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[this page is a place where i'll post random thoughts i have about life in general, or other random things...they're usually off the top of my head, and thus not the most beautifully written, but nonetheles,, things I find important enough to myself to write down.] |
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"'It all comes,'said Pooh crossly, 'of not having front doors big enough.'
'It all comes,' said Rabbit sternly, 'of eating too much. I thought at the time,' said Rabbit, 'only I didn't like to say anything, that one of us was eating too much, and I knew it wasn't me.'" -- A.A. Milne
"Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully.
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever".
"And he has a brain"
"Yes," said Piglet. Rabbit has a brain
There was a long silence.
"I suppose," said Pooh, "that that's why he never understands anything."
-- The House at Pooh Corner
Pooh's awesome. A.A. Milne's wisdom in his Pooh stories are classic and no matter how hard they try, Disney will never capture the real Pooh.
"Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain, sahred with no one." -- East of Eden, 475
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Just some quotes I like
"Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine? If you are lucky enough to find your way to such teachers, you will always find your way back. Sometimes it is only in your head. Sometimes it is right alongside their beds." -- Tuesday's with Morrie, 192.
Reminds me of Keo and my ˇ°Works in Progressˇ± theory on relationships in life -- that everyone, including ourselves, are all works in progress, and through the relationships we have in our lives, we get a little closer to perfection. We shape each other through giving and taking, because we're all blessed with different strengths, and all have our share of experiences and mistakes that each other can learn from. I'm thinking... if you just look hard enough, life's greatest teachers aren't necessarily the remarkably wise and strong people we here stories about, but the people around us in our everyday lives –our friends, our family -who maybe aren't as easy to always respect, but nonetheless teach us endless lessons about life, ourselves, and our values, and are the ones who always, always help us "find our way".
Something that crossed my mind while reading
"Simple mind, simple pleasures"
So often, my friends and I will quote this, making fun of each other's airheadyness, or the way we'll laugh at stupid things. Yet if you stop to actually think about it, i think it takes a great deal of wisdom to be able to take pleasure in simple things. There are always too many reasons to consider a day not-so-great, and too many thigns to keep us too busy to take the time to really enjoy those thigns we take for granted. It's not often we know how to value the simple things like sunshine or laughing together with someone . Those who are able to remember to appreciate such things each day are not simpleminded, but rather really smart people.
random thoughts
It's been really hard to move on. Like Keo put it, I have a fairly sizable hole in my heart. As time goes by it hurts a little less, but at the same time I'm sad so deep inside that it doesn't even feel like pain. Instead I'm just weak and sensitive to little things...and it's so difficult to simply get over it, even though I hate being like this. Confused... it's hard not knowing whether I am to supress the pain and cheer myself up, or whether I am to force it out... Even though I talk and I think and I cry, in the end the pain is still there... I know I'll be fine with time, i'm not worried about that but its' so so hard.
just thinking
"Life is hard, and it has its ups and downs. We break hearts, and have our hearts broken. At times people will knowingly and unknowingly nudge at our hearts and we all take our share of blows. But along the way, there are also those friends that are there to pick us up and help us stand strong. *blank* has been one of those people lately, and I'm so very thankful for him.
I wish that through the blows I have experienced, I can help other people stand strong when they get hit. Because that's what life is all about...experiencing and sharing those experiences... giving and taking... being there and having others be there for you..."
somethign i wrote in my diary, not too long ago
"My past relationship filled two years of my life with great memories, fun times, lessons, and experiences, but also with regrets. One of those regrets was the time that I took away form my friends. But as funny as it may sound, I am in a weird way also thankful that I didn’t spend much time with them. Now, when we meet together, I appreciate everything so much more. I have this urge to write down every moment of each day, because the simple laughs, deep talks, and light chats mean so much more to me. Many times on the bus on my way home from being with them, I often think to myself just how much fun we had even though we may not have done much more than spending two hours at Starbucks, one hour at Popeyes, and two and a half watching a movie that wasn't all that great. To them, those may have been hours of sitting around doing nothing much, but to me, they were moments that I wish I could store away in a box so that I would never forget?Sometimes it makes me think that had it not been for the times I spent not being with friends during the past two years, I would never have learned to cherish the times I spend with them as much as I cherish them now."
| ::Written June 20, 2001:: |
Thoughts on the bus on my way from COEX