Q&A
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer." Rainer Maria Rilke
Not too forgiving, just trying to be what I want to find in people
People are often unreasonable, illogical and self centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and your God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
Neil
“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.” -- N.G.
How far we have (and haven’t) come
Since I first gained the use of reason my inclination toward learning has been so violent and strong that neither the scoldings of other people... nor my own reflections... have been able to stop me from following this natural impulse that God gave me. He alone must know why; and He knows too that I have begged Him to take the light of my understanding, leaving only enough for me to keep His law, for anything else is excessive in a woman, according to some people. And others say it is even harmful.
-Juana Inés de la Cruz -- in reply to the bishop of Puebla who had attacked her scholarly work as inappropriate for her gender.
Damn.
Chelsi: LACY!
Lacy: Hi drunkie
C: HOW DID YOU KNOW??
Lacy: Because it's 11:30 p.m. and you're texting me in all caps.
Okay.
let it go-the
smashed word broken
open vow or
the oath cracked length
wise-let it go it
was sworn to
go
let them go-the
truthful liars and
the false fair friends
and the boths and
neithers-you must let them go they
were born
to go
let all go-the
big small middling
tall bigger really
the biggest and all
things-let all go
dear
so comes love
Gossip
Chelsi: I watched my first episode of Gossip Girl last night
Arwen: oh my god why
C: This is what happens when I stay at Lacy’s house
: Arwen, it’s so terrible.
A: uh, yes
: Yes it is
C: It was about how this chick was marrying the prince of Morocco
A: nope
: Not
C: and her old lover came back
A: newp
C: and was like, NO YOU CANNOT MARRY HIM
: And she goes
: BUT I MADE A PROMISE TO GOD THAT I WOULDN'T BE WITH YOU, CHUCK!
: AND THAT PROMISE SAVED YOUR LIFE
: DON’T YOU SEE?? I’M MARRYING THE PRINCE OF MOROCCO BECAUSE I LOVE YOU!
A: I am upset
: You don't have to go on
C: Oh, but I will!
: It’s about all these privileged kids from Manhattan
: And Gossip Girl is a BLOGGER
: Who outs all their shit… on her blog
: AND SOMEHOW THEY STILL DON’T KNOW HER IDENTITY
: EVEN THOUGH IT’S BEEN SIX YEARS SINCE THE SHOW STARTED
A: I've seen one episode, I think like four or five years ago
: The laugh track alone was enough to make me leave the room
C: what
: There's no laugh track… this is a DRAMA
: I think we’re talking about different shows
A: oh I apologize, we are
: I was thinking of Gilmore Girls
C: whoa dude… that show is awesome
: And the guy in it is so hot!
A: you are wrong and I don’t care.