Elyce Israel
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There weren't always dragons in the valley; in fact, valleys didn't always exist. However, there were always dragons, and despite appearances, mortals didn't always dread them. The dragons were always ember burning fire-breathing giants though, they weren't always called Dragons. Originally known as Agons, they were assigned to protect and help mortals find their own light by using their firebreath, Mechero. When a mortal acquired Mechero, it kindled an exclusive individual spark within them that only the mortal and the Agon who unleashed the Mechero could see. The mortal would have to do something special with a pure heart in order for this spark to grow into a brilliant light for others to see. When a mortal's light could be seen by all, they then became Luminos. The Luminos gained immortality because they were pure of heart. Many mortals, of course, could not complete the goal of being pure of heart. Mortals were notorious for their lust for power and envy by nature. The mortals were divided; those who had not given up hope of attaining the light were the Luz. Those that allowed their jealousy and envy to become an obsession filled with rage were the Luzers. The majority of mortals were Luzers, since it required little to no effort to hate, it was easy to find things to be mad about. Both the Luminos and the Luz were outnumbered by the Luzers. The Luzers were angered and felt like losers when they seen the power of the light, this allowed their rage to take over. Knowing they always had to see the light made them enraged knowing this was the way to gain immortality. Realizing their chances of gaining the powerful light were dwindling, infuriating them that much more making the odds very slim. However the Luzers were fully aware that they outnumbered the Luminos and Luz combined. In order to catch and confine the Agons, in hopes of stealing the mechero they devised a scheme to enslave the few Luminos and all of the Luz. The Agons would have to defend them because they were put here to protect and help them ignite their light. With a pure hearts, the Luminos had no desire to defend themselves, immortals possessed no iota of hatred or violence. Despite the fact that they were outmanned, the Luz refused to fight since they knew it would jeopardize their chances of one day having the light. So the Luzers enslaved them and went about carrying out their plan. Completely unaware of what was about to unfold; when they heard of this the Agons with their spitfire tongues poised for battle, wasting no time in rescuing the slaves. Flying out they reached the Luzers where they declared war on the Agons. The Agons accepted their fate in a trap. Every time any Agon would breath fire the Luzers would shoot an aquatic arrow that would electrocute the Agons sending them into electric shock. They would then drag them to imprison them. This war lasted over hundreds of year and was named “The Ongoing War”. Over the years because the Agons were dragged to the prisons they became known as what we call Dragons. The prison was inside many caves of mountains through out the land. The Dragons continued to fight until the youngest and wisest of Dragons, named Arsen came up w a plan to set them free. He suggested that they use their mechero to burn down the caves of the mountains. It took years for the Dragons to agree to this because merchero was extremely sacred. Eventually exhausted from being dragged the Dragons burned every prison cave and mountain utilized by the Luzers. Where those mountains and caves once stood became the valleys we see today. The Dragons captured all the Luzers and incinerated them. They then freeded all the Luminos and Luz, for the first time in a long time light was the majority and shined over all including the valleys and Dragons.
By Elyce Israel4 years ago in Fiction
Embedded quotient of a Boss
Hard to imagine at this age, in my mothers shoes; I would have six children and married for over a decade. Truthfully I struggle with establishing my own foundation so the comparison is far fetched. I know marriage is a partnership overall, however the distribution of responsibilities shared between a man a woman usually are by far two extremes. Women definitely came a long way and many feminist claim there’s still a journey to conquer among our opposite species. I’m all for women empowerment and independence, I just know that there are things that a man can do that I can’t and many times just refuse. The placement on these responsibilities I believe are discovered during the agreement of the union between two parties. This in no way makes the value of the responsibilities superior to any specifics by sex. I believe the value of responsibility is equal and total individual preferences accordingly. Brief Background on my parents who are now both senior citizens (early sixties). Her four year senior, my father met my mom when she was eighteen. At this age my mother became pregnant and refusing to have a child out of wedlock my parents wed. The pregnancy prevented my mother from completing high school and from that time for the next decade they would produce six children; two boys and four girls. On the fifth pregnancy my mom would have twins which she believed could never happen. As a twin also my mother was informed by doctors that she wouldn’t be able to twins herself. One can only imagine the shock of the news of twins when you already have a full household to feed and add two more mouths. Being one of the twins which made us the youngest of her children, we were often told by siblings that we had it easy and that we were spoiled. I just like to think by her fifth pregnancy she had enough practice to know what would make her job easier. I can’t speak on the mother that my siblings experienced. I can only share my personal experience shared with my mom individually. Even the experiences and relationship between my twin and I as individuals with our mother are truthfully on two different spectrum. I remember my twin stating that my mom showed me favoritism. I do not agree and frankly know it was the exact opposite. I can remembering asking my mother why did she show my twin favoritism and she said because she did not feel I needed the attention. There is no resentment because of this, I do believe my twin was more of an attention seeker early on. My twin also knew what tools she could utilize for this attention at all times. I’ve always described myself and laid back and down to earth, and many friends would often express how my twin and I were night and day. Meaning there’s no way my mother would be able to treat night and day equally. This makes total sense to me and I can’t object to anything. My mother is so loving and selfless I often tell her she is the exact definition of faith. She is the most faithful person I know and definitely a positive motivating force in my life.
By Elyce Israel5 years ago in Families
Reset Refresh Renew
Many generations surviving 2020 can collectively agree on one thing; 2020 was an unprecedented year. Many seniors have proclaimed that they have never seen or had to undergo what we all went through, currently still going through. The past year 2020 which I've nicknamed doubletrouble has gone above and beyond living up to its name. I can recall complaining to a friend in February because I didn't get what I wanted for valentines. He then simply replied “everything will be better next month now that the holidays are over.” That statement provided hope for the following few weeks until what I believe no one could've predicted and what I still consider the unthinkable happened. In the beginningu I recall everyone jokingly in disbelief; and the few people I'd question on how long it would last would respond a month. One friend was certain on the conspiracy that covid is a part of some political ploy that the government releases every presidential electoral year. He even went as far as stating if I researched any other mass traumatizing event I would find that it was done during a presidential electoral year. If he was bold enough to state this I was sold on it without the research it was just totally convincing to me at that point. Fast forward three weeks; the same people jokingly saying it will blow ever in three weeks were now irrate on how long they've been in the house and felt as though their constitutional rights were being violated. All of a sudden these same people were no longer expressing the joke and humor at all. The friend that proclaimed it was a political ploy..was now posting videos of his warehouse stocked full of toilet paper and survival necessities for the wellbeing of his family. Along with guns and rifles to protect his family from the uncertainty that everyone was uncertain about but knew it was an unknown enemy that we should protect ourselves from that he advised everyone to do the same because now he was singing a different tunes that covid is real and serious. I can remember going shopping for toilet paper and the aisles were empty I honestly felt like I was in a dream it was so surreal and just as equally unreal. I remember seeing a couple on that aisle and saying to them “it feels like a nightmare but that would mean we're all having the same bad dream” I wasn't sure if I was stating or questioning at the time perhaps both. I felt lost as though everything was out of my control. I made so many plans for double trouble that never happened and slowly but surely a new way of life and interpersonal interactions soon became normal. I said often “after this I don't believe I will be the same person” no matt who I stated this to; the response was always “nobody will”. In May it felt like I prayed everyday for it to be over so that I wouldn't have to celebrate my birthday in quarantined in June. My birthday was quarantined for sure as I finally began to embrace the new norms and the reality of what I thought I was in control of was merely a fragment of my imagination. A hard pill to swallow let's just say a horse pill. The truth for me, wasn't new routines because I felt as though I was quarantined before quarantining by choice. By deciding that many people did not deserve my energy and did not appreciate it and more times than not would take advantage of me; not necessarily on purpose however simply because that's who they are and do not know how to be anything different. Knowing these facts suddenly gave me a change of heart I love to distance myself by choice but if someone tells me I can't to something then suddenly I want to so that exact thing. Quarantine changed all the dynamics of my life and my choices. Suddenly I wanted to go out and do everything prior to covid was not on my radar. If I knew I most likely would've went out everyday before quarantine when I was home by choice; during quarantine I felt like a free prisoner. Advised to stay but the door is unlocked. This reflection on doubletrouble and it's global impact has made me thankful and ready to live my best life despite of any restrictions or newly incorporated normalities. I believe as unique individual humans were being everything starts within us and this is the root that fuels our life. As much as 2020 drained and deprived us of it does not own us. It's our individual right to decided how we want to react and our responsibility on how we choose to respond going forward. The first step is to reset which is the easy part. Buddha said “ Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most” Every day we awake the reset button is hit for us there is nothing we have to do it is our daily gift. However many people carry baggage that they've held on too for months some even year's unaware of the damage it's actually causing. The vital element in the restart is to let go. Let go of the negativity, the hurt, the pain, anything that prevents you from fully resetting your day. You know what is holding you back simply because it happened in the past. If you are keeping baggage from the past let it go. The past is over it can only bother you if you allow it. Become aware of things held on to from your last acknowledge it, make the decision to let it go and make a vow to yourself to make a complete reset daily. Take it day by day and a daily reset can become natural like second nature. Refresh your life by doing the things that make you feel good and reinvigorated. How you feel plays a huge part on how you see the world whether in a positive or negative light. Your perspective is influenced by what you feel and your thought process. The better you feel the better your perception. Everything starts with you; you decide how to react and even feel. Happiness is an inside job, if you're unhappy its because you've made the choice to allow your expectation of someones actions or lack of to impact you negatively. It's often times easier said than done and a huge part of self awareness to know what you're feeling and how you decide to react to others. Once you become aware that you are in charge of your feelings no matter what life throws at you it is refreshing. Refresh your decisions and make the choice to be happy regardless of what happens is a breath of fresh air and a means to a refreshed reset daily. Renew is to resume after an interruption. It's safe to say our life has been interrupted and indeed in need of a renew; again which starts and has everything to do with you. You can have the past weigh you down and feel as though you can't go on. Or you can take control of your life and decide that since the universe does the easy part for you and resets your life daily you can do the foot work of renewal. No matter what you feel was taken from you in the last year you are still here. If you ask me you are more than enough reason to resume your life and renew it. Taking a daily approach to renew is simple just analyze the things that have a negative hold on you decide to let them go ask yourself why does it have this impact and make a list of different perspectives. Once aware of the possibilities you are now aware of the capability of precieving and accepting these as a reality. Though may not be your current reality doesn't mean that it will never occur. Renew your mind and thoughts daily make the choice to see things that happen in a positive light no matter the outcome. Believe in a renewed sense of we'll being and happiness. Taking day by day measures to reset, refresh and renew your life is a individual unique choice that is our right; as the individual human we’re being and know everything starts within us first and our perception on life is our choice. Promise yourself to Reset, Refresh, Renew within you first, before making any decisions and life will be rewarding.
By Elyce Israel5 years ago in Motivation
Thank you
If I’m alone I can only watch comedies or romantic comedies etc. Scary movies and horror or shows with vivid violence and vulgar bloody scenes are really not for me. I find that I dwell on them long after I’ve watch them. When I will go over my best friends house we would watch the series called “The Boys ”in the beginning it was OK it was interesting I liked the theme the whole storyline it made sense. However the more we watched the more vulgar violence in bloody scenes appeared and overwhelmed the show and it just wasn’t for me. Not while I was alone anyhow. I was so hesitant to watch it by myself but I was at home bored one evening with nothing else to do so I thought I would build up courage and watch it so I turned on the show “The Boys” and in the beginning of this particular episode they were it was Frenchy and two of his friends were talking about how he loved the golden girls which had to be a gift from the gods because that’s all I needed to hear before I was on a quest to find the Golden girls myself . I was like the hell with this show I’m going to watch the Golden girls so I found the Golden girls and I was hooked. I mean literally I can watch the show all day all night. I would be laughing literally for hours, I just really genuinely enjoyed it. My favorite character was the mom Sophia she was so before her time all of her jokes and punchlines were hilarious; to me she made the show. I love the fact that the show was funny and it was based on women empowerment and friendship and trails we go through. One could actually learn so much from the show, I was surprised on risky it was regarding some topics to where I could remember my grandmother watching the show and the theme music playing and everything and her just laughing watching it but I was so young at the time I guess I never really understood what the show was really about. Once I realize everything they talked about surprisingly... I even asked myself my grandmother watch this ? I was shocked to find out that they touched on the basis of sex on the basis of women having multiple partners about older senior women not being married just they cover the whole broad aspect of topics that I felt like wow and amazed it was definitely before their time. I was shocked to find out that they touched on the basis of sex on the basis of women having multiple partners about older senior women not being married just they cover the whole broad aspect of topics. I guess all this played a part in why the show was on air for so long.Blanche she was so nice and lovely she is like the southern hospitality woman and the promiscuous one of them all and she brought a lot to the table she was spoiled she was the woman that could get any man that she wanted and she was determined to get what she wanted. She was just empowering overall no matter they sent her way
By Elyce Israel5 years ago in Geeks
No exception to the rule
All your life you have been learning something new. From home to school, teachers and parents, basically any adult influences in your life; you can admit someone has always tried to teach you something. From birth, life is a constant series of lessons for you to learn on your way to own your independence. What they don’t teach you is that learning is of a universal law that applies to every aspect of life, including you. You are no exception to the rule of learning. Meaning as an independent adult you have to learn who you truly are. Who are you? The masses are overwhelmed by their tedious routine or constantly distracted by meaningless decoys and useless social outlets. These things become the main focus of peoples lives as they never second guess its true impact . The consumption of these things detach us from self. As a child many things are taught to you for a specific outcome. The adults in your life taught you what they felt you needed to learn according to their individual standards. We are taught these things to behave, act, respond in a certain way that will accommodate the adults in our lives at that time. Things are taught to us with expected outcome. If these expected outcomes are not displayed then you were punished or received an unpleasant response. This is because the basis of the standards taught to us as children were of power and control some even claim for protection. The adults in our lives needed us to follow their rules and standards for one purpose; to make their lives easier. If these rules and standards were not made or followed, many lives would be unbalanced and chaotic. Therefore as a child we are taught what others decide we should learn. However they fail to teach us in order to become the unique individual human you are being; as an adult you have to teach you to yourself. In everything you learn, you are no exception to the rules. In order to live up to your beings full potential and fulfill a truly authentic life being you; first you have to know who you are. In order to do this you have to spend time with yourself learning yourself. Some call this soul searching or self awareness. Majority of people are overwhelmed by the tedious repetition of life. Never thinking twice of the possibility to reevaluate who they really are. The masses are constantly distracted by meaningless decoys and useless outlets that consumes and clutters their mind that they’ll never grasp the fact of self awareness. Many are often bored with this fact and some convince their self that there is no time for that and they have more important things to do. What could possibly be more important than you to you? As social media reflects many are followers just following what they see, the next trend, what they believe is cool or will make them cool. Attempting to fit in with the in crowd and trying to please everyone but their self. The blind leading the blind is easy because the blue print is easily accessed. No one feels they have time for themselves anymore, with twenty four hours in a day how many hours to you spend getting to know you? It’s been said it takes a lifetime to truly get to know someone. I like to say especially if they don’t know who they are. If it takes a life time to get to know someone else imagine how long it takes to know your self if you’ve never given yourself the time of day. There comes a point in your adult life where you have to make your own choices and the first choice should be to get to know who you are authentically. You have to take our time to listen to your mind your heart. The beauty of life is our gift of feeedom of choice. Everything in life has a choice and inevitably a decision has to be made. You are where you’re at in life because of a series of decisions you made in the past. Every decision played a part to get you exactly where you now. Whether or not you are where you want to be or not you made some choice on the road to now. Now I want you to make a choice and decide to get to know who you are. You are definitely a late bloomer but it’s never to late. Often we second guess ourselves and doubt the thoughts in our mind. We never give ourselves credit because we have yet to even know who we are. The good thing is that once you start to learn more about yourself the learning process from then on is a piece of cake. It becomes second nature or I’d like to call it first nature. Imagine a neglected you inside of you; lonely, helpless and crying for attention and love. I’m often amazed at how many people are so eager to neglect themselves just to follow the next person or attempting to love someone that is constantly rejecting their love or just taking advantage of them because of lack of self worth. It’s sad at how many people settle with unacceptable treatment simply because they don’t know who they are enough to realize or care to know what is really happening to them. Meanwhile the inside you is hurt broken lonely and bruised; still crying out waiting for you to hear. It’s amazing once you meet yourself and see how much pain and neglect you’ve been putting yourself through, you will wonder how you went on so long without acknowledging the fact. You’ll even question your self esteem. Once you become acquainted with yourself and reflect on life without you, questions will arise: “how did I put myself through that?” “Why did it take so long for me to see inside of me” “did I have low self esteem?” “Did I not value myself” “did I not love myself?” “did I hate myself?” All these questions are normal because it natural to feel this way when you haven’t been intuned with what’s inside you. When you connect to yourself inside you become whole, you have a new perspective on life you start to see things authentically and all these things contribute to a new way of thinking, new way of living and a new peace of mind. They say treat people the way you want to be treated, but how is that possible when you don’t know yourself enough to know how you want to be treated. I firmly believe that it is a universal law that everything starts within. How can you expect to be loved if you don’t know how to love yourself. Start with you, apply that to any aspect of your life. You first, why? Because without you, you wouldn’t be alive. You are all there is at the end of the day. It is mandatory for you to be there for yourself in every way possible. You have been a stranger to self long enough, your heart and soul is crying out to be complete.
By Elyce Israel5 years ago in Motivation
W.A.P
I've always felt that I made the decision to get my body art done as a result of what I would consider a major transition in my life. Recently I have definitely considered a new piece of body art under the transition of covid. Considering that it has definitely change me and I believe I would not be the same post covid. I told a friend about the covid prompting of new artwork and she suggested that of a mask. However not my idea of art I would consider, I definitely got a kick out the thought. I've always been emotionally driven considering I tend to wear my heart on my sleeve. Ironically I have multiple hearts that collectively make up my sleeve. Some broken hearts, lock and key heart, even a love potion heart as an elbow piece. The original theme; how I would describe my sleeve is different emotions that love sends you through. Along with being emotionally driven, I am also big on energy as well as astrology. I tend to look for signs and meaning in everything; as the Cosmos are attempting to send me a message in all I do. I dated a guy named Hammer when I lived in texas; I'm originally from California. While we dated he would call me Wap, doesn't sound like the sweetest name initially and when I asked him what it meant I suppose the name did grow on me. Hammer said that Wap happened to be an acronym that stood for Wild African Princess or when he was in a good mood Wild Ass Princess. I loved Hammer so this nickname he had grown on me. However saying the word Wap never sounded enduring. Hammer was a radical very unique in every way, our relationship, unfortunately, did not last and I decided to move back home to California. After a few years Hammer remained one of my best friends and very supportive of me no matter what. So when he passed away I was devastated. It was a very hard transition for me so naturally I easily decide to get a few pieces of art work in his memory. One being the nick name he gave me W.A.P. with a crown on top of the W. I loved it and when people would inquire about it I would be able to share a bit of my life with them. I've never met anyone with the same nick name let alone those exact letters as body art. Considering how I'm looking for signs or meaning from the cosmos; I actually thought the universe was trying to play a joke on me recently. I literally thought I was being punked when I logged onto Instagram and to my surprise I seen a post with Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion with the caption WAP. I honestly thought it was a joke like someone I know hacked me and playing a weird mind game. Who posted this on my timeline and playing this rule game with my mind. It was hard for me to believe more so because I’ve never seen anyone just put those letters together for any reason outside of Hammer. To just wake up one day and see the exact letters of a sentimental piece of art work I have which is rare and unique as the man who gave it to me as the caption of two famous people just confused me. What did it mean? What was the universe really trying to tell me? What was the sign? I finally searched on Google For the meaning their WAP. when I finally discovered the meaning I was not surprised if I thought about it I didn’t have to Google it at all I just had to use my mind and put it two and two together. Still in disbelief of their meaning and the odds that I might be the only person with it actually as body art somehow settled as a joke Hammer was playing on me. Knowing Hammer’s sense of humor and the radical he once was it suddenly became clear to me that perhaps his WAP had the same meaning that he decided to tell me meant something he believed I would be able to accept at the time. The more I thought about this the more it made perfect sense. With this realization, I laughed at the fact that I decided to get this as a piece of artwork and astonished that Hammer was still able to make me laugh years later from the other side. In the end though I felt like the joke is on me; though I do not regret anything it will always hold sentiment to me. Since this regulation I have newly declares that I'm the original WAP in all it's meaning.
By Elyce Israel5 years ago in Humans
