Robots Taking Over The World!

"Technology made it easy for us to stay in touch while keeping a distance. Until we stayed distant and never touched, now all we do is text too much." This is a quote by an underground poet/rapper named Sage Francis. It comes from his song "The Best Of Times" and the reason I'm writing about this is because it defines the truth about our society and how technology has taken such a huge toll on us. From so many Twitter and Facebook users now, equipped with the latest smartphone, and from Skyping with friends, most people only keep in touch with text instead of face to face meetings. Yeah I'm that type of person who takes 30 minutes to a couple hours to reply back to your text, not because I have a hateful emotion towards you, its because I'm not the one who constantly checks their phone every 17 seconds. But I would rather receive a phone call from someone and to have the opportunity to hear the other person's voice. Although I do realize when text messaging comes in handy, from talking stealthily in class and having time to think about your response instead of on the spot responses, so there positives to having technology around. I apologize if this offends anyone, I'm just getting my words out there for the world to read them!

My Thoughts Run Blank

Have you ever read something but didn't absorb any of the information you just read, so you just read the words without comprehending them? It's happened to all of us, so there's no pleading innocent in this case. There may be different instances where this happens but I think it happens to me mostly when I'm reading something, but my mind is thinking about something different. Then in the midst of reading I realize that I'm not understanding what I am reading, so the knowledge that is provided isn't being explained to its fullest potential. Its mostly because of how the reader reads it and how he/she comprehends what they just read.

Wildstyle Method

Freestyling. It's what I like to do in my free time. Any words that come to mind are spoken. I try to enlarge my vocabulary so I can have more things to rhyme with and simply to sound smarter to be honest. If you don't know what freestyling is, it's when you create a sentence using words generated from your head and having them rhyme at the end of each sentence. I talk about anything that happens to cross my mind. During sessions when one of my friends just says a random word, I'll try to converge a story and rap about it, and rap about all the things surrounding it. Although my friends say I'm pretty good at freestyling, I personally don't think I'm that good. But occasionally I do come make up some sick verse on the spot. Having correct rhyming, combined with perfect timing is a major essential to have if you'd like to pursue becoming a rapper or poet. When I ask people to freestyle, they admit saying they don't know how and avoid the request. But what they don't know is that if you just start off saying words, not even having to rhyme, you'll eventually get better and feel more comfortable speaking your mind. A lot of what I say sometimes doesn't make sense so it wouldn't affect me if people giggled at what I said. Lol @ the word giggled. And doodle. :P

Where I'm From

I'm from hangin' with friends,
where laughs don't stop and nights never end.
With the bass bumping and seeing the sun come up.
I'm from no stress with the best kept secret,
where no one can see it, but people can feel it.
I'm from going to the movies every weekend,
just to see something new.
Doesn't matter what movie it is,
I just know it'll be getting my view.
I'm from daily chillin' in The Lab,
where the feel it brings is the opposite of sad.
Seeing the nice view, of the neighbors backyard,
with a garden and all, we love watching the rain fall.
I'm from going downtown Grand Haven,
and running red lights in the dead of the night.
Traveling to Taco Bell cause I'm on a fourthmeal diet
and always getting an ice cold Baja on the side.
I'm from having a weird background,
but not willing to care what people think.
I'm from having a city boy life style,
to having to live in the sticks.
But this is my life, and no one can change it.

Starting Off On The Right Track

My name is Patrick Haggarty and I am a freshhhman at Western Michigan University. I live in the Bigelow hall and I consider myself to be a very chill person. I rarely get angry or sad because of the things I have around me. Music, my friends, and other outside sources allow me to stay happy most of the time so I couldn't ask for a better life. I'm really into music too. I have around 5500+ songs in my iTunes library and more are being added into my collection. I'm addicted to shoes and plan on owning more than 15 pairs of shoes so I could have a fresh pair of shoes matching with every outfit.