X factors blog and journal...

A bad environment can literally kill you

Be aware that a bad environment can, and will, eventually kill you...it will kill your spirit first, then body.

Don't matter if it's a bad work environment or social environment same results in the end, your destruction.

Everyone carries certain energies with them, everyone projects certain energies, either these energies are positive and constructive or dark and negative.

The people in your environment will have a big effect on you.

It's why you really have to be careful about what community you choose to live in, to settle in, cause the people around you, their attitudes, their behavior, their outlook on life, their morality, will really have an effect on your over all mental, spiritual and physical health.


Cause once planted...



The people you live around will effect your over all growth and prosperity.

We are social creatures, as such we feed off the energy of those around us...and if that energy is good, we grow and prosper, but if that energy is bad, we wither.

Make sure the people you plant yourself next to aren't monsters...



Make sure the people you plant yourself next to are 'whole'...employed.

Married, stable, and not in financial need, have traditional ways and values about them.

Stay away from any areas where the sole source of peoples income is Government aid.

Stay away from areas where all the mothers are single, and where 'Dad' has no influence on family.

Stay away from areas where youth sag their pants, where there's litter, or graffiti on walls and sidewalks.

Stay away from areas where there's a lot of barking dogs, dogs that bark all night long.

Stay away from areas where there's a lot of train tracks and crossings, the sound of train horns will drive you insane after a while...



The best areas to live, as you age, get older, are areas away from major cities, areas located in mid-west states, smaller rural farm towns.

Although that sounds boring as hell to some, you'll at least get peace and quiet at night, and find out that the people there, although not 'trendy', are very solid, full of life, and can show you how to have fun.

Urban Government welfare types are void of culture and purpose in life...living around such types is like living around zombies...alive but dead.

No dreams, no hopes, just the same destructive social cycles repeated over and over again.

I'm qualified to make such a comment as I have lived in both rural communities, farm communities, and I've lived, dwelt, in the most darkest of inner city hood areas.

And by far, the rural, farm communities are a much more healthier place to live and or raise a family...or even small college towns.



(Clarkston, WA)

No freagin ghettos, no bums, no gangs, no graffiti, no crime, no section 8 housing, people still marry, buy homes, work, family takes care of family instead of Government taking care of single women.

People still have social values...these small towns are like Heaven, compared to urban areas full of drugs, pimps and crime and all sorts of other mess.

I'm not saying people in small towns are 'saints' cause they're not...I am saying however, that people in small towns know how to behave.

They may, can, get wild and crazy inside of home, or at bar, but the next day, they're at work, working at the mill.

In small towns, you have more accountability.

And even if a minority or black or Asian, you will find life in a small rural area to be rich and joyful and safe, if and while raising family.

Once community embraces you, you become like family to them, and they stop seeing your color, and instead just notice your personality, or any other wonderful positive traits you have.

I've lived in both large cities, and small town rural areas, and I can honestly say I prefer the small town rural areas.

The only problem can sometimes be finding work...and is why if you plan on moving to small town, you have to plan in advance and make sure you have employment when you get there...unless fiscally independent.

If you're a trucker, or earn money online, or just wealthy, or an investor, than you can pretty much live anywhere, irregardless of local job market.

Or if you're innovative, and have own business.

Anyways, long post...time to wrap it up.

Death is the ultimate equalizer

everyone dies, regardless of color, species, height, fame, fortune, character, religion, gender, everyone dies.

And people take their biological beliefs with them to the grave.

Racist die racist...and I wonder if that will matter in next world, if there is one, where biological traces of this world don't exist.

People die gay, people die liars, crooks, thieves and die while being dishonest.

And many die who are good, fair, honest and patient.

Are we all lab rats?

One day we'll all find out.

Bible tract



Today, in the morning, a security guard, an older gentleman, handed me a bible tract....

Not sure what makes him think of all my years on this planet, that no one has ever approached me about God and salvation before him.

Not sure why he would think that not even my own parents were bestowed that honor.

I'm always amazed how people who hand out bible tracts think that up until the moment you encounter them, that the thought of 'God' and 'Salvation' has never crossed your mind until you happened to run into them.


They just assume you've lived you're whole life, (until you run into them) oblivious to God, history, religion ect.

Now I could respond one of two ways here...but the way I choose to respond will be gentle...for there's actually a lot worse things an older man, or any person, could do to me, than simply share the gospel.

If this older gent, feels 'god' tugging at his heart to share the gospel, than I have nothing against that or him.

But it still amazes me how someone could think another person has never heard of God, Jesus, salvation, until they hand you a tract, I mean it's not like I'm living in the deep darkest interior of Africa or something.



I mean I'm not some primitive living in the interior of Africa or South America or Asian Jungle.

Just like everyone knows who Michael Jordan is, I'm pretty sure by now, most everyone knows who 'Jesus' is, what he did, and was about.

I mean Xmas reminds people of that every year, so does Easter.

Not sure why this security guard felt the need to share Christ with me through a pamphlet...oh well, bless his heart anyways...like I said earlier, there's a lot worse things someone can do to you than simply sharing salvation.

I'll deal with this later...onto other things and topics for now.

I had a decent evening...rode bike downtown...

Down town on the weekends is like a museum...old buildings, sidewalks, everything is still and quite, like a photo.

Riding bike downtown, on weekend, when all business interests are gone and abscent, kind of reminds me of scenes from 'I am Legend'...



Kind of has that whole 'I am Legend' abandoned feeling to it, a certain peace and stillness permeates over the place...

You feel free, and mans architecture becomes like a scenic backdrop.

I was homeless once, and going down town kind of helps remind me of 'change'...that I was able to rise up and above.
Down town is peaceful on the weekends....and probably one of the safest places in the city to be.

I had a good time, just me and my bike, and peace.

Ahh, it's Friday..depending on your age and circumstances, Friday evenings are related to differently.

1. If your a adolescent, Fridays are probably the most magical day of the week, simply put, 'No School!!'...it's as simple as that.

2. If your say from 18-25, maybe in school, college, or working first job, Fridays are still very exciting, it's time to go out to The clubs!

Or if religious and young, time to go out to Friday night bible study..
Point is, whether bible study or partying, or some other event, from 18-25 Fridays are still very exciting, unless you have a shift job where your manager scheduals you to work on Friday evening till close.

3. If your from 25-35, Fridays are still exciting, but by this time your either in a relationship, or married, maybe have hobbits, or into so promising career.

Lots of variables from 25-35 that effects how someone receives Fridays....don't get me wrong, lots of people still party hard and hit the clubs from 25-35, but also lot's of people begin to out grow that scene.
Married with hobbits kind of takes clubbing out of the options of things to do on Friday nights.

But being married or in relationship now means you have someone special to go out and do things with on Friday nights, like movies, ballgames, events, concerts, ect.

4. If your from 35-45, Friday nights just mean rest, lots and lots of rest.
Your so beat down from previous 5 days of work, all you want to do is rest.

5. If your from 45-55, interesting period...you start going through a bit of mid life crisis...you're like 'hey, I can rest when I'm dead'...

So from 45-55 you start getting curious about life again, if one had hobbits, hobbits are grown by now, also maybe divorced, no reason to stay home.

6. If your from 55-65, A Friday is no different than a Monday or Wedensday....it's just another night, evening.
Either you have something schedualed or you don't.

At this stage you just want things to be quiet and stable.
At this stage all you want is peace and tranquility.

Again lot's of variables...depends on what one does, a 55 year old public politician spends their time a lot different than a 55 year old Janitor.

Some people still rock hard even at 55, expcecially if they're wealthy and famous...lot's of variables.

So in ending, I guess the purpose of this post was to highlight how differently Fridays, Friday nights, are received by various ages, and personalities.

Looking back on my own life, I'd have to say my best Friday nights were when I was in middle school and parts of high school.

Living at home, with no worries, no rent, no mortgage...just waiting on friends to call you up, always had friends back then, people who actually enjoyed your company, and you theirs, go to arcade, gym, walk downtown, try to crash parties you weren't invited to, it was all fun...so very fun, cause the people you were with were fun.

Never take for granted your friends you have now...never take them for granted, cause when you loose them, you'll never ever again find a group of loyal friends as the ones you had when growing up in your home town...later, and enjoy your Friday...

I've learned that if you plan on moving, you need to plan the move at least 5-4 months in advance, if not the time will catch up with you and you won't be prepared to do a thing.

It takes time and energy to move.

If all you have or own is a back pack, then no big deal, just hop in car or bus and go, but if you have a job, an apartment or house, stuff in storage ect, it takes time, and if you wait till the last minute to find new place, it won't happen, the time will approach so fast that you'll be over whelmed and just put it off.

Add to that the logistics, is it house to house, apartment to apartment, city to city, city to another State?

Whatever the move, it takes time, planning and money.
Plus you have to apply to wherever it is you think you want to move, I suggest starting that process as early as possible.

Getting a house and moving into an apartment are two different processes.
Both take their own type of planning and or approval.

Moving can be stressful, or fun, just depends on reason for move.

Watching 'Drag me to Hell' movie, again, probably the most watched movie I've ever seen over and over again.

Sometimes I feel as if we're all being 'dragged to hell'.

The movie is full of satire, that points out how easy it is for awful things to happen to average, nice, decent, people.

It's movie that relaxes me, for some reason.