Category: childhood
10 Things I Hate About You…
1.) Because you heard rubbing against an Asian is good luck?
2.)You pop your gum constantly… for hours on end. It causes me to want to climb a wall OR to go over and hit you on the back causing you to spit the gum on the floor. I would then jump up and down on that gum with petulant glee screaming “you done popping yet? ARE YOU???”
3,) I hate how you discover a new movement each week. One day you are walking around in a whale outfit and the next you are laying down in front of my SUV while I am trying to drive away saying “I am murdering the ozone.” I can’t keep up with you!
5,) I hate how you always keep count of how many drinks I have. I am keeping perfect count.. I put the tops in my pocket. Let’s see I have five… ten… more than a few here apparently…
6.) I hate how you suck the fun out of things. You don’t even need to wave a wand you seem to just absorb the fun in the room. I bet if you bumped into a clown you would kill him by contact.
7.) I hate that you are from a different country and think that you know how “America is” because you have visited here once. I have lived here for 30 years and I still don’t understand this batshit country.
8.) I hate that you have a sign that says “Pro-Choice, Abortion Rights” in one hand and in the other you have “Save the Dolphins.” Fuck the dolphins.
9.) I hate people telling me not to say the word “hate.” I love saying hate because everything else is not worth mentioning.
10.) I hate your perfect sentence because I didn’t write it.
11.) I hate people that are famous for being famous. Naming no names here, but it makes me jealous as hell.
-OM
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CURIOSITY
CURIOSITY
If someone were to ask, ‘”what is your greatest strength?” How would you reply? John F. Kennedy, said “My curiosity.” Now, that’s an answer most wouldn’t expect. Then there’s Albert Einstein, who claimed, “I have no special talent, I am only passionately curious.”
Eleanor Roosevelt replied, “I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow him/her with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.”
What’s so great about curiosity? Actually, it’s one of the few traits that we, as humans, share with the entire animal kingdom. It’s that primal, necessary urge to find out everything we can about our environment and oursurroundings.
It was curiosity that compelled Christopher Columbus to sail the oceans blue. Curiosity guided the first settlers to seek out their food sources and shelter. Just as curiosity remains our guide, today.
To put it simply, curiosity is the catalyst of survival for all creatures, great and small. But for humans, it’s so much more.
Curiosity remains our main reason and our guide when exploring new ways of doing things. Its curiosity that has led us to find the solutions to a myriad of problems. It also allows us to investigate many new possibilities. Its curiosity that keeps our child-like sense of wonder alive, in all of us.
When your curiosity is keen, you can grow, and expand your mind and life, to fulfill even your wildest dreams.
This is a fun trick to try, to demonstrate what I mean.
The next time you face a problem or a challenge, start your thought process with the words “What if… .” Then close your eyes and allow yourself to imagine and visualize the most absurd, ridiculous, unlikely, “way out” solutions you can. This m+ethod helps me to think outsi
e of the6 rsll l’proverbial’ box. You just might surprise yourself by what you come up with!
Now, to add a few more words to your ‘curiosity arsenal’, here’s a poetic reminder from Rudyard Kipling:
“I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. I call them Why and When and Where And How and What and Who.”
Oh! And don’t worry that “curiosity killed the cat.” Remember the rest of that proverb?- “but satisfaction brought him back”
Stay curious!
