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Drift is the decision you make by not deciding, or by making a decision that unleashes consequences for which you don’t take responsibility.
I tried to make a list of warning signs for myself:
— Thinking “This situation can’t go on,” but then it does go on.
— Complaining a lot about a situation without working to find ways to make it better.
— Hoping that some catastrophe or upheaval will arise to blow up a situation, e.g., fantasizing that you’ll break your leg or be transferred to another city.
— Feeling that other people or processes are moving events forward, and you’re being passively carried along.
— Getting the urge to do or have something because the people around you are doing it or want it. One of my Secrets of Adulthood is “Just because something is fun for someone else doesn’t mean it’s fun for you – and vice versa.”
Read full article, “A Problem in Happiness: Drift”
“ How did I become so obnoxious?
What is it with you that makes me act like this?
I’ve never been this nasty.
Can’t you tell that this is all just a contest?
The one that wins will be the one that hits the hardest.
— Please Don’t Leave Me - Pink
“ You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed. You’re not going to succeed all the time and I know that. You have to be able to accept failure to get better.
— Lebron James (via sixty minutes interview)
It’s when you hold eye contact for that second too long or maybe the way you laugh. It sets off a flash and our memories take a picture of who we are at that point when we first know “This is love.”
And we clutch that picture to our hearts because we expect each other to always be the people in that picture. But people change. People aren’t pictures. And you can either take a new picture or throw the old one away.
via I Wrote This For You
“ The book of love is interesting.
It’s hard to read entirely;
It’s full of breaks and awkward pauses;
And pictures of her smiling.
— The Book of Love - Rediscover (cover)
“ Actually, I think about you all the time. The stuff we did, the things that happened to us. The people we were. It was lovely for a long time, wasn’t it?
— Damian - Nine Lives (2005)
There is magic even here, in gridlock, in loneliness, in too much work, in late nights gone on too long, in shopping trolleys with broken wheels, in boredom, in tax returns, the same magic that made a man write about a princess that slept until she was kissed, long golden hair draped over a balcony and fingers pricked with needles. There is magic even here, in potholes along back-country roads, in not having the right change (you pat your pockets), arriving late and missing the last train home, the same magic that caused a woman in France to think that God spoke to her, that made another sit down at the front of a bus and refuse to move, that lead a man to think that maybe the world wasn’t flat and the moon could be walked upon by human feet. There is magic. Even here. In office cubicles.
via I Wrote This For You
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