Strange Flowers

What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?”
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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What would happen if you did wake up with a flower in your hand from a dream? I suppose you do every morning when you wake up, life is a beautiful flower plucked from heaven. Yes, life can be strange, but it has so many more opportunities to be beautiful.

Even dreams themselves can be beautiful. I think it's so cool that our brains can dream, whether we're awake or not. It's that crazy phenomenon of the unconscious that helps us to process the innate desires of our heart. It is so fascinating on how the events of our conscious lives transfer over into our unconscious lives, like the strange yet beautiful flower.

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Art is a waking dream. Dreams are sleeping art.
-Unknown

May As Well Enjoy the Scenery

Optimist: A man who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.
-Walter Winchell

I say, lets be optimists today. The only day we have is today, may as well be a good one. If you're a pessimist then things are just gray and ugly. But if you force yourself enough the sky can turn blue. Even if the sky is pretty nasty looking, may as well enjoy the scenery.

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I've recently decided that i need to read more books. Good books though. Not this pop-culture crap that comes out these days. I want the real stuff, the real literature that's changed lives.

I feel like that i would at least be a bit more well rounded as an individual. I feel like my horizons are the size of a shoebox. I want them to at least be the size of a refrigerator box. And i feel as though books can help me to expand the walls of knowledge within my shoebox.

So today, lets be knowledgeable optimists. God gives us only one day, and that day is today. But i suppose it's better said than done.

Swimming in the Sea

I am here swimming up from this sea beside you I am here I have always been here your true self I was never gone and through you thought it came from him it was really yourself your whole self entire swimming underwater all the time there beside you I was always there beside your gliding boats and your flapping boats and your humming grinding boats all along I have been alongside you I have always been here I never left.

-Evening

I like this.

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Bisy Backson

I can't believe it's already february. I think that, that is absolutely ridiculous. Where did january go? Time flies.

But when you actually sit, breathe, and reflect, you realize that a month has flown past didn't really fly by. You act, you cry, you laugh, you listen, you learn, you talk. It's so interesting to think, even just for a day, at how many times you got angry over silly things or how many peals of laughter occurred that one night. It's very interesting and fascinating.

“Where you are going is more important than how fast you are going”

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I feel as though, as human beings, we try to be busy. The tao of pooh. Great book, bisy backson chapter is exactly what i'm talking about. We think it will add to the resume we're building or get us into the college of our dreams to be busy and stressed. And yes, being busy helps with these. But what would happen if we cleared our schedule? For a day, an hour? And just did nothing? Caught up with a friend over coffee, went to lunch with a sibling, read the book you've been meaning to read for three years now, sent that email to your parents you meant to send a week ago?

I feel like if we did this, life would become more meaningful.
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“Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours” -Dale Carnegie

I know i discuss my life plans a lot. I like reflecting upon the passions that God has graced me with, and how i can put them to use for his glory. And i thank Him everyday for the people he has placed into my life, to help me, to guide me, to drag me, to walk with me.

The Fresh Fruit in My Life

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring and because it has fresh peaches in it.
- Thomas Walker

I secretly enjoy where i am. Not knowing where i'm going, but just being. It's a time of growth and self-discovery. I like knowing that i'm changing into a cool person, not the lame-o person i was my senior year of high school. I like thinking about if i visited high school and people watched, discovering the differences between me and the senior class. i feel as though it would be an enlightening discovery.

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But, at the same time, i hate the drifter feeling. it's quite a complicated feeling. Some days i feel as though i have no purpose to fufill and God is just like "well tomorrow you'll have purpose" (which i know is completely false, everyday has purpose. it's just a feeling). Like life is passing me by, and i forgot to buy a ticket. I feel like people have boarded the train of life and i didn't get the memo in time.

I think i need to get out more, experience the world. Find the fresh peaches of my life.

That would be nice.

The Passion in My Soul

I discovered how key music is in my life. I always knew it was a part of who i am, and what i do, but i never sat down and thought about how music is a part of my life, minute to minute it is a vital part of my survival. The survival for my sanity in the chaotic world that i live in.

The movement of notes from measure to measure. The poetry of words flowing one into the next. It's amazing.

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Music is what feelings sound like.
-Author Unknown

Feelings. I love that quote because you can feel music. Whether it be with the Sadness, Despair, Fear, Glee, Ecstatic, or Silly part of your heart, you feel music.

Without music the world would be a quieter place, with less feeling and passion. God has blessed mankind with the ability to create. To create music, art, literature, etc. out of passion.

The passion is what keeps my soul alive and thriving.

Celebration of the Unknown

I remembered a really great word today. Benevolence. I've decided to make this part of my life theme. There are definitely more aspects to the theme of my life, but i feel as though benevolence is a good aspect.

“The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence.”

I don't know who says that quote, but I feel as though they're pretty correct in their statement. I know for me, when i go out of my way to "do good" i know i feel pretty cheerful.

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I've decided to not figure life out. Well, eventually I hope the epiphany happens, but as of right now in my life. I don't feel like trying to figure out the thoughts that God is making unavailable for me. I almost enjoy not knowing what to do with my future.

It's that cool unknown fact that you can almost see, but can't. Today is the celebration of the unknown, and I am completely content with that.

Fashion Savvy in Life

This picture makes me happy. The combination of colors and the way the model is looking away, with no care in the world. It's almost as if I want my view upon my life to be as carefree and fashion savvy. I believe that my life will continue in the direction of art. Yes, I know I already said that. I somehow believe that despite all the classes I've taken I have come to a brilliant conclusion. I either want to work in a gallery or design.

I know, I know. Sounds real reliable for me to eventually raise a family. But I feel as though I should be doing something along those lines. I read an article discussing vocation and I came across an illuminating quote.

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.

I like this. Because all my life I have been a deep individual. Deeply immersed in the cultures of music and art. I feel like I can make a contribution to God if I follow my passions.

For what good is it to the world if I am not passionate with what I do?