July 2011
3 posts
It’s always nice to know who you are in this world.
“The most powerful weapon is the human soul on fire.”
– Fredrich Nietzsche
I need you so much closer
June 2011
6 posts
“To strive, To seek, To find, and not to yield.”
– Ben Tyler
We’re all on borrowed time
“That which we are, we are.”
– Alfred Tennyson (Ulysses)
I don't write very often...
And it’s not that I have much to say, it’s just that I’m never particularly sure how to say what I need to get off my chest. Particularly, I seem to have this problem when everything in life is going well. I can only write in misery, when I’m dealt hands of turmoil and trouble. Writing in misery seems to be drastically easier than writing when content, for instance, when...
“You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.”
– Marilyn Monroe
“Staying alive is complicated. It’s the single most difficult thing every...”
– Chuck Klosterman (IV)
April 2011
4 posts
Hereafter
is one of the most remarkable movies I’ve seen in a great deal of time. Matt Damon is yet to disappoint me as an actor, which is shocking because he has been around for such a great deal of time. I don’t believe in an afterlife and this movie still hit me hard. An absolute must see.
saintsorsailors:
Awake My Soul | Mumford &...
Moving Onward and Upward
One of the most disappointing (and intriguing) aspects of life is that it rarely meets our expectations, and even less frequently exceeds them. We endure the daily turmoil heading nowhere, with nothing shown for our efforts more frequently that not. Most often though, we find that the largest obstacles we are bound to face are those which can be accredited to ourselves, after all our own demons...
February 2011
2 posts
“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and, for...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is truly humorous the insane monotony that is Valentines Day. Yearly we celebrate this preposterous holiday that is designed around “love”. Since when did we become required to buy chocolates, flowers, and other material things for our lovers to signify our “love”. Once this holiday begins to make sense, I’ll try to make sense of it, but until then I’ll...
January 2011
4 posts
“Here’s to a long life and a happy one
A quick death and an easy one
A...”
– Anonymous
“Get up and dance, get up and smile, get up and drink to the days that are gone...”
– Simon Fowler
I stood outside, on my balcony, with the cold brisk air blowing against my back, sending shivers down my spine, for what seemed like moments, but was realistically over an hour. As I watched the snow drift peacefully down to the ground, my mind wandered. I allowed my mind to drift to so many memories, so many thoughts, that I’ve allowed myself to block out for so long.
Quietly, I recalled...
“The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.”
– Bob Marley
December 2010
5 posts
“You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.”
– Albert Einstein
“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
– Vincent Van Gogh
Just Finished
“Downtown Owl”, by Chuck Klosterman and it was a truly captivating read. If you have not yet read this particular work, stop what you’re doing, and read it. No, seriously.
It is all too easy in this world to get lost. To find yourself completely stranded. Unfortunately as many times as we realize this truth, or even battle through it, it is always a frightening prospect. We are, after-all just sort of flowing, with no direction, almost aimlessly. Sure, there may be those times when we accept a current reality as “fate,” or “destiny,” or even...
I am...
Perfectly flawed. I am the beginning, and coincidentally the ending. I am the man standing in front of the mirror without the slightest idea as to who is staring back into his eyes. I am over-privileged in my low-income housing. I am wearing a hundred dollar jack to cover my stolen shirt. I am saying all too much without speaking a single word. I am looking at you without seeing your eyes, or even...
November 2010
13 posts
“The easiest way to lose something is to want it too badly.”
– Zach Braff (Scrubs)
“I love sleep. My life has a tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you...”
– Ernest Hemingway
To whom it may concern,
Numerous times today a former lover crossed my mind. As I found myself contemplating ridiculous romantic gestures and ways to win her affection back, the real world slapped me. Chin bruised, cheek aching, head ringing I proceeded onward with my day. Drive, work, drive, home, school work, a great deal of real world problems to occupy my time. It was only when I stopped focusing on everything else...
“Sometimes I think that the amount of time you live on earth is just an inverse...”
– Chuck Klosterman
“Whenever I can’t sleep, I like to lie in the darkness and pretend I’ve been...”
– Chuck Klosterman
“Though I obviously have no proof of this, the one aspect of life that seems...”
– Chuck Klosterman
“We can never turn back the pages of time, though we may wish to relive a happy...”
– Anonymous
“Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.”
– Herman Hesse
“Change is never easy, you fight to hold on, and you fight to let go.”
– The Wonder Years
“Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding on to.”
– Anonymous
Optimism, so strange how it can be misplaced. People without so much as a second thought drop there’s off into a trash can they may pass by, and pull out of their side pocket the pessimism. Who ever made the claim that optimism was such a bad thing, that we should not posses it. When did optimism become the cocaine of society, illegal to own?
There is no reason to have the inherent belief...
The worst part of being drunk and alone at midnight on a Friday night is the never ceasing, never failing feeling that I shouldn’t be…
“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each...”
– Henry David Thoreau
October 2010
6 posts
On the other side of my computer screen is you. Can we break the barrier?
“I am ready for whatever’s coming. I expect nothing but to be let down or...”
– Henry Rollins
“The heart of a cheater is empty and hollow.”
– Anonymous
“When I consider life, ‘tis all a cheat. Yet, fooled by hope, men favour...”
– John Dryden
“It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated...”
– Samuel Johnson
Let me close my eyes, as if I were blind. Shadows may illuminate my walls and dance like children around my room, however the entertainment is lost. For a moment I find myself dizzy, lost, confused. It progresses, I’m out of breath, struggling, fighting, losing. My thoughts are all over the place, enraged, sorrowful, distressed.
Feelings are nothing. They are nothing at all. I hide, stay...
September 2010
8 posts
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known...”
– Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”
– Mark Twain
“.. almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of...”
– Steve Jobs
“If death meant just leaving the stage just long enough to change costume and...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
“When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of...”
– Maurice Maeterlinck
“For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.”
– William Penn
“For some moments in life there are no words.”
– David Seltzer (Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory)