The heart may freeze or it can burn,
The pain will ease if I can learn,
There is no future, there is no past,
I live this moment as my last,
There's only us, there's only this,
Forget regret, or life is yours to miss,
No other road, no other way,
No day but today
Good conversation. Laughs. Trying to inspire some people along the way.
To be a teacher.
Avoiding a struggle with delay. Inaction breeds compliancy and managing this is imperative to looking towards more.
What more do we want? How serious are we?
This hardly prevents an expression of our thoughts, but it is easy to confuse an avoidance of usual patterns.
This does nothing to take away from where we plan to go and does not diminish our sentiments, especially those most valuable. Despite distraction, do not forget those things we should have faith in -- without seeing, obvi.
We write to capture moments so that in reflection we have something to
remind us. It is sometimes hard to present scenes, but imagination inspired
by quiet moments are enough to carry us closer.
You can say something is meaningful and see it. You can write something is
remarkable and believe it.
What is unique is holding to these things. The obvious things or more
obscure. Songs. Simple Messages. Dreams. Trips. Moments. Time.
Music. Songs that bring back memories or are gateways to new ones.
Cocktails and Conversation. Remembering those last words and reflecting on why they matter.
Stories, Walks and that last phone call. Consistency -- a very good thing.
Very informal. Our thoughts are often this way: fleeting feelings. Writing things down in a moment captures them -- there is some danger in response, but we can probably guide our way to what we mean.
Leaving ice cream in the fridge to find it almost gone the next day. Magazines. Small notes. Quick emails. The smell of Comm. Ave in the spring. Breakfast at ABP. Mexican Food.
Those things that make us smile. Erase any discontent. The little inspirational things, which touch words and motivate. Why? Because we work for these things, we seek these things. Moments where we are the most happy – why does this have to be a climax? Is not happiness sustainable? Even when things are not going our way, we can fall back to these little things, memories or living them out. Pursuing them.
Whether we make them or wait for them, the excitement of such banter can be memorable. However, can moments hinge on simple words? I doubt it.
I am getting older. Although I do not believe this provides me any tangible advantage, I do have perspective to make better decisions. I still believe in my boyhood ideals, only now I make them happen, instead of dreaming.
I loath disappointment, but it happens. People promise all the time. . .can they fulfill it? Sometimes. You know what I mean and it is not about us. You say something is valuable, let us say, “a friendship”. How do you show that? How do you mean it?
We do not stumble across extraordinary moments, we plan them or we live them from our hearts – we mean it.
Would you do the things you ask of me? An unplanned late call – from me this time, not you, for instance: would you make that walk or would you let me make it?
I am not a poet. Nevertheless, I know how to see.
Encapsulate a birthday and time remaining in a movie? Film, music and a little journey. Elizabethtown.
Quick trips to favorite cities. No planning neccessary. Spending 24 hours in a place you know well -- the quick planning, the journey and then the evening. These nights are always bound to be fun, despite the elements, be them weather or people.
Conversations, glances and movie moments.
On issues in politics, I tend to take opposing viewpoints. At times, this debate puts me in awkward situations, as I may argue points with which I do not agree. However, on some issues it is impossible for me to deviate from my true beliefs. Affirmative Action is among these subjects.
The passage of civil rights legislation in the early 60s did much to address over 300 years of discrimination faced by minorities in the United States. 40 years later, we still have a long way to go to ensure equal opportunity. Affirmative Action attempts to address the gaps of past discrimination by ensuring diversity.
The system has faults and abuses. However, we must look to continue and refine these processes to make up for our past mistakes.
Sometimes you are in the mood. Other times you are not. However, when you feel so inclined, do not stop yourself. Do not be cautious; say anything, say everything.
Aristotle argues that friends can be viewed as second selves. Just as virtuous behavior improves oneself, friends can improve each other--this is the importance of friendship, and the reason it may be regarded as a type of virtue. The success or failure of a friend can be like one’s own success or failure. Aristotle divides friendships into three types, based on the motive for forming them: friendships of utility, friendships of pleasure and friendships of the good.
Friendships of utility are relationships formed without regard to the other person at all. Buying merchandise, for example, may require meeting another person but usually needs only a very shallow relationship between the buyer and seller. In modern English, people in such a relationship would not even be called friends, but acquaintances (if they even remembered each other afterwards). The only reason these people are communicating is in order to buy or sell things, which is not a bad thing, but as soon as that motivation is gone, so does the relationship between the two people unless another motivation is found.
At the next level, friendships of pleasure are based on pure delight in the company of other people. People who drink together, or share a hobby may have such friendships. However, these friends may also part--in this case if they no longer enjoy the shared activity, or can no longer participate in it together.
Friendships of the good are ones where both friends enjoy each other's characters. As long as both friends keep similar characters, the relationship will endure since the motive behind it is care for the friend. This is the highest level of relationship, and in modern English might be called true friendship.
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"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours."
. . . i can't answer these things for you, but i can tell you this. and i say this to you after a lot of reflection. i think too many things in your life are built on images and ideas of what you think they should be. not everything is like that; especially with people. see people for their hearts. you give, you will receive.
2. We always have to be open to opposing perspectives. Recognize when you are pulling yourself too much to one extreme. Know your potential and know that you have a long way to go to reach it. Never settle. Never be boring and achieve all those things, professionally or emotionally that bring you happiness. Have a big heart and a keen mind. You have so much more to learn and give, but you have to push yourself. Only you can do that.
1. Learn to have faith. Not just in words, but in your heart. Do not allow past disappointment to bring you down. This is faith. Faith in the most important thing: yourself. You have to believe with everything that makes you, you, that this is unique, beautiful and strong. That you could give with all your heart, to yourself, to anyone or to the world and not receive one thing back, not one affirmation (verbal or otherwise), yet you will get everything you need despite this. Because you have faith that you will receive what you seek, because you are indeed that valuable. That somehow it will all work because this is what makes you worth these words and many more.
16 days before she passed away, Margaret Craig McNamera received the Medal of Freedom for her work in improving childhood literacy.
