Purer than Water

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Tell Me that You've Opened Your Eyes

It is absolutely crazy how much people can change. I don't know if anybody has seen the videos on youtube where people have taken a picture of themselves everyday for a year or longer and then put them all into a fast video slideshow of all these pictures. It's simply amazing. It just get's you to thinking how much you've changed as a person over your life.

Unfortuanetly the change I'm talking about can't be measured in pictures or the length/color/style of your hair at any given point in time. If there was a way to watch peoples personalitys change over the course of their lives I want to see it, if someone has a way to invent that give me a call, I'll help you. If it's too much work for you give me the idea, I'll do all the work.

If someone could capture the intricacies of people's changing personalitys in some form of art it would probably rival the Mona Lisa.

Song: Snow Patrol - The Finish Line

Let Me See You

Stuff that cracked me up:

1.) You may remember awhile ago the huge Sony battery recall with Dell and Apple. A little while after those an IBM battery also started sparking and smoking at an airport. According to FOXNews.com Sony 'had yet to determine if the battery in the laptop was indeed a Sony battery.' Now how long does that process take? They look at the battery for awhile...I'm not sure if this is the thing we make...umm...hold on, let's aa...put it in a different laptop and...oh, oh there it goes, yep, it exploded, yeah that's our battery, shit.

2.) This is something that probably happens to you almost daily if not more than once a day. You're walking along and you see somebody you recognize a little farther up. The problem is they're too far away to start a conversation. Now by this point this person's already seen and recognized you too. So now you are both looking at everything around you. Trying frantically to avoid the other person's eyes at all costs. Everyone around you both is looking around trying to figure just what in God's name you both are looking at. As you get closer and closer to passing each other the glances up at the other person become more and more frequent. Then finally, finally as you pass each other you exchange the obligatory 'hey' and it's all over.

Song: Blake Shelton - Playboys of the Southwestern World

Put Another Song In

Choices, we spend everyday, all day, making them. However big or little these decisions may be we are always making choices. We choose to get up in the morning, we choose to go class, we choose to listen, we choose to answer questions.

We decide to say something, we decide to stand up for ourselves, we decide to stand up for others and we decide to sit back and watch everything blow by us.

The thing is, these 'little' choices, these 'tiny' decisions mean everything to our lives. One little decision can send our lives down completely different paths. For better or worse.

Of course not everything is under our control. But the passive attitude that we so often assume by telling ourselves that it wasn't under our control can be devastating to the path we want to be following.

Sitting and watching everything go by seems to be the norm. It's just assumed that if something goes one way that that is the way it's supposed to go. We can't do anything about it.

I'm incredibly guilty of this very thing in so many different ways. I can't even tell you how many times I've just let things happen. So many times I've made the passive choice. Was it because it was easier? Probably.

That's no way of doing things though. Passiveness is just another word for laziness and it stops here.

Song: Hootie & The Blowfish - Only Lonely

Is it all that Great Without Me?

Why do people wait for things? Think about it. Has there been a time, in your life, that you haven't been waiting for something to happen?

At work you wait for that big promotion, or that new opportunity. At a bar you wait for the perfect moment to approach that one girl. At home you wait for that phone call you've been expecting. Some of us even wait for the second coming of Christ.

Why oh why do we wait? Is it really all that bad right now? Is your life, as it is right now, so bad that the best thing that you have to do is sit around and wait for something better to come along?

Think about it. No, REALLY think about it. It's not. I don't know who's reading this blog right now. Not much of anybody from what the page counter says. But I hope that one person reads this and agrees with me.

It's not all that bad. In fact it's probably pretty damn good. Yes I mean your life.

I mean you, who, may be working your way through 2 or even 3 jobs this summer to pay for college tuition. You who may be working 60+ hours each week. You who may be out of college and drowning in the monotonous rigors of a 9-5 cubicle job. Why do we do it? Because we think, we look forward, we hope for something better.

And there it is. Hope. There's always that little bit of hope in everybody that there's something better. When it comes down to it, yes, there probably is something better. But does that hope of something better keep us from enjoying the good that we have at the moment?

I'm not saying be content with what you have. No. Contentment never got anybody anywhere. Think about it, if everyone was always content with what they had, we would never have even got as far as inventing the wheel.

I think there are two kinds of contentment though. Passive contentment, and aggressive contentment. (Stick with me here)

Those who are passively content with things the way they are, are happy with their lives, but they get nowhere in life, never accomplish anything and never grow as a person. As far as I'm concerened nobody who's passively content will ever stay content. because there is a desire in every person that craves and feeds on accomplishments and succeeding in things they had never done or previously thought impossible. Leaving that desire unfulfilled for long periods of time can bring even the most content people down.

Those who are aggresively content, however, actively pursue their goals and are constantly fulfilling that desire to achieve and succeed in new things every day. They are always moving forward, yet always content with what they have at the moment.

Don't spend all your time waiting. Things will happen whether or not you wait. Be content. Don't be content to the point of laziness yet be happy. It isn't all that bad.

Song: Hootie & The Blowfish - Let Her Cry

Like a Rock You Waited so Patiently

Y'know what's funny? The idea of the movie 'What Women Want'. The whole movie is based on a faulty idea. The idea that women know what women want and that a single man (Mel Gibson) who can read women's minds can figure out what they reall want.

I've got news for you, if a guy could read womens minds, he'd probably know less about women than he does now. Because guess what? Women don't know what they want.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying men do know what they want, cause I don't know where my life is going right now.

But here's the thing, Women, unlike men, pretend to know exactly what they want. They tell men these things, and men, the obliging being they are attempt to give them these things.

These same obliging men then end up in a spiraling, confusing, lost path to nowhere. And for what? Doing 'What Women Want'

My advice? A woman tells you what she wants? Do the opposite, the funny part is, she'll probably end up realizing that that is what she had wanted all along, and she'll thank you for it?

Make sense? No? Good.

Song: Josh Turner - Would You Go With Me

It's Really Good to Hear your Voice Saying My Name

I could go for some ice cream right now. I could really really go for some ice cream.

I just went on a 16 mile bike ride. 16 miles round trip in about 45 minutes. I still can't decide what I like better, road biking, or mountain biking. When it comes to speed you can't really compare mountain biking to road biking...you can just get going so much faster on a road bike. But going down a nice steep hill on a mtb coming inches away from hitting trees and other things in the path will get your heart beating and the adrenaline flowing more than a road bike ever has.

Yet, for some reason, I seem to be leaning more towards road biking. I can't figure out why. But I haven't really gotten a really good trail for my mountain bike yet either. I'm waiting for that to figure it out. Once I get back to Minnesota I'm going to get on a good trail and then make my decision.

Other than that, I got my new bag for next year...I know, I know, it's a bag who cares? But it's a really nice bag, called a Chrome Citizen. It's a bike messenger bag. It'll come in handy when I have two bikes and don't have a car around up at college.

Taylor Swift - When You Think Tim McGraw