It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing. It doesn't interest me how old you are - I want to know if you are willing to risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive. It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon, I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you've been opened by life's betrayal or have become shriveled and closed for fear of further pain. I want to know if you can sit with pain - mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it or fix it. I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic, to remember the limitations of being human. It doesn't interest me if the story your telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself. If you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. If you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy. I want to know if you can see beauty even when its not pretty, everyday, and if you can source your own life from its presence. I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon "Yes!" It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have, I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone and do what needs to be done to feed the children. It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand at the center of the fire with me and not shrink back. It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.
the man God has made specifically for me.
Wilco, Jeff Tweedy, swift, smashing pumpkins, Old Crow Medicine Show, Bob Dylan, Hopesfall, Finch, Silverchair, Nine Inch Nails, Coldplay, Radiohead, Mae, the chariot, Thursday, The Eagles, America, The Cure, Tears for Fears, The Carpenters, Coldplay, The Bee Gees, Simon and Garfunkel, DMB, WEEZER, the Killers, Jewel, Fiona Apple, Incubus, Silverstein, Dashboard, Norma Jean, Relient K, Sublime, Bright Eyes, Dmb, Ben Fold(five), Something Corporate, Straylight Run, Taking Back Sunday, Saves the Day, John Mayer, Senses Fail, 311, Red Hot Chili Peppers, the beatles, Damien Rice, the Pixies, the velveteens, Classical schtuff, mostly Haydn. Cant think of anymore right now.
"It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowing and there's this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it, right? and this bag was like, dancing with me. like a little kid begging me to play with it. for fifteen minutes. and that's the day i knew there was this entire life behind things, and... this incredibly benevolent force, that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever. video's a poor excuse. but it helps me remember... and i need to remember... sometimes there's so much beauty in the world i feel like i can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in." ~American Beauty ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------- "Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around." ~Love Actually
David the Knome, yo.Nick at NiteCartoon Networkthe officeSeinfeldFull House
"Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them-if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry." ~The Catcher in the Rye
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