I like to wake up early when it’s still dark — my quiet time. Sometimes I wake up with a pensive mood and think about what I want to accomplish during the day. I want to write this morning but my brain is cluttered. Our brains isn’t a flowing river. It’s not something that is crystal clear every morning. We have our ebbs and tides. Sometimes you wish to start with a blank slate, absent of preconception, bias outlook, prejudice and self-criticism. The problem with being over-crowded in the mind is that you just don’t get anywhere.
These three lines have struck a cord with me; people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you make them feel.
Yesterday I was asked about my thoughts on what love is. I’ve been thinking since then about what the answer really is.
I remember a movie I watched years ago, Frankie & Johnny. I love films like this– those gritty New York movies about trying to get by, trying to live your life. Frankie and Johnny is the tale of two characters played by Michelle Pfeiffer and Al Pacino, who are just trying to get by in life. Just trying to make a living. But Johnny (Pacino) is fresh out of prison and after meeting Frankie (Pfeiffer) he falls in love.
Sometimes we give up on something because we don’t think things will work out. There are some things in life that don’t go the way you want them to or the way you think they should. And you can’t hold on to something that left long time ago too because some things just aren’t meant to be.
We may think we know what we need to make us happy, what will be good for us, but life rarely works out in the way we expect, and our happy ending may have all sorts of unexpected twists and turns.
Everyone of us dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming would be like saying you can never change your fate. And I think that it’s important to like stuff cause we spend a lot of time thinking about things that we hate. We often just accept the things that we like and complain about the things that we don’t like. But if we could intensely dwell on the really good things in life, things that we love, as intensely as the way we dwell on the negative stuff, that would be marvelous.