"The belief that sitting down and talking will insure mutual understanding and solve problems is based on the assumption that we say what we mean and what we say will be understood as we mean it."
Life is a game. Not a competition, but an expirament.
"The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think of, say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company, a church, a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past...we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude, I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you, we are in charge of our Attitudes." -Charles Swindoll
This is me, and this is my life. There is not a lot to say, so enjoy your look around...
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So about me: I like the sun. being able to play outside. being with people who you can have an intellectual conversation with. finishing a conversation, even if it is really about nothing important. taking time to get to know someone. enjoying life for what it is, even if it isn't what you want it to be. I like to go somewhere just to go somewhere. to take time off for the sake of being alone. or taking time off to be with people. I like running and feeling tired because there is some reward somewhere for it. for rewarding yourself even though you don't deserve anything. for staying up late to be rebellious in your own little way. even though you need to get up early. i like not capitalizing things because I don't want to backspace and fix it. i like things being imperfect even if it is so that I know that I am not the only imperfect thing. I like listening to music that just sounds good. or listening to music that doesn't sound great but you can sing to it at the top of your lungs. I like music that you listened to in Jr high and high school because it makes you feel foolish and young again. I like driving fast because you know you are wasting gas. because you are again being rebellious in you own little way. because it is what the cool kids do and you want to be cool. i like not knowing what tomorrow will be like. but knowing that it won't be like today. and it is moving things forward that will inevitably have to be. I like people who are willing to be themselves and take the crap for it because the rest of the world wants to be like the cool kids. I like the people who want to be like the cool kids because they have never been shown who they should be themselves. I like people. i like people who like the same things as me. I like people who like different things than me to show me how different people and things can be. I like taking pictures that freeze the world in a fraction of a second, a section of time with a visual to go along with it. I like movies that freeze an emotion in your mind of something bigger than yourself. I like music that freezes a sentence or tune inside your head that entertains yourself for hours on end. all because of one line of a song. I like things that you can count on happening. I like things that are sporadic and unpredictable. I like long letters and notes that mean something deeper than the usual hum drum of life. people who are willing to lay it all out for something more than themselves. people who are willing to give when they have gotten so much. people who are willing to give when they have gotten nothing. i respect people who have gotten nothing, but are willing to work for everything they have. i want to be someone who works for everything i have because all I have been given. I want to know what to say when someone asks "about me." I want others around me to be affected by me in a positive way. I want to make my mark on this earth. in the best way possible. in a way that people respect and something else deeper than respect. I want something bigger than myself. I want to like. I want to love. I love to be. I love to be who I am. I love to be a person. who doesn't know anything. actually i don't. but i do love. and i love people. and i love the fact that few people are still reading this. and i love to read into other people because they want to be understood and loved as well. I love being well. and i love that i will be sick or encounter obstacles in life and become stronger from it. I love that feeling after defeating something. I love feeling good after feeling down. I love feeling really good after feeling really down. I love to feel happy because other people are happy. I love life. and finally... I love lamp.
