Tuesday's With Morrie

The book Tuesday's with Morrie had a lot of meaning and depth. Morrie, an old man with ALS, tells Mitch, a young man too wrapped up in success and his life, how to live and love. The book is about dying and how Morrie express how people don't pay attention to dying and life and the world around them. It has a lot of morals and themes to get across peoples minds. To me, this book really opened my eyes to fear and thinking about dying. My favorite part was maybe when Morrie talked about the wave. The wave was free and happy just going through the ocean, doing what he was suppose to be doing. Then, when he saw the shore he was scared and screamed about crashing on the shore. Then the other wave came and said that's what we do, we're part of the ocean(179-180). What I like about the wave is he's part of this world, the ocean, doing what he believes he's suppose to be doing. Then one day, death sneaks up on him, crashing on the shore and disenegrating in the sand. No one remembers the poor wave, he's now just part of the sea. Although, the twist is with every crashing wave dying, another is reborn to continue the cycle. To live, do their job and die.
We are sort of like that wave. We are all created and have a purpose in life to do something with our life. Then death sneaks up on us and we die. Our soul goes on but we are one with the earth. Forgotten or not, we were there at one point. Morrie points out many times that you can't run from death, you have to accept it, just like life. Then when we detach ourselves from the pain and eveything else, we can move on peacefully.
Tuesday's With Morrie is a powerful and moving book. It's about life, love, death, fear and many other lessons. Reading this book you learn new things and look at the world with a little bit of a different perspective. Without reading it, you just keep going on with your life.
I personally think everyone should read it at least once. :)

Love Your Job

I love sharks.

A couple of years ago I wanted to become a Marine Biologist. I planned on going to Santa Cruz, San Diego maybe Santa Barbra. I wanted to swim and study how sharks are. See how graceful they can be without blood or raw meat.
My dream was to swim with sharks.
But, it changed.
I wanted to become a pastry chef.
Of course, I love to bake, I bake all the time, it's quite and obsession. And it makes others happy, therfore making me happy.

Although, my point is what we want to be will change. One moment will dream about being an astronaut, the next a professional ice skater. Our mind will keep changing and our dreams will keep getting cancelled. No matter what we want to be, we're going to be something, and we're going to be good at what we do.
Point being that whatever we do set our mind on, whatever we spend nights and weekends practacing or studying, no matter how many hours we spend on that one thing...you have to love it. You have to need it and want it. Push as far as you can to get there and do whatever it calls for. If we waste our time on something we don't want to be, what do you get out of it?
That's right, money.
Think though, no matter how much money we spend or need to pay bills, is it really worth standing on our feet or being sufficated in that corner, not noticed by the rest?
Work for what you love to do.
Love what you work for.
No matter how many dreams you have, how many times you change your mind, love it and do it.
If you don't love it, you don't need it.

I will always love sharks, and I will one day swim with them.

Did you know that scientists are using sharks to try to find a cure for cancer because the rarely get cancer.

Moments, Memories and Steps.



 

"Live every moment of your life because in the end all you'll have are memories." -Rumaisa Ansari quotes

You know when you define happiness, you find yourself smiling, laughing or thinking.. To be happy is all we want. To be loved, accepted, noticed. We take things for granted, we depend on money. Spend way too much time working.
Moment.
Take a moment to think of all you want to do. What can you do. What have you done. Moments are precious.
When you hold your first child. Pass your first test. Graduate college. We get something of it.
Joy. Pure happiness. We waste our time on unimportant things we think are important. If we lived in the moment. Enjoyed the present, smile at the past and wait for the future, we could feel so much more complete. Wonder about life. How things will work out. But that won't get you anywhere.
Moments are to precious to give up.

Do things you wouldn't expect to do.

Dance in the rain, in the sun, like no one is watching.

Believe what you see and accomplish what you dream.

Your family is your friends and your friends are your family. Love them.

If you think you can do it, maybe you can do it.

You can't just sit there and wait for things to change, YOU need to make it happen.

Thw world is beautiful, explo

 

 Do the amazing things. Follow your dreams. Make changes. Take risks. If you think "hmm I wish I could do that." DO IT!

Stick your tongue in the mirror a few times. Make a funny face in all the pictures. Make sure to smile though, show the world what you're made of.Don't forget the ones you loved, it's not worth it.

Enjoy the little things.

Believe you can make it. Then make something of it. Make it come true.

 

Keep pushing. You know you can do it with motivation.

Being silly isn't stupid.

Crying is worth it sometimes.

Giving up might be hard, but sometimes you gotta do it.

Try not to forget so hard, it happened for a reason.

Live to every fullest moment.

Remember how hideous those photos were in high school, remember what your friends looked like?
Try not to cause to much attention.

Eat your Vegetables.

Always love, always live, always keep others alive. Don't give up. Don't give in. Motivation. Hope. Power. Chances. Memories. What you don't learn, you don't aspire from. Everything you do, you learn from. Create some lessons for yourself. :)



Stepping Stone:

Walking steps, taking steps.

We are young, taking our first steps.

Mom cheers, dad smiles.

Niave to know what steps we take in the world.

We grow, grow by taking steps and keep falling.

We fail, we get hurt but we keep walking.

Love, family, health, friends.
Falling.

Again and again.

Now old enough to finish our steps.
We walk to great heights.

Run to great lengths.

Stop.

The scrapes have healed, the bruises, gone.
Finally we are not old enough to walk those steps.

We have fallin' enough.
Hurt enough.
But still, we learn, we grow.

And teach ours to take those steps as well.