Yadda, Yadda

What if you got laryngitis and could no longer talk? How would you communicate with your family, friends, and everyone else around you?
You would have to choose what was really important, what you really needed to articulate. How much of what you say defines who you are? How do you define yourself when you can’t speak? What are actions without words to back them up?

If you couldn’t speak, would you “choose your words” more carefully?

Everywhere are Signs

Have you ever felt like something was a sign for you to do something? Did you do what it was the sign was pointing you toward?
Should you do something simply because you have experienced a sign urging you to? It might just be a coincidence but on the other hand, it could be the reason you take a risk and try something new.

What on Earth are you thinking?

There is no way for you to know what someone else is thinking. You can only guess what they might think about a particular situation. You can never actual know what exactly their thoughts on a subject are unless you ask them.
I find that I spend a lot of time trying to figure out what someone else might be thinking. I would save myself so much time if I just asked them, rather than attempting to speculate.

All it takes is a simple question, “What do you think?”

Realization

You cannot predict the future.

Not Dead Yet

This picture really makes me think. Is chivalry really dead? Are men really not going out of their way to be kind to women? And if so, why has this happened?
As far as I can tell chivalry is not dead. For the most part, men still do open doors for women, allow them to go before them in a line, and on a rare occasions walk on the street-side of the sidewalk (although this might just be a coincidence).
I think the biggest thing that killed chivalry was the women’s lib movement. All of the sudden women decided that they were the same as men, there should be no differences between men and women. Although I do think that all people should be paid the same salary for the same job, regardless of gender or race, this does not mean that it should translate into all aspects of life.
WOMEN ARE DIFFERENT FROM MEN!!!
I don’t know if you have noticed, but it is pretty hard not to. Besides just the physical differences, there are differences emotionally, psychologically, and personality-wise.

I don’t have a solution to this situation and really don’t have an opinion as to if men should or should not be chivalrous. But to my male readers: women do notice!

English Class

Have you ever read a poem that spoke to you? The words seemed to describe your inner feelings and personal thoughts?
I read an Emily Dickinson poem for an English class that brought me back to a very specific time in my life. It was as if she could read my mind and felt the same way I did in that situation.
As my professor described the theme, symbolism, rhyme scheme, and rhythm, the poem started to lose some of its initial meaning to me.
Who’s to say which interpretation is correct? There is no way to know what Emily Dickinson was thinking when she wrote it, so who are we to analysis it?


After great pain a formal feeling comes--
The nerves sit ceremonious like tombs;
The stiff Heart questions--was it He that bore?
And yesterday--or centuries before?

The feet, mechanical, go round
A wooden way
Of ground, or air, or ought,
Regardless grown,
A quartz contentment, like a stone.

This is the hour of lead
Remembered if outlived,
As freezing persons recollect the snow
--First chill, then stupor, then the letting go.

Glass Half-Full

Are you a positive or negative person? Are you optimistic or pessimistic? Do you see the glass half-full or half-empty? Do you try to look for the good in a situation or do you only see the bad?

When you change your attitude to be more positive, your whole outlook on life changes. It’s fairly easy to always look on the bright side of things. When you are faced with a situation in which you think the outcome might be negative, just think what’s the worst that can happen? Most likely it’s not that bad. Your whole life will not fall apart because of this one thing.;