About Me

Living life one dream at a time.

Words of the Wise

"What after all is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean."
-Christopher Fry, The Lady's not for Burning

"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says, 'I'll try again tomorrow.'"
-Mary Anne Radmacher

"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."

-Erica Jong

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the World. There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people won’t feel unsure around you...We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us; It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. As we let our own Light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
-Nelson Mandella, 1994 Inaugural Speech

"Until this moment I had believed forgiveness to be a special virtue, a beneficence God expected of good people. But it wasn't that at all. Forgiveness was an instinct, a desperate impulse to stay connected to the people you needed, no matter what their betrayals."
-Monica Wood, My Only Story

"If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days."
-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

"The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them—words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried when you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for the want of a teller but for the want of an understanding ear."
-Stephen King

"Have you even been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you, or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so a simple phrase like 'maybe we should just be friends' or 'how very perceptive' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love."
-Neil Gaiman, Sandman: The Kindly Ones

"Being always overavid, I demand from those I love a love equal to mine which, being balanced people, they cannot supply."
-Sylvia Ashton-Warner

"What I need is someone who will make me do what I can."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson


"You know, when you crawl that far down into the abyss, you really shouldn't bring stuff back up with you. Some things are meant to live in the dark. Your blog is like one of those fish with no eyes. Only slightly more disturbing."
Thursday, January 31, 2008

This blog entry is brought to you by the letter 4.

I'm home sick today, and have been sleeping off and on between calls from the office. I could unload an entire can of pissed-offedness relating to that, but it's not worth the energy. Really though, I get more and more itchy to find myself a nice development job in the arts every day.

I have personal accountability on my mind today. It's something I've been nagging A about for a while now, and it hit me yesterday afternoon at work that most people...?

Yeah, they really don't give a shit.

Here are some rules. They're not terribly hard. We'd all do well to follow them.

If you break it, fix it.

If you can't fix it, then make amends for it.

If you can't make amends, learn and move on.

No matter what happens, a heartfelt apology goes a long way. Saying you're sorry doesn't make you look bad - ever. It shows you're willing to take responsibility.

The words, "I'm sorry" should never, ever be followed by a qualifier. Ever.

When you finish something, you should be able to look back on it and be proud of your work. Never be satisfied with 'just enough to get by'...because it's almost never enough.

If you want something, then do the work required to get it. Nobody deserves anything for free, because they are nice, or because they didn't expect things to happen the way they did.

If you are not happy, change your circumstances. If you're not willing to accept the consequences of change, then you don't really want it enough, do you?

Accept that you're going to fall down now and then, and give yourself a break. But always, always try to do better the next time.

Accept that others aren't perfect, either. Just don't waste your time with those who won't try to better the next time.

Oh, the last rule?

Remember that Christine is always particularly crabby when she is sick.

1 comments:

Christine said...

Me too...hope you're feelin' better soon darlin'!

*hugz*