I can’t help but feel that she has a certain freedom that I envy when she’s having an episode. I feel like everyone’s a little crazy and we all walk around with this armor of sanity, and she’s just able to cast it off completely. I’d almost like to join her and run around the city if only she could keep it from spinning out of control.
Tag: Life
The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place, It will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me or nobody is going to hit as hard as life.
But it ain’t about how hard you’re hit, it is about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward, how much can you take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done!
Rocky Balboa
Pro Tip When playing football or handball with…
Pro Tip: When playing football or handball with your dog, never go for a 50-50 ball. You’ll get hurt, and he’ll win the ball.
Every fucking time.
You’re not your job You’re not how much…
You’re not your job. You’re not how much money you have in the bank. You’re not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You’re not your fucking khakis. You’re the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.
You-know-who-don’t-you?
If a man does not keep pace with…
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Walden
We listened to the man because he had…
We listened to the man because he had something to tell us, and us alone. Not how to play baseball, though he did that better than anyone. Not how to win, though winning was wonderful. Not even how to sacrifice. He was teaching us something far more important: how to cope with the two greatest enemies of a well-lived life, fear and failure.
To make the lesson stick, he made sure we encountered enough of both. I never could have explained at the time what he had done for me, but I felt it in my bones all the same. When I came home one day during my senior year and found the letter saying that, somewhat improbably, I had been admitted to Princeton University, I ran right back to school to tell Coach Fitz.
Then I grew up.
A day offline
Spending the bank holiday offline.
So, no twitter, email, Google+ or techmeme.
Reach me by SMS or call, if needed.
Everything in life is about sex Except sex…
Everything in life is about sex.
Except sex.
Sex is about power.
Oscar Wilde (via Francis Underwood, in House of Cards)
It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams…
It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.
Benjamin Mays
Monday Good ride 2 hours of productive work…
Monday:
Good ride.
2 hours of productive work.
4 hours of corralling myself into doing work I wasn’t ready for. Nothing got done.
3 hours of productive work.
Good ride.
An hour’s good walk with Chewie.
Tuesday:
Good ride.
4 hours of productive work.
1 hour of doodling. Sort of.
2 hours of productive work.
2 hours of discussion around project work and more.
Good ride.
37 lengths of swim.
Bad cramp.
Rest.
3 lengths of swim.
Cramp still there.
Tomorrow:
Weigh in.
Train + Bus.
Attacking that work thing I’ve been failing at. One. More. Time.
Drinks.
Bus + Train.