Why not open your eyes? It might help you open your mind...

Hey Guys :)

I'm aware I haven't blogged in a while, but this one should be quite a good one...

This isn't going to be one of my normal blogs where I talk about my life happenings, this is going to be a blog with one big meaning.

I'm going to start with a question, and end with the same one...

When you're done, when you're dying, wouldn't you like to know you've made a difference?

This is something that has really hit home for me in the last week or so. It all started on the 25th of January 2011...

Rise Against released their first single from their brand new album, Endgame. The song is called Help Is On The Way, and it's about Hurricane Katrina/BP deep water oil spill. Straight away I knew Rise Against had gone a step further. A band that have always persisted in writing lyrics that seem to penetrate all feelings of 'Everythings Perfect', had just written a song that, little did I know, would change my life forever.

The next string was pulled on February 15th 2011...

Rise Against release their second single from their brand new album, Endgame. This new track is called Architects, and like Help Is On The Way, it hits home hard. I've never heard a song that gets so to the point. Architects is about this world being broken, and how Our generation needs to fix it. With lines such as...

'Do you care to be the layer of the bricks that seal your fate
or would you rather be the architect
of what we might create?'

These lines at the end of the chorus basically say, You can follow or you can change things. Tim McIlrath uses the word Architect as a way of describing someone such as Martin Luther King who has Designed the world we live in. Tim basically implies that there are none of these 'Architects' left in the world, no people to go against the grain to fight for a better way.

Later on the song breaks down to hear Tim McIlrath chanting the words:

'Don't you remember when you were young, and you wanted to set the world on fire?'

Which says that when you are young you want to change the world, you want things to be the way you think are right, but as you get older you tend to just accept the world for what it is and get on with it.

Now the fuse is lit on March 15th...

March 15th, Rise Against release their Endgame album. I skip the first two songs as they are the two singles that I have avidly listened to since their release. Then I hear the song which completely changes me forever. Make It Stop (Septembers Children). This song sings the stories of 5 homo-sexuals who killed themselves after being victims of discrimination in September 2010. The entire album had a huge impact on me, all with a very deep, real meaning, but this had the biggest effect.

Lets skip forward to Wednesday the 30th of March...

Tonight I am sitting on a cold wooden floor, with my loved Alexisonfire hoodie on and my iPod on with my headphones in my ears. The same noise is blaring out of my headphones into my ears as it has for the past 15 days. Tonight I decide I've had enough. Tonight I decide what my lifetime goal will be. Tonight, I decide that everything I will ever do from now on, I will do to make a difference. Although it's ambitious, and when you read this you'll probably click off straight away, my Mission, is to change the world.

I seem to be one of the only people I know that can open their eyes. I want to make everyone else open theirs too. I want you to open your eyes and minds to the possibility that what they are taught is wrong. What they're told is wrong. The fact there are two sides to every story. I am going to use probably a very controversial example now...

I'm pretty sure everyone of you who read this will consider our troops heroes. I'm almost certain all of you who read this will think that everyone our nation has ever opposed are the 'bad guys', well are they? To every other nation we have ever engaged in conflict in, I'm certain that the civilians have seen the people that fight for their country as heroes and our troops as the bad guys. Us and other nations aren't all that different. Everyone we have ever shot and killed has been fighting for what they believe in. People our troops have shot and killed have had Children and Families. People our troops have shot and killed have been people with their whole life ahead of them to go on and do something great. People our troops have shot and killed have had everything we have, so why are they worth less? How come shooting a man who your government has told you to shoot, that you have never met in your entire life, who you've never said a word to, who you have no motive toward killing, who has a family that will cry when they go home in a coffin with their nations flag on it makes you a hero, but if you shoot someone you do know, that you have said a word to, that has done something so horrific toward you you want to kill them, who also has a family just like the 'bad guy' makes you a criminal?

What's the difference? They're both murderers.

I think it's time that people started hearing it how it is, and that's what my band will start doing from now on. Telling it how it is.

I hope I haven't offended anyone, this is just how I feel.

So I'll ask again, when you're done, when you're dying, don't you want to know you've made a difference?

Cheers! x

This worlds an ugly place, but you're so beautiful to me.

Hey guys :D

Everyone looking to find my usual semi-funny, blog, this isn't the case. This blog is all about one person, Courteney Elkins.

Where do I begin?

You're the most important person in the entire world to me, I know I tell you all the time and it doesn't mean that much anymore, but I tell you everyday because the though of you ever forgetting that you're everything to me is unbearable. You make me happy like no one else can, You make me laugh like no one else can, you make me smile like no one else can, you make me feel loved like no one else can. There isn't a second that passes when you aren't on my mind. I miss you so much. It's strange, knowing that I'm going to see you in just a few days isn't enough because there's already a hole in my heart from the small time we've spent apart. You're the one, and I've never been so certain of something in my entire life. I can try to think about my life without you, but it's useless because I'd be lost without you, I wouldn't be half the person I am.

You Complete Me.

The simplest way to say all of this is, Courteney Elkins, I am absolutely, unconditionally, indescribably, head-over-heels in love with you.

Prepare for the best and the fastest ride!

Haiii guyyshhh!

Howsh it goweeen?

Okay I'll stop being an idiot now :')

Seriously though guys, how are you all doing? You all know me, I'm a friendly guy, chat to me on facebook or whatever, tell me how you're doing and tell me what you're looking forward to doing this summer!

Anyway, it's been just over a month since I did my last blog, So I'll give you an update of whats Happened:

- My bands first gig was absolutely amazing, by far the best thing I've ever done

- Me and Courteney are getting stronger every single day

- My band are in the recording studio this week to record their first EP!

- Although it's still technically winter, everyday feels like summer

This is what this blog is mainly about, Summer. I know what you're thinking 'Dude, it's February, I'm still freezing!', but those of you that see me regularly might have noticed that I never wear my sleeves down. Now, this Probably sounds really stupid, but it's because I don't feel the cold, every step I take with the chilling winter breeze hitting my bare pale forearms is spent with a smile on my face and a happy song in my head. Everyones got a happy song, everyone has a song that when they hear it their heart skips a beat, and they get the butterflies in their tummy. Wether it's about a guy, a girl, a place, a time, I don't know, even if it's about something crazy like you're dog, this song reminds you of the one thing that makes you happier than anything else in the entire world. My favourite thing in the entire world, is summer. The heat of the shining sun on the dark navy water of mill pond near my house, with my two best mates by my side and the girl I love under my arm, just the thought of that is enough to get me by. I have the mates, I have the girl, all I needs the sun.

Message Of The Month:

Keep what you're looking forward to in your mind, and keep your head held high.

Until next time

Baii! x

A whole 18 days of action... Not that action, dirty betch.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Shhh, it's not that late... what do you mean it's almost February?!

Hey Guys :)

I'm hoping to start blogging more often, my last blog 'My Blog?' was all depressing and shizz, and I have a feeling that this years gonna' be a good year so it shouldn't make you want to slit so much :) Anyway, at the end of every blog I'm going to try and put a moral to all my stories :)

So a quick summary of the whole 18 days of action i've had so far.

- Band back together and better than ever

- Me and Courteney back together and this time forever

- My Grandad sadly passed away on the 11th of January

- My band ( now 'False Priority' ;) ) have their first gig on the 13th of February

I'm honestly so happy, I have so much to look forward to, my Future with my band and my future with Courteney :)

First, my band. You guys, I love both of you lads so much, we've all been through times together, and the memories we have no one could ever compare, I die laughing whenever I think of the time I threw a roll at Joe's face and he caught it and ate it LOL. When people ask me what I want to do as a job when I'm older, I always tell them I'm going to be touring the world with my two best buds, doing what we love and what we do best, have a fucking amazing time playing music, not for anything but ourselves. I love you guys, Give it a 2 maybe 3 years, WEMBLEYY :D

Secondly, Courteney. I love you. I'm crazy about you. I think the reason this feels so right, is because you see through all my huge imperfections, you don't care that i'm an absolute whore, you don't care that I go way too far when joking... All the time. I've never known love like yours that, even though I'm a completely faulted arsehole, the way you hold my hand, the way you hug me, the way you tell me you love me makes me think that at least to someone I am a good person. The hardest part of my day is letting go of your hand when I go to get in my car, because I know I won't see you for like agesss, and I never want to be apart from you. I love you so much.

The Moral part...

The only thing that I'm scared about is, before when I've felt like I had everything, I've lost it all. My message for the day is...

Only take just enough, because too much will leave you with nothing.

Until next time, Aufweidersehn! x

Loves x