a year ago this week i met a man who changed the way i view the world.
it was as though the randomness of the universe conspired and there we were, inexplicably, together. chaos theory and determinism, science and fiction, all in a mlange of opportunity. it was like nothing i have ever experienced before or since.
then he was gone, silent.
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it was as though the randomness of the universe conspired and there we were, inexplicably, together. chaos theory and determinism, science and fiction, all in a mlange of opportunity. it was like nothing i have ever experienced before or since.
then he was gone, silent.
and there in...
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is honesty always the best policy? i don't mean this in a rhetorical sense, but in reality. is there such a thing as too much truth?
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optimism:
Sometimes people can't handle truthfulness. The key is to be true to yourself and have morals.
silverrevolver:
Honesty about feelings, not about facts. Hiding your feelings from a loved one is a much greater transgression than lying about where you were, or even cheating.
yay. i love jelly belly jelly beans.
s_eldorado:
Me too. I have some right here in fact. All natural fruit juice ones. They're entirely addictive.
To my teeth I say, "Brace yourselves or fear braces"
Or something...
To my teeth I say, "Brace yourselves or fear braces"
Or something...
uberllama:
Jelly beans are okay, but they're not nearly cakey enough. Actually, they're not cakey at all. Personally, I love brownies.
"Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves."
Victoria (1819-1901)
is life best lived as a series of capers, or is it in the mundane that we find our humanity?
Victoria (1819-1901)
is life best lived as a series of capers, or is it in the mundane that we find our humanity?
no answer was the stern reply.
"would extolling the virtues of oneself," she asked, "exhibit an extreme hubris?"
i like the place i am working now. part of why i like it, i believe, is that it is a contract job (pun virtually unavoidable
) and i only have a couple more weeks until i leave, but mostly it is because of the people there.
i have been thinking about the concept of work.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
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) and i only have a couple more weeks until i leave, but mostly it is because of the people there.
i have been thinking about the concept of work.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep...
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uberllama:
I blame my typo on the sheer rage I was suffering through at the time. Congrats on your job. Considering we spend most of our waking (and sometimes sleeping) lives working, it's an important thing to have work you enjoy, or can at least put up with.
Congrats on your job. Considering we spend most of our waking (and sometimes sleeping) lives working, it's an important thing to have work you enjoy, or can at least put up with.i laughed so hard at work that no sound came out!! i love that.
"I ate humble pie with an appetite."
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
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s_eldorado:
I have just completed having a series of moments and plan to have a few more shortly.
Get yourself over here for a holiday sometime and we'll see how malleable we can make the borders of innuendo.
Get yourself over here for a holiday sometime and we'll see how malleable we can make the borders of innuendo.
s_eldorado:
Well, at the very least, you'd have a place to stay.
today someone called my bluff. i felt myself physically shrink, i just wanted to disappear, i couldn't make eye contact, i wanted to RUN AWAY. but, alas, i could not.
humility, oh how i struggle with thee.
humility, oh how i struggle with thee.
Joy and greif are so close that they are nearly one in the same, the only difference is context, combine joyous and grieving circumstance and you have the makings of soul expanding experience.