Vince

I am a man who, sauntering along without fully stopping, turns a casual look upon you and then averts his face,
Leaving it to you to prove and define it, expecting the main things from you.
A man saw me pursuing the horizon;
Round and round I sped.
He was disturbed at this;
So he accosted me.
"It is futile," he said,
"You can never — "
"You lie," I cried,
And ran on.
My name is Vince, and I'm a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean favored, and imperially slim.
I believe there's a very thin line between reality and imagination.
I'm open minded, and I think get a lot more out of everyday little things than most other people do.
I am a ridiculous man. They call me a madman now. That would be a distinct rise in my social position were it not that they still regard me as being as ridiculous as ever.
I'm a cat person.
I eat a lot.
And I sleep a lot.
And I dream a lot.
(Each more important than the last)
Every morning upon awakening,
I experience a rare and exquisite joy:
That of being Vincent James Alia!
And I ask myself,
Wonder-struck and in rapture,
What wonderful and prodigious thing
Am I going to accomplish today?
I'm a child at heart,
Not 18 years of age-
But 8 years old with TEN years experience! :-P
I used to be 5'2 and 90 pounds
With big glasses and an even bigger passion for insects.
I got bullied every day for that in my freshman year of high school,
So that summer I had to put down my Bible
And pick up a fitness magazine,
Let go of the glasses, and grabbed on to a chin-up bar
And I became the living hybrid
Of Bruce Lee and Vin Diesel overnight.
Now I'm 135 pounds of twisted steel and sex appeal, baby! :-D lol jk
"Love was offered to me and I shrank from its disillusionment;
Sorrow knocked at my door, but I was afraid;
Ambition called to me, but I dreaded the chances.
Yet all the while I hungered for meaning in my life.
And now I know that we must lift the sail
And catch the winds of destiny
Wherever they drive the boat.
To put meaning in one’s life may end in madness,
But life without meaning is the torture
Of restlessness and vague desire—
It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid."
I love God, I love myself, and I love others.
I love a good laugh
And the wonderful feeling
I get from my fantastic friends!
"They love me like I was a brother
They protect me, listen to me
They dug me my very own garden
Gave me sunshine, made me happy."
I'm constantly changing.
I am many.
I contain multitudes.
To label me is to negate me.
In public, I’m a naive, eccentric oddball,
but in private, I'm really a serious, somber and cerebral thinker.
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
I try to be the change I want to see in the world.
All of the people I have met so far in life have shown me that only the example of great and pure character can produce fine ideas and noble deeds.
"A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving..."- Albert Einstein
My optimism is off the scale. I have my dreams, and I will continue to work toward achieving them. "Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." - Henry David Thoreau.
Indeed... Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead...
I’m accident prone, a little vague, a little discombobulated, with a life that possesses all the security of a drop of water strung on a spider’s filament of web. But this can be said of Vince Alia: without him, without his warmth, without his kindness, the world would be a considerably poorer place, albeit perhaps a little saner. Should it not be obvious by now, I am a fixture in my own private, optimistic, hopeful little world.
"I WANNA LIVE, BREATHE! I WANNA BE A PART OF THE HUMAN RACE! I WANNA LIVE, BREATHE! I WANNA BE A PART OF THE HUMAN RACE!"
*NOTE: I am a work in progress. If you don't like me, it's okay; neither do I.