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Apr 16, 2004 9:48:15 GMT 7
Post by .honeyspider. on Apr 16, 2004 9:48:15 GMT 7
Are you like me thinking that you wish you could be with someone and single att he same time? as in sorta be two people that is you, and one do something and the other do the opposite?. Its like our choices are limited, and even though you want to do both you can't. (oppurtunity cost in economics terms). There is a gray area where i could do both, but thats where morals come in, and im not going to cheat. the wakeup thing is just me saying thats about all i know. im like jimmy from the zwan dvd. Check the cover, just read the inside cover, thats all i know .. uumm, nah i meant that i could either be with no-one til the "mr right" comes along and i know for sure that i wanna marry him and be with him forever... OR i could be with someone who feels right at the time, and i have no idea at the start whether its gonna last.. but ill do it anyway koz i like them "enough".... at the moment im sort of doing an in between. i wont be with someone whom i dont see as long term.. but i also wont be waiting around having nothing or no-one just because im only 88% or 90% sure they are the person i wanna be with....and not 100%. i think when u first meet/get to know someone.. you need to give them the chance if they are higher than an 80% match... well thats just me.. (it might be a lower % that goes up as u get to know them more.. so dont take me too seriously on the % thing ok?) but yeah... i dont wanna be alone, i have NO idea who im gonna end up with, but inside me tells me that i wont find them if i dont take chances. its just hard because i hate leaving myself open to being hurt again... its very hard to go into another relationship when u have given others before them a chance and thought "hey maybe this is it.. maybe it will work this time" and it doesnt. i sort of realised a few weeks back now, that i need to just follow my instincts for now.. (but not go too overboard with them hehe)
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May 12, 2004 7:19:31 GMT 7
Post by AlmostOz on May 12, 2004 7:19:31 GMT 7
this is from the live tour diary by chad taylor
May 2nd, 2004: Travel/Show Day - Memphis, TN Early mornings are fine with me but when you combine them with no sleep, big rock shows, and late nights they can be hard. So be it, I'm up and flying high on another jet airplane. I am usually lost in a dream, deep in thought on these early morning treks. Today I'm thinking about how strange the human soul is. We constantly seek something or someone new and exciting yet we often feel most safe and secure with something we know. Why do we shut down so fast?
I am convinced that religious and political conditioning has struck a serious blow to our ability to soar as high and free as we are capable. The physical and physiological restraints we place on our short life span are weight enough to crush the most free spirit. Do you laugh and love as much as a child does, where does that joy go?
As an artist I find it hard to truly be myself in a world that is rapidly cowering to harsh critical judgment. Where will this whirlwind of fear end?
Do we LOVE enough?
Have we really let it all out?
I know I haven't. I fear the consequence of limitless, blissful, heartfelt love. I fear the judgment that will fall upon me if I love without boundary. Would my family understand that I have the capacity to love another women as I do my own wife?
What if I could love you as much as I do my own flesh and blood, could you give me the same?
Love is a broad all healing solution to everything wrong with us, yet it seems so far beyond our reach as I read newspapers and headlines filled with savage hatred and rage. Why are we so incredibly busy dividing our oneness?
Yes, all of this has been said before, predominately in the 60's. The Beatle's made it cool to love, cool to Come Together. The use of mind altering drugs such as LSD opened the minds of a generation but the tragic downside of free love and abuse left only a vapor trail of one attempt to bring us home to happiness.
Possibly our generation could bring this movement back without the side effects our parents experienced. We do not need drugs or tie died T-shirts to bond us. We are already one, everything else is just perception or conditioning
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May 18, 2004 12:27:56 GMT 7
Post by Tristessa on May 18, 2004 12:27:56 GMT 7
No ones written in this thread for nearly a week! Hasn't anybody got any Faith, Compassion or Love in their lives???!!!!
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May 18, 2004 15:41:35 GMT 7
Post by PaRkA on May 18, 2004 15:41:35 GMT 7
nope
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Life
May 18, 2004 16:49:36 GMT 7
Post by Tristessa on May 18, 2004 16:49:36 GMT 7
Do you want to PaRKA?
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May 18, 2004 17:50:36 GMT 7
Post by PaRkA on May 18, 2004 17:50:36 GMT 7
id like to
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May 18, 2004 18:03:53 GMT 7
Post by Tristessa on May 18, 2004 18:03:53 GMT 7
well get other there amongst it and experience it all for good and bad
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May 18, 2004 18:25:27 GMT 7
Post by PaRkA on May 18, 2004 18:25:27 GMT 7
wheres there???
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May 18, 2004 18:28:44 GMT 7
Post by Tristessa on May 18, 2004 18:28:44 GMT 7
wherever you want
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May 18, 2004 18:32:42 GMT 7
Post by PaRkA on May 18, 2004 18:32:42 GMT 7
i want it to be here
and please excuse the sad face it just appeared i didnt write it, it was sposed to be a question mark ? ?
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Life
May 19, 2004 8:02:21 GMT 7
Post by Tristessa on May 19, 2004 8:02:21 GMT 7
Good. I thought you were really sad about something.
You must have faith, compassion or love in your life and if you don't you don't realise that you do.
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nitrousovercast
blissed + gone
the gloaming
we are accidents waiting to happen
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May 20, 2004 17:54:35 GMT 7
Post by nitrousovercast on May 20, 2004 17:54:35 GMT 7
I don't think I have much faith. My compassion is wasting. But I have a little love. A very little.
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May 20, 2004 19:23:11 GMT 7
Post by Tristessa on May 20, 2004 19:23:11 GMT 7
oh happy days
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May 24, 2004 18:15:12 GMT 7
Post by PaRkA on May 24, 2004 18:15:12 GMT 7
Good. I thought you were really sad about something. You must have faith, compassion or love in your life and if you don't you don't realise that you do. i have faith but not conventionally, im not sure about love, i really believe that you dont know love until it leaves you or you lose it. i have compassion i have to otherwise i would be a zombie, cause im not much good for anything else.
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trev
blissed + gone
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May 24, 2004 18:37:08 GMT 7
Post by trev on May 24, 2004 18:37:08 GMT 7
i have compassion i have to otherwise i would be a zombie, cause im not much good for anything else. parka that's shit and you know it, you just haven't had much re-inforcement of it recently, which happens to us all every now and then, more now than then unfortunatley for some. Just a freindly reminder, i don't get to talk to you that much these days, but that doesn't change anything buddy
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May 24, 2004 18:40:12 GMT 7
Post by Tristessa on May 24, 2004 18:40:12 GMT 7
i have faith but not conventionally, im not sure about love, i really believe that you dont know love until it leaves you or you lose it. i have compassion i have to otherwise i would be a zombie, cause im not much good for anything else. Good to know your alive
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May 26, 2004 18:29:46 GMT 7
Post by PaRkA on May 26, 2004 18:29:46 GMT 7
i probably could have written the whole compassion thing a little better...
im lacking a little confidence at the moment, maybe a little self esteem too
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May 26, 2004 18:34:46 GMT 7
Post by Tristessa on May 26, 2004 18:34:46 GMT 7
don't worry about it mate we all feel like that at times
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m!ke
blissed + gone
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May 28, 2004 15:23:05 GMT 7
Post by m!ke on May 28, 2004 15:23:05 GMT 7
is your life really just like the movie Ed tv and you really don't know it? just trying to get something else startedi often get a bad feeling that my life is like the Truman Show with Jim Carrey. sometimes its scary how well u can make it seem feesable in ur mind!!! this may or may not be like 'ed tv', as i havent seen it
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Jul 25, 2004 8:40:06 GMT 7
Post by AlmostOz on Jul 25, 2004 8:40:06 GMT 7
Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of ’99 If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience…I will dispense this advice now.
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth; oh nevermind; you will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they have faded. But trust me, in 20 years you’ll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked….You’re not as fat as you imagine.
Don’t worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind; the kind that blindside you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday.
Do one thing everyday that scares you
Sing
Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts, don’t put up with people who are reckless with yours.
Floss
Don’t waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind…the race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself.
Remember the compliments you receive, forget the insults; if you succeed in doing this, tell me how.
Keep your old love letters, throw away your old bank statements.
Stretch
Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life…the most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don’t.
Get plenty of calcium.
Be kind to your knees, you’ll miss them when they’re gone.
Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll have children,maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll divorce at 40, maybe you’ll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary…what ever you do, don’t congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either – your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s. Enjoy your body, use it every way you can…don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own..
Dance…even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room.
Read the directions, even if you don’t follow them.
Do NOT read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly.
Get to know your parents, you never know when they’ll be gone for good.
Be nice to your siblings; they are the best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.
Understand that friends come and go,but for the precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle because the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were young.
Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard; live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft.
Travel.
Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you’ll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.
Respect your elders.
Don’t expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund, maybe you have a wealthy spouse; but you never know when either one might run out.
Don’t mess too much with your hair, or by the time you're 40, it will look 85.
Be careful whose advice you buy, but, be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it’s worth.
But trust me on the sunscreen…<br>
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Jul 25, 2004 9:16:31 GMT 7
Post by soundslikequiet on Jul 25, 2004 9:16:31 GMT 7
Skateboard on war memorials........
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Jul 25, 2004 13:42:40 GMT 7
Post by SPchick on Jul 25, 2004 13:42:40 GMT 7
*lol* but trust me on the winny blues!
I had that cd! I wonder where it is now?
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Friends of P.
cherub rocker
Death to Elmo at the hands of Supergrover I say!
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Jul 28, 2004 10:06:49 GMT 7
Post by Friends of P. on Jul 28, 2004 10:06:49 GMT 7
Just perusing this thread,
It's all pretty interesting.
My thoughts on life are this, I must be passionate and driven about what i am doing with my life otherwise what is the fucking point, I may as well lock myself in an asylum and see how many time I can rock backwards and forwards til I eventually croak if I was able to give in to mediocre repetition. The greeks asked one thing when a person died, Did they have passion?
On the subject of Karma: Yeah call it that, it's sort of like a ripple effect or a chain reaction or like imagine the world and it's occupants are marbles in a tightly confined space, you hit someone else with negative energy and it hits someone else and so on and so on and it works it's way back to you imediately or eventually depending on spectrums. It's the same with the positives except the positives are more fragile an can get hit by oncoming negatives and cancelled out. Happiness generally hits us when we least expect it.
Organised religion: I hate it but I have issues with any societal majority grouping.It's wierd I'm a white male anglo saxon who has been marginalised and isolated most of my life, statistically speaking we are the ones supposedly running the show? (where are they getting their info) That's not supposed to sound all KKK. Striving for human equality is like running to catch the horizon in your hand.
Death: I'm sorry but heaven makes absolutely no sense I mean why would you sit around all day on a cloud singing kumbaya. I think that light at the end of the tunnel crap is a construct created by the human mind as a coping mechanism created for the mental anguish of know your hour is up. Plus it's a waste of energy to displace all those souls.
Love: You should love everything you love deeply and with recklessness, so that there are no regrets later.
And on that too Donna I noticed alot of percentage talk in your love equations WTF is that I mean either you like someone or you don't if you've sat down and weighed up a mathematical percentage for how much you care about them I seriously doubt you should be in a relationship with the person if you need to overthnig it that much. Love is one of those mystery thing that just is there is no formula or equation to it.
Meh I'm sure that rant is redundant now that you are with Reece you've probably reached that conclusion yourself.
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Jul 28, 2004 10:20:11 GMT 7
Post by .honeyspider. on Jul 28, 2004 10:20:11 GMT 7
And on that too Donna I noticed alot of percentage talk in your love equations WTF is that I mean either you like someone or you don't if you've sat down and weighed up a mathematical percentage for how much you care about them I seriously doubt you should be in a relationship with the person if you need to overthnig it that much. Love is one of those mystery thing that just is there is no formula or equation to it. Meh I'm sure that rant is redundant now that you are with Reece you've probably reached that conclusion yourself. no kd i havent sat down and weighed up a mathematical equation.. i was trying to explain it so that it was easy to understand. what i mean is, we have standards, or whatever u want to call them, and if someone is below it.. you shouldnt be with them. i dont mean standards as in your hair isnt blonde etc.. i mean personal things.. i would prefer someone who likes hugging me etc.. and isnt distant.. simple little things, or big things like finding someone who shares my love for music.. or just someone who makes me laugh. and yes i have found that now. and no i dont think about those things anymore because none of them are missing. but when they were, i thought about them a LOT. thanks for your concern.
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Jul 30, 2004 5:35:29 GMT 7
Post by AlmostOz on Jul 30, 2004 5:35:29 GMT 7
"Don’t waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind…the race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself. " i like that line , and when he goes the race is long "Striving for human equality is like running to catch the horizon in your hand." well one day i still hope to do it "Death: I'm sorry but heaven makes absolutely no sense I mean why would you sit around all day on a cloud singing kumbaya" im not religious, but it sounds fun to me clouds look comfy
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Jul 30, 2004 6:27:34 GMT 7
Post by .honeyspider. on Jul 30, 2004 6:27:34 GMT 7
se u "Death: I'm sorry but heaven makes absolutely no sense I mean why would you sit around all day on a cloud singing kumbaya" im not religious, but it sounds fun to me clouds look comfy heh, i like that idea too. you make me laugh nick.. really u do.. *chuckles* ;D
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Jul 31, 2004 11:17:59 GMT 7
Post by AlmostOz on Jul 31, 2004 11:17:59 GMT 7
thats good then i like trying to make people laugh
i ran over to my girlfriend yesterday with my guitar yelling note for kylie note for kylie! and she was like whats it say, and i played an e minor and ran off again.
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Nov 5, 2009 23:34:36 GMT 7
Post by smashington on Nov 5, 2009 23:34:36 GMT 7
I almost cry when I hear the Sunscreen Song, its true. especially the jealousy part.. the race is long, and in the end, its only with yourself.. man that line is so true.
i pretty much agree with everything AlmostOz said..
life is what you make it.. in this time in Westernised countries, you can do pretty much anything you want. Don't TRY to love, or try NOT to love. Just let things flow. most people who are in love wont be able to tell you when they first "fell" in love.
Personally, my goal in life is to take every opportunity to have, and to meet people, learn.. what else is there to do? seriously? i dont believe in the afterlife at all, or reincarnation, in agnostic in some sense of the word.. i dont believe we're any form of higher being than animals. i believe in the soul, and i believe that some universal guiding force gives meaning to our bodies and mines, but it lasts as long as you live, and then you are gone. make the most of what you have.
my advice: do whatever you want to do.
seriously, make yourself happy. read about what interests you, not what a friend recommends that you find boring. don't go to your parents dinner on thursday night, stay in and watch house, or go dancing, whatever. If you feel like having sex with a person you meet, go for it! if you're in a relationship and you feel like it, decide what will make you happier, and pursue that. think about how your actions will affect your life: will they make me happy? will this make me anxoius and tired?
if keeping the peace by going to your parents dinner is neccessary, then go, if it will make your life easier. if preparing a romantic dinner for your partener, and giving them a massage, will make them happy - it will make you happy.
just make ENJOY yourself.
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Nov 11, 2009 6:18:58 GMT 7
Post by AlmostOz on Nov 11, 2009 6:18:58 GMT 7
"i pretty much agree with everything AlmostOz said.." Thanks for contributing It was interesting to see where my head was 5 years ago - it's in a totally different place now. Where I said don't you wish you could be single and with someone at the same time I'm now married. I've matured a lot in the last 5 years I think a lot of ozphorians might be interested to read what they wrote in 2004
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Nov 17, 2009 10:15:43 GMT 7
Post by smashington on Nov 17, 2009 10:15:43 GMT 7
yeah its like going through my old journals, wondering what i was thinking back in the day.
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