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| Dear Grandma,
Even though you will never understand or agree, this quote sums up how I feel.
"So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation
because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one
peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun." - Christopher McCandless
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| "America is at that awkward stage.
It's too late to work within the system,
but too early to shoot the bastards." - unknown
Hahah. yes.
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| Thought for the day:
Clear or yellow sodas in order of least favorite to most favorite.
5. Mountain Dew (ew, ew, ew)
4. 7 Up (ew, ew)
3. Sprite (uh gross)
2. Sierra Mist (meh)
1. Squirt (badly named, but the only one of these sodas that I will actually ever be caught drinking)
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| For those of you who don't know, today is Veteran's Day. Also for those of you who don't know, Veteran's Day was originally called Armistice Day because it is the day that the armistice was signed that formally ended World War I. It was later changed to Veteran's Day to honor veterans that have fought in any American war.
While I do remember to thank a veteran on Veteran's Day, this year I thought I would do something on my own to remember the ending of the Great War, because even in the history major circle, it is a very forgotten war. So I am reading "All quiet on the western front" by Erich Maria Remarque, which is a very moving and painful reminder of World War I, told from the perspective of the Germans. I would like to share some quotes with you.
"Kropp on the other hand is a thinker. He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popular festival with entrance tickets and bands, like a bull fight. Then in the arena the ministers and generals of the two countries, dressed in bathing-drawers and armed with clubs, can have it out among themselves. Whoever survives, his country wins. That would be much simpler and more just than this arrangement, where the wrong people do the fighting."
There aren't really any surviving World War I veterans, as most of them have died this year. While you remember those who are serving this country on Veteran's Day, remember those veterans who fought and died in the trenches of Europe, for whichever country, in that horrible war that was finally ended on this eleventh day, of the eleventh month, at the eleventh hour, 1918.
"And men will not understand us-for the generation that grew up before us, though it has passed these years with us here, already had a home and a calling; now it will return to its old occupations, and the war will be forgotten- and the generation that has grown up after us will be strange to us and push us aside. We will be superfluous even to ourselves, we will grow older, a few will adapt themselves, some will merely submit, and most will be bewildered; - the years will pass by and in the end we shall fall into ruin." | | |
| "There is a curious paradox that no one can explain:
Who understands the secrets of the reaping of the grain?
Who understands why spring is born out of winter's laboring pain,
or why we must all die a bit before we grow again." ~ El Gallo from "Fantasticks"
I like this quote a lot, and for those of you have never seen the play "Fantasticks", you should see it, because
it's awesome. | | |
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