We Are All Different - Shim - World Crew Email

Hey guys,




I sat with a new friend at a show recently and talked about some of the things on her mind.

I found it funny that so much of what she felt, mirrored how I feel. And I found myself listening to my own advice at times (which we all should do more of).



We walk through our lives looking, hoping, praying, dreaming for... acceptance. Just acceptance for who we are. Who we really are. Not who they want us to be. To just feel a part of something special.



A relationship.



A family.



A friendship.



But we are all different. Every single one of us. Not one of us is the same. Even identical twins have their differences, so they are not the same (talk about an identity crisis).





I remember having pimples as a kid and feeling ridiculed for it by girls and guys more popular than me. My godfather said to me "Wouldn't it make sense to say to each other, Hey we all have them so what's the big deal?" I remember wishing life was that simple. The funny thing is that I remember feeling like I was accepted when I stood in front of a mirror and had pimple popping competitions with my friend. We'd compete on who had the WORST pimple!



Because we accepted each other for it. And hence ... felt a part of something together (as messed up as that sounds). I didn't feel alone.



So my new friend says to me that she's having trouble cause she won't act like the other people at college and gets left out of situations. Feels isolated. And above all...



UN-ACCEPTED.



She feels judged by her so called friends because she wont be social in the same way as everyone else. She wants to take time to get to know people. Instead of getting drunk and laid and using the standard mechanisms that most 18 year olds use to get past their insecurities.



So I sit with this girl as she feels judged. But she isn't realizing that she is also judging all those people for how they interact. Just because it isn't how she would go about it. Her and all her friends are just as insecure as each other about being ACCEPTED. And they all do the best they can with their 18 years of experience.



I have felt judged my whole life because people told me I had to be something else to be fitted into someone else's situation.



And I didn't realise how much I judged them because I thought THEY didn't get it. When really we were just different. I wish I looked at it that way earlier.



I spent so long feeling completely alone when they probably were coming from exactly the same place. They just acted differently... because we're all different.



The mistake that I made was that I actually tried to change myself over and over again to fit into their situations. Which I could never keep up. Eventually I had to stand up and say "This is who I am. If you don't dig it, we aren't right for each other in this life. You go find someone who gets you, and I'll do the same." It hurts like hell but I actually feel happier knowing that at least when I'm alone, It's me.



And I will soon find people who get me.



Then we can not feel alone together.



Shim

Sick Puppies Live and Unplugged Released :)

Today the Live and Unplugged EP has been released in stores. hosting 4 of Sick Puppies accoustic versions of songs :
Odd One
So What I Lied
The Pretender
You're Going Down (Live)
To buy this EP go to the advertisments in this post

Viewing tour dates

To view the tour dates just click on the image and it will load it up as a full sized picture, if you wish to use the map function, go to sick puppies website at http://www.sickpuppies.net/ :)

Tour dates from the 6th April 2010

Sick Puppies - Odd One on Fuse.tv

Heres a link to view Sick Puppies latest music video - Odd One, rate it on http://www.fuse.tv/ countdown to help them reach number one :)
www.fuseblog.typepad.com/fuseblog/2010/01/video-of-the-day-sick-puppies-odd-one.html

A message from Shim - World Crew Post

Just though this email i got from being a member of the world crew made alot of sense :)

I had an interesting conversation with a friend of mine recently. (Yes I have a friend)

But first, I will ask you...

Think of YOUR biggest problem.

It should come to you pretty fast. The problem on your mind the most. The most unresolved thing that you think about before you can actually GET yourself into dreamland from your pillow each night.

Got it?

Good.

Now, back to my conversation.

My friend went to the observatory in LA. There he saw a tutorial on the Universe.

There he learned,

(Now REALLY read this)

Our planet revolves around our Sun with all the other Planets in our Galaxy.

Around our Planet there is a Moon that revolves around us. And the other Planets have a Moon if not more than one.

That one Solar System is one of BILLIONS and BILLIONS of Solar Systems that make up a Galaxy call the "The Milky Way".

Each of those billions of Solar Systems have BILLIONS of Suns with BILLIONS and BILLIONS of Planets revolving around them.

Each with BILLIONS and BILLIONS and BILLIONS of Moons revolving around them.

THAT Galaxy is one of BILLIONS and BILLIONS and BILLIONS of Galaxies all tied together to make up what is called "A Super Galaxy"

So a "Super Galaxy Contains"..... BILLIONS of Galaxies... with BILLIONS and BILLIONS of Solar systems.... With BILLIONS and BILLIONS and BILLIONS of Suns...... With BILLIONS and BILLIONS and BILLIONS and BILLIONS of Planets revolving around them..... with BILLIONS and BILLIONS and BILLIONS and BILLIONS and BILLIONS of Moons (more than one each sometimes) revolving around them.

Now In between all of these "Super Galaxies" there is something called "Dark matter" We don't know what it is but we know it exist because we can see the suns light refracting off of it.

So the Dark matter separates all the "Super Galaxies"

There are BILLIONS and BILLIONS and BILLIONS of Super Galaxies!

ALL those Super Galaxies with all those little Galaxies and tiny Solar systems and marbles of Suns and tear drops of Planets and rice grains of Moons inside them.

Now All of those "Super Galaxies" make up our Universe which we know is still ever expanding. We have no idea how big it is or how long it will grow.

Remember that problem you had?
:)

It's gonna be ok.

Trust me.

Shim

Sick Puppies accoustic EP !

The release date for this accoustice EP will be April 6th 2010.
To buy the CD go to :
Live & Unplugged Ep
Or for the MP3 EP :
Live & Unplugged