courtesy of one of my bffs, miss chastine vosvick . when i saw it, it made my insides sparkle :) still think i'm getting sick, but going to work today doesn't seem too entirely oppressive as the rain leaves me with two options: stay inside and be utterly unproductive (well, i guess i could keep working on that study sheet for US history...) or stay inside at work and make some money. not the most glorious forecast, but i do look forward to the sunshine in my future.
This morning I received some awful, tragic, devastating news. My younger sister’s good friend suddenly passed away on Tuesday. He was 27-years-old. We’ve known Robert for years. He’s the younger brother of someone I was very good friends with in high school and part of my sister’s very tight knit crew. He had previously lived in NYC and recently moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in “the industry”. Prior to him moving to his new apartment in Santa Monica, he was staying on our couch while he looked for a place to live. He was an excellent house guest and always a pleasure to have around. I am so mad. I’m so goddamn angry about this. This isn’t supposed to happen, 27-year-old men aren’t supposed to just NOT WAKE UP. Julia wasn’t supposed to lose her younger brother when she’s got a son who needs an uncle. His parents aren’t meant to bury their 2 nd eldest child. Jesse is supposed to have an older brother to look up to. My sister isn’t supposed to be mourning the los...
“Just surrender and trust the Universe.” “Everything that is meant for you will be yours, and you won’t have to struggle so hard for it.” “Get very clear on what you want and the Universe will have no choice but to give it to you.” On the surface it sounds like total wishy-washy bullshit, basically encouraging people to skate through life because everything that’s “meant to be” will simply fall into their laps with very little effort. Which, to be fair, a lot of people take that interpretation and because ignorance is bliss, end up doing pretty well for themselves. Alternatively, on the end of the spectrum where people’s heads and assholes have a fair distance between them, there is- or should be- a slightly deeper understanding of this message. A message that I’ve heard only a bazillion times but can only seem to truly grasp and internalize about 57% of them ( that is a technical statistic ). The message is, essentially, do the work and then let it go. For the first t...
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