Commitment

     It's been a while since I've posted something. Roughly 3 plus months or so. Now I only have about 2 posts to begin with, and my blog is fairly new. The weight of the neglect is slightly overwhelming. I guess that's why I'm talking about commitment. It is a very powerful thing, and the reason why I haven't been writing as much. I guess it's also the reason I'm writing now. A personal rule of mine is to always finish what you start, meaning that when I do something, I do it all out. I am a bit of a perfectionist as well so it takes a while for me to finish things. As I speak I have about 4 or 5 rough drafts worth of posts that I am still tweaking, making it's perfect for public viewing. But I digress. I've been committed to a lot of things lately, voluntarily and involuntarily, and I've been the busiest I've ever been in my life. I suppose it's good for me.

     Commitment is hard though. It takes a lot of work, will power, dedication and perseverance.  I mean take school as an example. You may not see it this way, but you are committed to school (if you go to school). You wake up early in the morning for what seems like a never-ending period of time and prepare yourself to go to school. That takes will power. That takes dedication like no other. That takes you, willing push yourself to go to class and sit through boring lecture after boring lecture. That's commitment if I ever saw it. For me, it's not only school. I am in four or five organizations which I am highly active with, and even on the leadership. Finding time to do all of it is hard, and it barely fits in my schedule. But I've committed to them, and I will pursue them whole heatedly. 

     But why? Why do all these things, commit yourself, take up your time with these commitments. 

     In my opinions, it's the rewards. I suppose I believe that the rewards far outweigh the costs. Its similar to a relationship. You put in work to get to know someone, stick with them through thick and thin, and all because the rewards of being with that person far outweighs the cost of being with them. The reward for a relationship is love, for school it's knowledge and a better opportunity in life. Unfortunately, I'm no good at relationships. I'm good at doing...stuff, and I don't quite know what the rewards for all I do is, but I believe it's gonna be great.

You know what, I'll let you know when I get them.

p.s. I'll try to have 3 to 5 posts a week from now on.

500 words or less

          Hello blogosphere.

          Like I said earlier in my first post, I am a college student. A rising sophomore to be precise. And like any other college student, I have quite a bit of writing ahead of me, although, I do like to write. Its one of my better qualities, something I think I'm decent at. And when Journalism is one of your majors, it helps a little.Well I was filling out some essays for scholarships and I'd figured I'd post them. The one I am posting now was a short one. The rules were: 500 words or less, and the topic was a prompt they gave. Its unaltered from when I submitted it, but I think it could be a lot better. Anyways, here it is:

What is Principle and How are principles important in your life?
 
     What is a principle, and how are they important in my life. Well, principles, by definition are the basic truths, rules, and standards by which a person forms his or her character off of. In truth, they are a little more complex than that. I personally consider principles to be more related to a persons morals. They almost work hand in hand. Like morals they give us substance to justify our actions by. They are the hidden rules books buried deep within our subconscious, only truthfully surfacing when we are face with a great dilemma.

     Let's say you found a twenty dollar bill on the ground.  The problem that challenges our principles, and morals, would be either to look for the bill's owner or pocket the money and be about your merry way. Now this situation isn't a "great dilemma" of sorts, but it is a simplified way of looking at principles without getting into some hot topics. Now, back to the question. What is a principle, it can't just be your morals and your own personal rules to life. Adding to my polygonal concept of principles, they are also one of the barriers separating right from wrong. I think that one thing most people consider principles to be, are set facts. Rules and laws that cannot be changed, like the principle of jet propulsion. But when dealing with the human condition, things are never set stone like that. This is why  principles are one of the barriers separating, and often determining right from wrong. They are flexible and sometimes fickle things that allow us to judge...everything. This is what also allows us to be rather biased in certain situations.

     Now you might be thinking, this is a rather lengthy report on morals, principles, right and wrong e.t.c. Well, to me, those are the things that make up principles, and vice versa. I cannot talk about principle with out morals and all the others, nor can I talk about them with out talking about principles. What may help understand my view point is changing the perspective on it. The same way principles can be applied to life changing situations, can be applied to opening the car door for a lady to enter, or pulling out the seat for her at the dinner table. The reason I didn't start simple with those analogies is because they are not set. You don't always remember to pull the seat out for the girl, or open the car door. But I suppose you would you would always choose to either keep that twenty or try and find the owner.

     Principle are also always important. In my life, they guide my decisions, and lead me to the best course action. Its a little synonymous with Moses, in the bible, climbing the mountain to receive the ten commandments. In the same way, our conscious mind scales the peaks and valleys of our brain to retrieve its commandments, its rules, from our subconscious and true self.

In The Beginning

          They say in the beginning was the word, and the word is knowledge. Now, I don't consider myself  to particularly knowledgeable, but I feel like I know enough. Enough to hopefully leave people with a little more than they had before. Advice and Entertainment are my main goals, so don't hold me to anything, well maybe my advice. Like the title of my blog refers, everything I write will be according to me. Not like "oh hey, here's what wrong with society and how I can make it better and blah, blah, blah." I offer no cure to society. Its simply how I view the world, it's Life, my life for the most part. Anyways,  formal introduction; "Hi, my name is Tsiambwom Mbeh Akuchu. My friends call me T, hence the title of my blog. (Fun Fact: I am the only person in the world...so far...with my name. It's transferred through the bloodline of my family.When a person dies, the next child born gets the name. Its like a...family inheritance.)

      Now for some reasons why my take on Life is bloggable. A little background is in order I suppose. I was born in Yaounde, the capital city of Cameroon. Its a little country off the coast of central west Africa. I moved to the United States when I was about eight and a half years old and since then, Life has had its ups and downs. Living the American dream is much harder than it looks in the movies. You know, when I think about Cameroon, it wasn't too bad there. Actually, sometimes I think Life was a little better. There. Out in the village, my life was simple. I'd wake up with the sun, take the animals out to feed, stop by the farm and did what I could to help, and then spend the day walking the village with my cousins Later, we'd stop by the sugar cane farm for a treat, and walk the lands of my tribe. Sundown, we went home and prepared to do it all over the next day. It wasn't much, but I loved it. Now of course America has its perks, electricity being one of the major ones. But here, I know that I won't ever really have what I had back then. Simplicity and Happiness. It won't be the same. Now I'm being just a little depressing, but this is my home I'm talking about. I'll save the childhood memories for another post. Now as most people reading this know, America has its own brand of happiness, one I'm still trying to figure out. Ok then, moving on.

      Into the now. Here is the other half of my introduction. I'm T. Currently I am a college student at Georgia Southern. A small-ish university in South Georgia. Statesboro to be precise. I am a double major in Journalism and Theatre. I sing, I dance, I act. Not much else to say past that. Most of the time that's what I'll blog about. Like I said earlier, this blog is about...Life. My Life. Life according to T.