Sunday, January 13, 2013

Relationships

I wonder if relationships have changed over the years.

Back when we had arranged marriages, people had no choice.  And, ironically, a lot of them came to love their spouse because they simply had no alternative.

And now the divorce rate has gone up.  Maybe because it can.  But maybe because we have choices.

The media has influenced our lives.  For everyone talks about love, sings about love, puts love on bill boards. 

But does anyone actually SEE love, anymore?

Not the fiery passion and high-points that you can afford to put in a 75 minute movie.

The deep love.  The slow love.  The kind of love where you can spend 356 days out of the year with each other and never get bored.  work out your problems.  TALK to one another about things that matter.

Do these things…even factor…into love anymore?

Saturday, November 3, 2012

We are the cancer of the world.  We are the invaders.  We have taken something normal (the first human beings), and we have mutated over time.  We have multiplied too quickly and are taking over, crowding out the other beautiful living beings in this world.   Eventually, we will run out of resources.  We are not “bad”; there are simply too many of us.  I think overpopulation will be the death sentence of the human race.

Wednesday, August 22, 2012
There’s one more thing: I think the desire to live a meaningful life is universal. To some people, it’s working toward a goal. To others, it’s enjoying every minute of every day. So what does it really mean to live life to the fullest? Maybe striving to win a Nobel Prize and going skydiving are just two sides of the same coin. To me, it’s not about achievement or self-gratification. It’s about knowing that you’ve pushed yourself, body and mind, to the limits of your own potential. You feel it when you’re sprinting, and when the piano piece you’ve practiced for hours finally comes to life beneath your fingertips. You feel it when you encounter a life-changing idea, and when you do something on your own that you never thought you could. If I died tomorrow, I would die feeling I’ve lived my whole life at 110 percent ~Sophia Chua (daughter of Amy Chua, the famous tiger mom)
Monday, August 20, 2012

The hipster movement taught us that we each want to be different.  The mainstreaming of nerd life made us realize that we are all the same, seeking to figure out who we are, the superheroes we can be, the universe, and our place in it.

Friday, August 17, 2012 Monday, July 30, 2012
Thursday, July 26, 2012

Everyone wears a mask

For everybody wears a mask.  If you wear it long enough, does it become part of you?  Mold into your features in a kind of gruesome yin and yang?  

Saturday, July 21, 2012
They weren’t cows inside. They were waiting to be, but they forgot. Now they see the sky and they remember what they are River Tam
Thursday, July 19, 2012