ADVENTURES IN LIVING
Every day is a surprise. Sometimes good. sometimes not.
Cats—gotta love them
‘This whole thing has to be scrapped, and let’s start over. In the free market system, there are ways to handle this,’ she said. On the other hand, ‘If you mandate to somebody that they have to do a certain thing, where does it stop?’
This a quote from The Indianapolis Star (3/22/2012) concerning universal health care coverage. Don’t force people to have health insurance many say.
Unfortunately, many of these people probably think that it’s okay to force women to justify their need for oral contraceptives or mandate ultrasounds before abortions.
I say WTF.
Hahaha
I was talking to someone at breakfast who was concerned about her grandson. She felt that since he had been brought up in Florida by a single dad that his view of the world was all twisted. ”The south is different you know.” Fearing that he was a neo nazi or member of the kkk, I carefully asked about his beliefs. I found out that her 29 year old grandson supported O’Bama.
Imagine her surprise when I told her that I did, too.
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my.
I deserved better. I wasn’t the perfect wife, but I wanted our marriage to work. Yes, I couldn’t willingly fall into the role of the dutiful wife. You knew that before we married. And I certainly wasn’t going to model myself after your mother. But more and more you shut me out of your life. It felt like you wanted me there for sex, to support the family and take care of the kids. You got so secretive. It got so that we never talked. Neither of us learned good examples of that from our families, but what prevented us from working that out for ourselves? We could have had it all. What happened to us?
I just heard myself say (again) the other day that I expect perfection from myself but not other people. I guess it’s time to give myself a break, too. But if I’m not the perfect good girl, will people still like me?
Huggy Kissy or Bangy Screwy - John Mayer at the Apollo Theater
Relationships defined.
(Source: youtube.com)
I tried not to like this.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2006
CHANGEI’ve been thinking about something lately.
Imagine this:
You’re on an airplane, sleeping with your head against the window, your heart set on being home this time three hours from now. All of a sudden, something goes very wrong. The plane stops moving across the air and instead starts falling through it. The lights are flickering and the movie is skipping. The plane dips hundreds of feet in seconds, and the yellow cups fall from the ceiling. They’re a brighter shade of yellow than you remember, because unlike the demonstration, these cups have never been handled before. “Flight attendants take your seats now”, you hear, the pilot’s voice trembling over a cacophony of alert tones. You get that smell in the bridge of your nose like you’ve just been hit with a football. That’s what the fear smells like. The plane is going down.
Four more drastic drops in under a minute. People are crying. For all the folklore about how your life flashes before your eyes, you’re remarkably fixed on one vision – your parents. They’re sleeping at this very moment, in a bedroom so quiet they can hear the clock in the kitchen. And you can see them, clear as can be. You wish you could see a playground or a first kiss, but all you can see is your parents sleeping. Huh. Well, that’s that.
Several long minutes go by. Then, all at once, the lights come back on and the plane somehow rights itself. Some people cheer, but most people cry harder. The plane lands about an hour later, and as soon as you feel that touch down – hell, even when you were within 50 feet of the ground and could still technically survive a fall – you realize that however you brokered the deal between you and God worked; you’ve just been granted life in overtime.
Here’s the question: what do you change? Whom do you call that you haven’t spoken to in years? Whom do you realize has been toxic to your heart and drop with surprising ease? What trips do you cancel, and what trips do you book? What can’t you be bothered with anymore? What’s the new you like?
Think about that, and then ask one more question. Why not just change it all right now?
(Working on it…)
POSTED BY JOHN MAYER AT 04:48 AM FROM SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
(via johnmayerappreciation)
