thanks for the memories, even though they weren't so great

In ten years, what will I remember about the way my life is now? Why do we remember some details and not others? What will get erased forever, and what will stay?

(i hope the memories i keep will contradict this title)

we gave up before we gave it a chance

It is too easy to become desensitized.
"Eat your food, there's starving kids in Africa."
It's become cliche. Starving African children.
You hear it and just filter it out.
One child dies from starvation every five seconds.
That's 17,000 kids every day.

people just write it off. no one cares. we are so disconnected from a life where people literally die of hunger that we just ignore it. safe in our little american bubble. not our problem. we will go about our daily lives, consumed in our self-absorbed materialistic culture. and in a distant world, they will go about their daily lives, eating dirt cookies to stay alive.

If a man shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too will cry out and not be answered.

Proverbs 21:13

if vision is the only validation, most of my life isn't real

we will never have "our year" like i always hoped we would.

all we have now is one more shot.

we were smart kids with too much to say

"Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They invent. They imagine. They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire. They push the human race forward. Maybe they have to be crazy. How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art? Or sit in silence and hear a song that’s never been written? Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels? We make tools for these kinds of people. While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who actually do."

-apple

if grace is an ocean, we're all sinking

if your words are your weapons my dear, i surrender

liar liar

thoughts are weird. how can you stop the ones you don't want?
get outta there.

and when the oceans rage, i don't have to be afraid

I wonder if God ever laughs at all the silly earthly things people get so caught up in. If you stop to think about it, stop to look around, everything He's given us is waaaaay more amazing and magnificent than anything else ever. In Him we have everything. But still people think they can make themselves happy by trying to make their own success or satisfaction. When in reality, He's all that matters. Loving God and living for Him is the only thing you ever really need to invest yourself in, and everything else will happen as it needs to. Look up at the sky. It's endless. It's beautiful. In any weather, it's beautiful. God made that. Now.. stare off into the sea of homes that is suburbia. It's sickening. People made that. God's got his big amazing sky, looking out over this gross metropolis that society considers to be some sort of "progress." Ha. People think they're so great sometimes. Look up, people, look up.