Jay Alders

About me:

Spiritual and warm hearted....sometimes a sarcastic wise-ass
Optimistic and happy...sometimes though, the glass seems half empty.
Outgoing party guy...sometimes an accomplished quiet introvert
Goofy, silly and fun....sometimes overly serious and too analytical for my own good
Free spiritied artistic modern day hippy...sometimes a workaholic entrepeneur.
Clear headed and strong minded..sometimes a complete emotional sap

I've been a Vegetarian since I was about 16 and now a very proud Vegan.

I rarely shy away from a good debate... Usually about Religion, Quantum Physics, Morality, the Universe, Music, Art, Alien life or Psychology...often playing 'devils' advocate' and arguing both sides...I find this theme throughout my life, always questioning others and myself equally, not to critique, so much as understand. I think this side of me is tormenting at times but also serves me as an artist and exercises my spiritual side... After all, there is no reality, only perception.

I focus on surrounding myself with genuinely good people that are content with themselves and constantly on a balanced path of spiritual, physical and mental fulfillment.

We are all connected in the universe and I believe in Karma.

Every day I feel great pride and appreciation for being able to make a living being an Artist, which is all I've wanted to do since I was a kid. The past few years of my Art Career have been especially awesome to say the least. Consequentially the doors of opportunity that have opened to me and the genuine friendships I've kindled as a result prove to me the importance of having gratitude daily and following your dreams.

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Regrets, People that take advantage of my kindness, Those heated hand dryer things in bathrooms, Judgemental people, Tech Support people who can barely speak English, Having to work when I don't want to, Daylight savings time, Hunters, Scraping the roof of my mouth when I eat toast too fast, Cold Weather, Litter bugs, Pushy Religious People, Feeling unappreciated, Licking Napkins, Not being able to help those I love, Tolls, Mean Cops, Jagermeister, Goldschlager, Rumplemintz, Mustard, Politics, Corporate Attitudes, Liars, Bullies, feeling Negative when I get my "man-strual Period" , Having to pay to get on the beach, Traffic, Flat surf, Unnecessary honking, Obnoxiously loud motorcycles, Cat hair/Cat piss, Bills, Procrastination, Drivers that don't use their blinkers,People that cause traffic jams staring at accidents, Getting hurt or disappointed by friends and family members

Nascar:.. Vroom, Vroom, Change a tire, Cheer for some dude driving a car in circles, Crash, repeat...

Testicle Placement:..Man's most sensitive and pain potential jewels, end up on the outside...How did this happen?!

Crazy Sports Fanatics..: "Yeah We're the Best!! We won!! You guys Suck!!"....(uh, no, you're sitting on your lazy ass, watching dudes in tight clothes play with balls.

25 MPH Speed Limits: Enough said.

The Bible..:I don't get how people blindly believe stories from thousands of years ago from people who sacrificed their first born on rocks and didn't have toilet paper or science class...I mean, if someone today told me how the Atlantic Ocean just opened up so this dude could walk through it or if some Mom came on TV and swore she was a virgin and her son is God... I might think they were a crack head.

Drug Laws..: Why is Marijuana illegal and "immoral" but the drug of Alcohol is glorified and commercialized? Didn't we learn from Prohibition?

Hypocritical Animal Lovers..: I don't get when people are such "animal lovers" with their pets, yet they are okay with someone else slaughtering and torturing animals to turn their rotting dead carcasses into a burger or McNugget. There's a fine line to ignorance and acceptance for many people. Go on www.meat.org and make your own mind up.

American Censorship..: We can watch blood,gore and guts on CSI, Niptuck and the News...but someone's middle finger,a boob or "bad words" we can't handle. Hmmmm :-/

MY THOUGHTS ON CORPORATE AMERICA: "9 to 5", "Commute" and "Boss" are yucky words that I dont use.

I Try and Follow the three R's:

Respect for Self
Respect for Others
Responsibility for all your Actions

The amount that we let ourselves love, is who we truly are...

Trade in the Attitude for Gratitude

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest human battle ever. Never stop fighting." E.E. cummings

"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful."-Buddha

"You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, “Why not?" - George Bernard Shaw.

"Falling in love isn't about finding the perfect person, it's about seeing an imperfect person perfectly"

"If you don't like something change it, if you can't change it, change the way you look at it"

"When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself."~ Wayne Dyer"

"Life isn't about finding yourself it's about creating yourself"