The Critique

iIve decided to Critique Perez Hilton's blog.
Perez Hilton is a socialite/celebrity blogger. His 'office' is in his local cafe when he is regularly visited by the celebrities he writes about. he has in fact befriended Paris Hilton who he took his namesake off.
His blog focuses on critizing Celebrity fashion and personal lives. he doodles on most of the photos on his site to make them more humorous or point out flaws.
Perez Hilton's site feature many expensive mainstream advertisements. currently the entire color theme of his site, which is usually bright Barbie pink,, is grey to promote the excessive advertising of a Holly wood movie Cloverfield.
Perez Hilton regularly promote gay celebrities and views as he himself is gay. He must have a large gay audience as there is advertisements for gay dating companies and websites.

Perez Hilton often gives his audience the opportunity to have their own thoughts and express them on his site. Most sections feature a "what do you think" , "you like" or comments section.

I like Perez Hilton's site because it doesn't try to act like he knows all the intimate details of celebrities lives like trashy magazines do he just criticizes them which what the whole celebrity news industry is really about anyway. i respect the fact that he has become really successful which is a feat in itself but also that despite the fact he is successful the content and tone of his blog has not changed.

AURORA

The Last

This is my last blog to you and i hope my thoughts and the ideas and
concepts i've borrowed from others
have given you something to think about, given you some wider
perspective on life and increased you level of happiness.

i've greatly enjoyed writing this blog as every week i was forced to
examine my own attitude towards the purpose
of life and what makes one happy. i personally feel that
it is important to ever individual to occasionally ask these sorts of question
otherwise you can travel through life being unhappy, unfilled and not contributing anything to your society.

so my dear readers this is goodbye. i wish you very happiness in the world, and after closely following my blog for 12 weeks, it's completely in our power to create your own happiness.
As some last thought from me to me:

• remember to smile
• remember to breathe- slowly and deeply
• remember to laugh(even if there is nothing to laugh about)
• remember to love it keeps you young and can be a great source of happiness

AURORA

the happiness of giving

i recently found out the joy of Giving. last week i volunteered
at a homeless shelter in Redfern. It was very humbling to give something back.
as i talked to the men who would be staying in the shelter that night
i came to realise that they weren't that different to myself.
After we made the beds the volunteers and homeless persons sat around
a table and shared some food before saying goodbye.

Treating others with the basic level of respect and compassion that all humans
deserve has the amazing effect of empowering and restoring a level of happiness to
the other person and reinforces the fact that humans are all the same
and are all inextricably link in ones own mind.

It's important to realise that humans are all in basic terms the same all that differs is our personal circumstances, which we can not always be personally responsible for.
this is why giving can be so rewarding. As we are all linked and have some level of empathy for one another seeing other humans in pain can be depressing. by giving something back and improving their situation in life one can feel better about the situation of their fellow humans.

AURORA

Music

Music has the power to invoke an arrange of senses and emotions.
I thought about what this could mean for ones level of happiness. i know that sometimes when I'm doing nothing in particular such as driving in the car and music is play i always feel a sense of happiness and contentment like i am suppose to be sitting in the car enjoying music at this point in time and that everything is how it should be.

Music taste is a personal thing but it could be good to exercise your ears.
different music can create different mood. Some styles I'd personally recommend for expanding your mind and mood are classical and jazz which leave the mind to wander free and body free to feel the vibrations and changes.

if you need to vent I'd recommend grunge and death metal to scream and jump around to not to mention swear to your hearts content.

if your just feeling down however whatever makes you smile or reminisce is best. music can make you happy especially if you dance or sing along to it as those activities release enphorines (happy chemicals produced by your body)

AURORA

laughter

laughing is one of the quickest 100% effective methods of improving your mood and level of happiness. When we laugh it releases endorphines and improves oxygen flow round the body.
i've complied a list of ways to make your self laugh:

1. go see a comedy at the cinema
   
2. hang out with young children, you can't help but smile and laugh with them
3. catch up with old friends and reminisce about the silly things you did when you were younger
4. ask someone to tickle you
5. listen to a comedy show on the radio
6. get together with a friend or sibling and tell 'dad jokes' 2:30 time to go to the dentist
   
7. get together with friends and challenge each other to do funny dares.
   
8. turn up your music and dance around your bed room

even taking 5 minutes out of your day to laugh can drastically improve your day and level of happiness

AURORA

travel and happiness

In my research on the subject of happiness i've discovered trend:
person is unsatisfied with their life> person decides to travel> experiences a new way of life and is often humbled or changes their perspective on life and their level of happiness improves.

often experiencing a new culture especially one were the value system is different, what makes a family unit is different, the political climate is different, the religious beliefs are different, the prosperity of the nation is different can be extremely enlightening about what is really valuable in life.

Earlier this year i traveled to Thailand. I was shocked to see children as young as 9 years old selling flowers on the streets of the tourist district at 3am in the morning, i found it quite confronting because i have a younger brother who is 10 years old. i thought about what my brother would be doing and i knew at this time of night he'd be in bed fast asleep dreaming about Pokemon or some Playstation game he wanted and in the morning he's wake up eat breakfast and go to school.

i later was told that these children only go to school a few days a few and learn pharses in English, French and Thai to assist them in selling things to tourists.

experiences such as mine can be real eye openers to how lucky you are. Traveling can be a positive, enlightening experience that can improve your outlook on life and alter your level of happiness and life satisfaction.

AURORA

A goal

i always find that when i am busy with 100 things and constantly checking things off my to do list I am happy.
Human require a purpose. life for most us will near 80 years in length but it's important that it's 80 years in width as well.
one of my favourite saying saying states that one should "dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die tomorrow."
It's vital to ones seem of self, self esteem and happiness to be growing and achieving regularly.
naturally achieving meaning different things to different people. whether it's through formal education, working, traveling or developing socially one must set goals to develop. learning should not stop when you finish schooling. life is a learning process and it's up to what you learn. so why not be proactive and decide who you want to be and learn to fit the dream inside your head. The goals can be small like always saying please and thank you or large like learning a language and traveling oversea.
whether big or small achieving these goals will bring a great sense of satisfaction and happiness,

AURORA