Comments | professor_shoe: I just keep rollin' along

professor_shoe

I just keep rollin' along

May 13, 2008 10:24

Four more weeks, and before you can say "five weeks" I'll be in Atlanta and putting all the frustration and stress of California behind me, and facing the new stress of finding a job before me ( Read more... )

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midoriliem May 13 2008, 18:42:02 UTC

"I am a good person, that I have the ability and capacity for greatness..."
This has always been true. I don't know about the karma, but the first part is true.

midoriliem May 13 2008, 18:43:37 UTC

Remember? "I know what I know / I'll sing what I said / We come and we go / That's a thing that I keep in the back of my head."
Still one of my favorite quotes.

mellofellow13 May 13 2008, 18:49:34 UTC

Your last paragraph particularly struck a chord with me - I feel exactly the same way. I'm not especially inclined toward extroversion, but sometimes life necessitates it and it's often a lot less costly than introversion. One of my few struggles in Charleston is finding another person to share some of the things I truly enjoy with - no one ever wants to go to the symphony or would even understand if I talked about classical music, few people are as into video games as I am, and generally a lot of people's interests don't blend with me very well (especially the drinking part, almost all of my friends go drinking on a regular basis, whether that's weekly or nightly ( ... )

cronodeus May 15 2008, 02:01:44 UTC

Too many times have I heard, "that's just the way life is," and I don't believe it. Not for a minute. We are not naturally inclined to create scapegoats and exclusive cliques. We are not naturally dispositioned to forget our responsibilities toward othersKeep believing this. I know I do. Keep insisting upon this as loudly as you can. I know, I know, sometimes you'll find people, whole groups of 'em, who just won't live up to it, but they're more than compensated for by the glorious others you find as well ( ... )