Oh the Places you'll Go

Here's the text to one of my favorite books ever, "Oh the Places You'll Go"

By Dr. Suess.

"Oh, the Places You'll Go!

Congratulations!
Today is your day.
You're off to Great Places!
You're off and away!

You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose.
You're on your own. And you know what you know.
And YOU are the guy who'll decide where to go.

You'll look up and down streets. Look 'em over with care.
About some you will say, "I don't choose to go there."
With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet,
you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street.

And you may not find any
you'll want to go down.
In that case, of course,
you'll head straight out of town.

It's opener there
in the wide open air.

Out there things can happen
and frequently do
to people as brainy
and footsy as you.

And when things start to happen,
don't worry. Don't stew.
Just go right along.
You'll start happening too.

OH!
THE PLACES YOU'LL GO!

You'll be on your way up!
You'll be seeing great sights!
You'll join the high fliers
who soar to high heights.

You won't lag behind, because you'll have the speed.
You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead.
Wherever you fly, you'll be the best of the best.
Wherever you go, you will top all the rest.

Except when you don' t
Because, sometimes, you won't.

I'm sorry to say so
but, sadly, it's true
and Hang-ups
can happen to you.

You can get all hung up
in a prickle-ly perch.
And your gang will fly on.
You'll be left in a Lurch.

You'll come down from the Lurch
with an unpleasant bump.
And the chances are, then,
that you'll be in a Slump.

And when you're in a Slump,
you're not in for much fun.
Un-slumping yourself
is not easily done.

You will come to a place where the streets are not marked.
Some windows are lighted. But mostly they're darked.
A place you could sprain both you elbow and chin!
Do you dare to stay out? Do you dare to go in?
How much can you lose? How much can you win?

And IF you go in, should you turn left or right...
or right-and-three-quarters? Or, maybe, not quite?
Or go around back and sneak in from behind?
Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find,
for a mind-maker-upper to make up his mind.

You can get so confused
that you'll start in to race
down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace
and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space,
headed, I fear, toward a most useless place.
The Waiting Place...

...for people just waiting.
Waiting for a train to go
or a bus to come, or a plane to go
or the mail to come, or the rain to go
or the phone to ring, or the snow to snow
or waiting around for a Yes or a No
or waiting for their hair to grow.
Everyone is just waiting.

Waiting for the fish to bite
or waiting for wind to fly a kite
or waiting around for Friday night
or waiting, perhaps, for their Uncle Jake
or a pot to boil, or a Better Break
or a sting of pearls, or a pair of pants
or a wig with curls, or Another Chance.
Everyone is just waiting.

NO!
That's not for you!

Somehow you'll escape
all that waiting and staying.
You'll find the bright places
where Boom Bands are playing.

With banner flip-flapping,
once more you'll ride high!
Ready for anything under the sky.
Ready because you're that kind of a guy!

Oh, the places you'll go! There is fun to be done!
There are points to be scored. there are games to be won.
And the magical things you can do with that ball
will make you the winning-est winner of all.
Fame! You'll be famous as famous can be,
with the whole wide world watching you win on TV.

Except when they don't.
Because, sometimes, they won't.

I'm afraid that some times
you'll play lonely games too.
Games you can't win
'cause you'll play against you.

All Alone!
Whether you like it or not,
Alone will be something
you'll be quite a lot.

And when you're alone, there's a very good chance
you'll meet things that scare you right out of your pants.
There are some, down the road between hither and yon,
that can scare you so much you won't want to go on.

But on you will go
though the weather be foul
On you will go
though your enemies prowl
On you will go
though the Hakken-Kraks howl
Onward up many
a frightening creek,
though your arms may get sore
and your sneakers may leak.

On and on you will hike
and I know you'll hike far
and face up to your problems
whatever they are.

You'll get mixed up, of course,
as you already know.
You'll get mixed up
with many strange birds as you go.
So be sure when you step.
Step with care and great tact
and remember that Life's
a Great Balancing Act.
Just never forget to be dexterous and deft.
And never mix up your right foot with your left.

And will you succeed?
Yes! You will, indeed!
(98 and 3 / 4 percent guaranteed.)

KID, YOU'LL MOVE MOUNTAINS!

So...
be your name Buxbaum or Bixby or Bray
or Mordecai Ali Van Allen O'Shea,
you're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting.
So...get on your way!"

I've been dreaming instead of sleeping these days, It can't be good.

dem old disney movies are hecka goodz

I dunno about you, but when I was a kid, I thought the "D" in the Disney logo was some sort of convoluted G.

I think I already mentioned that.

Yeah, back in those days... kids had imaginations, crayons, and Dr. Suess

Now, these kids have iPhones, facebook, and no dreams.

Did I mention that I find it tragic?

The best advice for studying: 
1) Get off the interwebs (the social networks, youtube, blogging--but not just yet!!!, itunes, twitter, etc)
2) Take breaks (real breaks, like to eat food, exercise, meditate, basically just clear your mind, cause hey, studying is tough)

Anyhow...

This video makes me look at my life differently:

(oh, and as a side note... did I mention that that last video I posted about "Questions no one knows the answers to."... that vid was made by the guy who invented TED :)

Now that you've watched that, you should go apply it to your life. I guarantee it will make it more awesome.

Stephen Hawking is a boss. 

Ever wondered if we could synthesize a dream on a piece of old fashioned printer paper? 

And here's one more video, this one just flippin inspiring: 

Anything is possible. Go live your Dream. 

I think maybe I'll buy a skateboard and draw the galaxies in crayon on the bottom of the deck.

I know so little... it's incredible. That I could have overlooked so much and never even thought it was overlooked is preposterous at best, and yet, tis how it went.

I seriously like know nothing. Nothing of science, nothing of religion, nothing of government, nothing of languages, nothing of people, nothing of ideas, nothing of adventure, nothings of even the geography of the planet on which I live. 

It's amazing really to think of the infinite consciousness contained in a single person. 

I'm tired of school, but there's no point to a rant about it. Alls for the best, I guess. 

I've had a lot of random thoughts recently: 

Now, go hug a red panda & catch a flying fish w/ the Northern Lights. Please? What if all of Taylor Swift's music videos were of an obese mexican making tacos on the back of a taco truck? [I swear that honestly seemed profound at 2:34 AM when I thought of it. *headdesk*] Flying fish fly across the oceans, what's to say there isn't flying fish that flit across the galaxies in a reality we cannot even comprehend of? There's a jungle underground. Picture this: a Labrador puppy is in the gym, on the bench press, benching an elephant and a pinata. 

"I, today, dare you to become aware of your ignorance."

I saw this today: 

Humor and irony are deeply profound. 

I've found that often those old people, or those quiet introverts- those quiet "awkward" people- aren't feeling awkward, they're appreciating the silence and finding truth. Give it a shot sometime. 

I'm getting a new piano tommorow, it's gonna be legit. 

I'll become part of the sky one day, and then, that afternoon, I'll become the Ocean. 

"Do more than exist."

Fakity is bad. Get real. 

Crayons are flippin awesome. 

So, I wrote a research paper on the Rubik's Cube today. Did you know that that little cube, despite it's complexity, can be solved, from any possible configuration, in 20 or less moves? Speaking of it's complexity, did you know that there are over 43 Quintillion configurations for that cube? 

and uh, yeah sorry... you weren't wondering. 

‎"Dream As If you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."-James Dean

^that song's from this one crazy dubstepper... but, it's extremely positive, no joke. The vocals are from one of my favorite youtube videos: this one

And, for some curiousity sparking ideas:


Peace out!

Go do something flippin awesome!

Pale Blue Dot [This Rocked My World]

"Seen from about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles),Earth appears as a tiny dot (the blueish-white speck approximately halfway down the brown band to the right) within the darkness of deep space.^[1]"

[Photo Credit: Voyager I]

From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known, so far, to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment, the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

—Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space, 1997 reprint, pp. xv–xvi

So uh, that quote right there blew my mind... I'd always gotten that feeling from looking at the stars, but to encapsulate in into a tiny photograph... woah. 

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot

and, 

But yeah, some people call things in life "trials." 

I thing I better term, at least for me, is "A first world problem."

Go do something great.


Sky Above Me, Earth Below Me, Fire Within Me. The Clock is ticking, kick it into gear. 

Why live a life filled with regret?

I swear I don't wanna write about the election.

So uh... The election is tomorrow. I urge you to vote. I implore you. Vote.

What I say about it will change nothing. So, I'll say nothing.

Think deeply about it before you make any choice though.

Alright, now to something a bit more crazily awesome:

Some dude, by the name of Matt Maddaloni invented something for climbing that I think is awesome: (link)

And uh,

I think it's important to ask a crapoly load of questions, rather than being all stubborn about your pre-conceived notions.

And uh...

I wanna do this one day:

Here's a link for some info on it:

http://adventure.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/extreme-photo-of-the-week/#/koh-yao-noi-thailand_53149_600x450.jpg

And here's a song I think is awesome:

 And, I dunno why I'm still writing...

but while I am...

Life is the ultimate pinacle of epicality.

if you wanna do something, do it. Follow your intuition.

If you wanna be great. Just do it.

"My heart and my mind will carry my body when my limbs are too weak."

If you choose, you will be great.

Life is to be lived.

I don't mean to be rude, but if you're not scared or annoyed or just plain hate something that you have to do, you're not living.

If you're scared of something you do by choice, you are making a choice to be great.

That moment when you decide to make the jump, the moment where your brain sends a message to your body to jump, and you are just leaving the safety of the ledge. That moment. That moment is great. GREAT. not like good, but awe-inspiring, thought provoking and GREAT.

This song is really good.

If you're annoyed at it, but make the choice to deal with the annoyance, or the pain of something, and yet you still do it. Like working out. That's good, you should keep doing it.

Focus on what matters most. What matters most is the outcome of now. What you should focus on is living now, with preparation for tomorrow.

I'm bored writing this. Seriously.

And if I'm bored writing this, I can't even imagine what it's like to be you reading it.

When I walked into the dance after doing parkour, what'd I feel? Completely unalive. We can't live to party, it's so much less of life than anything else, despite that it might seem otherwise.

When my phone is sitting flat on a table, it spins in circles when it vibrates when I get a text.

it's pretty trippy, I've changed. Pain, work, practice... I don't feel it anymore... all I feel is life, coursing life. Life channeling through it all. I change my mindset and live entirely in the moment, with goalless epicality. It's the strangest thing. I honestly focus entirely on the moment and not at all on my goal. It's bizarre.

Anyhow.

Live.

I am the 2.5% of insane people.

I think the key to it all is getting off that little computer you're glued to all day. Here's the thing:

Dude, the world is huge
it's enormous
You have the opportunity to consume more information everyday than people used to consume in entire lifetimes
The surface area of the earth is 510 million square kilometers
You were made to explore
Look, you've got 100 years. In 100 years... all this will be gone. You'll be dead. The guy who you hate will be dead. That girl you love, dead. That guy who rang up your groceries in the grocery store. Those kids at the local school. Everything. Appreciate the beauty of it.
Follow your dreams.
Go and Do.
Live.
Sometimes there's moments of epicality, other times there's moments when it sucks,
but, let me tell you, it's worth it to try.
Live. Find your greatness.
Don't Give up. Don't Give Up. Don't Give Up. Don't Give Up. Don't Give up. Don't Give up. Don't Give Up. Don't Give Up. Don't Give Up. Don't Give up. Don't Give up. Don't Give Up. Don't Give Up. Don't Give Up. Don't Give up. Don't Give up. Don't Give Up. Don't Give Up. Don't Give Up. Don't Give up. Don't Give up. Don't Give Up. Don't Give Up. Don't Give Up. Don't Give up. Don't Give up. Don't Give Up. Don't Give Up. Don't Give Up. Don't Give up. Don't Give up. Don't Give Up. Don't Give Up. Don't Give Up. Don't Give up.


And this is me, signing off.

Yolo (but note the consequences). Live.

Surreality.

There is a purple geometry textbook that can teach you how to do a backflip while eating pancakes and thinking of bacon roses.

once you think you've got a glass of water, you wonder if we could build warm ice that you could use like digital glass.

Chiptune. That stuff will blow your mind. It's like the epitome of Geek enlightenment. I never even played video games.

Anyhow... to something actually worth typing out:

Someday is Today!!!

^That, my friends, is what we call flippin epic.

My dreams are surreal, they're like this fluid flow of epicality.

I dunno why I'm telling you about my dreams, sorry Cyberspace if that was a bit creepy.

you know, climbing on roofs has got to be like the most healthy thing in existence... no joke....

like, I was doing some stupid shiz and so I ditched the church activity... climbed on the roof... meditated, watched the stars.... refound reality, and jumped back into the insanity with a bit more sense than average.

Climbing on roofs... you rise above it all, it's mentally and physically challenging (sometimes), and it's quiet up there, you realize the smallness of the individual and the greatness of humanity. I dunno what I'm trying to say here.

What do you wanna do?

Maybe I'll learn to sail.

Take a moment and picture the transcendant things in life.

and, here's a legit photogallery that this guy did of bridges, landscapes and space... it's legit: http://gallery.artofgregmartin.com/
and his space project: http://www.experiencetheplanets.com/

Astronomy.

Apollo 8, imagine what it must be like...

What happened to Humanity?

you should watch "blimeycow" on youtube... they're right on, and they say epic stuff in deeply hilarious ways.

Ever wondered what it'd be like to pause time and turn the waters to glass and climb a waterfall that came into the ocean. And then come to the top of it, get in an upside down umbrella and unfreeze it all and fall into the water? The Ocean of life.

I wonder if we humans are meant to have something beautiful but inherently dangerous sitting in front of us all the time, maybe that's what makes us think/grow. Nature, fire, the ocean, the weather.

The Astronauts in the Apollo Space Program that went to the moon and travelled around it, around the dark side of the moon... They saw the the best star-show that any human ever has seen. Can you imagine, no atmosphere, no sun glare, merely a piece of Glass between you and so many galaxies that they couldn't pick out constellations...

People are awesome.

Maybe one day we will all be Pro. Maybe one day we will design airships and spacecraft to travel to a distant galaxy.

The Earth, an oasis of life.

When it gets darkest, the Stars come out.

"Find Your Greatness"

Oh, btw... Aurora Borealis... I'ma go see it. 

Here's some good stuff on it: (and that Owl City song at the end, I dunno) 

National Geographic Album of Some Great Aurora Borealis Pictures

And uh, then some epic guy took like the greatest vid of the Aurora I've ever seen: http://vimeo.com/45858333

http://grooveshark.com/s/Dreams+Don+t+Turn+To+Dust/3UJaDT?src=5 that's the owl city

Woah...

Okay... I think I just set a new record... actually, probably not... 

anyhow... here's my record... I was sitting at my computer, writing a study guide... and checking my computer's clock consistently to make sure I wouldn't turn it in late... 

well uh, my computer clock said 10:54, and Canvas said 11:59... well, my friends, I had under a minute to turn in my study guide, and I was really really really close to being done. Well, you see... my watch hourly alarm went off... and I said oh crap... cause it's 24 seconds fast... and uh, Yes... I saved my document, and uploaded it to canvas with literally a single second to spare.... it was.... amazing.

I'd just like to thank life, and God, and Awesomeness for this good luck.

If you write "-2-2 x =" on a piece of paper, your pencil will make a rhythm similar to Chim Chimney, from Mary Poppins.

9 times 3=27

at this point, it's like... past the time I should be in bed, considering the early hour I must arise at tomorrow... and the fact that I haven't got more than 5 hours of sleep a night for the last 4 days. 

at this point, I don't know why people don't go outside

at this point, I've decided that I'm going to san fransisco more often

at this point, I'm tired of typing "at this point." 

at this point... ha...... ha...... jk

Porsche 911 Turbo

and the color of peace is the ocean. 

the ocean isn't a colour. 

yes, you can spell that two different ways. 

I think I'm insane. 

roller coasters don't give me an adrenaline rush anymore. 

maybe I'll become a legitimate spray paint artist... like.... those ghetto gangstas.... but instead of spray painting bridges... I'll paint plywood in my backyard. 

86,400 seconds in a day. 

one day I'll be able to write without this dumb stream of consciousness thing that doesn't make any sense. 

why the heck is she so perfect?

I have 4 shelves full of national geographic. 

did I mention I'm insane? 

I dunno why, but I seriously like this song... it's like... really "clean" dubstep... (and by "clean".... I mean that the notes are really "dubstepped"... it's like electronic). They (random people on the internet) speculate that the song was written about Taylor Swift. .... juuuuust in case you were wondering. 

speaking of awesome music... okay, so... since nobody's gonna actually click on that link up there, cause it's dubstep and the only people who like dubstep are DJ's.... here's another one... #notdubstep #inspirational #freakinamazing #youbetteratleastlistentothisone 

... ladies and gentlemen, here it is: (link) 

and, just to urge you to watch it even more, here it is... like no joke, this vid will change thine life... 

if you make someone smile in your day, you have made a difference for good in the world... a wonderful, beautiful change. 

I guess the reason why I don't practice the piano all that much anymore is because my legs don't fit underneath the piano so it's ridiculously uncomfortable to play... 

One day, I'ma ditch this sorry mimic of civilization and go live, for real. 

My new aspiration and adventure plan is to start taking the train to San Fransisco all the time... and parkour, study, explore, and slackline the city and marin headlands. 

Additionally, I found a dirt cheap sailing club that will teach me to sail for free.... and I think I'ma join. 

Things lead to their opposites. 

We need to meditate. 

This one guy, I don't even know him... but he wrote something flippin epical: 

"Look up my friend, look up to that night sky above you. Those stars you see, impossibly far from where you stand, are the same ones I see. Those stars, some have witnessed the birth of humanity, others burned out a millennium ago and all we see is an echo. Impossibly far away, yet  impossibly close, I hope the vastness of the universe makes your troubles melt away and brings you back to another time, I know it brings me back.  I see these stars over me, and I am comforted by that fact that the same stars shine over your head. One day, that may be the last connection we old friends have. It is a promise, a promise that as the years pass, we will never be completely alone. That we will always have this, a faded photo, a scribbled note, a memory of days gone by. A promise that us two weary travelers one day will meet again, and watch the stars together again, separated by neither mountain nor sea."-Brendan Illis

he didn't write that to me, just so ya'll know... I just found it online. 

the bold may not live forever, but the cautious never live at all. 

Go forth and seek potential. 

"each day's a gift and not a given right. Leave no stone unturned, leave your fears behind and try to take the path less traveled by." 

Watch the stars, and find the epicality in it all. 

I'ma get good at mountain biking. 

and this is.... my version of profoundity, haha.

I don't always feel profound, but when I do, I think some pretty scary stuff.

like, the latest facebook ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMnTIQu34rQ

is it just me or is facebook seem like it's getting freaky?

I dunno what I'm really trying to say, but all I see is an attempt to monetize the great essence of humanity, basically... I just think of another video, one that it falls short of: Apple's "Think Different."  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFEarBzelBs

I dunno if that has to do with anything, but I remembered Steve Jobs, who died just over a year ago, I remembered that.  

Goodness, I seriously can't say anything profound... I'm like this fountain of randomness, I think profound stuff in my mind, but when it comes out, it just sounds non-sensible. It's strange. Go watch TED, and listen to some thought provoking music. Go read the transcendentalists. 

but, most of all- I encourage you to go live, it's insane not to live in the moment. "Find your Greatness"-Nike. 

Picture a Llama riding a unicycle through the woods while sipping a slurpie

just... life is awesome. 

Go and live. 

Get up, get out of mediocrity. and go become. 

Life, life is good. 

Fear sucks, fear is when you focus on what will happen if you fail at what you're doing right then. And it always detracts from you actually focusing on doing what needs to be done! 

Courage, tis not the absence of fear, but rather that other things are more important. 

How badly do you want it? 

^that question can change your life. 

if you want it, go get it, it's meant to be chased.

When I sit at the top of an impossibly steep hill on my mountain bike, and I look down and see the bushes, rocks, and logs that I have to navigate around as I fly down the hill in a controlled free fall, I experience something insane. I have to jump into the moment and then just do it. 

^just to share some random uselessness with the mindless void of the internet and the cloud.

The Piano Guys and Jon Schmidt are AMAZING. 

and, I bought a slackline. 

http://screencast.com/t/Q50UKmHrTa 

^that's slacklining, that's not me... but one day I will slackline that route, with a harness. 

Go forth and have an adventure. Think of what you want to look back on your life and see when you're 95, and then go and make that a reality. 

Alice Kingsley: This is impossible. 
The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is. 

Maybe... the bananas will go to church on the tennis courts' sky

One day I'll drive to the moon in a Porsche with power steering.

Just picture it, skiing across the sky listening to music in a Porsche. 

And then, we look back towards earth and where we've come from, and notice that we can look out and see our lives and futures and ideas and 7+ billion other people with hopes and dreams. And then we'll notice that it all is just a fantasical globe of life we call earth. And we'll put out our hands and realize that we can cover up the image of it with a single thumb. And we'll realize how small our problems and issues really are. 

but then, we'll kick on the party music and embrace the world and discover a new species of Moonkey. 

Maybe one day we'll all come to peace in the world. Maybe not. 

She's amazing. 

I legitimately think I'm going to sail a yatcht I build by hand around the world. 

So, I went to San Fransisco twice in two days, Saturday and Sunday of last week... 

Then I went to the middle of nowhere and met the people who lived in Wyoming all week. 

And, it blew my mind. Why do people stop listening? Why do they stop thinking? Why do they stop responding creatively?

People. We're awesome. And, frickin insane. We build bridges, have the greatest technology the world has ever seen accessible to nigh everyone, and yet... we still do stupid stuff. I guess it just a beautiful pile of humanity. 

But, that's not really what I marveled at. What I saw in SF was the complete eradication of pure humanity, with each individual sucked into their technological device, wearing mass-produced items to show their "individuality," and really just being part of a system. It blew my mind. 

Then I went to Wyoming, and I saw... people. I saw junk piles, and people who worked hard year round, I saw fields, I saw the middle of nowhere. 

And, it's people. People just the same. It was strange. 

She's amazing.

and, uh.. physics question.. does the effect of gravity have a speed?

I am completely insane. 

and uh, "One day too late" by Skillet is bouncing around my skull. 

And the internet connection in Wyoming is pitiful. 

that is all. 

Why do my epiphanies come at random times/in random situations?

I sat in the car for like... 14 hours today. 

so. life is awesome. 

Music is life. and not. 

So, I had a really cool epiphany today: 

THERE IS NO "IN-BETWEEN." 

[^I like how I used caps to make myself  look like a yelling idiot. :]

anyhow, I think it's a true statement, every single moment in life is beautiful and packed full of meaning. You see, life is a beautiful tapestry... and every thread is critical to the whole thing. Although some may be dull or shining, or brilliant or stunning, or just downright boring... all together, the contrast and combination is beautiful. 

I thought the other day about mastery, and living in the moment. basically I just "plagiarized" thought from Leonard George's Book "Mastery" which blew my mind. And, uh... if each moment is as amazing as the next, then mastery isn't seen on the stage where the pianist plays a $100,000 piano in a $5,000,000 building where people pay $120 a ticket to watch. If each moment is intermingled and inseparably connected with the rest, then mastery is simply Beauty. 

Beauty created by a choice in time. 

Maybe I should change my blog title to "musings of a mad man." 

I mean, that's probably copyrighted, so... yeah... 

So, uh... I think... after my 14 hour drive through basically desert to my grandparents house in the beautiful middle of nowhere... I think that, we need to drive sometimes, to go speeding through to emptiness. Just to find the beauty in the supposedly "bleak, blank, in-between space." Just to find the awe amid the nothingness. 

Are goals something we've just made up? 

Maybe I'm a bit too tired. 

Eastern thought is beautiful. 

I want to study telepistemology. [no, I did not make that word up]

The silence was truly deafening, and I mean that completely. 

Now that I'm essentially spouting nonsense, I'ma freewrite for a solid 10 minutes. 



Here goes: 

If you started your day by a week of zen mind riddles, would you be able to eat more window glass on your toast? maybe the answer to the applesauce is the song my grandma thinks is a conspiracy. I think, actually, that's buull. I don't think. or did I? huh? The Odyssey changed the world forever. Innovation is a beautiful thing. 10 minutes is a while, I never really thought about it that much. Pink polka dotted dinasaurs would make good pianists. I wonder what the world would think if I managed to become a great pianist, with my crappy start. maybe I'm just obsesssed with the piano, but I can't spele. I swear that wasn't intentional. maybe the fridge is full of mousetraps and they'll catch the trains of thought I can't manage to find. A thought is a connection, in the most basic form,, so... connections? that's cool. gives a bit of meaning to the "build bridges, not burn them." huh. yeah. I found the silence truly deafening, and that blew me away. I will mediat... MEDITATE... here one day and it will change my life, don't ask my why because the flowers of light will be beautiful in the day that we decide to make dubstep out of discarded ziplock bags and dumpster blinds that broke off the windows. why do I think about windows so much? I really am just one strange loop of randomness. Pianos, chichuahcas, windows... REPEAT> yeah... something like that will change the way we build fireflames and ice cream forever. maybe the answer to the round ice of light is 17 bazillion andpersande symbols. I wanna learn how to wakeboard, and I talk too much about myself, like,... forreals. I think that the ancients knew some stuff we haven't even all discovered hyet. maybe... maybe one day, we'll relaize, REALIZE reality. and it will be beautiful. it's strange, for the first time in history, billions of people have been able to do ANYTHING they want... and they do stupid stuff? what in heck? maybe I'll fly. Eagles and lightning. I'm obsessed with light, I just realized that... or at least my subconscious is. hmm. that's a strange thought, maybe when I go back and read this I'll come to some epical epiphanie that my subcounscious understands and is holding back form *from my mind, why would it do that? that's mean as all red bakpacks, why? 

yup, and... uh... I am insane. 

it's been confirmed by that paragraph of poop. 

Thank you cyberspace for not giving me a notice that my musings have overrun the randomocity allowance for google's servers. 

[Insert some kinda amazing title here]

Aye, cyberspace!

I missed you, I missed writing to you and you just taking it silently.

my desk chair squeaks when I lean back in it.

Anyhow,

Musings of a mad man.

“somewhere along the line, we seemed to have confused happiness with comfort.”

“Yolo.”

Nobody can understand something for you, no more than anyone can eat something for you.

words are such symbolism.

wisdom is non-communicable through words.

water is stronger than water. strange, eh?

“Find Your Greatness”-Nike

“Who are we–mites in a moment’s mist–that we should understand the universe?”-Will Durant

“More and more, the universe looks like a great thought rather than a great machine.”-Astronomer Sir James Jeans

“If we don’t honor our boundaries, we don’t have integrity.”-The Burger’s Book

“Whatever you can do, or dream you can–begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.”-Goethe

to be a master, you’ve got to be willing to be a fool. Complete vulnerability.

we perceive time differently when we’re indoors vs outdoors, living or existing, thinking or vegetating.

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hello cyberspace!

So... I wrote something epic the other day when I was nearing the end of a notebook used for recording awesome thoughts:

"Oh man, I wanna go live, I wanna leave a mark upon this earth. I wanna change the world. I wanna do something that matters. I don't wanna just live and die like everyone else. I wanna do something different. Build something and also experience as much as I can on my own. I wanna do what's never been done. I wanna think the unthinkable. And, most of all, I wanna change the world and leave a blank page."




























































and, I think that sums up somewhat what I wanna do.

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there’s another legit music artist that I like… DJ Contacreast… it’s techno-electro-popish.

my cereal is getting soggy.

how come so much random stuff sticks in our memories, and so much just… doesn’t?

so… i find meaning in randomness…. even in non-sensical randomocity…

a really random friend of mine once said something that made me think: “This post is most definativably not random. I am not a random person. I have reason and meaning behind my words.”

and it made me think….

cause… idk about you…. but MY stream of consciousness is pretty meaningful and random…

so… maybe random just means unexpected.

anyhow, it’s late. and I should be asleep.

the olympics are amazing.

and, I went to a concert tonight. it was kewl. it was flamenco guitar music.

and my friend is going to kill me because I went to that instead of the dance I was supposed to go to,

sometimes, maybe…. we should stop. and meditate. and embrace reality.

idk. I’m stupid.

anyhow, so a couple days ago… I wrote: “words don’t say what we really mean. but, that’s not even what I mean. it’s like words are just symbols… symbols that can be interpreted many different ways…”

and, I think I discovered something.

“Wherever snow falls, or water flows, or birds fly, or wherever day and night meet in twilight, wherever the blue heaven is hung by clouds, or sown with stars, wherever are forms with transparent boundaries, wherever are outlets into celestial space, wherever is danger, and awe, and love, there is beauty, plenteous as rain, shed for thee, and though thou shouldest walk the world over, thou shalt not be able to find a condition inopportune or ignoble.”-Emerson.

so… it’s about about discovering reality.

music is really something.

I think I figured out why I made this blog

yup, better believe it.

I disect-ificated my brain. [sorry, that's not even a word... hope cyberspace has a translator toolkit that can decode that...]

So, in the process of disecting my brain... I came up with some pretty ninja ideas.

I DISCOVERED that the reason why I write on this blog is because my mom hates it when I run around the house like a crazy person yelling random stuff.

jk.... I don't do that....

it makes a freakin good story though, huh?

.....oh pooop, I just found out that I only have approximately 9 minutes and 37 seconds left to write this post....

So... Hi.

anyhow, I really want some ice cream right now.

and... I made a playlist called "SoundMix Blender"... it's really cool.

So, basically,....

I'm writing this post because I had the most randomest thought and this epical grew out of it.

The story is titled "PINOOCHIA STRINGS"....

flippin scrud... *pinocchio

that's why I meant.

Anyhow, basically... this makes no sense...

But... here goes the most pathetic story of the year!!!!

Once upon a time, there was a magic fruit tree named harry.

Oh, sorri... that's  NOT alctually how the story goes.

okay, here comes the true story:

we have strings attached to our faces. And our toes... and our fingers and mouths.

I know you're seriously doubting this... but you should believe it, because... it's the.......

TRUTH!


so... basically... we have these strings attached to our brains!

and, so basically we're like little puppets...

However, we're like ninja awesome puppets...

and because of this... we can break free of the gay strings!!!

and become awesome.

So.... these strings are invisible...

and top secret..

in fact, they're so top secret that most people aren't even aware that they're puppets, they think that they are "FRee"

but... really, most of them aren't.

So... back to the story.

there's this guy... and he has all the strings... and he makes people do stuff..... that they don't want to do.

But, this guy is so flippin sneaky that he can make all these people think that they are doing what THEY want to do.

So, this guy...

I've never met him....

But, he is society.

And, society....

it's bad. It's not bad in and of itself... it's bad because it destroys the induvidual... and the dreams and ideas of everyone in it... it turns everyone in a crazy zombie that does what everyone else does...

That society guy, he's REAL bad...

and, he influences you...

and turns you into a puppet....

however, your dreams...

he can't make those...

the big ones at least... so... dream big.

And cut the strings... and go do something flippin amazing!!!

And tell other people about how society is getting them to do all sorts of stupid things...

but.... use a different story... cause that one is dumb.





"LIFE IS AN ADVENTURE. LIVE IT THAT WAY." 








I'm moving.

I think that paper towel should rhyme with Burundi.

I think that paper towel should rhyme with Burundi. 


So, yeah... 


I know that doesn't make sense.


Anyhow, I started listening to Port Blue.


And I started studying Meditation, and Consciousness. 


And then I tried it. 


And now I just realized that I'm being grammatically incorrect here. I'm supposed to not say "And. And. And." 


Sorry, random interjection there. 


I want to be a ninja. 


So basically, when I meditated, I put on port blue to make a playlist about 31 minutes long... Sat in the lotus position, closed by eyes, and tried to tap back into "enlightenment."


I thought of my first time I'd felt "enlightened." back a long time ago... 


/Insert "true long cliche story of how I saw the light or whatever" here/


...Anyhow, so I learned a lot of things... 


and uh, yeah. 


"Wondrous Oceans of Light Life"


Meditation is cool. 




I wonder why people do stuff. 


I want to eat a cookie. 


I talk about "I" a lot. 


A bit too much. 




What if the brain isn't really where our consciousness is? what if the brains just a footprint? or what if the brain is merely the method of communication that our "mind/consciousness/whatever" uses to communicate with our bodies...? 


Sorry, random thought there. 


I think too much. 


The avengers was an awesome movie. 


Okay, now I honestly have no clue why I am making this post. 


you can't define impossible until you try so hard you drop. 


Semantics

I've decided to write randomness for 5 minutes everyday.

I've decided to freewrite randomness for 5 minutes everyday... I used to do this and it was really cool. So, I figured I'd start doing it again.

here goes:

the timer is counting down as we drink a glass of water. I want to be friends with a dolphin because I think he'd be able to explain why the pink flying polka dot missiles are hunting the oceans. it's a cupcake. I don't know why I talk about pandas and cupcakes so much. Anyhow, there's a piano floating on the ocean being played by an elephantine shrub that got starificated into reality. Google doesn't accept my words. She's amazing. The princess fly into the sky propelled by the thoughts of humanity. Maybe we'll find the garden gnomes when we throw the house at the garden bench. what would the pen draw if we could starificate it? The blimp fell into the ocean because it was so fat. I want to drive accross the top of the ocean waves in a ferrari at 200 mph in the middle of the night under the night sky. Why are mountain lions called lions? What makes people do stuff? I like bread. She was saved by the treefort parachutes. What's a question? The Xeon waterfall fell through the terminal. There's a koala bear subway in the substrate. Maybe one day w

^sorry, 5 minutes is up.

Here's the question I've been thinking about:

why is it so much easier to give people stuff when you're like broke?

If I knew why I was posting this... it'd be legit.

I survived.

...and I suddenly don't know what I'm doing.

She's amazing.

Anyhow. I survived.

I would amaze you with some list of all the stuff I did this last week... but I'd rather not.

For two reasons,
#1) that's boring for you
#2) that's boring for me
#3)cause I said there was only two reasons

I'm trained to be a lifegaurd and I am a certified EMR.

omgosh, I talk about "I" a bit too mucho. 


So basically, last week I took 8 finals, in addition to reading 1384 pages and writing 9 papers. (I didn't make any of that up btw. It really was 1384 pages.)....

oh, did I mention one of those finals was a 30 minute oral exam?

Sometimes, nothing matters... yet at the exact same moment everything does.

So yeah, I want to bounce.

I want to go somewhere new.

I want to go climb.

Sometimes I contemplate weird things. (Especially when there’s something I don’t want to be doing that’s hanging over my head)

Hi.

I really really want to say something random right now… but sadly (haha, luckily for you) there’s nothing I can come up with.

So… sometimes I wonder about really strange things.

I have this feeling where I want to just publish this post w/o any reason for posting it. like right now…

nah, I’m not going to post it quite yet.

Tron is amazing.

It’s about a digital frontier.

I don’t know if you’ve seen it…

but you should go see it if you haven’t.

now, the movie is really cool and everything,  but that’s not why I’ve been thinking about it… I’ve been thinking about it because it opens my mind to the possibilities. What if we really could immerse ourselves into computers? What is life? is it merely the transfer and interaction of information in beautiful ways? …what’s beautiful? how do you know? what’s with all these questions we can’t come up with real answers too? we don’t know WHY 1+1=2….. it just kinda does. it’s beautiful, but in-explainable. When we try to explain it, we just kinda form air into a “solid foundation” for our argument of explanation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadillidium  <—- that’s the real name for a rolly-polly

http://db.tt/xNWSnOiN <—-kewl song that I’m decided to structure my lifestyle around… kinda.

Okay, so now I don’t even know what I’m babbling about. That’s probably a good place to stop, right?

I’ma stop.

Cut your own path. Think different.

"Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must forge our one paths.

We cannot be part of the crowd.

Dare to be.

Dare to think different.

Dare to Dream.

"Just do it"-Nike

Seriously everyone, choose to be somebody.

let's not blend in, let's conquer.

NEVER, IN ANY CIRCUMSTANCE... NEVER RANDOMLY START ASKING PEOPLE RANDOM QUESTIONS...

alright...

so...

this long story is very long and complicated and has many twists of plot and mystery...

^yeahno. (I was trying to find a cool intro... and iFailed)

Moral of the story: NEVER, EVER JUST ASK PEOPLE RANDOM QUESTIONS...

or else you'll end up having to write a horribly boring blog post like the following one:

So...

My childhood....

was bland, and I didn't appreciate the awesomeness of being a little kid... I didn't really do anything amazing or be insanely creative or random... Maybe that's why I'm so random and "creative" and why I do stuff like draw with crayons...

I think it's because I never did all that stuff when I was a kid...

So, now that I've poured out my heart about that...

Question #2: favourite city....

It'd have to be.... um... let's say...

okay, I really have no clue...

Imagine some beautiful village in the himalayas that I haven't been to where there's a forest and stuff...

and that's it.

Question #3: color?

I love light...

see, light is every color ever... but it's not a gay rainbow... it's just perfection...

#4: Favorite star?

It'd have to be... The Sun....

but seen reflected off of the ocean... the most awesomest thing ever...

#5: my favorite sock...

er...

my friend says that she has this sock that is purportedly "knee-high, horizontally stripped, blue and green"... now, I'm not sure if this sock really exists since she refuses to take a picture of it...

but, since all of my socks are boring and plain bland colours... I'm going with that one...

[crud, that's not MY sock... forget that... there is no #5 guys.... it just skips from number 4 to number 6... true story]

#6: A story about a childhood tricycle...

as I said before, my childhood was boring, bland, and wierd.... I didn't have a tricycle... and I didn't play with crayons...

and yeah

but tricycles are awesome....

#7: My Favorite song...

I don't have one...

here's my grooveshark... you could probably find something good there: grooveshark.com/ithetimmy

#8: the first thing on my bucket list...

Change the world for the better

#9: The places I'll go

Go get a map of the universe...

yeah...

that whole thing

-and if they cant invent faster then light travel...

then get a map of the world

and there's your answer

#10: Am I going to dye my lawn purple?

if I'm still random as a middle aged man, definitely.

#11: how did I become so awesome?

I dunno... there's a wikihow page for this:

http://www.wikihow.com/Be-Awesome

oh, and here's another good one:

“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” ~ Ayn Rand

#12: The number one epiphany I've had...

You have the unlimited potential within you, why not find it?

[I didn't go back and edit this... so DON'T YOU DARE COMMENT ON THE CORNUCOPIA OF TYPOS AND LAMOCITY]

ONE MORE THING!!! HAPPY EASTER!!!!