Rage, rage against the dying of the light...
The elevator in my apartments is probably big enough for 4 people and 2 dogs, literally. And when I stepped on the elevator last night there were already 2 people, young teenagers, and a dog on it. A bigger dog, maybe not full grown but definitely something along the lines of a retriever. The next floor down brought 1 more person, bigger guy, and 1 more dog. A little terrier like thing that was barking before the elevator door even opened... and as the elevator door closed everything broke loose. Serious fighting, cursing, pulling on leashes, trying to get in the way of the dogs... And so many things seemed surreal to me. First we have little teenagers with a big dog sizing up against a big guy with the smallest dog in the world. Second we have this little dog, probably a serious case of little dog syndrome, trying to attack this so much bigger dog. The little guy was completely outmatched. It would take all of 2 seconds for the bigger dog probably to kill the smaller one no problem. But this dog would not back down, not even for a second... even though this is one occasion where the whole "it's not the size of the dog in the fight..." idea does not work... and here I am stuck right in the middle of all of it...
"A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit."
...I have to respect the small dog... sticking up for itself... because, like wolverine on x-men, it has courage and rushes in to any fight... it's one of the greatest and hardest things you can do in life, to just stand up for yourself even if it means you're gonna get hurt. Something I fail to do all too often on the ice... and it ends up worse because I could stop things before they start.
... but I wonder if that dog didn't come into the elevator ready to scrap if a fight would have happened at all ...play to your strengths little dog... and your strengths are not picking a fight with a dog 3 times your size... if I fight a big meathead in hockey I might prove my courage but I come no closer to winning the fight or the game... It's a dilemma, cause at some point you just have to forget the game and stand up for yourself... but where's that line?
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
If you don't take time then how do you have time?
So what do you do with your time anyways..?
- watch movies.. joox... alluc
- read
- email, phone, go on facebook, do a blog
- study for LSATs
- darts
- work out , stretch
- write
- play hockey
- travel
- eat
- sleep
- go out
A lot of the time I epitomize my own thesis that athletes and sports are almost completely worthless in society. In ancient Rome the peoples demand for entertainment and complete disregard for reality was one of the reasons for its fall. And are we so far away from that right now? Why do we care about an undefeated football team? (see global warming, genocide, poverty, war, terrorism, homelessness, pollution, etc.) There's a story about a guy that fell from an airplane without a parachute. The whole way down he kept telling himself, "so far so good, so far so good..." Sometimes I think that's what I see around myself right now in the world. Everyone hoping things will be good, not seeing the warning signs, and especially not doing anything about it and just wanting to enjoy themselves. And frankly I'm at the top of that list right now... Almost every day I wrestle with the fact that I should be somewhere else doing something so much more important. And the only reason I stay here is because I feel like right now, maybe?, I'm supposed to be here, and second I need some money to pay for law school.
- watch movies.. joox... alluc
- read
- email, phone, go on facebook, do a blog
- study for LSATs
- darts
- work out , stretch
- write
- play hockey
- travel
- eat
- sleep
- go out
A lot of the time I epitomize my own thesis that athletes and sports are almost completely worthless in society. In ancient Rome the peoples demand for entertainment and complete disregard for reality was one of the reasons for its fall. And are we so far away from that right now? Why do we care about an undefeated football team? (see global warming, genocide, poverty, war, terrorism, homelessness, pollution, etc.) There's a story about a guy that fell from an airplane without a parachute. The whole way down he kept telling himself, "so far so good, so far so good..." Sometimes I think that's what I see around myself right now in the world. Everyone hoping things will be good, not seeing the warning signs, and especially not doing anything about it and just wanting to enjoy themselves. And frankly I'm at the top of that list right now... Almost every day I wrestle with the fact that I should be somewhere else doing something so much more important. And the only reason I stay here is because I feel like right now, maybe?, I'm supposed to be here, and second I need some money to pay for law school.
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
The Science of The Pregame
In my opinion, here is what counts... taking a page from all the best stuff I've seen over the years...
- Rest or suffer a thousand little injuries.
Rest started out non-existent and I just showed up to the game. College saw me taking an afternoon 2-3 hour nap before the game. In pro I realized that a) I'm wasting way too much of my time on these naps and b) the players that don't sleep in the afternoons perform just as good, sometimes better for it. I've gotten no sleep the night before and played great, or 12 hours the night before and played terrible. Doesn't matter - so now I try to average out good rest over the week and get a 10-15 minute power nap before the game and a cup of coffee at the rink.
- Eat food or lose 20 lbs in the season.
Pro has seen a lot of changes because this is one thing you simply cannot neglect if you want to play day in day out. I go pasta and chicken or fish the night before, snack all the next day (cereal, omelet, fruit) with a smaller pasta and chicken meal 4-5 hours before the game and a multi-vitamin because somehow it seems to work best then. 2 hours before is a protein bar, and after the game is usually a protein shake to replenish whatever I lost. And the next morning is also alot of fruit and water to get rid of all the bad acids stored up from the game. Throw in a couple of Mcdonald's cheeseburgers and fries in there every once in a while to make up for the salt and fat you burned off in the games and you're all set.
- Exercise or lose every battle in the corner.
It only really began in college and began with us working out like football players. Bad back and a bad shoulder later and my thoughts changed. Intensity is the new black for me in workouts. Treat every workout or practice like you're going into a game and it's no longer hard to get up to play games. It's just habit. So workouts are short, intense, very hard and try to mimic as much as possible the actual things I do in my sport. And it's the same warmup for both practices and game... 30 minutes before either a practice or a game I'll do a 15 minute warmup and then get dressed.
- Stretch every day. Flexibility is the difference between being in the right spot for a goal or falling over because your body can't move the way you want it to.
- Nothing, nothing, nothing makes up for actually playing your sport.
So keep that in mind before you turn all Reggie Bush on everyone and do crazy stuff that you'll never actually see in a game ever. And coaches take this to heart and actually make drills to mimic things the players will actually do in a game... no more full-ice horseshoes already.
- The only real difference between guys that make it and guys that don't is their mental game.
Think "Hockey Tought" by Saul Miller. How you keep confidence through hardship, injury, or scoring drought; how you react to situations in the game; how prepared and focused you can be every second your feet touch the ice; and most importantly how badly you want to win (or hate to lose). I won't even try to explain the whole thing, you'll just have to read the book. But I will say that you should go over situations that you'll face in a game until you almost unconsciously know how to react to them. And yes, one of the most important is training yourself to react well in a scoring chance so you don't panic or get too excited and screw it up. And lastly, involve some sort of physical action in your visualization to make a strong connection between thought and aggressive action.
- And you have to, have to, have to get out and do things a couple times a week just to let off steam and to be in the world. To realize that sports isn't all there is in life, and to forget, for a second, the rink and everything that goes along with it.
- Rest or suffer a thousand little injuries.
Rest started out non-existent and I just showed up to the game. College saw me taking an afternoon 2-3 hour nap before the game. In pro I realized that a) I'm wasting way too much of my time on these naps and b) the players that don't sleep in the afternoons perform just as good, sometimes better for it. I've gotten no sleep the night before and played great, or 12 hours the night before and played terrible. Doesn't matter - so now I try to average out good rest over the week and get a 10-15 minute power nap before the game and a cup of coffee at the rink.
- Eat food or lose 20 lbs in the season.
Pro has seen a lot of changes because this is one thing you simply cannot neglect if you want to play day in day out. I go pasta and chicken or fish the night before, snack all the next day (cereal, omelet, fruit) with a smaller pasta and chicken meal 4-5 hours before the game and a multi-vitamin because somehow it seems to work best then. 2 hours before is a protein bar, and after the game is usually a protein shake to replenish whatever I lost. And the next morning is also alot of fruit and water to get rid of all the bad acids stored up from the game. Throw in a couple of Mcdonald's cheeseburgers and fries in there every once in a while to make up for the salt and fat you burned off in the games and you're all set.
- Exercise or lose every battle in the corner.
It only really began in college and began with us working out like football players. Bad back and a bad shoulder later and my thoughts changed. Intensity is the new black for me in workouts. Treat every workout or practice like you're going into a game and it's no longer hard to get up to play games. It's just habit. So workouts are short, intense, very hard and try to mimic as much as possible the actual things I do in my sport. And it's the same warmup for both practices and game... 30 minutes before either a practice or a game I'll do a 15 minute warmup and then get dressed.
- Stretch every day. Flexibility is the difference between being in the right spot for a goal or falling over because your body can't move the way you want it to.
- Nothing, nothing, nothing makes up for actually playing your sport.
So keep that in mind before you turn all Reggie Bush on everyone and do crazy stuff that you'll never actually see in a game ever. And coaches take this to heart and actually make drills to mimic things the players will actually do in a game... no more full-ice horseshoes already.
- The only real difference between guys that make it and guys that don't is their mental game.
Think "Hockey Tought" by Saul Miller. How you keep confidence through hardship, injury, or scoring drought; how you react to situations in the game; how prepared and focused you can be every second your feet touch the ice; and most importantly how badly you want to win (or hate to lose). I won't even try to explain the whole thing, you'll just have to read the book. But I will say that you should go over situations that you'll face in a game until you almost unconsciously know how to react to them. And yes, one of the most important is training yourself to react well in a scoring chance so you don't panic or get too excited and screw it up. And lastly, involve some sort of physical action in your visualization to make a strong connection between thought and aggressive action.
- And you have to, have to, have to get out and do things a couple times a week just to let off steam and to be in the world. To realize that sports isn't all there is in life, and to forget, for a second, the rink and everything that goes along with it.
Monday, January 7, 2008
You Make the Laws for a nation, I'll Write the Songs...
...And I'll direct its future..
These are the best songs on my pregame...
Animal I Have Become - Three Days Grace
Move Along - All-American Rejects
Bleed it Out - Linkin Park
Tears Don't Fall - Bullet For My Valentine
All My Life - Foo Fighters
The Ghost of Tom Joad - Rage Against the Machine
Never Again - Nickelback
Staring at the Sun - Offspring
Life is Beautiful - Sixx AM
Joker and the Thief - Wolfmother
These are my favorite lines in songs that I've heard lately...
"And if I claim to be a wise man, it surely means that I don't know. "
"Do you ever question your life? Do you ever wonder why? Do you ever see in your dreams, the castles in the sky?"
"I’m more afraid of living than I am scared to die. I’m more afraid of falling than I am of flying high. Every moral has a story. Every story has an end. Every Battle has its glory… and it’s consequence."
"Oh take your time, don’t live too fast. Troubles will come, and they will pass."
"I’ll leave my heart wide open. I will love and have no fear."
"Wherever you see a cop beating a guy, wherever hungry newborn baby cries, where there’s a fight against the blood and hatred in the air, look for me ma, I’ll be there… wherever somebody’s struggling for a place to stand, for a decent job or a helping hand, wherever somebody’s struggling to be free, look in there eyes ma, you’ll see me "
"Lights go down, you start, the trouble is your head can’t rule your heart, a feeling so much stronger than a thought, your eyes are wide and though your soul, it can’t, be bought, your eyes can wonder."
"Enjoy your body, use it every way you can, don’t be afraid of it or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own"
"Let's dance in style, let's dance for a while. Heaven can wait we're only watching the skies. Hoping for the best but expecting the worst. Are you going to drop the bomb tonight?"
"And even when your hope is gone move along, move along just to make it through. "
"Some are like water, some are like the heat. Some are the melody and some are the beat."
"... Well she tied you to her kitchen chair,she broke your throne and she cut your hair, and from your lips she drew your hallelujah..."
"... Well remember when I moved in you, and the holy Ghost was moving too. And every breathe we drew was hallelujah..."
"... It's not a cry that your hear at night, it's not somebody who's seen the light. It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah..."
These are the Best Movies You've Probably Not Seen, but also that will never win an Oscar...
Let's Go To Prison (2006)
Green Street Hooligans (2005)
Casablanca (1942)
Smokin Aces (2006)
Boiler Room (2000)
Out of Sight (1998)
These are the Worst Movies you've probably never seen...
Howard the Duck (1986)
Super Mario Brothers (1993)
X-men 3 (2006)
Snakes on a Plane (2006)
These are the best songs on my pregame...
Animal I Have Become - Three Days Grace
Move Along - All-American Rejects
Bleed it Out - Linkin Park
Tears Don't Fall - Bullet For My Valentine
All My Life - Foo Fighters
The Ghost of Tom Joad - Rage Against the Machine
Never Again - Nickelback
Staring at the Sun - Offspring
Life is Beautiful - Sixx AM
Joker and the Thief - Wolfmother
These are my favorite lines in songs that I've heard lately...
"And if I claim to be a wise man, it surely means that I don't know. "
"Do you ever question your life? Do you ever wonder why? Do you ever see in your dreams, the castles in the sky?"
"I’m more afraid of living than I am scared to die. I’m more afraid of falling than I am of flying high. Every moral has a story. Every story has an end. Every Battle has its glory… and it’s consequence."
"Oh take your time, don’t live too fast. Troubles will come, and they will pass."
"I’ll leave my heart wide open. I will love and have no fear."
"Wherever you see a cop beating a guy, wherever hungry newborn baby cries, where there’s a fight against the blood and hatred in the air, look for me ma, I’ll be there… wherever somebody’s struggling for a place to stand, for a decent job or a helping hand, wherever somebody’s struggling to be free, look in there eyes ma, you’ll see me "
"Lights go down, you start, the trouble is your head can’t rule your heart, a feeling so much stronger than a thought, your eyes are wide and though your soul, it can’t, be bought, your eyes can wonder."
"Enjoy your body, use it every way you can, don’t be afraid of it or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own"
"Let's dance in style, let's dance for a while. Heaven can wait we're only watching the skies. Hoping for the best but expecting the worst. Are you going to drop the bomb tonight?"
"And even when your hope is gone move along, move along just to make it through. "
"Some are like water, some are like the heat. Some are the melody and some are the beat."
"... Well she tied you to her kitchen chair,she broke your throne and she cut your hair, and from your lips she drew your hallelujah..."
"... Well remember when I moved in you, and the holy Ghost was moving too. And every breathe we drew was hallelujah..."
"... It's not a cry that your hear at night, it's not somebody who's seen the light. It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah..."
These are the Best Movies You've Probably Not Seen, but also that will never win an Oscar...
Let's Go To Prison (2006)
Green Street Hooligans (2005)
Casablanca (1942)
Smokin Aces (2006)
Boiler Room (2000)
Out of Sight (1998)
These are the Worst Movies you've probably never seen...
Howard the Duck (1986)
Super Mario Brothers (1993)
X-men 3 (2006)
Snakes on a Plane (2006)
Sunday, January 6, 2008
The Athlete
Athletes are selfish...
And the reason they're selfish is because most of their time is spent working on, and thinking about, themselves. You control everything. You get the same amount of sleep, you watch everything you eat (I knew a player that stopped eating desserts the day after he got drafted), you constantly go over every part of your body and work on it to get it stronger or more flexible, you constantly think about how you could play better or do mental imagery to prepare yourself for things you'll face in a game. You "Control what you can control."
Or not...
The athlete is just as much a happy go lucky party like a rockstar kinda player. You're living everyones dream job, you have money, and you never know when the ride's gonna be over, so you have to enjoy it while you're on it. "Live while the pulse of life is strong. Life is a tenuous thing... fragile, fleeting. Don't wait for tomorrow. Be here now." Because as my good friend once told me, "Brendan, If you can't play guilty you can't play hockey."
SO the athlete himself is not so easy to pin down. There is no real magic formula. Sure the athlete dedicates most of their life to themselves, but a lot of the time it isn't so cut and dry goodie 2shoes keep your head down work hard athlete. There are all types... From the guys that parties the night before games to guys that never drinks a drop ever. From guys that worked out every day to guys that never touched a weight in their life. From guys that never shut up on game days to guys that would never talk on game days. From guys that spent hours getting ready for games to guys that did nothing but take (or snort) a couple of sudafeds and step onto the ice. Guys that didn't think about hockey in the summers to guys that spent hours a day working on the smallest things. Guys that put every part of their equipment on in a certain order, or wouldn't let anyone walk in their area (designated by a line of tape around it), or went to the rink the same way each day, or would only lay their gloves palms up, or would put on new tape on their stick every period, or liked wet equipment, or liked dry equipment, or always dressed in the same place, or always stood in the same place for the anthem
... and never, ever, ever do you let your jersey touch the floor.
And the reason they're selfish is because most of their time is spent working on, and thinking about, themselves. You control everything. You get the same amount of sleep, you watch everything you eat (I knew a player that stopped eating desserts the day after he got drafted), you constantly go over every part of your body and work on it to get it stronger or more flexible, you constantly think about how you could play better or do mental imagery to prepare yourself for things you'll face in a game. You "Control what you can control."
Or not...
The athlete is just as much a happy go lucky party like a rockstar kinda player. You're living everyones dream job, you have money, and you never know when the ride's gonna be over, so you have to enjoy it while you're on it. "Live while the pulse of life is strong. Life is a tenuous thing... fragile, fleeting. Don't wait for tomorrow. Be here now." Because as my good friend once told me, "Brendan, If you can't play guilty you can't play hockey."
SO the athlete himself is not so easy to pin down. There is no real magic formula. Sure the athlete dedicates most of their life to themselves, but a lot of the time it isn't so cut and dry goodie 2shoes keep your head down work hard athlete. There are all types... From the guys that parties the night before games to guys that never drinks a drop ever. From guys that worked out every day to guys that never touched a weight in their life. From guys that never shut up on game days to guys that would never talk on game days. From guys that spent hours getting ready for games to guys that did nothing but take (or snort) a couple of sudafeds and step onto the ice. Guys that didn't think about hockey in the summers to guys that spent hours a day working on the smallest things. Guys that put every part of their equipment on in a certain order, or wouldn't let anyone walk in their area (designated by a line of tape around it), or went to the rink the same way each day, or would only lay their gloves palms up, or would put on new tape on their stick every period, or liked wet equipment, or liked dry equipment, or always dressed in the same place, or always stood in the same place for the anthem
... and never, ever, ever do you let your jersey touch the floor.
Friday, January 4, 2008
It's All About the Benjamins
I decided if this title was to work, that I had to at least find 3 Benjamins that have something important to add to this world.
Benjamin: "Son of the South" "Son of my right hand"
1) The philosopher: Andy Warhol is the featured artist at the Contemporary Art Museum of Amsterdam. The same Andy Warhol that first had the idea that everyone will have 15 minutes of fame (which culminated in Grant's famous ideal mate of knight to F4). Amsterdam is also the home of the Van Gogh museum and the Riechs museum. The difference between these three museums is the subject of the first Benjamin. Walter Benjamin: who wrote that "In the absence of any traditional, ritualistic value, art in the age of mechanical reproduction would inherently be based on the practice of politics." Laymen's terms: art is a tool. Past artists only wanted you to view the art and appreciate it. They wanted to point you to some perfect vision of the world. The idea was that if everyone simply did what they wanted that somehow God would make everything work out for everyone's best. Everything was working out for good on its own... People no longer believe the world is perfect, and that in order to make the world better we actually have to do something about it. The modern artists make you react to their art, they demand something from you. They push you in a direction and put a gun in your hand and tell you to fight the injustice and poverty in the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Work_of_Art_in_the_Age_of_Mechanical_Reproduction
2) The writer: Benjamin #2 is a political blogger, Benjamin Barber. His title today, "Bush is a Liar..." leads me to suspect that he is a Democrat. But the second part of his title "... but Intelligence is an Illusion" tells me that even being a Democrat he has kept some sort of good sense. He somehow links back to the first Benjamin because he approaches writing from the same belief as the modern artists... that you have to actually make the effort to change something. As Andy Warhol said, "They always saytime changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."
http://blog.civworld.org/?p=43
3) The doer (Talking about it is so easy): "Be the change you want to see in the world" was definitely not a quote from this next guy, but this is a guy that lived it. "How you spend your days is how you live your life" was also not a quote from him, but it follows from the first quote. You want to do something with your life? Start doing it in your days... And the start of all of this is where Benjamin comes in. Benjamin Franklin. Habits. 90% of life is unconscious habit. You want to change yourself, you want to change the world around you? develop good habits. You want to score 50 goals in hockey this season? Develop a habit to shoot the puck, to be in front of the net and jump to every rebound after the shot. Coach's always say go with your first instinct cause it's usually right, I say only after you've learned and practiced the right way until it is an unconscious habit. You believe that your conscience magically tells you the right thing to do no matter what? The way I've heard it said though is that your conscience tells you only what you've already told it. How you act or not act is how you choose your life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin
Benjamin: "Son of the South" "Son of my right hand"
1) The philosopher: Andy Warhol is the featured artist at the Contemporary Art Museum of Amsterdam. The same Andy Warhol that first had the idea that everyone will have 15 minutes of fame (which culminated in Grant's famous ideal mate of knight to F4). Amsterdam is also the home of the Van Gogh museum and the Riechs museum. The difference between these three museums is the subject of the first Benjamin. Walter Benjamin: who wrote that "In the absence of any traditional, ritualistic value, art in the age of mechanical reproduction would inherently be based on the practice of politics." Laymen's terms: art is a tool. Past artists only wanted you to view the art and appreciate it. They wanted to point you to some perfect vision of the world. The idea was that if everyone simply did what they wanted that somehow God would make everything work out for everyone's best. Everything was working out for good on its own... People no longer believe the world is perfect, and that in order to make the world better we actually have to do something about it. The modern artists make you react to their art, they demand something from you. They push you in a direction and put a gun in your hand and tell you to fight the injustice and poverty in the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Work_of_Art_in_the_Age_of_Mechanical_Reproduction
2) The writer: Benjamin #2 is a political blogger, Benjamin Barber. His title today, "Bush is a Liar..." leads me to suspect that he is a Democrat. But the second part of his title "... but Intelligence is an Illusion" tells me that even being a Democrat he has kept some sort of good sense. He somehow links back to the first Benjamin because he approaches writing from the same belief as the modern artists... that you have to actually make the effort to change something. As Andy Warhol said, "They always saytime changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."
http://blog.civworld.org/?p=43
3) The doer (Talking about it is so easy): "Be the change you want to see in the world" was definitely not a quote from this next guy, but this is a guy that lived it. "How you spend your days is how you live your life" was also not a quote from him, but it follows from the first quote. You want to do something with your life? Start doing it in your days... And the start of all of this is where Benjamin comes in. Benjamin Franklin. Habits. 90% of life is unconscious habit. You want to change yourself, you want to change the world around you? develop good habits. You want to score 50 goals in hockey this season? Develop a habit to shoot the puck, to be in front of the net and jump to every rebound after the shot. Coach's always say go with your first instinct cause it's usually right, I say only after you've learned and practiced the right way until it is an unconscious habit. You believe that your conscience magically tells you the right thing to do no matter what? The way I've heard it said though is that your conscience tells you only what you've already told it. How you act or not act is how you choose your life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Random Thoughts...
I have a major problem with University... school in general for that matter. Theory is... If you jump through all the hoops, if you work really hard, if you do everything you're told, if you repeat back everything your teacher has told you (but not word for word because that would be plagarism), you graduate. Congratulations you are now another brick in the wall. What about the skills of self motivation (aka. the ability to work hard without being told to) creativity (aka. to make something new) or the word that is in a tie with another word, 'freedom', for being the most misused word in the english language, individuality (aka. to think for yourself). In fact, your whole life has been about following the instructions of parents, teachers, and coaches. And nothing against any of them because they all truly want the best for you, but the result is still the same no matter what the intentions. Graduates are (for the most part) brought up and trained not to ask questions, not to think for themself, and to work hard for somebody else.
Universities kill the child in people. The one that is curious about things. The one that asks 40,000 questions before they ever even get to kindergarten. The one that took chances. The one that rode, and didn't care about the fall. The one that got an F on his freshman year philosophy paper because he didn't repeat exactly what he was told to say in class. The one that died Junior year English:Early 20th Century British Novelists class when he no longer cared about learning or challenging himself and just cared about passing...
"Children are all born great poets, musicians, writers and philosophers... they are all born gifted... the trick is not to let the world take that gift away from you."
Everyone gets hurt, fine, its a part of maturing... everyone fails... will it kill you or make you stronger? Maybe all the hurt will make you lose everything you once had... You make a pact to yourself never to be open, or vulnerable, or curious, or creative, or an individual, or carefree, or hopeful, or whatever it was because of it... but "dying is always easy; living, now that is the trick"... the trick is to somehow get it back... especially if it's your creativity before you bring your lack of it to Hollywood and use it to make a movie like X-Men 3.
JC knew what he was talking about when he said;
"Unless you are like one of these (children), you will never enter the kingdom of heaven."
I think the same rules apply down here as well. Forget for a second that children are AS selfish, unbending, incredibly self-seeking, and ridiculously self-centered AS people that have lived on their own for too long. And remember that they are still curious, creative, shameless individuals that try to experience life, and most especially, they enjoy even the smallest things...
So now you have the chance to get the best of both worlds. The selflessness that comes with maturing as other people take you out of yourself. And all the best parts of who you used to be, if you can ever get it back again...
So how do you get it back?
I think you know for yourself at least...
Universities kill the child in people. The one that is curious about things. The one that asks 40,000 questions before they ever even get to kindergarten. The one that took chances. The one that rode, and didn't care about the fall. The one that got an F on his freshman year philosophy paper because he didn't repeat exactly what he was told to say in class. The one that died Junior year English:Early 20th Century British Novelists class when he no longer cared about learning or challenging himself and just cared about passing...
"Children are all born great poets, musicians, writers and philosophers... they are all born gifted... the trick is not to let the world take that gift away from you."
Everyone gets hurt, fine, its a part of maturing... everyone fails... will it kill you or make you stronger? Maybe all the hurt will make you lose everything you once had... You make a pact to yourself never to be open, or vulnerable, or curious, or creative, or an individual, or carefree, or hopeful, or whatever it was because of it... but "dying is always easy; living, now that is the trick"... the trick is to somehow get it back... especially if it's your creativity before you bring your lack of it to Hollywood and use it to make a movie like X-Men 3.
JC knew what he was talking about when he said;
"Unless you are like one of these (children), you will never enter the kingdom of heaven."
I think the same rules apply down here as well. Forget for a second that children are AS selfish, unbending, incredibly self-seeking, and ridiculously self-centered AS people that have lived on their own for too long. And remember that they are still curious, creative, shameless individuals that try to experience life, and most especially, they enjoy even the smallest things...
So now you have the chance to get the best of both worlds. The selflessness that comes with maturing as other people take you out of yourself. And all the best parts of who you used to be, if you can ever get it back again...
So how do you get it back?
I think you know for yourself at least...
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