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I recently just got back from a very amazing trip to Seoul and while I recover I watched a fairly cheesy hero story. This hero story employed a typical beginning to the plot that seems fairly common in many hero stories, or adventure esque stories. Generally the beginning of the story is when fate taps someone [...] I created a quotes page just because I really love quotes. It is not very well organized yet but at least they are written down to share somehwhere available to the public. I have many more to add but then again this is just a start. Link to Quotes page I also have recently [...] I have finally gotten an Internet connection in my apartment much to joy! So I am welcoming myself back to the information super highway. I thought earlier that I now once again feel like a well connected human being, but that same thought somewhat bothered me. Why is it that my connection back into the Internet [...] I attempted to look up the phrase “lost in the woods…” because I have heard it used before (what comes to mind is Malcolm Reynolds from Firefly) to describe someone who is in over their head clueless on how to act or behave in whatever circumstance they find themselves. I am once again lost in the woods, clueless on how to act or behave in the circumstances that I find myself and feeling in over my head. As always how I found myself in this position was most likely self induced, which makes it that much more aggravating, but this time there is also an timing aspect that is beyond my power to control. I really enjoy Malcolm’s response to being accused of liking being lost in the woods;
Even though I enjoy Malcolm’s stance I do not know how to implement it. I believe Continue reading Lost in the woods… I once told a guy named Floyd that if given a choice between being the decision maker on a hard choice or deferring to someone else so that I can live without the burden, that I would choose to be the decision maker. I strangely thought of this after reading a manga of Naruto. Shikamaru nearly quits being a ninja because after a mission almost all of his unit (who consists mainly of his friends) were hospitalized. His father explained to him that if he quits someone else will be put in charge of his friends and the pain will only be worse when they screw up and get his friend’s killed while Shikamaru proverbially sat on the sidelines and differed the choices that resulted in his friends death to someone else. Realizing this Shikamaru decides that he will continue leading regardless of how terrible he feels and most likely will feel in the future and vowing that he will tirelessly work in order to better protect his friends. I believe that Shikamaru made the best choice that when given a chance to choose between deciding something difficult or differing the choice to another and relying on them to carry that burden, as he did, I would want the burden. Only then will I be able to ensure the best choice is made because the choice is within my power and if I choose poorly that is because I did not work hard enough to understand, comprehend, etc… the ramifications of my choice. I cannot damn someone else for a choice that I coward away from. I instead have to use my failure as fuel for the fires that will power me to work harder, think more, and to make a wiser decision for future hard choices. Continue reading Hard Choices |
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