December 2011
16 posts
( A Freebie, Not a Burden )
A quick note on why I love to plop down on my bed accompanied only by the ultimate Trifection: Chex Mix, Diet Coke, and most importantly, a Book.
Reading seriously enables us to learn little trinkets of useful knowledge within a matter of minutes! Years and years of weary experience doesn’t have to be your one and only teacher.
Reading is basically a freebie. Everyone deals with the same...
( Mood Swings 101 )
THE NATURE OF THE BEAST
Low moods are a bizarre animal. They’re like a nasty drug that hijacks your thoughts and robs you of your intuition and perspective. They make bad things look bigger and good things look smaller. It’s as if they have their own demented gravity, drawing annoyances and inconveniences — not to mention the crappy moods of other people — out of the woodwork towards you. Foul...
The easiest way to sound profound is to reverse...
“Just because you say it’s true doesn’t mean it is.”
“It doesn’t mean it isn’t either.”
“I will never loose hope!”
“But will hope loose you?”
“Love is hard.”
“The hard things are love.”
“I enjoy milk.”
“But does milk enjoy you?”
“Cheese is smelly”
“Cheese isn’t smelly. Smelly is cheese.”
(a Kinda Fun Fact)
So supposedly…
If you’re at any of the Disney theme parks, whether it be the one in SoCal, Florida, China, etc…
and you ask any one of the park employees, ” What time does the park close down”…
they WILL ALWAYS REPLY WITH, ” The park IS OPEN until…”
Disney Inc specifically and deliberately trains their staff to use the words “is open...
( Notes to Myself-Hugh Prather )
I am convinced that this anxiety running through my life is the tension between what I “should be” and what I am. My anxiety does not come from thinking about the future but from wanting to control it. It seems to begin whenever I smuggle an “I want to become” into my mind. It is the tension between my desire to control what I will be and the recognition that I can’t. “I will be what I will be” –...