Introvert

that is a great response, ryerro.

yoko: you are asking the right questions.

i wish that we could sit around for a really long time & just talk. i like talking about things like this.

This, sweetestheart, is the never-ending struggle. You will alsways come full circle to this question: why? When it happened to me 2 years ago, I trained and was a literacy volunteer. When it happened last year, I went once a week handing out sanwiches to people living on the street. It's August, and I'm thinking of something new. I've given enough blood this year to refuel a small horse. No answers yet, but it tends to keep the questions at bay!

i say run around pantless for a while the answers will come to you

Lovely Miss Yoko,
You been cast into a society that, for the most part, gives a fuck only about themselves.
I often feel like I do not belong here.
Why should I, though?

I did not come from here,
and this is not where I will end.

Every time you think any thought,
Any unspoken prayer...
Any question you ask yourself
And every time your heart beats faster,
With love or excitement...

Every time you breathe.

You are reproducing.
Yes, that is why you are here.
And, yes, perhaps survival is what we get.
So survive.
With vavoom.

Keep your eyes open.
Keep asking questions.
You may not find the answers this time around,
But you have all the way to the end to find out.

This is not fail or pass.
There are no grades given,
unless by ourselves.

Stand up.
Fall down.
Stand up.
Repeat.

Some people call a circle perfect...

Look outward. Stop obsessing. Find happiness in helping others. Be selfless. Love. Breathe. Live. Don't think too much.

That's what I try to do.

I love you Ms. Yoko. It'll all be ok.

pretty yoko, i break my brain almost everyday when i have freetime with this type of questions and the conclusion i had come too is the nike quote just do it, i think that perhaps one can find this answers accepting things as they are and giving your best in all you do, thinking this type of things you just break your brain to realize you are in point 0.

I am at work, so I can't say a lot, but---
After I asked these questions, I took a shower and was pantless last night, but I wasn't running around. Instead I spent a good 3 hours reading about global warming.......

I think I feel a conflict inside me, because I don't want to accept things as they are and I want to change. Though, I have to accept that there are some things that I cannot change. Again, am I obsessing? Do I care too much??? Ever since I could remember growing up, I had always made it a point to remind myself to never become indifferent. I'm not the kind of person whose only concern is that which directly effects their family or themselves. I feel for every living thing. I guess I feel (like, in many recent experiences) like I am limited in what I can do. I can only help so many people, I can only reach a few. I guess I am realizing that I am human... gotta go. love you guys

You know that saying "Think Globally, Act Locally"? Yeah.. you can't directly impact the world, but you can still affect your own environment, your own city, your own friends. I've always worked for non-profits, I just never want to be the person working for "the man" to put more and more cash into the corporate pockets. I try to love my friends and family, to live a good life (albeit extremely unconventionally) and trust that that is enough for ME. I could and do obsess about everything and the world can weigh me down so badly I back myself into a corner, literally, or hide in the bathtub in the dark. I can't let myself think too big. Baby steps can change the world. Until then - what I said: live, love, breathe.

"Now that you're here, the word of the Lorax seems perfectly clear.
UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better. It's not."

(the actual book is, of course, far better...that's where all the pictures are. i guess your post and the responses made me think of this...my own thoughts are not as eloquently put as those of the great doctor)

my ' are ?
grr

Lorax, yes.