MEME!

Random Song Meme

put your media player on random and use the songs that pop up to answer the questions!

1 How the world sees me? Simple Man-Lynyrd Skynyrd
2 Will I have a happy life? Time-Jericho Road
3 What people really think of me? Angel of Music-Phantom of the Opera
4 Do people secretly lust after me? Welcome to the Jungle-Guns N Roses
5 How can I make myself happy? Dust in the Wind-Kansas
6 What should I do with my life? Shiver-Maroon 5
7 Will I ever have children? Hemhorrage-Fuel
8 Good Advice for me? Sasquatch-Tenacious D
9 Current theme song In my life? Fairy Tales and Castles-Lifehouse
10 Others think I am? Politically Correct-SR-71
11 To play at my funeral? I feel a cold one coming on-Montgomery Gentry
12 Type of guy/girl I like? Beer-Reel Big Fish
13 Kind of day I'll have? She's the Blade-Sugarcult
14 Why am I here? This Disaster-A new found glory
15 Will be remembered for? Friday, I'm in love-The Cure
16 Song stuck in head tomorrow?Not Myself-John Mayer
17 This years theme song?Time after time-Matchbox 20

Because I can

Do you ever do anything without having any reason greater than the fact that you can do it? Do you ever stay up late reading a book, watching a movie, or blogging when you know you probably should go to bed? Do you ever defy your own better judgement by neglecting health and rest just so your mind can roam free?

I do. I've never been able to figure out why I do it, and I think if I did it would take some of the fun out of it. It's in these hours betwixt sunset and sunrise that my soul feels truly alive. I'm my most real, human self when all I hear is the moon roaming across the sky, and the distant whistle of a train on it's way somewhere else.

I've been doing a lot of the introspective thing lately in my life. I think that a major problem people have is they don't stop and think about where they are and where they want to wind up. They forget that they're in constant motion, that life itself is organic and constantly changing.

In my travels across the landscape of my mind, I finally stumbled across a word for what I'm passionate about. It hasn't been an easy thing to put words to, though when I say it now it was obviously there the whole time. It's not like music, where I can realize that "Oh, I feel good when I play music, I'm passionate about music!" or "Oh, I love writing, so I'm passionate about that!". No, sadly for me it was like trying to fit the words everyone else seems to find so easily in a blender and frappe them into a single entity.

Then, like a ray of sunshine that pierces through the fog of confusion, it came to me in the form of a verbal bucket of ice water from my brother. "You're passionate about learning. Not just learning one thing, like most people, but learning EVERYTHING!"

Like I said, it was so simple. It was there the whole time, but it seemed so complicated because there were so many pieces to it.

It's nice to have a word for what you love, though. Words are just words, I know, but to me they give meaning and definition to the pictures and ideas in my head. I think that's part of where my love of language comes from, the ability it gives to translate thoughts into a language more people than just me can understand.