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At a time when I said to myself: "No more crying !!! Think first, and think deep and keep away from that kind of problems !", I stumbled upon this song:
"You say you wanna learn How to live your life without tears But we've been trying to do that For thousands of years
So go on and cry, Ophelia, It's the only thing to do sometimes You know, I'm crying too, right there with you It's all right, Ophelia, Everybody cries"
Adam Cohen - Cry Ophelia
I'm someone who really takes interest in the lyrics in a song, to the (crazy) point where all that comes in this form from a song I love becomes true... That can be quite annoying when two songs state contradictory things. Posts: 4519 | Registered: Sep 2003
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T, there was a teacher who told Einstein in his youth that he won't amount to anything in his life... Boy, was he wrong or what !!
The point is, you're the one person that really knows your strong points, so you decide what you can and what you cannot do. And while I don't think low about driving garbage trucks - someone has to do it, and I'm glad they're doing it - you were probably meant for something else, and you're conscious about it. So go on living YOUR life, not the life others tell you to live !
Aside: I don't know if you saw the add on Discovery about city cleaners. Their job is to keep the city you love clean, to provide you with a nice place to live in. Take just two seconds to think about it.
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Awww, thread. An old friend. *patpat* That epiphaneous flip caused by my friend's comment is exactly why I'm soliciting projects from people for my Photoshop kick instead of doodling off on my own. I want what I have learned to be turned into something that is useful and makes people happy.
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Me too. And yet, that comment I talked about on the first page is still one of the most significant turning points for me. Posts: 14428 | Registered: Aug 2001
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And I'm going to add one of my aha moments.
It was back when I was around 20 and had a lot of emotional problems. Lots and lots and lots of them. And I had major problems with God, too. I thought he had two sets of rules - one for those he loved, and another for people like me. Because, yes, despite all the hell I'd been through, I still believed in God and the gospel according to the LDS faith. But I had a lousy relationship with God.
I was talking to the institute director (in Edmonton, Alberta) one day, and he said to me that usually, the relationship we have with God is a mirror image of the one we have with our biological father. Not because that's how God is, but because that's how we perceive it to be.
He was so right. That one comment changed everything for me. It helped me make major emotional breakthroughs and finally develop a relationship with God that I like and enjoy, and it helped me finally realize that God loves me, too. It also finally helped me to realize that other people can love me, as well. I'm not that unloveable good-for-nothing that my parents created and made me into. I'm loveable! (And now I have Fahim. )
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