Moving on

[alexisdevlin]

I'm happy to get rid of the past. We grow new layers beneath, not over, what we were and shed our past instead of covering it up. If you harbor it in and say, "See, the past is me, and must be you too!" you are confused. All that indicates is you haven't shed old layers, even if you've grown into a new one. Which is just nasty, if you want to get

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[radiofour]

Amen to this!

Speaking of the past...

[thepotbelly]

Well, here the fuck I am! Uh... I totally remembered your user name. Remember me? Remember when I went to your house and we looked at livejournals? I came back on here to start posting again and am trying to look up people I knew before.
Anyway, I hope you don't mind me stalking you. And I love this entry by the way. Optimism at its' finest...

Re: Speaking of the past...

[alexisdevlin]

Of course I remember you! you came up in conversation with David this summer actually. I'm glad you, uh, stalked me? haha

"Optimism" yes, I am a realistic optimist -- no sense deluding ourselves with impossible hopes, but even if I were to come to a pessimistic conclusion about life (which I haven't) then still I would choose to be optimistic. Realistically, optimism as an attitude makes life better. Plus, life is good because I say so. If there is no meaning, I am meaning. If there's nothing else, how I feel and act and what I do has meaning as I define it. If I can experience joy, that, to me, is meaning enough to be optimistic. I guess there's also the chance of more meaning to our little lives, with the universe being so amazing and vast, and since our knowledge/thought about it or any other dimension is so incredibly small. What the hell do we know? Might as well play the safe side and live as if life is awesome, because HEY, it COULD be! And if not, it still is anyway because we make it so.. haha

Re: Speaking of the past...

[thepotbelly]

All I can say is, "yes"