Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Positive Thoughts
I'm going to enumerate a few good things in my life right now, because my last few posts seemed mostly full of piss and vinegar.
- I'm glad that even though I don't work out enough at it is, I can eat wings and not feel guilty.
- I'm glad school for me will be over in little more than week.
- I'm glad I never have to worry about finding a swing dance partner.
- I'm glad I'm on two projects to work.
- I'm glad I've seen self-absorption and vanity up close. I had a former friend in my life who dropped out of college at 20 and has been trying the whole "get rich quick through a start up" thing since before the dot bomb. So far, he has failed, and has little to show for it. When I "make my move" in that respect, I won't be such a money-worshipping know it all yuppie.
- I'm glad both the cats I rescued still visit me when I crash at night. They love sleeping near me.
- I'm glad I've decided to resolve my sleep problems without medication. After researching Ambien, I'm terrified of it. Its a narcotic. When you stop taking it, you can have "rebound insomnia". You can always wake up, drive to a buddy house, drink and talk to them for an hour, have sex with a girl, and drive home, with no memory of the fact you just slept- walked an entire night away. Wow.
- I'm glad to be learning new things with respect to my technology skillset. After having a grad school professor basically lecture on distributed systems and completely ignore how google changed the game and 90% of this is irrelevant, because "the google way" is what's going to be copied from now on, its awesome to learn something new.
- I'm glad to have my health after witness a friend suffer so for a completely random or incomprehensible reason
- I'm glad to more than one honest person in my life. I think my friend who's life went wrong stems from a simple reason: the need to look good over the need to realize failure. And likeminded people in his life, who he felt were also "succeeding". I still have people I've known since I was 18 that can at least cut me to ribbons should I start putting on false airs.
- I'm glad I'm not afraid to take risks in my personal or professional life, despite some of the downturns that have happened in both. No Regrets.
- I'm glad tomorrow is a new day.
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