everyone else

i can't believe it's time to do another post for the unit! wowzers! it's been a week already? well, i better get started.

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this is our theme for this four-week unit. last week's post was on being yourself. that was the first step in this whole process. i want to take baby steps with this study. and remember, i'm doing this, because, i truly need it.  so, let's start shall we?

be yourself- rap up

so, lemme just rap up what we talked about last week, okay? alright.

• you need to find creativity in blogging
• you need to remember your tools while you're fixing the problem- self-control, patience and individuality
• do whatever it takes to be yourself.

sound good? alright, lemme start writing about this week's topic. 

everyone else- what you're doing

you're making a comparison. this is not what God wants us to do. He wants us to be fair and treat others equally and think of everyone the way you think of yourself- a regular person who makes mistakes and is not perfect but it amazing in His eyes. so, what's the comparison you're using? followers, age, friends? the list can go on and on. but the main ones are:

• followers- you compare between followers. if you have a hundred and someone has a thousand then you think of yourself as a loser, which isn't true.
• friends- you compare between friends and their blogs. if their friends has more followers than them and you, then you also think of yourself as a loser, which again is not true.

those reasons are what i compare myself to someone else. everyone i follow has at least two times the amount of followers i have. this is a sin. and i shouldn't be doing this. 

my toolbox- what i should use and how

so, take a look at your toolbox, what's in there. what do you need? first of all, i need self-control. why? because i need to control myself through this. this is a main cause of my anger issues and drama- my comparisons. it's something i shouldn't be doing, and when i do it, i just put myself down and place a lot of stress on my back. next, i need my faith. why? i need faith in God to know that he will always be there to help me through my struggles along this pathway. it's not all roses i'm stepping on. it's the thorns too. and i need to sweep those thorns out of my way and keep following the petals. if you're struggling with this step, u need to go read this post written by the lovely Jessica. 

look at the inspiration

so, right now, i've got a little thing made for you- just for you- to look at, maybe take and place on your blog, it's a little thing i made, just to keep you going. i'll explain it in a minute.

<a href="http://vanillastudies.blogspot.com/search/label/be%20yourself"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/LVWIn.jpg" /></a>

this size is 300 x 415. so, just take it, it'll help.

this is supposed to be funny- i did that so it'll catch your attention- and it's supposed to be meaningful. It has a great message behind it. so, there's one guy, right, and he's blue with green, circular eyes and a pink mustache.- who doesn't love mustaches?-  and there's another guy, and he's pink with black, triangular eyes and a blue mustache. now the only thing really the same is that they both have the same colors. but they're both different. and everyone is different! so, think of yourself as the blue guy, and your friend as the pink guy, the main thing you have in common is that, you're a person, a person that makes mistakes.

p.s. no copyright on this post! well, you have to credit this post

that's right! i'm placing no copyright on this post. so please, i beg of you, place this post on your blog! it will change the blogging community! you know, hopefully! so, please? alright, great! oh wait, just make sure to credit accordingly. 

be yourself

thanks to Jessica she's encouraged me more to be myself, instead of copying other people's stuff and adding a small twist to it. so, i'm going to start something. i'm going to start units. every week, i'll write a post on what the unit theme is. so, i'm going to write it today. well, the theme is,

Be yourself, because everyone else is taken

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so, the unit will last four weeks. and see, the header is based off of the theme. so, the first part i'm going to talk about being yourself. 

why i need thisi need to be myself because, i think since he/she has so many followers because he/she does this or that, that means i'll get a lot of followers, well, that's what i think. but that is not the case! no, i need to be myself to have a great blog, but, how do i become myself?
how do i become myself?well, first, i need to ask myself, what blogs do i copy and how? so, i'd write a list out. i'm not going to write out this list in public but, i will write it down. so, i've got it. now, i need to ask myself these questions:

1. what do i copy on these blogs?
2. in order to stop copying, will i need to un-follow the blogs

now, to me, for a few blogs, the answer to the second question is yes sadly. but, also, i need to answer the question for myself, if i stop following certain blogs, will i not or barely look at the blog? for a couple blogs, the answer would be a quivering yes, so, mainly a no because i like the blog so much.

what tools should be in my toolbox?

this part is asking me, what do i need to be myself, what tools or virtues? 

well, i'd need my self-control, definitely. why would i need it? because my self-control will help me make the right decisions in my promise. what other tool will i need? my patience, probably. why my patience though? because i will need my patience to get on that blog in a few weeks. 

i think that's all the tools i'll need? what do you think? do you think i've got enough tools? actually, i don't think so, i think i'll need individuality so i can me without any help from other people's virtues.

individuality

what is individuality? what's your definition? well, the dictionary says that individuality is the particular character, or aggregate of qualities, that distinguishes one person or thing from others; sole and personal nature. but my definition is this:

you need to be yourself because God didn't make you like your best friend. that wasn't His intentions. His intentions were to make different. so, be different, the way God wants you to be.

now, i didn't follow these steps. i didn't want to. i wanted to be like everyone else with there 200 followers! but no, i can't, because that's called plagiarism. so, i will try to be an individual.

find your creativity

what's my creative spot? what am i creative at? well, i can draw goofy pictures and make jewelry. but, my favorite type of creativity, is paint splatters! i'm a succer for paint splatters, like the following,

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see, all of these paint splatter, all of them all over the internet, they speak to me. because they're different. and different is what i want to be.