| I have just logged into Xanga for the first time in aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaages.
And Jasmine and Wendy seem to be the only people posting.
Lovin' iiiiit.
I'm not drunk.
I swearz.
LOLSPICE!!!!!!!!111
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i present you with--
an episode of... suttoboke mother
*watching Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl*
Mother: (spotting Orlando Bloom) "Ah!! It's what's-his-name!... The blond boy in Lords of the Ring... Legomortis?"
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Food for thought...
"Without realizing it, lucky people behave in a way that maximizes the chance opportunities in their lives. They talk to lots of people and spend time with them, attract other people to them and keep in touch with people. These actions result in a massive 'network of luck' and a huge potential for chance opportunities. And it takes only one chance encounter to change a life.
The important question is what sorts of people do notice important and obvious opportunities? Who spots that all the cards have changed in the magic trick? Who sees the opportunity to win $1M in a lottery? The answer lies in a second major dimension of personality on which lucky and unlucky people differ - neuroticism. People who obtain a low score on this dimension are generally calm and relaxed, while people who obtain a high score are more tense and anxious. Because lucky people tend to be more relaxed than most, they are more likely to notice chance opportunities, even when they are not expecting them. They will be the people who notice the advertisements in the newspaper experiment and the large dots at the edges of the computer screen. And the ability to notice such opportunities has a significant, and positive, effect on their lives.
There is a third and final set of unexplored techniques that lucky people unconsciously use to promote the good fortune they encounter. And these techniques center around another important dimension of their personalities, 'openness.' People who obtain a high score on this dimension like to have a great deal of variety and novelty in their lives. They love trying new experiences, new kinds of foods and new ways of doing tings. They don't tend to be bound by convention and they like the notion of unpredictability. People who obtain a low score on openness tend to be much more conventional. They tend to like to do things the way that they have been done in the past. They like the idea of tomorrow being broadly similar to yesterday and today. And they don't enjoy big surprises."
- The Luck Factor
There is an infinity of 'destinies.' Every thought, decision and action leads us closer to different ones. But making a mistake doesn't take us further from the 'perfect' destiny. After all, the only destiny we consistently draw closer to is death. So death is not a consequence but a conclusion. And the important factore in life is that the expression we wear on our faces at this conclusion constantly changes as our lives progress. Take the polaroid photo in Back to the Future, for example. The members of Marty's family photo kept changing as he messed with the past before his birth. He himself almost completely disappeared before he righted things again. Everything we do counts, and every challenge we face is our gift to own. From whom, God (whoever that is) or 'is'ness, it does not matter, since the past does not matter a fraction as much as what we choose to do next. Then, more importantly, is how we accept what happens and how we move on; it is ultimately a cycle of "next, next, next" ness. Can't stop to fuss over trying to undo the "before" when you should be looking after the "next"s.
Time only exists because we travel from place to place and there was a need for a system in which we would compare the distance. So let us go places.
Even if it takes freaking 15 hours to fly from Tokyo to Chicago, a grievous layover, 4 hours from there to Boston, and 20 minutes in a cab to school. And I-don't-even-want-to-know-how-much green stuff!
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errm....
and what's so good about koda kumi?
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