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Showing posts with label dreams. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dreams. Show all posts
Superstition [Listen-up]
Saturday, February 28, 2009
the awesomest (yes, that is a word) part of this song is the fact that there is no one else playing an instrument off camera. the whole sound that you are hearing is all being played at once by this dude. it's called fingerstyle, and i want to learn it.
www.adamrafferty.com
I Hate Facebook, And 25 Other Things That You Probably Don't Give A Sh*t About:
Monday, February 02, 2009
1- i've recently discovered that hearing people eat cereal makes me want to punch them in the face. the slurp/crunch combo kills me.
2- i have zero tolerance/compassion for sick people. and by sick, i mean cold, flu, headache, etc.; i'm not talking gravely ill. when i'm sick, i may be in a bitchy mood, but you won't hear me complaining about it.
3- i haven't had a cellphone in almost 2 years. as much as i love not having one, i've realized that it's the only way to keep in touch with some people. i'm currently in the final stages of breaking down to purchase a new one.
4- i'm totally one of those stubborn/loyal people that finds a product or service that works, and i never stray. some examples as of late: cough drops- fisherman's friend (they may taste like ass chalk, but they work like a charm), cold remedy- theraflu (because it's jersey born and raised, just like me), chapstick- blistex clear advance (well, i used to be loyal, until those asshats discontinued it. now i'm a carmex man).
5- totally opposite of #4, some things i couldn't care less about. exhibit a: toilet paper. i don't care if it's silk or 80 grit, if it keeps my hand clean and wipes the crack, it's fine by me.
6- i was less than legitimately employed for the first 11 months of 2008.
7- i thoroughly enjoy personal time, and i get bitchy when i don't have any.
8- some of my best blogging in the past 2 months has happened on the i95 corridor.
9- i enjoy drinking the juice out of jars of banana pepper rings.
10- lately i've had heartburn like a 90 year old and have been chewing zantac like pez. this can most likely be attributed to actions such as #9.
11- i really want to do undercover police work. i think i'd be great at it. nobody in their right mind would ever suspect me. ever.
12- i would kill a praying mantis for a spicy tuna handroll and a bowl of kimchee right about now.
13- even though i think i would be a great undercover agent, i would also really like to be the person that chooses the music to go in movies and tv shows. and i would be the fcuking cool musical director (if that's what they're called) because i wouldn't just use all the been-around-way-too-long-bands that get used in every damn movie. hey, mtv, call me.
14- that i can count, there are 6 people in my life that i refer to as "my future ex-wife." my girlfriend is not one of them.
15- ...but i don't ever want to get married, so hopefully that'll never happen. though i do want kids, and a 'wife,' just not marriage so much. goldie hawn and kurt russell did it and are living happily ever after, so why can't i?
16- i know that money doesn't fix everything, but $250,000 sure would be nice right about now. when i drive back and forth between virginia and new jersey, every time i see a lottery sign, i daydream about all the things that i would do if i won that money.
17- my current job requires me to talk on the phone for 8 hours a day. almost once a day, someone tells me that i have a sexy phone voice. today i have a sore throat and a stuffy nose, and 4, count them, 4 people said it today. and the last one was a dude that said i "gave him the chills."
18- i'm only going to say this once: i love watching the real world brooklyn. don't judge me.
19- i have the uncanny ability to not only draw strange connections between otherwise unrelated objects/places/smells/tastes/etc., but also to remember them. forever. i.e. whenever i drink dr. pepper, i immediately visualize the break room at leewards, where my mom used to work when i was 10. whenever i smell wet hay, it reminds me of the jaycees carnival at borough field in my hometown. i could go on forever...
20- facebook requires way to much effort on my part. i wish the world would realize that although myspace is juvenile, at least it tells you when somebody talks shit about you. on facebook you have to continuously stalk people to see who's talking smack. i don't have that kind of time.
21- for as stressed out as i feel all the time, i've realized that compared to most people i know, i'm a pretty laid back and easy going guy.
22- i hate that when i'm freezing my balls off i think to myself, "i'd rather be sweating my ass off." and when i'm sweating my ass off i think to myself, "i'd rather be freezing my balls off." because really, i'd rather be doing neither.
23- new words that i hate: truncate, lavage, piquant, meme, quixotic.
24- flashback to #16- people that cannot hold a conversation about anything, without mentioning the cost of something make me want to drink cod liver oil. money does not equal true happiness.
25- sometimes, i wish that i did, indeed, sweat actual butter. then i could rub toast in my armpits.
**BONUS** i bet after this, no one ever posts a 'note' on facebook ever again. and for the asswipe facebook inventor that started this meme, congratulations! now everyone knows about another useless function that facebook has to offer. thank you for providing mind numbing entertainment for half the country. next time just send an email chain letter, it's easier to forward. thanks.
National Day of Service [1/19/09]
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Monday, January 19 is Martin Luther King Day. And wonderfully, instead of adding yet another shopping day to the calendar, it's being transformed to a day of service.
If every person in the US spent an hour doing something selfless, useful and leveraged, what would happen? What if you and your circle committed to doing it an hour a day for a year? 300 million hours is a lot of hours for just one day, a year of that would change everything.
While I applaud stopgap contributions like helping out in a soup kitchen (where labor and supplies are really needed), I wonder how those that are lucky enough to be web savvy can create work that really adds leverage. What if you did one of these things every day?
Here are some ideas that you can do online or in your community, with time, not so much with money.
- Go through your house and find beloved books that you're glad you read... and give them to the library....and HERE are plenty more ideas.
- Create and promote an online petition for a cause you care about.
- Start a Facebook group for like-minded people who support the same non-profit you do. Commit to spending time to promote it, organize the people there and actually create outcomes of value.
- Find a cause that supports soldiers or diplomats or other public servants that are on the road, and make it easier for them to connect with people back home.
- Lobby Congress with letters and blog posts to make a change to a law that doesn't benefit you at all, but helps the community in the long run.
- Write a great wikipedia article every day about a person who is changing the world for the better.
- Find video and remix it into an insanely viral video that promotes a cause that you believe in.
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Beautiful, bittersweet memories flood my mind when I listen to this song...
Friday, January 16, 2009
...the lyrics speak of grasping special times in our lives and not letting their opportunities slip away...when we are young it is so hard to really understand that...someday today will be a long, long time ago.
I Really Dig This Painting. [Way More Than I Probably Should]
Friday, January 09, 2009
Check out that grid of fluorescent lights on the ceiling, organizing everything in the frame, like the grid of a Renaissance painter. Now hanging at the James Harris Gallery.
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If It Kills Me...
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
hello
tell me you know
yea you figured me out
something
gave it away
it would be such a beautiful moment
to see the look on your face
to know that
i know that you know now
and baby that's a case of my wishful thinking
you know nothing
well you and i, why
we go carrying on for hours on and
we get along much better than you and your boyfriend
well all i really wanna do is love you
a kind much closer than friends use
but i still can't say it after all we've been through
and all i really want from you is to feel me
as the feeling inside keeps building
and i will find a way to you if it kills me
if it kills me
how long
can i go on like this
wishing to kiss you
before i rightly explode
well this double life i lead
isn't healthy for me
in fact it makes me nervous
if i get caught i could be risking it all
cause maybe there's a lot that i miss
in case i'm wrong
all i really wanna do is love you
a kind much closer than friends use
i still can't say it after all we've been through
and all i really want from you is to feel me
as the feeling inside keeps building
and i will find a way to you if it kills me
if it kills me
if it kills me
if i should be so bold
i'd ask you to hold my heart in your hand
i'd tell you from the start how i longed to be your man
but i never said a word i guess i'm going to miss my chance again
well all i really wanna do is love you
a kind much closer than friends use
i still can't say it after all we've been through
and all i really want from you is to feel me
as the feeling inside keeps building
and i will find a way to you if it kills me
if it kills me
oh i think it might kill me
and all i really want from you is to feel you
yea the feeling inside keeps building
i'll find a way to you if it kills me
if it kills me
if it kills me
it might kill me
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"...the people you NEED..." [Potent Quotables]
God doesn't give you the people you want... He gives you the people you NEED... to help you, to hurt you, to leave you, to love you... and to make you into the person that you were meant to be.
The Three Best Reasons I've Had In A Long Time For Taking A Whole Day Off From Blogging: [In Pictures]
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Two Things That Came Out Of My Mouth Today That Make Me Realize That I'm Not Stupid:
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
you can't love someone that you can't be friends with."
dreaming keeps you young."
Do Yourself A Solid For Christmas... [Listen Up]
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
in the limited time left before the christmas festivities begin, take note of when you can have five minutes to yourself. when your husband runs out for a quart of milk, and the kids are building a snowman outside, and your mother-in-law's hands are covered in salmanella-ey turkey fluids up to her elbows, sneak back to this post on your computer. lock your door, blast the speakers, (or a pair of headphones if you need to blockout background noise), wrap yourself in a blanket (which you'll need for the goosebumps) and listen to this song:
...and merry christmas, my dear blog followers. thank you for continually reading my rants and making 2008 such an oddly successful year, as far as the internet goes. xoxo Read more...
In Dreams They Come...
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
1. Those raised in the age before color television may dream in black and white.
2. The blind often dream without visual images.
who knew?
[nytimes via slog]
A Brief History of the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree [What Christmas Means To Me]
Thursday, December 04, 2008
being away from new york city has no advantages for a city boy like myself. for me, it just promotes longing. growing up so close in jersey, it just seemed normal to care about what was going on in the big apple, even though i wasn't actually there. you get used to the way new york does things, and like riding a bike, they're ingrained in you forever. a few examples:
- the "tri-state area" will always be ny/nj/ct, no matter where i live.and so, as i watched the tree lighting last night, i felt as if i was a world away down here in virginia. virginians don't care much for the city's tree, (they cut the televised broadcast to an hour so they could show reruns of deal or no deal). i tivo'd it so that i can watch it over and over again and feel like i'm there. it was so nice being an $8 tunnel ride away... nyc during the holidays, is what christmas means to me.
- i will always refer to the following networks simply by their new york station numbers, cbs/2, nbc/4, fox/5, abc/7, no matter where i live. (i get caught up in this on a daily basis)
- i never say "the city" unless i'm talking about new york city.
- the only tree lighting at christmas, as far as i always knew, was in rockefeller center.
Humble Beginnings - Today it's a multimillion-dollar extravaganza that attracts thousands of tourists every year, but the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree hasn't always been so glamorous. On Christmas Eve 1931, with the nation mired in the Great Depression, a group of construction workers erected a 20-foot tree on the muddy site of what would become one of the city's greatest architectural and commercial monuments. Despite their grim faces, the men had cause to celebrate. Unlike most of their colleagues, they were about to get paid. (Notice the wooden crate at the foot of the tree and the clerk behind it dispensing checks). Two years later, a Rockefeller Center publicist organized the first official tree-lighting ceremony.
War on Christmas? - In 1942, Rockefeller Center unveiled three small trees dedicated to the war effort — each trimmed in either red, white or blue. Though it wasn't the first time more than one Christmas tree stood there (two were erected in 1936 to celebrate the opening of the skating rink), it was the first time organizers announced that the trees would be replanted after the holiday season. In 1944, in keeping with wartime black-out regulations, the trees remained unlit, as did every other outdoor Christmas tree in the city that year. After the war's end in 1945, organizers more than made up for the previous years of darkness by using six ultraviolet light projectors to make all 700 fluorescent globes on that year's tree appear to glow in the dark.
Television Debut - In 1951, NBC televised its first tree lighting on The Kate Smith Show, hosted by the "first lady of radio" herself (above). From 1953 to 1955, children across America watched the ceremony on Howdy Doody. Since then, the tree lighting has featured a number of famous personalities — Barbara Walters in 1972, Bob Hope in 1982, Lily Tomlin in 1985 and Liza Minnelli in 1990. This year, Miss Piggy and Stephen Colbert will be in attendance. 
Christmas Conservation - Spurred by the growing environmental movement, Rockefeller Center recycled its first Christmas tree in 1971, turning it into 30 three-bushel bags of mulch for the nature trails of upper Manhattan. Other organizations to later benefit from the leftover lumber include the Boy Scouts, the Girl Scouts and, most recently, Habitat for Humanity, which in 2005 used the wood to make door frames for homes in New York, Louisiana, India and Brazil.
Adornments & Ornaments - The tree's decorations have come a long way since 1931, when tin cans and scrap paper replaced garland and glass. In 1934, organizers festooned that year's evergreen with 1,200 colored lights and ornaments shaped like dogs, horses, giraffes, sailboats and stars. A public-address system also piped in holiday tunes, creating the effect of a "singing tree." The 1950s saw a white spray-painted tree, the return of garlands made of cranberries and popcorn (or at least, plastic balls that resembled them) and 10-foot-long aluminum icicles that turned treacherous in high winds. In 1954, Saks Fifth Avenue inadvertently created midtown traffic jams with its 32-foot-high display of aluminum angels floating along the building's facade (above). And for a few brief minutes in 1980, a human body adorned the tree before police could arrest the man who had unsuccessfully tried scaling it.
The Great Hunt - Nowadays, finding the perfect tree is a daunting task reserved for Rockefeller Center's garden manager. But this has not always been the case. In 1956, a polite (or perhaps proud) New Hampshire man presented a 65-foot White Spruce to the state's Governor, who in turn offered it to Rockefeller Center as a gift from New York's neighbor to the north. Ten years later, Canada delivered a 64-foot White spruce in honor of its 100th birthday — the first Rockefeller Christmas Tree raised out of the U.S. Today, a helicopter is used to scour New England for the perfect specimen. This year, the winning evergreen is a 72-foot-tall Norway spruce from New Jersey. Its owner, Bill Varanyak, dubbed it "the miracle tree," telling local reporters that his late mother always predicted it would one day stand at Rockefeller Center. Varanyak's parents had planted the tree in 1931, the very year the tradition began.
A Star Is Born - Last month, pop star Fergie unveiled the 550-pound Swarovski Star, created for the Rockefeller Christmas Tree by German artist Michael Hammers for the 100-year-old Austrian company. Standing 10 feet tall and composed of 25,000 crystals with a total of 1 million facets, it is the largest star to ever top the tree and the first to represent a corporate sponsor. Neither the crystal maker nor Rockefeller Center will disclose how much money changed hands, but some speculate Swarovski paid as much as $1.5 million for the rights to the tree's crown. Either way, it is a far cry from the 4-foot plastic star used during the 1950s and 60s or the fiberglass, gold-leaf star that adorned the tree during the late 1990s. 
Let There Be Light - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg had the honor of flipping the switch during the 2007 tree-lighting ceremony, illuminating the more than 30,000 energy-saving LEDs that were part of NBC's latest attempt to go green. Compared to the tree's old incandescent bulbs, the new light-emitting diodes used 1,200 kilowatt hours less electricity per day, enough to power a 2,000-square-foot home for a month. Even so, the new lights did not win universal praise; some complained the tiny lights weren't as appealing as old-fashioned incandescents, while others decried NBC's glowing coverage, so to speak, of the eco-friendly move — noting that NBC's parent company, General Electric, manufactured the bulbs.[time via thedailynightly] Read more...
History, indeed, repeats itself. [Enduring Words]
Thursday, October 16, 2008
all of us become aware -- in the course of an average day -- of small moments, snippets of presidential speeches. there are tons of them, constantly -- the president always seems to be speaking somewhere, saying something to someone -- and it's simply a fact of life that during "normal" times, most presidential remarks don't have national impact. sometimes you have to hold them up and highlight them -- so we can read them and concentrate on them, away from the heat of the day and debate, and reflect on them. so i offer, for that purpose, these words from the president:
"our adversaries have not abandoned their ambitions, our dangers have not diminished, our vigilance cannot be relaxed. but now we have the military, the scientific, and the economic strength to do whatever must be done for the preservation and promotion of freedom. that strength will never be used in pursuit of aggressive ambitions -- it will always be used in pursuit of peace. it will never be used to promote provocations -- it will always be used to promote the peaceful settlement of disputes."the words of the president. president john f. kennedy. it's a portion of the speech he never delivered: prepared for delivery at the dallas, texas trade mart on november 22, 1963.
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Think. Act. Vote. Outside of the confines of the categories that define you. [Freedom]
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Abraham, Martin & John
Monday, October 13, 2008
this song gives me the chills. the kind of chills that i get when i hear my mom recount exactly where she was and what she was doing when jfk was assassinated, or when the space shuttle challenger exploded. i wasn't around then; and i worry about the future, when now is then. i worry that in the years to come, i will have a tragedy to recall to my children. i know it's a morose thought, and i shouldn't think about it. but i do. from shouting out that obama is a "terrorist" or hollering "kill him" at a rally when obama's name is mentioned, to telling an african-american member of the press corps to "sit down, boy," there's a lot of ugly shit around this year that makes purple band-aids and flip-flops look like thoughtful political discourse.on the one hand, this shit fucking sucks. this is the land of the free and the home of the brave and we're supposedly proud to be an american[s] from sea to shining sea and yet, 232 years after the founding of this country, 219 years after the signing of our constitution, 145 years after the signing of the emancipation proclamation, 143 years after the ratification of the 13th amendment to the constitution eliminated slavery, 140 years after the ratification of the 14th amendment gave african-americans equal protection under the law, 138 years after the ratification of the 15th amendment prohibited states from abridging the rights of citizens to vote because of their race, 132 years after the first of the jim crow laws abrogated the work that the constitutional amendments started and 44 years after the civil rights act supposedly put to rest any remaining doubts about what would be legal and what should not be acceptable in this fucking country, we've still got people who think that they are better than other people because of melanin content in their skin.
and, what's even more horrifying, that they think they can openly say racist shit because being at a republican rally means that they are among "their" kind. and, given that neither john mccain nor sarah palin, who both happen to belong to the same party as abraham motherfucking lincoln, could take a second to chide a supporter and say, "that language has no place in this party," they might be right. this is what nixon wrought on this country and his party, this is what rovian politics brings. there's no courage in ignoring who your supporters are. there's no honor in taking their votes if you can't take a minute to chide them for their racism. there would be honor and there would be courage in saying, "if you are voting for us because obama is black, or because you think he is muslim, we don't want your votes. vote for us on the issues, or don't vote for us at all." but john mccain and sarah palin will take their support and their attendance at rallies with a wink and a well-coiffed nod and everyone will pretend that they didn't hear what was said and the racists will think they have someone who agrees with them in the white house and the rest of us will march happily on by like little lemmings and believe, as we want to believe, that they don't.
and on the other hand, if enough of those people come out of their noose-festooned closets wearing their confederate decorated clothing and quit talking about how the 'flag of intolerance' is some sort of states' rights-southern pride bullshit and acknowledge that it is about racism, showing their non-running red-white-and-blueblood for what it is, maybe i can stop hearing about how calling obama "articulate" isn't really racist and calling him "young man" isn't really calling him "boy" and calling michelle "angry" isn't playing into stereotypes because the people that want to turn a blind eye to the kind of underlying racism that pervades too much of our actions in this country won't be able to be willfully blind anymore. i understand that lots of people grew up with parents who preached tolerance and in environments that encouraged tolerance and lead (one might be tempted to say "sheltered") lives in which racism has never touched their lives in a way that they've seen or been able or willing to acknowledge, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. and if the racists hiding among us — the person who wrote "nigger" under a sharpie-markered swastika on a locker in jock hall in my high school, for instance, or the woman who told the afl-cio treasurer that she's not voting for obama "because of his race" — have to come out and say it, then the rest of us have to acknowledge that it exists and that 44 years, and 138 years, and 140 years, and 143 years and 145 years hasn't been enough to wipe the stains of slavery from our country's soul or racism from its consciousness. and maybe once we recognize that as a country, once we acknowledge that the evil of racism walks amongst not just the worst of us, but some of the best of us, maybe then, and only then, we can figure out why 150 years isn't enough.
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19 More Things [Bored on Sunday]
Sunday, October 05, 2008
the spleen made me do it. 19 more things about me...
1. Do you like blue cheese?
indeed i do. typically, when it comes to cheese, my feelings are "the stinkier, the better." however, when it comes to blue cheese, i enjoy strong flavored cheese, but strong scented blue cheese makes me want to hurl.
2. Do you get nervous before doctor appointments?
only the dentist. i despise the dentist. my dream is to have all of my teeth yanked out and replaced with implants, so that i never have to go back to the dentist ever again.
3. Favorite Christmas Song?
i have two. i have a favorite celabratory christmas song, and a favorite sentimental christmas song. my favorite celabratory song is 'merry christmas, happy holidays' by, don't laugh, n'sync. and my favorite sentimental christmas song is 'the spirit of christmas' by ray charles. two serious musical gems.
4. Do you work with people who idolize you?
at the risk of sounding cocky, i actually have to say yes, i used to.
5. Do you have A.D.D.?
everyone has a.d.d. some people just have no self control, and they let it control their lives. or they just take drugs for it, because they are too lazy to control it.
6. Name 3 thoughts at this exact moment.
"i'm getting a fucking headache."
"i wish i could get this song out of my head." (suite: judy blue eyes, AGAIN!)
"it looks like i'm not going to fall asleep until 5am again tonight."
7. Name something you bought yesterday.
a half gallon of milk. nothing more, nothing less.
8. Current worry right now?
take your pick, but they all come back to being broke.
9. Current hate right now?
john mccain and/or sarah palin. i have horrible election anxiety. i can't wait until it's over.
10. Favorite place to be?
i'd love to be in vermont right now. it's almost leaf changing time.
11. Where would you like to go?
vermont. key west. back to vegas. vietnam. cambodia. san diego. seattle.
12. Do you like sleeping on satin sheets?
no, i find satin to be really itchy. you can keep it.
13. Favorite girl's name?
i better be chocked full of boy sperm, because i can't think of any girl names that would suffice.
14. Favorite boy's name?
ty, thayne, gideon.
15. Last thing that made you laugh?
david letterman and brian williams making fun of sarah palin on the late show.
16. Worst injury you've ever had?
when i was little, i slipped off a huge rock and landed on a piece of slate. it sliced halfway through an ankle bone.
17. Does someone have a crush on you?
seriously? who doesn't?
18. What is your favorite book?
everything that anthony bourdain has ever written is on the top of my list. other recent reads: naked by david sedaris, a wolf at the table by augusten burroughs, heat by bill buford, and white heat by marco-pierre white.
19. What were you doing 12 AM last night?
i was screwing around on the computer because i couldn't fall asleep, and i was most likely youtubing every imaginable video of crosby, stills & nash singing suite: judy blue eyes. i have a serious obsession with that song lately.
It Takes Two, Baby...
Thursday, September 25, 2008
we are a speed-obsessed culture. when the newer, faster, smaller model comes along, we toss the old one without hesitation. we cream our jeans when we read about a quarter-inch-thin laptop with dual processors and 10 hours of battery power. we go to the store and there's a waiting list. and in that instant the decision is made: we will get that laptop. and we do. we show it off to our friends. and for the first week we even wash our hands before we use it, to keep the keyboard clean. but in a month we'll be used to it. in six months, it will seem slow. we won't care when we drip instant cream of wheat on the keyboard, causing a short. in a year, we won't carry it on the plane anymore because it will be embarrassingly obsolete.
so imagine trying to have a relationship in this environment. and by that i am referring to the arcane concept of the long-term relationship. a marriage, even. imagine living in this culture and not walking out the door at the first sign of trouble. the second you hear "we need to talk" or "i've been thinking," you hit the DELETE key. do you know the chances of celebrating your 50th anniversary? something like 5 percent. don't believe me? google it.
successful, long-term relationships take two things that we, as a culture, have mysteriously become programmed to avoid: hard work and persistence.
we want our relationships to be great, and great all the time. on their own. work-free partnered bliss. as soon as issues occur, we think, "this one's not right for me." or, "we're growing apart." of course, the world is filled with psychos, and sometimes they are attractive and we end up married to one. which is a pity. and in this case, leaving is a very good thing. but most often we're just coupled with another normal person and experiencing normal problems, and leaving is the easiest idea, not necessarily the best one. i think part of the problem is that we marry too quickly. we fall in love, and then trust our hormones and brain chemistry and we get engaged. before we really know what we're getting into.
our divorce rate hovers over 40%. even i realize that percentage is most certainly an F in american relationships. and it's because we're viewing the first marriage not as the final exam but as the homework. the trainer marriage. the one where we can make all our mistakes. so that we can nail it the second--or third--time around. but guess what? the statistics don't show that. in fact, the statistics show the jaw-dropping, sphincter-clenching opposite. they reveal failed first marriages, followed by failed second (64%) and failed third (73%). i googled it.
so though i'd like my water to boil faster, and though the computer i bought nine months ago is painfully slow, and both of those items will soon be delivered to a landfill where they can infect the environment, in my relationship i'm willing to sacrifice speed for quality.
[via thelifestylekillsme]
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