There are times when we can’t fully rely on our own judgement.
We become biased, prejudiced or overly emotionally involved in a situation.
Our opinions are coloured by our hopes and desires.
We see what we want to see, we believe what we want to believe
...and then we do whatever we have persuaded ourselves to do
regardless of how wise or unwise this may be.
We do it because at the time it made us happy.
And for a moment we were willing to see where it led.
Until we put too much thought into it and let it end.
Think back please, to some of the ’greatest mistakes of your life’.
Remember the moments when you found yourself ’on the wrong side of a threshold’ or ’past a point of no return’
Now recall the way those situations turned themselves around.
Which of them would you seriously undo, unpick or alter even if you possibly could?
These weren’t mistakes, they were essential steps.
photo: cc // daniel*1977
"Some people say you shouldn’t joke about life’s most serious issues. Others insist that when faced with matters of life and death, we may as well see the funny side. Humour is a very personal thing. Just as we cry for a host of reasons, not all of them sad - so when we laugh, we do not always do so through joy. "
~j.c.
I'd Rather Be With You
~Joshua Radin
Sitting here, on this lonely dock
Watch the rain play on the ocean top
All the things I feel I need to say
I can't explain in any other way
photo: cc // Thomas R. Stegelmann
As Lovers Go
~ Dashboard Confessional
She said "I've gotta be honest,
You're wasting your time if you're fishing round here."
And I said "you must be mistaken,
I'm not fooling... this feeling is real"
She said "you gotta be crazy,
What do you take me for? Some kind of easy mark?
"You've got wits, you've got looks,
You've got passion, but I swear that you've got me all wrong."
Every 15 minutes someone in the U.S. dies by suicide. Here are the warning signs I was completely ignorant to back in 2004 and am all too aware of now.
I ran out of money after chasing a startup dream into a China dotcom bubble
...that had just burst.
Susie heard I was out of money.
I hate asking for money.
She knew I hated asking for money.
So she wired me money.
Without me ever asking.
It tied me over for a month.
A month is all i needed before I landed my gig.
A gig that took me through an amazing 5 year journey in Shanghai.
I paid her back from my first paycheck.
I hate owing people money.
She knew I hated owing people money.
She wasn't expecting a thank you.
Especially at the expense of my stupid pride.
I was that kind of little sister then.
I did send an emailed thank you.
But I never said thank you the way I should have.
Looking back, I wish I did.
Another year, another round of bittersweet memories
that come to mind at the end of each October.
