When we were young
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- jakeyj0
i don't think it means you have to be happy in every situation. because i don't think that's even possible.
life's sort of about realizing there are real things outside of yourself.
- jevad0
"i think satisfaction in life lies in between your inner situation and your external situation. "
* thinks about it
- _salisae_0
that's an interesting thought jakey
my dad told me the same thing
i was miserable where i was living and said i felt like a plant that got too big for the pot
he said i should be able to find happiness where i was .. the location wasn't important.
but he was sooooo wrong. i have been much happier since i moved away.
i think satisfaction in life lies in between your inner situation and your external situation.
- jevad0
jesus h. christ
i spawned a monster
- jakeyj0
^bump^
- jakeyj0
good thread.
in our lives there are two ways to live. you either live in a small story or a big story.
the small story involves living day to day, scraping by, trying to satisfy ourselves with cars, books, money, whatever. which is where i've spent most of my life.
then there's the big story that we're meant to be living in. so many people miss out on that. but its a great story, one of hope of love of peace, of community. in this story, that void that you feel is filled. life becomes something so much bigger and more mysterious that our little selves, our little stories.
its in this knowledge that i find comfort and hope. its not about doing this or that. because if you're not content in your current situation, you'll never be content in any situation.
- GeorgiePorgie0
its Haggis
- MX_OnD0
watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat
GeorgiePorgie
(Mar 14 05, 06:41)That's no yer hat, ya durty bastart!
- GeorgiePorgie0
watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat
- tkmeister0
so many good stories... i am truely touched.
not too long ago, i realized i was becoming a person i didn't want to be. somehow this fast life sucked me in. money, power, politics... we get caught up in all those things and forget what's really importnat in life.
- Kuz0
oh and moth says he's gonna cook every London NT'r risotto.
So we should make him go through with it by constant reminders.
So when ya doin this moth?
- Rand0
Embrace oblivion.
American-Gigolo
(Mar 14 05, 02:37)weird--that used to be my email signature
- gruntt0
i bet teachers really miss the days before computerized reports, back when they could really let the kids have it.
i wish i had some of my old report cards. i can't imagine my mother saved them, not exactly "proud moments"
- vespa0
haha gruntt that was in australia actually, and it was before computerised reports after which they all became standard sentences year after year
- gruntt0
cool story vespa.
it strikes me how different the comments on report cards in the UK vs. US. It seems that my report card commentswere always fairly standard, such as, "Not working up to potential" and things like that. But damn, UK comments are pretty specific. "Biggest Liar" "Smells Bad" "Horrible Dresser"...
=P
- GeorgiePorgie0
touch and be touched
*open up bottle of Merlot and cries
- vespa0
sounds like you had a good one para!
On jevad's topic, my report cards changed from getting the "Able To Dress Oneself" box proudly ticked at age 5, to the deputy head of my school telling my parents at 13 that i was the biggest liar he'd ever met, and telling me that i'd never amount to anything (that was cos i got suspended for a week for spiking the coke with bourbon at a religious end-of-term party). Funnily enough that deputy head got sacked a year later for having an affair with one of the religious teachers who was supposedly "married to god", whilst his wife was in hospital with cancer. I guess he must have been going through a difficult period.
Also 2 years ago i had a bit of a jevad moment and thought "who can i remember first encouraging my creative side as a kid?" and i remembered this teacher i had when i was 8 - she'd held up something i'd worked on for ages and said it was wonderful and told the whole class i was the "official class artist" *bless!* - things like that make such a difference when you're a kid. i think that was one of the first times i started to think of myself as "a creative"!
anyway i found her address online and wrote her a letter saying thanks and telling her what i'm up to. got an email back saying she'd just retired and was feeling all depressed until my letter arrived, it was nice to let her know that she made a difference in my life.
- paraselene0
we stopped around nine. anyone still standing at ten was rewarded with eggs benedict. and those people in my bed were some of the strangest i've ever seen.
- moth0
it's being hailed as the best house party ever!
paraselene
(Mar 14 05, 05:14)Sounds good.
Were there strange people in your bed and DJ's still playing at 10am?
- paraselene0
it's being hailed as the best house party ever!