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America has become so politically correct.  Everything and anything has to be screened tons of times to ensure that it won’t offend anyone.  One of the worst things that is happening now is how people are trying to put children in a bubble.  I was looking at my feeds when I saw this article, “How to Choose a Movie for a Child.” It goes on to say that some Disney movies are inappropriate for children, and then the writer starts talking about how anime is way too adult for children.  This really annoyed me because it’s trying to shelter children to a point that anything is “too much for them to handle.” I want to tell them about all those kids who I met in my life whose parents tried to protect them way too much.  What usually happened?  When they went to college and were away from their parents, they started partying, sleeping around, and drinking like crazy.

You can’t shelter your kids, people!

I came from Panama where we grew up watching anime and not caring about the movie rating.  My parents would tell me to close my eyes during sex scenes, and that was the only censorship we had.  Since I was young, my family would give me sips of their drinks.  While all the kids here were talking about how cool they were for going out and getting drunk, I barely drank.  While all of them were sneaking in rated “R” movies and sometimes copying the stupidities they saw, I had more of a “Meh” attitude.

This is the way I am raising my children.  I am not censoring everything that they come across.  If it’s something that is disturbing to them, like the recent death of a 21-year old kid riding his motorcycle in my parents’ neighborhood, we sit down and talk about it until they are satisfied.  We live in the world that is full of crazy things, and our job is to ensure that our kids have the right tools to handle them.  We won’t be able to do this if we shield them from the realities of the world.

Awhile ago, I posted the top ten songs, poems, and movies to hear and see when you are suffering from a broken heart.  I’m starting to feel better about a lot of things.  Accept everything that happened and realize that there are things that I am unable to control.  All I can do is be strong, and continue trekking on.  Life is too short to be so miserable.  If I died tomorrow, would I really want my last days on Earth to be moping around aching for someone who never really cared much about me to begin with?  No.

I created this Rhapsody playlist when I was enduring all that pain. Art in all forms can help you get through many hard parts in your life. They make you realize that there is someone out there who has gone through what you are going through, so you are not alone.  Also, that you will be alright.

Here is the playlist that I created, which you are able to listen to by pressing the Play icon. I hope that it can probably help someone out there.

Only for the Brokenhearted

Never Too Late by Three Days Grace

Better In Time by Leona Lewis

Aunque no te pueda ver by Alex Ubago

The Winner Takes It All by ABBA

Sin Miedo A Nada by Alex Ubago

The Story by Brandi Carlile

Through The Fire by Chaka Khan

Behind (Callea Club Mix) by Flanders

Hurt by Christina Aguilera

Prayer by Disturbed

Remember by Disturbed

I Guess That’s Why They Call It The Blues by Elton John

Tu Vacio by Enrique Iglesias

Solo En Ti by Enrique Iglesias

I Could Fall In Love With You by Erasure

Crazy On You by Heart

Heartless by Kanye West

Deseos De Cosas Imposibles by La Oreja De Van Gogh

West End Girls by Pet Shop Boys

Love Song by 311

Adia by Sarah McLachlan

Do What You Have To Do by Sarah McLachlan

I Love You by Sarah McLachlan

Someday by Soda Club

So Far Away by Staind

Get By by Talib Kweli

For All We Know by The Carpenters

Linger by The Cranberries

You Keep Me Hangin’ On by The Supremes

You Got Me by The Roots

Tardes Negras by Tiziano Ferro

Overload by Voodoo & Serano

White Flag by Dido

Saving All My Love For You by Whitney Houston

Last Night (Featuring Keyshia Cole) by Diddy

Torn by Natalie Imbruglia

Gotta Tell You  by Samantha Mumba

Crazy by Gnarls Barkley

Can a broken heart be mended?  Is love never having to say you’re sorry?  Do you forgive those you truly love?  Can anything separate two lovers?

You once said I was too idealistic and that this would be my downfall if I don’t start accepting reality.  It’s sad that you are the reason I no longer have this innocent idealistic point of view.  I know that you read my blog.  This is for you:

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments; love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no, it is an ever-fixèd mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand’ring bark,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his heighth be taken.
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Sonnet 116
William Shakespeare

The last lists that I am going to post.  Sorry for being so solemn, but that is my current mood.  These are the movies, songs, and poems that I constantly read to try and find the answers to all of my questions of love and heartache.

Top Ten Movies for the BrokenHearted

Top Ten Songs:

1. Brandy and Boys II Men – BrokenHearted

2. Lasgo – Something

3. Hyde – Season’s Call

4. Dido – White Flag

5. Abba – The Winner Takes It All

6. Natalie Imbruglia

7. Chaka Khan – Through the Fire

8. Alex Ubago – Sin Miedo a Nada

9. Tiziano Ferrero – Tardes Negras

10. Brandi Carlisle – The Story

Top Ten Poems:

1. Shakespeare Sonnet 116

2. William Wordsworth – Splendor in the Grass

3. Emily Dickinson – After Great Pain

4.  Edgar Allen Poe – Annabel Lee

5. Lord Alfred Tennyson – Tear, Idle Tears

6. Sir Walter Raleigh – A Farewell to False Love

7. Emily Dickinson – Heart, We Will Forget HIm

8. Emily Bronte – Remembrance

9. Lord Byron – She Walks in Beauty Like the Night

10. Shakespeare Sonnet 147

I am flipping channels and see that “Something to Talk About,” starring Julia Roberts, is on.  I  remember how much I hated this movie.  Her husband is cheating all over town, and at the end of the movie, she is on the road to forgiveness.  I think I was a teenager, and I was so angry.  What was this trying to teach people?  Forgive your husband if he starts being sweet because that shows that he really loves you.  The only good thing about this movie is that she becomes independent.  However, couldn’t this have been made more clear if she would have left her cheating husband?

I really think that Bullock film, “Hope Floats,” was a way to remake the ending the way it should have been.  She finds someone who respects and adores her dearly and says F* you to her husband.  I really preferred this movie over Roberts’ because it showed the really strength that a woman has to have.  She leaves her comfortable life behind and becomes a happy, single mother.  Well, she did have Harry Connick Jr. to make her forget her husband.