On Growing Up

A friend of mine posted this elsewhere. I thought it applies quite adequately.

I remember when getting high meant swinging at the playgrouns. The worst thing you could get from a girl was cooties. Race issues were who could run the fastest. The only thing you smoked was the tires on your bike. Life was so simple and carefree, but the thing I remember the most was wanting to grow up.

You ever wonder ...?

You wonder why some people would decide to enter you life, be important and then exit suddenly and abruptly. You wonder whether it's something you did wrong, or what else it could be. And no matter how hard you try to find out why, it always feels like chasing after a balloon or trying to catch a shadow, one flying higher the more you try, the other simply impossible. And the only thing you can think of realistically doing is to walk out on theirs just the same, though on your end, it seems more like defeat and retreat rather than choice.

Perpetual Traveler: Something Awesome I Read

From my Perpetual Travel calendar: "Travel is filled with the promise of fulfillment, but only for those willing to gamble that a journey, like a kiss, can have the power of magic."

Late Night Thoughts on Justice

I admire righteousness and justice, even though these things are sometimes dangerous, as proven in history.

A statement I once read roughly went as follow: "The cry of the poor is not always just, but if you don't listen to it, you will never know what justice is." The deaf ear is too often the reason for crimes committed in the name of human progress over and over again. Why do we have to regret what we did or did not do when we could open our eyes and ears and minds to learn the lesson, to not regret anymore our crimes?

Regrets, like the historian Howard Zinn wrote, "... [D]eplete our moral energy for the present." The point is not to "grieve over victims and denounce executioners," because, as time went on, we have learned that the line between "victim" and "executioner" isn't always clear. Rather, the point is to uncover the hidden truths by listening to the voices of those we have refused to listen, so that we can no longer deny what once was right but is wrong, so that we can resist what was and could be a cycle of neverending injustice.

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"If we don't act, the window will close, and we will always regret what we did not do in the year 2005" (Jen Egeland, UN Relief Coordinator).

Truth about 2005

An interesting bulletin I read:

You know you're living in 2005 when......................




1) you accidentally enter your pin number on a microwave






2) you haven't played solitaire with real cards in years






3) thE reaL reason for not staying in touch with friends is that they don't have a screen name






4) you'd rather look all over the house for the remote instead of just pushing to button on the tv.






6) your boss dont even have the ability to do your job.






7) you read this list, & keep nodding and smiling






8) as you read this list, you think about sending it to all your
friends






9) and.. you were to busy to notice number 5.







10) you actually scrolled back up to check that there was no 5






11) & now you're laughing at your stupidity