#LIFE December 12, 2011

CROSS OUT THE THINGS YOU’VE DONE. October 12, 2011

 

• Kissed someone.
  
  • Smoked a cigarette. 
    
  • Got so drunk you passed out.
    
  • Rode every ride at an amusement park.
    
  • Collected something really stupid. 
    
  • Gone to a rock concert.
    
  • Helped someone.
    
  • Gone fishing.
    
  • Watched four movies in one night.
    
  • Gone long periods of time without sleep. 
    
  • Lied to someone.
    
  • Snorted cocaine.
    
  • Failed a class. 
    
  • Smoked weed.
    
  • Dealt drugs.
    
  • Been in a car accident.
    
  • Been in a tornado.
    
  • Done hard drugs (i.e. ecstasy, crack, meth, acid).
    
  • Been to a funeral.
    
  • Burned yourself (on accident!)
    
  • Ran a marathon.
    
  • Cried yourself to sleep.
    
  • Spent over $200 in one day.
    
  • Flown on a plane.
    
  • Been cheated on.
    
  • Written a ten page letter.
    
  • Gone skiing.
    
  • Been sailing.
    
  • Had a best friend.
    
  • Lost someone you loved.
    
  • Shoplifted something.
    
  • Been to jail.
    
  • Dangerously close to being in jail.
    
  • Had detention. 
    
  • Skipped school.
    
• Got in trouble for something you didn’t do.
  
• Stolen books from the library.
  
• Gone to a different country.
  
  • Dropped out of school.
    
  • Been in a mental hospital.
    
  • Watched the “Harry Potter” movies.
    
  • Had an online diary.
    
  • Gambled in a casino.
    
  • Had a yard sale.
    
  • Had a lemonade stand. 
    
  • Been in a school play. 
    
  • Been fired from a job.
    
  • Taken a lie detector test.
    
  • Swam with dolphins.
    
  • Gone to sea world.
    
  • Voted for someone on a reality TV show.
    
  • Written poetry
    
  • Read more than 20 books a year.
    
  • Gone to Europe. 
    
  • Loved someone you shouldn’t have.
    
  • Used a colouring book over age 12.
    
  • Had surgery.
    
  • Had stitches.
    
  • Taken a taxi. 
    
  • Seen the Washington Monument.
    
  • Had more than 5 IM’s/online conversations going at once.
    
  • Overdosed.
    
  • Had a drug or alcohol problem.
    
  • Been in a fist fight.
    
  • Suffered any form of abuse.
    
  • Had a hamster.
    
  • Petted a wild animal. 
    
  • Gone surfing in California.
    
  • Did “spirit day” at school.
    
  • Dyed your hair. 
    
  • Got a tattoo. 
    
  • Had something pierced.
    
  • Got straight A’s.
    
  • Been on the Honor Roll.
    
  • Taken pictures with a webcam.
    
  • Gotten caught having a party while parents were gone away.

no rush… (via Read Between the Minds) August 13, 2011

with his bare hands he began to write out his suicide note he had considered typing it so there would be no confusion about why but it seemed rather impersonal and he always felt that communications should have some humanity to it so he decided to write it out in longhand but was worried that he might misspell some words since he was so used to using spellcheck he could type it out first and then transfer it to letterhead but someone might think … Read More

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to a poet having lost faith… (via Read Between the Minds) June 25, 2011

you have forgotten the first rule love thyself as you would another without that love becomes a person or object to be held and possessed not fulfillment of self or even love of the other look not to the horizon but in the mirror for what you seek to understand that which love is and can be is there … Read More

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don’t let the door… (via Read Between the Minds) June 12, 2011

after you've finished ranting and raving about how unfair life has treated you and you've told the last person who will listen all your misfortunes perhaps on your way out you could take a moment to explain to the child in north korea why they're always hungry and to the ones in angola what happened to their mothers and fathers you could eve … Read More

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What keeps you up at night? March 28, 2011

 

Neighbors talking and floors creaking and car alarms and fridge compressors and faucet dripping and toilet flushing and TV too loud and music too strong and errands never run and paperwork never touched and goals never reached and ambitions never sought and finances too low and love non-existent and joints that are aching and things left unsaid and “what was I thinking?” and thinking too much and acting too little and living with your choices and not choosing at all and keeping the silence and screaming out loud and doubting myself and finding myself and knowing you all and hiding the light and cracks in the armor and wanting to leave and needing to stay and knowing your place and making your way and “what do I do?” and “how do I live?” and “when will I die?” and playing the game and making the rules and … and … and
… and … and …

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February 1, 2011

Dilemma … January 18, 2011

Mahatma Gandi January 11, 2011

Fits perfectly January 5, 2011

 

“You can shed tears that she is gone,
or you can smile because she has lived.
You can close your eyes and pray that she’ll come back,
or you can open your eyes and see all she’s left.
Your heart can be empty because you can’t see her,
or you can be full of the love you shared.
You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday,
or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday.
You can remember her only that she is gone,
or you can cherish her memory and let it live on.
You can cry and close your mind,
be empty and turn your back.
Or you can do what she’d want:
smile, open your eyes, love and go on.”

 

David Harkin, British poet and painter