Walk down the street via the complex simplicity that is Richard S. Allen II as he delivers his world experiences in which he lives, through his random beliefs mashed with unorthodox skills of technological writing and vivid color. Its the gift and the curse.

Monday, February 22, 2010

Intro Blog Reload v2

So I just decided to re-post my intro blog to give an idea of what was to come.

I'm Richard S. Allen II and this is my blog. This blog is going to serve the purpose of allowing me to collectively share a form of creativity that can only be displayed from the experiences I have with the world in which I'm engulfed in. Ive been told MANY times that my perceptive is what one may call unique, and that i have a great way of sharing my encounters to show what i experienced, but as well as i can inject surrounding people with the unbiased way of "seeing from the other side" Its a gift, lol. Yet its gives me hell sometimes, its a curse.

So i invite you to follow my blog, my life, my experiences and relate them to your everyday life. Everyone is given this gift that we call life, some of you realize it and hold on to it, but others curse it and rather leave this "damned" place. LOL its your decision. And thats the best part of this gift, we decide the ending.

Ill start off with many of the short comings I've written thus far in life, so with that I leave my foundation of this blog.


Looking ahead in life one must know there are two sides of every story, this is mine. Enjoy

Friday, February 19, 2010

See It Before You Do It

Hey All

This is Rich again with another blog entry. Today I wanted to talk bout taking a leap of faith. Now, I don't necessarily mean religiously, although we all can attest to that concept. But I mean taking the big step without planning. That step that you just say "fuck it" and throw all your worries, pride, fears, and values away and go for it. All or nothing, the sink or swim gamble, THE decision of your life, when you look back and say, "Damn I really messed that up". Many of us make this "leap," thinking its the last resort, but really for no reason. We think the gain is going to be so far substantial that we risk giving up all we worked for thus far, on a chance, a lil orange card flipped over on the board.

Its good to feed off your emotions, its NOT good to let your emotions feed on your decisions. (Thats a good thought, never put it in words like that) I digress. As much as I'm ANTI-GOAL minded, I see the strategic concept behind them. When we plan, (CORRECTLY) we put ourselves in a good to great situation for success. We develop the "if/than's" that we might encounter and virtually devise ways in which to incorporate them or work around them.

My mom (Mama Allen)is the queen of the Plan ABC method. She tries to get me to follow, but for some reason all I take in is the Charlie Brown teacher. (Waa Waa WaaWaa Waa Waa Waa) I know, I know its not right, but yes I'm hard headed. The point is that we do all need to set goals. My father told me last night, that he wanted a family, a wife, 2.5 kids, and a dog, so he planned for it to be in his future, and took the leap knowing that he was heading in the right direction.

Goals are very abstract, but more importantly, are created by you. We can set goals for the minimal as well as the max, just depends on our mindset. I do believe we should all set standards for ourselves to where we want to be in our futures and start working on it day to accomplish that blind goal. I think most people believe that fixing today will aide us in the future, but those fixes end up being weak, and underdeveloped due to the desire of immediate results. We all have our personal opinions, and this is just mine.

So I as where are you in life, are you ready to jump? That's a question that we all should ask ourselves frequently, it wont hurt. As for me, in the year 2010, I have my eyes on a distant prize, having officially rolled out the blueprint, and drafted a master plan. This is big for me, because I live a very safe life. I don't believe in taking uncalculated risks. Many people believe that I'm "go with the flow" but I'm not. So this concept will be new for me, the execution of actions to reach my endpoint, when it becomes time to leap. I have faith that I'll be ready. I grow so fast in short stages in my life and thus far I can say I have my I've seen it, planned it, and soon will be ready to finally take my leap of faith. I guess mom really does know best :o). Wish me luck, there no turning back.

Saturday, February 6, 2010

Home Improvement

Hey people,

Today I wish to embark on you an idea that I'm trying out. Now, this is nothing new, rather the implication what I'm about to attempt is rather unique. I thought I share the process and maybe inject the thought of becoming a better you than you were yesterday. How do you do that? My friend S.Dot uses the coined acronym K.I.S.S.(Keep It Simple Stupid), and this is so simple that we have done it in our lives externally, but not internally.

Every year we write these New Years resolutions in attempt to better ourselves, following these goals so well for a week, a month even, but many of us revert to previous mindset, locking you in, or even caging yourself back into your former situation. Famous quote: "If you keep doing the same things, your prone to get the same results." I agree with that statement WHOLE HEARTEDLY, as I'm as guilty as they come, falling back into the hell hole in which I've attempted to crawl out of over and over. That rock that I place my foot on, the slick one, that I know is slick, yet keep trying to use as my exit, finally it has hit me that I just cant make my way out by that means.

So why am I going to do, to better myself, become a better ME, the best me I can be (Damn sounds like I'm promoting for the Army) I digress. How do I move forward in becoming new and improved. Well its so easy, yet so misunderstood, maybe I can help.

See we all want nice things, we all envision ourselves in the life of material things. But what happens when we don't have it. Take a house for example. You decide to purchase a home, it's not the IDEAL home, but we know the phase, "HOME IS WHERE YOU MAKE IT". Now, your home is fairly old, and dated, and needs work to becoming a better home. So you decide to fix it up, and how do you do that? You search the house for all the "problems" and decide if its salvagable or does it need to be redone, right? So I'm referring to the floors, the roof, the tile, the plumbing etc, etc. These are the things that need to be fixed in order for your house to become better. Now, it's not easy, and you cant always do it yourself, but you tend to get it done right?

Well becoming a better you uses the same concept. Finding out, what's wrong with you, evaluating what is manageable and what you are going to need to fix or replace, and putting out the time, effort, and acquiring the right people to help you fix yourself. See, where we fall is that we say that we want to become better people, but our foundations, our core problems are never addressed. So you start building on top of faulty, rotted, rusted, foundations its only a matter of time before all you worked on begins to breakdown, the "problem" spreads like a virus, like mold, like cancer, virtually killing all the work you've done on top. And for what, because you didn't do it right the first time. Well, I haven't, I didn't do it right the first, nor second, nor third, but nows my time. Nows my time to build the house from the ground up, the house that people love and enjoy and want to be apart of, the house that doesn't shut down every year for reconstruction. They say a happy home, is a healthy home, well I say being happy with your personal home (yourself) is where we all want to be, we just need the tools to get it done, and the want to begin our home improvement. So if you know that you have been just covering up your problems, I hope this has enlightened you to gut yourself and fix your roots. This will help you become a better you, and thats what we all want to be.

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Race of the Cure

Howdy Partners,

Its been an interesting week for me, but that's another topic. I lost my phone, rather broke it, and upon getting it back and reconfiguring it, i stumbled on a little memo I wrote. Just another creation I had from before, but was so fitting to the way the week has already progressed. So enjoy.

Following your dreams takes you all across the world, doing the unthinkable, proving others wrong, but most importantly, proving to yourself that you can. Time and time again we are so doubtful of ourselves that people begin to have doubt within you as well. Its a level of comfort that has crippled the human nature just as a deadly virus. We all tend to give up, because someone, somewhere has given up on our potential. Most of us in the real world don't get hired off of potential talent, you either have it or hit the road.
When a person is given talent, or is talented, they tend to take it for granted, not realizing how much that initial talent will open doors, but only going to the extent in which that attribute will take them, in turn settling. This is a virus of satisfactory that I spoke of, a disease that spreads so vastly that everyone catches on and feeds into it. But alas, there is a remedy for this deteriorating disease, its only cure, self-confidence. Find confidence within yourself and go shock the world, I know I plan to, by becoming a better me than I was yesterday, beginning with believing in myself today....

Monday, February 1, 2010

When & Where the World Turns To

Salute, Hello's & Greetings,

I start my thought today with history of communication in my lifespan, and boy do I tell you its been AMAZING. I remember NOT having a phone, rather just going to your friends house, by foot (WHAT YOU USED TO WALK??) or bike. We will call that age, the Manual Communication Era. During the Manual Communication Era I used to have to (Lord Permit) walk across the street to go see what B.Will was doing. But the Manual Comm. Era was fast, swift-like and gone moving us to the era of the House Phone. The House Phone changed the world for us kids, oh, and if you had your own phone line.... You was so red carpet status.

My sister, Renee, had her own phone a few times (i say a few because she lost it so many times just the same) but I couldn't give my people that number, now isn't that some crazy shit. We lived five feet from each other with the damn phone in the middle of the hallway, but it was HER phone.

So this is when my game changed, without the House Phone Phoenominia, I stayed on my Manual Comm. Only I would just wonder off into the world of Sterling Green playing. Mommy would get PISSED because she couldn't find me. So with intervention, I skipped the House Phone and went to the Beeper at age 11 LOL.

Now needless to say, alot of the parents were baffled, "why does this 11 year old boy have a pager?" Some thought I sold drugs, others thought I was in a gang, but it was simply my mamas leash. If she beeped, it meant, BRING YO ASS HOME lol.

So fast forward to now, I'm sitting and blogging bout my communication history. We are so connected, from Yahoo ChatRoom, to AOL (You Got Mail) to Facebook, Myspace, Gtalk, Ichat, texting, we got so much shit I really don't even know which realm I need to contact you to tell you to read this, HELL or to just say Hi even. Do you have a friend that you call, no answer, you text, no answer, you tweet, no answer, BUT if you post on their Facebook wall, they sure hit you back and QUICK? Whats wrong with that picture, hell I just heard a co-worker tell me she texted her son to tell him dinner was ready.

As the world turns, the technology gets greater and greater, but this week, lets bring back that Manual Communication, whether its far or not, your friends, family, and loved ones are worth more then an email(a FWD: one at that) or a text message. Im guilty of that,yes I do it too, I do it too.... Lets bring it back!! Ready??