Things to Think About II

Sometimes I feel as if this critic was describing myself instead of Tom Waits' voice: "[It sounds] like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months and then taken outside and run over with a car."

Life is exhausting. Being single is no easier than being in a relationship, and that bit of misery certainly loves company. That is why I made this blog. It should be known that just as much as this is for you, it is for me. A non-objective, caring and confident voice that will say what you (I) need to hear, not what you (I) want.

1. You should never trust someone who wants to keep you a secret.

2. Don't forget to call your parents. They love you so much.

3. Happy endings are for stories that aren't finished yet

4. If you ever need a good laugh, take Incubus lyrics and say them out of context.

5. Sundays are the new Saturday nights. Brunch, wine, recovering. Do it with a group and it won't look like alcoholism.

6. Open your curtains and keep them open. The light is motivating.

7. People are shitty. People are stupid. Move on.

8. Please take more interest in NASA's discovery of water on the moon than in Nicholas Cage, as Google analytics have shown on CNN.

If and When

We lay next to this person by specific credentials. They have proven themselves worthy of the priveledge and we equally embrace this. But we follow some primative, or perhaps conservative, notion that inhibits the humanistic while regarded as animalistic "freedom" that we are so badly trying to regain, and we are inevitably left with an emptiness, both physically (in our beds) and emotionally. Here's where we tend to fumble and end up reading this.

You are not the only person who was hurt. If you really think you are a victim in any way, you need some perspective. Don't passively assess what is going on, take charge for the sake of your hapiness! Waiting for someone else to make you happy is pointless because you can't find true happiness unless you can find it within yourself.

The heart opens up when it breaks. Don't give up on the ones yet to come.

Think Big

Apparently, there is (what I can only call) an "idea" that if you think about something long enough, you will achieve/obtain it. This is an heavily enthused (and cult followed) theory called The Law of Attraction.

The Law of Attraction works both positively and negatively. So if you think about loosing your keys enough, you may loose your keys. If you see yourself living in a big house, you may live in a big house.

I kind of want to call Bullshit, but part of me wants to feed into this. If I just started thinking more positively, life could be better for me. And the fact that people could create a theory around the power of thought alone is intriguing. And anyways, what would we be without wishful thinking?