Life & Wisdom & Stuff

No quotes, just reflections on the things that bounce around in my head.

This is the day my eldest left the nest and headed some several hundred kilometers south to start university.  I will miss her smile and world view!  I guess it's quite wrong to hope she abandons after one semester and comes back home forever?  It really does only feel like yesterday that I took a year off work to be a house-husband so I could look after Taff - it was 1994.

Lake Wakatipu, Jan 2013

Embrace honest sadness, it has great healing properties.  So does laughter, but I was never as good at that as Taff is!

Coffee is a two pronged sword.  But I never worked out what the first prong did.  The second is just the headaches when you go cold turkey.

Emotional self indulgence is the biggest enemy of happiness.  Don't dwell on painful things ever - go somewhere else in your head, it's a big place. Remember that admitting that you're bored is an insult to your own imagination.

You can't change the past, but you can shape the future.  Don't look back and regret, do something.  Embrace the future with a positive outlook, '...sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof...'.

Tasman Glacier - a somewhat knackered Taff!

Believe in people.  They see the world differently and have differing hopes and dreams.  They aren't limited by you.

If you feel you have to drink scotch, buy the good stuff.  Once you stop drinking for pleasure alone, it's a very slippery slope.  The same doesn't apply to chocolate - there is no good chocolate.  Cheese is somewhere in the mid zone. 

Wasted hours are not wasted if we spend them together.  I'm not sure if that applies to WoW, or SWTOR, or Tera, or Rift, or LOTRO, or POTBS, or computer time in general, but it's still better than being apart.

We reap what we sow - and the harvest is coming.  Don't pretend to look surprised when it arrives.

Bare feet, 2degC, Lake Tekapo

Don't watch or read or listen just to support your own beliefs.  Keep an open mind and be changed by what you experience.

Life never stops.  It's cycles are sometimes slow and seem stagnant, but they will spin off into distant memory all too soon.  Choose to enjoy today.

There is a negative correlation between how often you weigh yourself, and your BMI.  There is a correlation between global gross human industrial pollution and climate change.  the earth is not just big boned.

A fracture, a break and a crack are synonymous.  I used to think radiography was a grey zone, but it's fairly black and white.

Never take the easy way out.  Unless it's egg and noodles.  Or pizza.  Or both.  But at least consider the vegetable omelet option.

Crown Range Rd lookout.

Happiness and love are not arbitrary or concrete states of being.  They are choices we make every minute of every day.  As RLP said once:  '...if you want to love, choose to love, and be patient.'  If you want to be happy, choose to be happy and you will find happiness right where you are.  

I did say I wouldn't include any quotes here (there are at least three so far, but it doesn't really count as a quote if you write them from memory), but this is from a good friend:  "You chose your life, as do we all, in a million tiny valuings." (el Bravo)

Never forget God.  It's easy to structure our lives without Him, and an effort to trust and obey what we know to be true - but that's the only life course we can follow that won't eventually sink into regret.  It's no wonder the word 'fight' was chosen.  Fight the good fight - it's a fight against yourself as much as anything, and not a fight we can win alone.

Anyway my Taffy - I'm very proud of you and I always will be.  You get out there in Avondale academia-land and kick butt, have fun, work hard, make some good friends, and - if you can manage it - eat properly :-)