I thought it was fitting

If you haven't been to dearblankpleaseblank.com, you should pay it a visit. Here's one that kind of describes my life...

Dear Heart,

Please stop getting all up in my business. Your job is to pump blood; that's it.

Sincerely, Brain.

"I don't care what you think unless it is about me"*

*So true, Mr. Cobain.

Sometimes I mistake politeness for sincerity, and it gets my feelings in trouble.

Why can't people just say what they mean?

Or I can just become like Cal Lightman and be an expert people reader. Then I wouldn't have to deal with this.

Haha

I just came across this quote:

"Every living woman likes wedding crap. Even lesbians."

That's probably true deep down. But I can't speak for everyone...

Ellipsis

"I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet." ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Please don't ask me what I want to do with my life anymore. I just might break down and cry.

Emerson, I love you

Life has just been going really well lately.

"That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved. "--Ralph Waldo Emerson

(I'll blog about my love for transcendentalism later...) I feel that this quotation has been becoming true for me. Classes are hard; friends are coming and going; life is up and down and sideways; I still struggle with the same weaknesses, but my ability to make these things strengths has improved--even if it is just a little bit. The things themselves haven't changed, but my attitude and actions have changed.

And it makes life so much better. Try it.

It is a beautiful thing to have the realization that this is your life and you are happy.