a loved one? Giving out numerous valentines? What I will be doing on Valentine's Day, you ask? I have a pretty good idea: Absolutely Nothing Special.

~Banana Win

To Rant or not to Rant

It is time for some verbal diarrhea. My life is so stressful. First, I don't want to move to Boston, but unless I want to be homeless, I'll have to move. Forget about my new house that was just bought a year ago. It's like a curse, I can't stay in one place for four years. I'm hoping, desperately hoping that a job will magically be found before April 1st. Ironic, isn't it? April Fool's Day. How I wish this was a trick. But it's not. And to make it worse, the amount of things I have to do, the amount of stupid projects I must complete are never-ending. I am sick of this. It looks like unemployment is quite the reality.

I don't understand why all this has to happen. Why nothing can go right, ever.

Is it just life?

Is there really a god out there, looking out for us?

Or is that just what we hope. What would we know about god, anyway? How would we be able to tell so many things about God, when we don't even know for sure the lies from the truths? How can we pretend to know god, when there are so many unsolved mysteries in real life, not just after death?

We pretend to know more than we do. Cue the agnostic thoughts.

Sometimes it seems like we are all just mistakes.

Maybe, the human being was just a mutant.

Look how we destroy our world.

How Fly changed to Cool

I learned three years ago that "fly" was the term for "cool" many, many years ago. It's funny how words changed so much. Once, when you would say, "That's so fly!", you would instead say "That's so cool!" When once you would say "I'm so amped for the game!", you would say "I'm so psyched for the game!" When once you would say, "That's bangin'!" you now would say, "That's awesome!" Funny how the English language changes, huh?
That's the bomb!
Translation: That's the awesomeness.
Maybe I taught you something about how people talked in the 80's to how people talked now. And no, I wasn't born in the 80's. Google!

~Banana Win

Why Egos Irk Me

If there is one thing I can hate about a person, it is their ego. Usually, I don't have this problem with girls, mostly guys. Tell me --why do you want to have a big head? Why must you be praised? The egos are so suffocating, and it is irritating to deal with. At least once a day, I'm talked to in a patronizing way, by someone who thinks that they're better than me, smarter than me, and cooler than me. At least once a day, I am forced to talk to someone who thinks the world is at their feet, and they're the ruler. And I'm sure it is like this for many. So for all of you out there who think that these egotistical people are the banes of our existence, I'm right there with you, shouting for my peace of mind.

~Banana Win

What I Hate About Being Sick

Don't you just hate being sick? I won't believe anyone if they say they like to be sick--unless their reason is truly valid. Being sick for me just creates an annoyance. I miss out on tons of projects, and tons of work. Not fun, I assure you, especially when I have to finish all my work over the weekend--which is what I must do now. I was sick for the past three days. Not fun, I reiterate. On top of that, there's the fact that friends worry about you. Now, I don't consider myself a very popular person, in fact I particularly dislike those kids in schools who think that they're all that. But I did have to answer my friends who were worrying. Which involved talking--God save my sore throat!--and a lot of finger action for texting. As if I'm not already tired. Well, there's my rant of the day. Being sick is not fun.

~Banana Win

P.S. If you haven't already, I would really like if you read my story on wattpad, and maybe even voted? (To vote, click the orange button to the side of the story.) Any-who, here's the link! http://www.wattpad.com/2979790-the-edge-of-the-world-prologue-chapter-one
Please read if you can!

Doomsday: Pfft. Like I know!

 I find it irritating how people think that they know when the world will end. So many people say, "Oh, December 21st, 2012! Doomsday!" How do they know? They say the Mayans and Nostradamus tried to tell us. How do we know what Nostradamus was trying to say? How do we know he's not crazy? How do we know that the didn't Mayans expect to reset their calendar in 2012? Many times in the past, people have thought the world was going to end. Take for example, the most recent occurrence: May 21st. Which just so happens to be my birthday. The world didn't end then. We can't decide when the world should end. It should stay that way.

~BananaWin

Stereotypes

Today I decided to think of all the stereotypes that I have ever heard of. Please don't be offended--I don't believe any of these stereotypes, I just wanted to see what our society deemed "oh-so-common" that it was made a stereotype.

- I'm BLONDE so I must be STUPID
- I'm LESBIAN so I must HATE MEN
- I'm JEWISH so I must have a BIG NOSE
- I'm EMO so I must CUT MY WRISTS
- I'm an INDIAN so I must own a CONVENIENCE STORE (haha...I don't own one.)
- I'm YOUNG so I must  be NAIVE
- I wear BLACK so I must be GOTH
- I'm RICH so I must be ARROGANT
- I get STRAIGHT A'S so i must have NO LIFE
- I'm PERUVIAN so I must like LLAMAS
- I'm IRISH so I must have a DRINKING PROBLEM
- I'm SKINNY so I must be ANOREXIC
- I'm FAT so I must not CARE about HEALTH
- I'm SMALL so I must be WEAK
- I'm CHINESE so I must be ATHEIST
- I'm CHINESE/RUSSIAN so I must be COMMUNIST (I particularly dislike this one. Some people I dislike use this one. UNTRUE!)

Those are just some that I found and thought of! The "I'm" and the "must" are just there for effect, by the way. Again, please don't get offended!

~Banana Win