Seasons
"This life on earth is short. Say you live to 70, the first 10 years are unproductive childhood years, the last 10 are spent being sick from old age, cancer or a million other age related diseases. That basically leaves 50 summers and 50 winters to experience joy, sorrow, love, hate, and all the feelings of human existence. That's not much time in an eternal life."
--- Dad, August 2002
Yesterday I was reading through some old journals from summer of 2002. That comment above is something my dad wrote me then in regards to a particular hardship and the teenage angst roller coaster. I love the quote, and it really just now awakened me to realize that of my 50 summers, I have already wasted 15 (okay, there were a few in there that were good though!). I really want to make some more prominent goals for myself.
Also, I really want to do the LJ Book thing to convert my journals to pdf format and then get my journals printed and bound up through 2007...but there are a few dilemmas. First, I would love to print in color since there are many pictures, but that could be costly. Second, there are a bunch of memes and quizes that I really don't find essential to a printed copy of my journal, but it would be tedious to go through six years of journals to find and delete them all. Third, many comments have wonderful discussions and would be great to add (LJ Book has an option that you can keep comments in), but many aren't relevant or necessary. I could start with 2002 and go through each entry and weed out the memes, and paste the important comments into the entries...but how long would that project take? Forever, pretty much. What to do...what to do...
--- Dad, August 2002
Yesterday I was reading through some old journals from summer of 2002. That comment above is something my dad wrote me then in regards to a particular hardship and the teenage angst roller coaster. I love the quote, and it really just now awakened me to realize that of my 50 summers, I have already wasted 15 (okay, there were a few in there that were good though!). I really want to make some more prominent goals for myself.
Also, I really want to do the LJ Book thing to convert my journals to pdf format and then get my journals printed and bound up through 2007...but there are a few dilemmas. First, I would love to print in color since there are many pictures, but that could be costly. Second, there are a bunch of memes and quizes that I really don't find essential to a printed copy of my journal, but it would be tedious to go through six years of journals to find and delete them all. Third, many comments have wonderful discussions and would be great to add (LJ Book has an option that you can keep comments in), but many aren't relevant or necessary. I could start with 2002 and go through each entry and weed out the memes, and paste the important comments into the entries...but how long would that project take? Forever, pretty much. What to do...what to do...