Friday, February 02, 2007

 

fame, success, plans, and trust

it would be so easy to become famous and successful if only i were famous and successful.

i don't make plans, i make trajectories...velocities and directions into which i can launch myself.

one of my favorite aunts once told me, "just do what you love most, and the rest will follow." and i'm not one to distrust an aunt...

...so, here i am, doing what i love most, and i trust that the rest will follow.

love, self

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Tuesday, December 05, 2006

 

Breakdowns

If you haven't had at least 4 mental breakdowns in your life, I have a hard time believing you're a real, functioning human being.

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English

If you can understand these very words, then you have a huge advantage over most of the world.
12/06

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Sunday, August 20, 2006

 

Absent-Minded

It's not that my mind is absent, it's just present somewhere else.

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Sunday, July 23, 2006

 

impressing people

Dr. Seuss says, "Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.")

To go along with this: Anybody who you feel you need to impress is nobody worth impressing.

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Monday, July 03, 2006

 

to those who've called me weird

To all of you who have called me weird, I need to thank you. You've freed me.

I just realized that. Your endless criticisms, judgments, assumptions, extrapolations and scoffs have truly freed me. There are so many cool things that I have already done and will continue to do because I'm no longer burdened with the responsibility of appearing normal.

It feels nice.

This entry is like...so random and weird, isn't it!!! omg omg so weird.

Good.

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legacy of cleverness

i don't want to be remembered for my cleverness.

instead, i want to be remembered for not-wanting-to-be-remembered-for-my-cleverness.

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i want to send more letters.

i'm so amazed by people who use snail mail. it's such an amazing effort. so many things have to be planned, coordinated and executed in order to successfully send a piece of postal mail -- addresses, stamps, envelopes and outgoing mailboxes, just to name a few. i wish i sent more letters to people i care about.

it's so cool to get mail from someone -- even just sending someone a quick postcard or a magazine article you think they might enjoy.

enough writing about it, i'm going to start doing it.

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improvement

A quick way to improve your essay is to find your worst sentence and then make it your best.

That's a good way to improve your life, too.

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boredom

just when something starts to feel mundane and/or lifeless, that's the time to celebrate it for absolutely no reason.

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Compromises.

The compromise is usually smarter than either side of the issue.

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A Hilltop From Which to Yell

Sometimes I would like one, please.

Thanks!

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Japan Will Change Me!

I look forward to being out of the country for a period of time long enough such that my friends and family back home will, upon my return, inevitably attribute my past decade (or so) of character growth not to my countless, grueling journeys through the formidable depths of my own soul, but rather to my having lived in Japan for a year.

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Monday, June 26, 2006

 

accept

some people are unable to accept you for who you are.

accept these people for who they are.

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