jibber

So I'm bored and thought I'd make a thread. So what's the biggest lesson you've learned recently? could be anything, or just something major you realized lately. For me it would be that going to art school was a mistake. I never draw or paint just on my own accord anymore, and I feel like studying art in college is sucking all the fun out of it. But I figure the only way you'll learn anything is by trying it out in the first place, so I don't feel as though I've wasted a year (until I look at what tuition cost me this year).

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What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do -- especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.
William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways

Your toughest competitor lives in your head. Some days his name is fear, or pain, or gravity. Stomp his ass.

HOOKED ON THE WHITE POWDER

jazzfromhell

Buy tickets early. I used to have it down, but then started getting lazy. Now I've got to buy $35 tickets to see McCoy Tyner, when I could've gotten them for $5. Still makes my blood boil, such a missed oppurtunity.

jibber

Another thing I've realized lately is how restless I'm getting living where I'm living. Don't get me wrong, I love calgary, and I've got a great life here, but lately I've been getting this feeling that there's just too much history here. I've lived here for 9 years now, not even that long at all, but I've just been feeling like I need to get out. This is pretty much my main reason for going to New Zealand this summer. Of course the fact that I'll be able to ski is a big plus, but the main attraction for me is that it's halfway around the world. I love the idea of just heading off by myself, no plans, no agenda, no safety net, flipping my life upside down and seeing where I end up. My only plan has been to work there and ski, but I can easily see myself ditching that and just heading off to southeast asia on a whim. My life is so structured right now, everything's planned out because I need it to be. For a while now I've really craved uncertainty, hopefully this summer I'll be able to get a little bit of that out of my system.

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What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do -- especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.
William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways

Your toughest competitor lives in your head. Some days his name is fear, or pain, or gravity. Stomp his ass.

HOOKED ON THE WHITE POWDER

blackTshirt

i don't have much time to post, but i thought i could share this
so the biggest thing i've learned in the past month, actually, is to try to make your life easier, by never being afraid "in advance".. like with school.. so i have an exam today (really, i do) and the thing is, i'd probably do shit if i actually thought about it and be like OMG..
like last week, i was a total wreck, thinking this week was gonna suck cause i had a LOTTTT to do. instead, just as the week started, i began to look on the bright side, thinking SO WHAT IF I'M GONNA FAIL? and everything seemed easier. and i dunno, i'm not afraid anymore. not right now

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TheBig3KilledMyRainDog

Just choose your roomates carefully man, my friend Joe did that. Moved from roughly Providence to Colorado and worked on the mountain. Problem was the only people who paid the rent (out of the 4 guys living in his place) were him and the other person who signed the lease.

Im not exactly sure if he left without paying off the bill but its a little easier to skip rent when you can move back across the country than when you've got to go through customs.

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“The night falls gracefully for those who have a love to call their own. But alas, for those to whom love has turned a blind eye – love, it falls like a guillotine”

“No more waiting for fate to befall me, no. I have my dreamboat, and together we will find our destiny, choose our ladder to the sky” - Markus Pierson

SittingBehindYou

Look before you leap... in other words make sure everything is okay before you ruch into something unsure.

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The world... "it will be mine, oh yes, it will be mine."

Trauma

Drunk in public with more than 1,000 people around me.
At a band concert.






Like...school band.

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Muzak Geek

Traveling alone on business drives me to drink heavily.

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Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, Start… Just because we use cheats, doesn't mean we're not smart.

Vanilla

I learned how fun it is getting naked in public.

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MURDER JUNKIE

when you have to poop...................for God's sakes GO POOP!!!
learned that the hard way last week

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I've been had
at least that's how it looks
and it's not funny like on TV
and it's not smart like it is in books