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)
4.22.2010
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.
"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
4.15.2010
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.
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
4.12.2010
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