Thursday, January 24, 2008

What if I'm not the same person as I was just two seconds ago? What if instead of living a smooth, complete life, every second I am a new person inheriting all the feeling and memory of my predecessor and constantly erasing my old self and building a new one?

Sometimes I feel like this. Like I'm changing and like I can't always remember who I am. I remember what I did yesterday, I remember what I did last week, I remember what I did last year, but that person in my memory is not me.

It's kinda like what happens to a lot of antiques nowadays. One leg on an antique stool gets replaced, and soon another, and another. Soon the whole stool will be a replacement, but somehow, we can still call it an antique.

I guess it's a good thing.

Monday, January 14, 2008

"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 enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And 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."
-Maryanne Williamson

Sometimes small actions, or even inactions, can have the greatest effect.

Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Sometimes we just have to try something new.

"There's not something wrong with you, Michael, there's something wrong with everybody else."

The coolest person ever on the ski team.