"The sky is a starry dome..."
I couldn't fall asleep last night. All I wanted to do was dance around and sing Joni Mitchell songs...at 2 am. "And we'll laugh and toast to nothing and slam our empty glasses down" I need to read that woman's biography. She's definitely one of my role models.
It's the time of the season where I want to move to England. It's a beautiful overcast out and it was raining when I walked to class this afternoon. I could almost see the giant cement squares conglomerate into cobblestones beneath my feet and the giant buildings around me breathing out faux European harsh realities of brick and age. My arms stung with cold, but it was a piercing cold that filled my thoughts with nothing but warmth.
Now...for thanksgiving. It is sad. It's pitiful that people need the commercialized world to TELL THEM to say thank you. I have a sneaking suspicion that half of us don't even mean it. It's like a mother telling her little child "Now what do you say...?" "...thank you..." There's something incredibly wrong with that. So now, because of that...don't just think about "oh blah blah blah I'm thankful for my family blah blah" That's all fine and groovy, but there's something DEEPER to being thankful. I'm thankful I'm alive, for starters. Oh, so now what. Well it's a way of living. Maybe we ought to live in a way that *shows* that we're thankful to be alive. It's like those movies where someone has a near death experience, then they start being selfless and nice afterward, you know? SO MANY PEOPLE are so stuck in their own worlds. I'm thankful I'm ALIVE...of course I want to go outside, run in the fields, sing at the top of my lungs, share my cookie with the other kids, and enjoy what I'm thankful for! I have a lot of problems with the modern world as a whole, but this is something we ALL need to hear...myself included.
Man...whenever I start to tell people this, they just get confused. Life isn't all sugar and candy, but it isn't complete torture either! "Be the change that you want to see in the world", Ghandi once said. Hate life? Then something's gotta change. The only thing you can control is you...so change.
*deep sigh*
That said...I think I was the only person who had classes today. Pretty much. And the campus is a ghost town...I had to walk across to the Student Union to get a sandwich from the Subway pretty much as it was closing. They had run out of bread too, so I tried their flatbread. Might I add, that stuff is ace.
Katrina
Ps- PLEASE love life...at least tomorrow. :D
Pps- Enjoy your turkey...mmmmm, turkey... Turkey's the best meat (if we exclude seafood from the running...cuz then it's crab!)
It's the time of the season where I want to move to England. It's a beautiful overcast out and it was raining when I walked to class this afternoon. I could almost see the giant cement squares conglomerate into cobblestones beneath my feet and the giant buildings around me breathing out faux European harsh realities of brick and age. My arms stung with cold, but it was a piercing cold that filled my thoughts with nothing but warmth.
Now...for thanksgiving. It is sad. It's pitiful that people need the commercialized world to TELL THEM to say thank you. I have a sneaking suspicion that half of us don't even mean it. It's like a mother telling her little child "Now what do you say...?" "...thank you..." There's something incredibly wrong with that. So now, because of that...don't just think about "oh blah blah blah I'm thankful for my family blah blah" That's all fine and groovy, but there's something DEEPER to being thankful. I'm thankful I'm alive, for starters. Oh, so now what. Well it's a way of living. Maybe we ought to live in a way that *shows* that we're thankful to be alive. It's like those movies where someone has a near death experience, then they start being selfless and nice afterward, you know? SO MANY PEOPLE are so stuck in their own worlds. I'm thankful I'm ALIVE...of course I want to go outside, run in the fields, sing at the top of my lungs, share my cookie with the other kids, and enjoy what I'm thankful for! I have a lot of problems with the modern world as a whole, but this is something we ALL need to hear...myself included.
Man...whenever I start to tell people this, they just get confused. Life isn't all sugar and candy, but it isn't complete torture either! "Be the change that you want to see in the world", Ghandi once said. Hate life? Then something's gotta change. The only thing you can control is you...so change.
*deep sigh*
That said...I think I was the only person who had classes today. Pretty much. And the campus is a ghost town...I had to walk across to the Student Union to get a sandwich from the Subway pretty much as it was closing. They had run out of bread too, so I tried their flatbread. Might I add, that stuff is ace.
Katrina
Ps- PLEASE love life...at least tomorrow. :D
Pps- Enjoy your turkey...mmmmm, turkey... Turkey's the best meat (if we exclude seafood from the running...cuz then it's crab!)