Oliver Bulfango's Blog – January 2009 Archive (14)

In thinking about the growth of my understanding of society and identity, I have delved deep within the grasps of insanity. Reaching within myself, through agony and happiness, time and time again, I have stared myself blankly at my own face absentmindedly. The vicissitude of my deeper understanding in my true identity was an arduous path that was clouded by temporary upbringings, which defocused me from the present, holding onto my history, which falsely defined me, and wishful goals,… Continue

Shrapnel of deceit multiply across the room

Deadly, sharp pieces envelope the air

Seeing the demise of another's doing

As only a few pierce into my body



Pain coercing through my nerves

Into my vertebrae where my brain feels the sensations

Illusionary pain brought into reality

Quickly born but ever so slowly dying



Lies told by a million mouths

But only a few find their way deep into my skin

Distorting my very truthful… Continue

After an eventful sociology class, which delved deep into the understanding of cultures' (subcultures and countercultures) evolutionary growth, I walked towards the library. On my way there, I had noticed the gentleman with the physics book again. Only this time he was sitting by himself. I decided to spark up a conversation with this individual. Wearing a dark red and white horizontally stripped shirt, he introduced himself as Juan soon after my own introduction. Finally! I have placed a name… Continue

I am sitting on a bench at the smoking area in front of the University Campus Library in Broward College. Although I am not smoking, I feel a sudden rush of thought surge through my brain thinking of the urge to smoke. I will not fall for it. Mere thoughts have been controlling my realities. Insanity. I will beckon to the very whims of all my thoughts. Instead, I choose to step back and observe them. Account for all of them and put them away like a tired librarian putting up books in a college… Continue

When a child is born, the child goes through life untainted. Innocent. The act of growing occurs naturally. The unnatural part of the growth, however, is the maturity. As innocent as the child is, values are bestowed to the sibling by family, society, and other external factors. These values are not hereditary. They are a learned behavior. A child of the age of 4 years old may not have the same value of money when turning 28. That same belief in the value can also change when turning 50. Why is… Continue

I've been maimed

I've been metaphorically shot

But through it all I have found my meaning

Living in better understanding of people's intent



I've been spat at

I've been yelled at

But now have better understanding

That people act blinded by social motives with no true content



Courageous efforts to prove that life has a meaning

Selfish efforts to define my own spirituality

Collective understanding to help direct humanity

Living… Continue

There are times when I question myself if the leaders that we physically see are the true leaders of the world. Understandably, they lead humanity towards a collective goal. They gather the collective thought and drive it into reality. Who is to say that these physical leaders are not truly the leaders that we think they are? In reality, the leaders are the people themselves. They are not the head figures that we see in everyday living. The true leaders are the professors, musicians, artists,… Continue

In our everyday lives, individuals feel the need to connect with another in hopes that their realities can be seen by the other. Throughout the years of humanity's existence, societies have always misunderstood each other due to communication, cultural, religious, and geographical barriers. These are the realities of which societies choose to live in whether they were subconsciously inherited or cognitively chosen. We have always, in at least one time during the span of our lifetime, felt as if… Continue

When I think of life, I think of death

When I think of death, I think of life

All that I see are things unseen

All that are unseen are left to be seen



I walk a road of obstacles that lay ahead

I walk with determination and no bias

Feeling free from all worldly things

Feeling the truth in my heart



Giving to others that I can give of myself

Giving myself the time to learn more

Heading towards a destination unknown

Heading there… Continue

"We have to awaken ourselves to awaken our world. We have to grasp the fact that life is so much more than we've been told. Even in a time of great deceit, deep force lies buries in the soul of the species, aching to come out."



"You get the world to change by changing yourself, and holding that position until underground force building in collective consciousness gains critical mass to catalyze world change."



"Crisis has the power to break the mass trance and ope you to… Continue

A human individual quickly goes through experiences that determine his/her outlook in life. Life’s meaning. This is the same for humanity, except that it takes over a period of time instead of a lifetime. It’s humanity’s lifetime itself. One can grow from a child to an adult (for the lack of better description because there is no difference, in theory, between child or adult. Experience determines what an adult is, but a child is the same as an adult because deep within he/she still has the… Continue

“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot… Continue

I was sitting at the red brick circle in front of the University College Library at Broward College and overheard two individuals talking about physics. There was an adult man whom was wearing glasses and a flannel shirt with blue denim jeans. His accent was of a non-American decent. I was not sure if he was a professor or a student at first. When I scrutinized his physics book, I noticed it was a student edition. Understandably, one can not assume judging by the cover of the book this… Continue

I do not see a delegation
For the four-footed.
I see no seat for the eagles.
We forget and we consider
Ourselves superior.
But we are after all
A mere part of the Creation.
And we stand somewhere between
The mountain and the ant.
Somewhere and only there
As part and parcel
Of the Creation.

-Chief Oren Lyons, Onondaga Nation, Iroquois Confederacy