It is hard to be born as a human being and hard to live the life of one. It is even harder to hear of the path and harder still to awake, to rise, and to follow.

Yet the teaching is simple: "Cease to do evil, learn to do good. And purify your mind."

-Dhammapada

heh heh.

heh heh. a little online flirting never hurt nobody ;)

nothing like getting harrassed by middle-aged nasty drunks ( Read more... )

Oh man. Why didn't someone TELL me that "By Hook or By Crook" sucked so bad ( Read more... )

Did you every have one of those days when you just wish you had a girlfriend?

I'm really starting to feel completely jaded these days ( Read more... )

D'oh! Things have gotten a lot busier at work so I won't be reading/posting as frequently for a while. I'll hafta force myself to crank up the ol' PC at home some times...

sad.

Grr.

I hate when I have to act in a way that's contrary to my gut.

To be too friendly is to be considered a flirt. But to unnaturally censor myself is to push a potential friend away and makes me feel completely fake.

Now I don't know what's appropriate but only because I feel like I'm being held up to outside standards.