| | Thank you, J.G., for reminding me how powerful words can be. We should all practice using them carefully, even if only for ourselves. For all those who have spoken powerful words into my life, this ticket is for them.
"Deeper depths, higher heights." - emmanuel (original ticket 2.27.08) There's something of a black hole that happens after you graduate from college. Personally, I don't think it matters if you stay on in graduate school, go into the workforce, or go home to sit and contemplate life a bit longer in the comfort of familiar surroundings. Nothing is quite the same as those four whirlwind years of confusion and epiphany. But life goes on, with its ups and downs. And tonight, for various reasons, I feel the world bearing down on my shoulders, the walls closing in, claustrophobia making me want to run outside, fear of the dark keeping me trapped inside. So I'd sat still for a moment, closed my eyes, and resigned myself to rising anxiety ... when suddenly, a memory compelled me to write.
I had dinner with B a long while back and I was going on about some work stress, when he suddenly looked up: "Oh my God, Ri ... are you getting older? I think you're getting older." I don't know if it's true, but right now I do feel burdened with old, tiring thoughts. So perhaps it's time to re-evaluate these thoughts in light of some lessons and growing pains that one supposed 'grown-up' may expect to resolve or wrestle with around the aspiring age of 26: - One of the most humbling realizations in life is that your parents were once children too.
- Everyone has deeper, often heartbreaking reasons or their actions and beliefs, independent of their justification or fairness.
- Sometimes taking a step back is taking a step forward.
- We all need at least one friend who would drop his/her life to be there in crisis, one friend who isn't afraid to tell you, "No, you're not good enough to win American Idol", and one friend who would kill for you.
- It's amazing how helpless we become when the lights go out.
- Today is the day. Think about it.
- You must be ready to be single before you'll be ready to date.
- It doesn't matter if you're perfect; it is only about if you and <he> are perfect for each other.
- Let us use our words to begin the conversation, not end it.
- You'll learn far more from your mistakes than you ever will from your successes.
- A group can only go so far as its leaders are willing to go.
- To whom much is given, much is required.
- You can learn a lot about a person by watching where they sit down on an empty bus.
- Simplicity, Lord.
- Loving God and loving people are not necessarily the same thing.
- You are wholly prepared as you are wholly inadequate.
- Friends aren't there for you to keep -- they're there for you to love.
- People will always default to the level of their training.
- Things never happen the same way twice.
- If those who search for the cure to disease never look for answers outside the box, we would never discover the cure to disease.
- It has to get messy before it gets clean.
- Never blame God.
- Deeper depths, higher heights.
- Once upon a time ... and they lived happily ever after. Trust in God, and He'll fill in the rest.
... trying to put life, and all its ups and downs, into a holy perspective again. Here is to the continuation of my happily ever after. Perhaps the little girl is growing up after all. |
| | Posted 5/30/2008 9:01 PM - 54 Views - 2 eProps - 1 Comment
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