After a couple more good dates...
I am feeling teh awesome.
Y'know, my friends. Life is weird, but I've learned something valuable all over again. See, Dennis Leary once said:
"Happiness comes in small doses folks. It's a cigarette butt, or a chocolate chip cookie or a five second orgasm. You cum, you smoke the butt you eat the cookie you go to sleep wake up and go back to fucking work the next morning, THAT'S IT! End of fucking list!"
I agree with him wholeheartedly, always have, even though I didn't know what the fuck he meant the first time i heard it.
A friend of mine was lamenting the fact that she had to go back to work again the next day. There's been some terrible politics and she just doesn't look forward to work anymore. Fuck. Do ANY of us look forward to work anymore?
No. C'mon. Fuck it. Its work.
Feeling a desire to comfort her, I pointed out the fact that she has a thirty minute bike ride across Vancouver to get there every morning, and ditto back.... and I know how much that means to her. LOVES her bike, she does. But if she spent that bike ride totally dreading going to work, then isn't the point of bike ride completely destroyed?
So i told her to take an extra ten minutes and ride slow. Enjoy that fucking bike ride.
I mean, none of this is new. Stop and smell the roses and all that. However, in this day and age where most of our parents neglected to be parents, and meaningless mottos and cliche fill our lives, it's important to realize that these lessons are important and integral to our survival and happiness.
I think of myself as a hurricane. A big ol' blustery storm that flies around changing the word around him for better or worse. But I got this calm centre, see, and whatever it is that I do when I'm awake in the day that makes me go and recharge in that calm centre, I fucking pay attention to. Enjoy it. Relish it.
And for the love of all things, I try and do it as much as possible.
So. Yeah. Life isn't sad. You just forget to pay attention when you do the things that make you happy.
So fucking stop it and enjoy.
I am feeling teh awesome.
Y'know, my friends. Life is weird, but I've learned something valuable all over again. See, Dennis Leary once said:
"Happiness comes in small doses folks. It's a cigarette butt, or a chocolate chip cookie or a five second orgasm. You cum, you smoke the butt you eat the cookie you go to sleep wake up and go back to fucking work the next morning, THAT'S IT! End of fucking list!"
I agree with him wholeheartedly, always have, even though I didn't know what the fuck he meant the first time i heard it.
A friend of mine was lamenting the fact that she had to go back to work again the next day. There's been some terrible politics and she just doesn't look forward to work anymore. Fuck. Do ANY of us look forward to work anymore?
No. C'mon. Fuck it. Its work.
Feeling a desire to comfort her, I pointed out the fact that she has a thirty minute bike ride across Vancouver to get there every morning, and ditto back.... and I know how much that means to her. LOVES her bike, she does. But if she spent that bike ride totally dreading going to work, then isn't the point of bike ride completely destroyed?
So i told her to take an extra ten minutes and ride slow. Enjoy that fucking bike ride.
I mean, none of this is new. Stop and smell the roses and all that. However, in this day and age where most of our parents neglected to be parents, and meaningless mottos and cliche fill our lives, it's important to realize that these lessons are important and integral to our survival and happiness.
I think of myself as a hurricane. A big ol' blustery storm that flies around changing the word around him for better or worse. But I got this calm centre, see, and whatever it is that I do when I'm awake in the day that makes me go and recharge in that calm centre, I fucking pay attention to. Enjoy it. Relish it.
And for the love of all things, I try and do it as much as possible.
So. Yeah. Life isn't sad. You just forget to pay attention when you do the things that make you happy.
So fucking stop it and enjoy.
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nora:
plain white t's the song is called delilah 
dinah:
Wow...I whole heartedly agree. And that outlook has actually gotten me to several jobs recently that I absolutely love, love love! And I'm loving life right now more than I ever had...it's freaky. But it's funny that people have more control over their lives than they know in the sense that they can control how they react and look at things. Funny. Life is just, funny. Thanks for the camera work tips, like I said, I did shoot a doc last year and am gearing up for another one. I guess I was just wondering about local commercial stuff. So, thanks for the tip. 