The average number of close friends we say we have is dropping fast, down dramatically in just the last 20 years. Why?
http://www.cracked.com/article_15231_7-reasons-21st-century-making-you-miserable.html

I’ve been a success since Day 1, because even when I had zero readers, I was doing what I loved. Even when no one else would have called me a success (I really was a nobody then), I absolutely loved writing my posts, and though I don’t agree now with a lot of what I wrote back then (in 2007), I was happy ( Read more... )

He wrote the songs of my childhood. Alan Menken on piano playing a medley of songs he composed for movies.

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This is cute (from the manga):
If you think of someone's good qualities as the umeboshi (plum) in an onigiri (rice ball), it's as if their qualities are stuck to their back! People around the world are like onigiri. Everyone has a umeboshi with a different shape and color and flavor. But because it's stuck to their back, they might not be able to ( Read more... )

Found this on my computer today, I forgot I had saved it.


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