If you accept that life is not perfect but still strive for something you love which is still less than perfect it isnt gauranteed but it is better than the alternative ( Read more... )

-Live to the point of tears.

-Life can be magnificent and overwhelming - That is its whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live.

- Albert Camus

Dear Kenny Loggins,

Im Free

These shootings are getting way to frequent.  My thoughts go out to all the students at Northern Illinoise university.

I'm taking a political theory class on Rabindranath Tagore and i absolutely love the mans ideas.  There is just one problem, his writing style bores most (myself included) to tears.  It took me all day plus the next morning to read one of his two hundred page novels.  I would read about twenty pages and my subconcious would convince me that if I ( Read more... )

When you do things right, people wont be sure youve done anything at all.

"I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain! One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled ( Read more... )

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. Your hands can't hit what your eyes can't see, rumble young man, rumble!

Last night I had a dream, When I got to Africa,
I had one hell of a rumble.
I had to beat Tarzan’s behind first,
For claiming to be King of the Jungle.
For this fight, I’ve wrestled with alligators,
I’ve tustled with a whale.
I done ( Read more... )

Its way too late and I hardly feel like writing but this just occurred to me.  Where are all of the interesting people?  You know the ones I'm talking about, dont pretend you know some of them.  Im talking interesting like the stuff of fiction.  Where are the people who know their lives are going no where but still push on with whatever it is that ( Read more... )

Ive got soul but im not a soldier.