Introspection for the wireless world
Feb. 20th, 2004 09:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robinblokeSo I'm changing.
Everything changes, you can't escape it, every single moment that touches your life turns you into something slightly different. Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine. But conscious change is something else, looking out and trying to find something different and new, doing things that you haven't before and taking that chance because you don't know or have avoided it. That’s a different kettle of cats. That’s a way of finding something you'd never known or something you'd never even thought of. Being stuck in a rut and a routine can be reassuring, but you're not going to learn anything, expand yourself beyond your defined parameters or open any new Pandora’s boxes that'll make you blink.
But tread softly, like the monkey crossing a mine field, you need your eyes open as well as your foot hovering over the brake, get ready to stop if you learn you can't take it, but by the same score get ready to tear off the fast release strips and swan dive in when you discover something or someone wonderful.
I watched a film several years ago. It changed my life.
It was the sharp reality of seeing how certain things work, it was the identification of what the world makes and moulds you to be, how everything will shape you into what it desires unless you reach out and grab the cosmic playdoh and pummel it into something you want it to be.
Can you look back through your life and find a point where you can say "If I spoke to myself then I wouldn't be able to relate to who I am now?" could you surprise or scare yourself with what you are or who you're going to be? Or would you rather turn around and look ahead and try and see how far down the road you can see or guess and wonder what the next thing is that's going to be that changes you beyond how you can think now?
One of my friends told me I was changing. This may be true, but I'm going to make sure that my essential copyright and things I hold important aren't going to leave.
Stick by your friends, do whatever you can as much as you can.
You are only as good as your word, break a promise and anything you say thereafter is meaningless.
Respect your parents, they brought you from a drooling screaming brat to where you are today.
Excuses aren't a solution, responsibility and action are.
I'm not saying these are for everyone, I'm saying these are what I try to hold to.
Everything changes, you can't escape it, every single moment that touches your life turns you into something slightly different. Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine. But conscious change is something else, looking out and trying to find something different and new, doing things that you haven't before and taking that chance because you don't know or have avoided it. That’s a different kettle of cats. That’s a way of finding something you'd never known or something you'd never even thought of. Being stuck in a rut and a routine can be reassuring, but you're not going to learn anything, expand yourself beyond your defined parameters or open any new Pandora’s boxes that'll make you blink.
But tread softly, like the monkey crossing a mine field, you need your eyes open as well as your foot hovering over the brake, get ready to stop if you learn you can't take it, but by the same score get ready to tear off the fast release strips and swan dive in when you discover something or someone wonderful.
I watched a film several years ago. It changed my life.
It was the sharp reality of seeing how certain things work, it was the identification of what the world makes and moulds you to be, how everything will shape you into what it desires unless you reach out and grab the cosmic playdoh and pummel it into something you want it to be.
Can you look back through your life and find a point where you can say "If I spoke to myself then I wouldn't be able to relate to who I am now?" could you surprise or scare yourself with what you are or who you're going to be? Or would you rather turn around and look ahead and try and see how far down the road you can see or guess and wonder what the next thing is that's going to be that changes you beyond how you can think now?
One of my friends told me I was changing. This may be true, but I'm going to make sure that my essential copyright and things I hold important aren't going to leave.
Stick by your friends, do whatever you can as much as you can.
You are only as good as your word, break a promise and anything you say thereafter is meaningless.
Respect your parents, they brought you from a drooling screaming brat to where you are today.
Excuses aren't a solution, responsibility and action are.
I'm not saying these are for everyone, I'm saying these are what I try to hold to.
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Date: 2004-02-20 10:49 am (UTC)Curious... last night I was thinking about how you seemed to have changed since I first met you. I couldn't describe it, partly because I don't know you very well, and partly because of how I store concepts of people, but the image I carry of you has morphed.
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Date: 2004-02-20 11:59 am (UTC)no subject
I also think you've changed in various ways (and back again) since the time we first met but everybody does that.
And those are very good principles, if everybody had the common sense to follow them, the world (or life) would be a better place but there are always arseholes...
Change and Love
Date: 2004-02-20 05:29 pm (UTC)that changes with the changer to remove."
Those who love you best
will love you whatever the changes
xxx