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About Me
- paint.it.red
- The most powerful tool we have is our mind, and if we don't make the most of it, our life has been in vain. I consider myself a thinker. I like to think, about anything and everything. If I'm not questioning something that's already out there, I'm thinking of something new to question.
Sunday, June 29, 2014
Friday, December 7, 2012
This Post Starts Differently Than it Ends
Stepping into the world is scary, really scary. Sometimes I take a moment to think about what's coming and I'm terrified, not of the prospect of overcoming challenge but at the idea that I'm doing it alone. For the first time in my life there are no redo's, no make-up assignments, and no starting over. My parents aren't there to tell me that everyone is here for me and frankly even if they did they would be wrong. It's not that anyone is against me, but now no one is really officially with me. All my student benefits vaporized and pretty soon I won't be able to relate to everyone I know pushing through midterms, assignments and exams.
I guess you could call what I'm about to live an alternative lifestyle, I just call it living. There are struggles, hard work, pain and triumph. It's not really any different from school in that way but there is one major difference- I choose what I study. Learning isn't something you are taught, it's something you're born doing and so whether or not you do it in a school doesn't really matter if your heart is in it. A piece of paper proving that I know what I know would be nice but I can manage without. Instead of presenting a certificate that I became a caffeine fuelled zombie and mindlessly memorized facts just to spit them out at someone with a better certificate I'd rather just learn. Growing, and changing just as life does I'll really prove to people that I know what I know.
I'm not saying that school is a horrible place and nothing good can come of it. Some people strive in school and it really helps them find themselves and learn the things they can't learn anywhere else. However, I do believe there are many people in post-secondary that are not actually benefiting at all and just struggling along feeling smothered and feeling like a failure. I know I used to.
I guess you could call what I'm about to live an alternative lifestyle, I just call it living. There are struggles, hard work, pain and triumph. It's not really any different from school in that way but there is one major difference- I choose what I study. Learning isn't something you are taught, it's something you're born doing and so whether or not you do it in a school doesn't really matter if your heart is in it. A piece of paper proving that I know what I know would be nice but I can manage without. Instead of presenting a certificate that I became a caffeine fuelled zombie and mindlessly memorized facts just to spit them out at someone with a better certificate I'd rather just learn. Growing, and changing just as life does I'll really prove to people that I know what I know.
I'm not saying that school is a horrible place and nothing good can come of it. Some people strive in school and it really helps them find themselves and learn the things they can't learn anywhere else. However, I do believe there are many people in post-secondary that are not actually benefiting at all and just struggling along feeling smothered and feeling like a failure. I know I used to.
Monday, November 26, 2012
My Life - A Short Story
I don't know what to do with my life really. I find myself working towards a diploma but with no real desire to make use of it. I have no goals in my life at this moment and no real direction to look in. This should really be freeing but it feels like a huge weight bearing down on me. What do I want? What do I like? What do I value in life? I don't really know and I don't really know how to find the answers to those questions. My sister was right, I do need some self-reflection.
Monday, September 24, 2012
Push Happy
A friend told me about this site, it's new and needs followers (not that I have many) so help out and check it out!
http://www.pushhappy.ca
http://www.pushhappy.ca
Kindness
Every one of these sites is about kindness and sharing it with the world, so get out and do it, I know I am.
http://www.randomaok.ca
http://www.randomactsofkindness.org
http://www.366randomacts.org
http://www.1000acts.ca
FINAL ACT OF KINDNESS (and probably the easiest)...
Link your friends to this post so they can make change happen too.
Thanks!
Happiness
Smile.
Life is truly about happiness, not wealth or fame or power. You don't need to be smart, articulate, rich, funny, pretty or creative, you just need to smile. Happiness is not about pasting a smile on your face no matter what the situation, its about feeling, with everything in your being. You need to cry to be able to smile when things get better. Things really suck sometimes, unbearably so, but every time something sucks, it has room to improve.
Look around, look at the way the light dances on everything, at the detail in your hands, the delicate specks of dust that roam around, the warm comfy bed you get to sleep in, these are all things that are awesome. Who decided that a small waist was pretty or that an industrial park was ugly? You did. Until now, anything can be beautiful if you look from the right angle. Beauty doesn't mean looking nice, it means compelling. Hurricanes aren't nice, but they capture your attention and hold you spellbound, that's beauty. When you open your eyes, maybe tilt your head to the left, you will see it. So look, listen and most importantly feel, because if you can feel, you can understand and understanding is the same as loving.
So go do something nice!
Life is truly about happiness, not wealth or fame or power. You don't need to be smart, articulate, rich, funny, pretty or creative, you just need to smile. Happiness is not about pasting a smile on your face no matter what the situation, its about feeling, with everything in your being. You need to cry to be able to smile when things get better. Things really suck sometimes, unbearably so, but every time something sucks, it has room to improve.
Look around, look at the way the light dances on everything, at the detail in your hands, the delicate specks of dust that roam around, the warm comfy bed you get to sleep in, these are all things that are awesome. Who decided that a small waist was pretty or that an industrial park was ugly? You did. Until now, anything can be beautiful if you look from the right angle. Beauty doesn't mean looking nice, it means compelling. Hurricanes aren't nice, but they capture your attention and hold you spellbound, that's beauty. When you open your eyes, maybe tilt your head to the left, you will see it. So look, listen and most importantly feel, because if you can feel, you can understand and understanding is the same as loving.
So go do something nice!
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
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