Maybe Heaven Right Now is Just a Devil or Angel Away.

Freewriting.

Slackline.

here's the free writing:

I drank a sunset. It burned my tongue, but gave me the motivation to free climb an overhanging boulder, up 35 feet. I stood on top. Looked into the infinite ocean and dove in. Broke two bones. It hurt like hell but there was a dolphin that taught me to grow gills and told me all was well. I rented a guitar and sat on the ocean floor. It was effortless meditation. I learned of permanence and lack of attachment. I dreamed. And dreamed. I dreamed millennia of dream in a single moment. And, in the space between the moments- I became anew. I felt fish swim through my fingertips. And the pulsating energy of life and reality flowed through my every pore into my heart. A jewish man telepathically asked me for the address of a kangaroo. I opened my eyes and realized all of reality was made of tiny particles, all the same. I saw paradox.

Alright. But. In all seriousness. I think I might be addicted to slacklining.

I have a LOT of school to catch up on.

I will conquer.


But seriously people. Take a moment- and reflect on this beautiful reality we are and are in.

Serve, Become, and Conquer.

If you don't change anything, the end results won't change either.

Life is a gift, don't waste it.

Lemon Drops.

Alright. I like to live.

I find life to be the greatest experience any of us will ever have.

I believe in making each day great, making each day an adventure, and living NOW.

The moment is eternal.

Now, Go read some Emerson- don't read the following section of me whining. 

Oh, and drink some water. 

And tell me to stop @$(%(@#%&*) telling you what to do. Seriously. . 

Here's the problem- 

School. School. School. 

That bullcrap used to be straightforward as heck and I liked it that way. It was difficult, but never extremely time consuming because there was ZERO busywork. We were given materials to study and master, went to classes to discuss their key ideas and the epiphanies we'd gained- in addition to amazing connections from our mentors, and then we finally had simple assignments based off of all that studying. 

It worked. 

It worked well. 

Then, somebody decided that we needed more busywork- because it hurts for everyone when we're all cramming last minute. 

Somehow, somewhere, someone thought "if we assign craploads of busywork every week, nobody will be able to get behind." 

huh? 

So, we brought back the weekly study guides, the time-based assignments, and weekly "reports." 

And what, my friends has this done? 

It has allowed me to legitimately hate all but one of my classes! 

Sure, I've been slacking off. 

But, here's the problem with assigning mountains of busywork- it's a waste! IT STEALS OUR TIME! IT TEARS THE LIFE FROM THE STUDIES AND DRIES IT UP AND FORCES US TO BREATH IT ALL DAY LONG! I can only take so much before I puke from the Lack of Life. We are not robots, we are humans, and we need life- not merely the dry corpse of reality, the mere facts repeated again and again like some sort of Factory Cacophony. END THAT CRAP, it will suck the life from us and bring us closer to death than any physical action we could do. END THE SHIZ. END THE SICKNESS. END THE BUSYWORK. 

that sounds like some kind of demented homeschool poetry, it's not. It's truth. That stuff is choking me. 

Please don't read all that- I'm wimping out. I guess we just gotta buckle down.

Or whatever.

I'm saddened by facets of our modern internet. How it has become a stupid place where all we do is share hilarious clips and flout our own stupidity. We use the internet as a mirror, rather than as a pool of endless knowledge. What are we doing? Heck, even I now sound like the Amish Grandpa declaring the modern world a waste of humanity... Please Advise.

Whatever. Here: something I do know/legitimately believe.

Go. Have an adventure, live life to the fullest. Live each day as if it were your last. Make today memorable- if not, I promise you it will slide into oblivion. Fear not, for acting because of fear will make cowards of us all- a worse death than anything I can dream of. What are you waiting for to live your dream? Just do it. Someday is today. 

"This could be the day that I die."

Do something awesome.

Live a life worth living.

Be You. Be Awesome. Be Great.

Pandas

Pandas. Pandas are great.

I'm going climbing.

here's a link that blew my mind:

[link]

and here's a good song:

Life's a gift. Don't waste it.

People are awesome, if you forget it, life will stink until you open your eyes.

Reality is beautiful.

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.