"Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny." -Carl Schurz, address, Faneuil Hall, Boston, 1859
Perfection is not something someone can achieve because if we did all we would be doing is nothing. Nothing, meaning not doing anything right but not doing anything wrong. Therefore a state of perfection.
Screw that! Perfection is not something that we can achieve but like the stars we need to let it guide us. Let it be our standard. If everyone craved perfection as a standard then the pure iron will would make us unstoppable. We can do anything we set our minds to, and it pains me that perfection is frowned upon. Maybe, it's because imperfection is so accepted this day in age. Each and everyone of us have the opprotunity in America to do something great. Even though we can never truly be perfect without being nothing, we need to set it as our personal standard. Only then will we reach our true potential.
It's your decision.
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Still Love Me?
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." -Moulin Rouge
Things seemed to have calmed down after the after Valentine's Day look at your love life. For several people I know, well, they screwed up...even me. You see I couldn't deal with what was given to me, love. Now, all I do is want it back.
Please don't be like me and screw things up. You see, love is such a splendor thing. It lifts us up, and for those moments when it crashes we think about how stupid we were. We let someone in just enough so that they could crush us from the inside. We want to give up. Say "the hell with that!" and swear that nobody should ever do this to us again.
But then we get inspired by a stupid blog that says a cheesy quote, and makes the point that: "We go through many people we love, and it sucks because not a single one of them come to us at our beck and call. Some move away, others move away from us once they figure out who we are, some we move away from because we see who they are. After all this misfortune, we give up. But then we have to live with the fact that the spark we feel is bigger than the hurt we feel. And that if the most repulsive people can find somebody to love and show the same affection towards, then so can we."
Things seemed to have calmed down after the after Valentine's Day look at your love life. For several people I know, well, they screwed up...even me. You see I couldn't deal with what was given to me, love. Now, all I do is want it back.
Please don't be like me and screw things up. You see, love is such a splendor thing. It lifts us up, and for those moments when it crashes we think about how stupid we were. We let someone in just enough so that they could crush us from the inside. We want to give up. Say "the hell with that!" and swear that nobody should ever do this to us again.
But then we get inspired by a stupid blog that says a cheesy quote, and makes the point that: "We go through many people we love, and it sucks because not a single one of them come to us at our beck and call. Some move away, others move away from us once they figure out who we are, some we move away from because we see who they are. After all this misfortune, we give up. But then we have to live with the fact that the spark we feel is bigger than the hurt we feel. And that if the most repulsive people can find somebody to love and show the same affection towards, then so can we."
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