I think that perhaps things are starting to to back to normal. Mr. Alldaffer is back, my mother has had her two larger-than-a-grapefruit/smaller-than-a-cantaloupe cysts removed.
As I write that, or even thought that, I began to wonder what "normal" is in life, and where the boundary lines that dictate normal and abnormal stand. It's a Mr. Alldaffer who has taught me to think this way, as I remember a class where we did nothing but debate where "right" and "wrong" or "good" and "evil" were. That, and Valley's constant argument that Friar Laurence was in fact not guilty even though... he's Tyler. Tyler is guilty.
"Black cards in effigy
We sing the song that was hated
All dressed in vagabonds
Sharks smell the blood that I'm bleedin'"
Perhaps I am over thinking roughly... everything... again, but to me that says to much. "Shake Shake Tambourine" by Beck. To some that is jibberish that sounds wonderful. To me it's jibberish that if carefully dissected makes perfect sense and is frankly amazing.
I love iPod/iTunes shuffle. I hate iTunes and iPod, and Apple in general. Steve Jobs and his company can die in a fire.
But I love the shuffle feature, and how well my iPod and iTunes perform it.
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So, I'm sitting at work. And I'm feeling what it's like to be my mother on a daily basis, doing jobs she doesn't particularly care for for no money because no one else will do them and she's semi-self employed, so she doesn't get paid often, and I find myself thinking that I don't want to live my life like that. I want to make something out of myself.
I lied, I didn't think any of that.
Truth is, I just want everything to be about "normal." But there is no normal. I want everything to be the same.
I'm too odd.
Thomas Pappert,
ReplyDeleteYou have a gift. And that gift is Greatness. I can't explain it other than that.
And keep in mind we all love you. Because you're fucking amazing.
I agree with Erin whole-heartedly.
ReplyDeleteSometimes 'The manageable day' is wrong. You have to take chances. You have to take leaps of faith. You have to do things you normally wouldn't and most of all, you have to get out of your comfort zone.
Basically, my point is the one in Pay it forward where she goes to his house and he just wants his manageable day. And she doesn't believe. He's too scared to do anything.
You have to do things outside your comfort zone and I can't explain or elaborate any more as to why because I just don't know. But, I do know that it makes you happy. To do something great. To be better than normal.
Sincerely,
Valley Malachi Scharping
I knew that if In talked long enough that it'd make sense. At least to me.
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