Understanding Life…

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”

- John Lennon

“The person who follows the crowd
will usually go no further than the crowd.
The person who walks alone is likely to
find themselves in places no one has ever been.”

Colorado Videos: Part 2

Here’s more videos from the trip to Durango a few weeks ago:

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“However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?”

“The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.”

“The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment”

~ Buddha

Colorado videos

Last weekend I went to Colorado for a little mini vacation to visit my brother and get some relax time.  I took a bunch of videos with my flip camera.  Most of them aren’t very interesting at all, but, oh well.  Here are a few of them after the jump.. I still have a bunch more to upload.

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“People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

Abraham Lincoln


“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”

Soren Kierkegaard

Dumb and Dumberererer

People. Are. Dumb.

I’m sorry, but it’s true.

And I’m talking about the kind of dumb that we all seem to have, some just more obvious than others.  The kind of dumb that makes you push the big red button when you’re told if you do push it the world will end.

Or when you explain something 100 million bazillion times to someone in the nicest of tones and helpful manner, even expressing a glorious smile the whole time, and it’s clear that they understand it fully, and they come in the next day and ask you how to do it again even though you’ve showed them 100 million bazillion times.

Or when I say I don’t eat any meat, they still ask,

“But what about chicken? What about fish?”

I get that questions all the time from people.  It’s rather irritating.  Especially when people KNOW that I don’t eat meat, and haven’t for nearly a year now but yet they still ask ‘well what about chicken?’

I just want to slap these people.  Apparently there is some confusion as to what is considered ‘meat’.  I realized this a while ago.  It’s hard for some people to grasp common sense things.  Some prefer to call everything beef, poultry, etc instead of just “meat”.  So I began saying I simply don’t eat animal flesh / animal meat.  Apparently this was confusing too because people would ask me if I still ate chicken breasts, bacon etc.  Because you know.. “flesh is only the outer layer, like the skin…the innards are still OK right?”

Yes, that was a real response from someone.

So recently I’ve just been saying I don’t eat any animals, hoping that summarized it all up good enough for the dummies out there.

So today I was asked many questions regarding the whole vegetarian lifestyle, and even after explaining EVERYTHING to this person for nearly 15 minutes, and flat out saying many times “I don’t eat ANY animals or ANY part of ANY animal – EVER”, want to know what question I was asked in complete and total seriousness?

“But what about chicken?”