Sunday, July 26, 2009
TOW: Small Steps
Sometimes, in life, it's not about the big steps that matter. It's about those tiny little steps that lead us further into happiness or misery. I'm not saying that life doesn't have extremes, but the less life surprises us, the gentler the satisfaction of each kind of happiness and the greater sense of each kind of sadness.
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Busy
Hi guys and gals,
I have been busy with many things these days, but I am doing alright, and I will post sometime this week for TOW and VOW. I have a bunch of other things to put on here, but it's a matter of time versus...well, time. Takes time to make time.
=)
I have been busy with many things these days, but I am doing alright, and I will post sometime this week for TOW and VOW. I have a bunch of other things to put on here, but it's a matter of time versus...well, time. Takes time to make time.
=)
Monday, July 13, 2009
TOW: Potential
I have been working a lot lately, and all of the working, and commuting, and life changes have got me thinking (as per usual, eh heh). This time, I'm thinking about that one great thing poet wax and wane about, that one thing in any good Hollywood movie, or any early 90's children's cartoon...and I'm not talking about fame, fortune, or contract residuals from the upcoming Harry Potter movie. No, I'm talking about the one thing everyone has. Or doesn't have. Or almost has. And it's staring at you in the face, every day. Well, almost. It's 50% staring at you. It's sort of kind of staring. Well, it might be staring at you. If you let it stare.
Ahem.
Potential is something that people talk about every day. People have the potential to change. Change is possible if we just reach out and grasp it because the future (potentially) could be better. Potential, potential, potential, etc. And the worst (and the best) part of potential is that it hasn't been realized yet. You get to dream, but it's also sucky because you're dreaming. Why CAN'T I be a millionaire with a million people who are my friends and have the best life ever???
I bet I could. I think I have it in me. Maybe.
Nietzsche, who I seem to be talking a lot about these days, was very interested in human potential. He saw the human being as something not only be completed, to be a full person that exists in the world; he saw humanity as something to be surpassed. And that is a very interesting thought. And that is a very interesting thought because nowadays every catch-phrase, every slogan, and every itty-bitty piece of advertising is about surpassing ourselves and becoming more than we already are. In other words, we all live very Nietzschean lifestyles. (Which, depending who you ask, isn't a bad thing.) And Nietzsche's values aren't wrong...there is something very fulfilling about the idea of surpassing yourself from where you are now, to becoming, potentially, greater than you ever imagined you could be.
What we need in our lives is a balance of dreaming about the things we could be, and having the drive to turn that potential into reality. And that balance is a hard thing to strike. There are real steps we need to take to make our potential would-be selves come to life. We all have dreams that need realizing...but unless we take steps to make our lives better, the future we imagine will only remain a potential dream. And the regrets we have, as they say, are, potentially, the mistakes that we didn't make, and not the ones that we did.
Ahem.
Potential is something that people talk about every day. People have the potential to change. Change is possible if we just reach out and grasp it because the future (potentially) could be better. Potential, potential, potential, etc. And the worst (and the best) part of potential is that it hasn't been realized yet. You get to dream, but it's also sucky because you're dreaming. Why CAN'T I be a millionaire with a million people who are my friends and have the best life ever???
I bet I could. I think I have it in me. Maybe.
Nietzsche, who I seem to be talking a lot about these days, was very interested in human potential. He saw the human being as something not only be completed, to be a full person that exists in the world; he saw humanity as something to be surpassed. And that is a very interesting thought. And that is a very interesting thought because nowadays every catch-phrase, every slogan, and every itty-bitty piece of advertising is about surpassing ourselves and becoming more than we already are. In other words, we all live very Nietzschean lifestyles. (Which, depending who you ask, isn't a bad thing.) And Nietzsche's values aren't wrong...there is something very fulfilling about the idea of surpassing yourself from where you are now, to becoming, potentially, greater than you ever imagined you could be.
What we need in our lives is a balance of dreaming about the things we could be, and having the drive to turn that potential into reality. And that balance is a hard thing to strike. There are real steps we need to take to make our potential would-be selves come to life. We all have dreams that need realizing...but unless we take steps to make our lives better, the future we imagine will only remain a potential dream. And the regrets we have, as they say, are, potentially, the mistakes that we didn't make, and not the ones that we did.
VOW: Camel Jumping
Unfortunately, the embed link is not working for some reason, so I recommend you check out the link, here.
This is actually really amazing. I'm surprised that they got so many people interested in doing this.
This is actually really amazing. I'm surprised that they got so many people interested in doing this.
Monday, July 06, 2009
TOW: Make-do-ability
I know, I know, I owe you like, a week's worth of thinking and videoing. It's not happening. I used to be very anal about following my own rules with updating, but as I'm sure we all find--life gets in the way. And when life gets in the way, we make do. And this, my friends, is called the principle of make-do-ability.
Lately, I have been making ends meet and making things work by as random means as I can manage. And frankly, my life gets more random by the day. The good thing about all of this, of course, is that I can make do with all of my circumstances, all of my craziness, as long as someone bloody pays me, talks to me, listens to me, and we can all get on with life in the way we please...most of the time.
There are times in life, and moments in your day, when you realize that something is not going to worked the way you planned. However, alongside that thought, you also realize that to complete the task at hand, you might just have to make do with what you have. And whether that make-do is lemons making lemonade or being stuck with an elephant in a small room somewhere, sometimes you do just have to make do with what you have.
And the key to all of this making do--is realizing what you do have, and using it. And that's a pretty special skill, according to the wise.
Lately, I have been making ends meet and making things work by as random means as I can manage. And frankly, my life gets more random by the day. The good thing about all of this, of course, is that I can make do with all of my circumstances, all of my craziness, as long as someone bloody pays me, talks to me, listens to me, and we can all get on with life in the way we please...most of the time.
There are times in life, and moments in your day, when you realize that something is not going to worked the way you planned. However, alongside that thought, you also realize that to complete the task at hand, you might just have to make do with what you have. And whether that make-do is lemons making lemonade or being stuck with an elephant in a small room somewhere, sometimes you do just have to make do with what you have.
And the key to all of this making do--is realizing what you do have, and using it. And that's a pretty special skill, according to the wise.
Thursday, July 02, 2009
VOW: Sea Pig
I thought I would introduce you to one of the nets top most comic you-tube celebrities, in case you haven't ever watched him...he talks a lot about Canada Day. Which, er, I did...not.
TOW to follow later this eve!
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