Everything is becoming so instant. How many people read this? I'm going to guess close to none. And that's okay. But it is this way because we all have more-instant forms of social networking..less truthful ones ( Read more... )

I believe I'm doing all the right things and in a relatively timely manner, too. I'm well on my way to getting a degree. I am renting my first house. I have the best friends. And this is all wonderful but sometimes I'm not sure how much it matters. I'm surrounded by people that are doing this and doing that and making great changes by getting ( Read more... )

I can't remember enjoying fall in eleven years. Move quickly, please! 

stop for a second. And think about where you were a year ago.

Here's to change. and remembering you are not in control of anything.

I'm conducting this balancing act, toeing this rope with such caution, it is hard to keep my head straight. There's no telling when I might falter. No indication of a safe-keeping below. But when I'm high there is nothing that compares. Dancing in the air with such graceful precision. There is freedom, pounding adrenaline, a raw serenity untouched ( Read more... )

Is there ever a time that you feel you just don't fit? Like, here are these puzzle pieces composed of everyone's different lives and experiences and we're just thrown together in a box and expected to fit together. But sometimes that doesn't happen. The picture on the front of the box looks really nice. It's a tranquil setting.. maybe an oceanfront ( Read more... )

"Paul Slazinger says, incidentally, that the human condition can be summed up in just one word, and this is the word: Embarrassment."

'"Never trust a survivor, " my father used to warn me, with Vartan Mamigonian in mind," until you find out what he did to stay alive."'

"It was hard to believe how sick of war we used to be. We used to boast of how ( Read more... )

"There were one quadrillion nations in the Universe, but the nation Dwayne Hoover and Kilgore Trout belonged to was the only one with a national anthem which was gibberish sprinkled with question marks."

"People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly ( Read more... )

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