OH JOY! DREAMS DO COME TRUE!
Today I don’t feel original enough to find fodder from farther than my dashboard.
Also, Happy MLK,jr day!
The Shins - Simple Song.
New Shins since — well, forever.
I’m driving down the road and as usual I’m thinking the big thoughts. (I do not have small thoughts.) (My smallest thought ever was probably peanut butter and spicy ranch pretzel chains and that still netted me nine large on Kickstarter.) I’m distracted by the gorgeous day, smooth and curvaceous,…
i wish you many fond memories. one day, we will look back and remember this comic and we will smile.
Death Cab For Cutie - The New Year.
“So this is the New Year, and I don’t feel any different.”
Enjoy it while you can! Cthulu!
Via Jeffro's Indie Rawk Blog.
New Year’s Day: the Tomorrow of all Tomorrows
What makes New Year’s Day so special that it will be the actual tomorrow that starts the change? All the time you hear, “Tomorrow I’m going to the gym” or “Tomorrow I will start my diet,” but the proclaimers of such goals rarely (if ever) follow through on those statements. Tomorrow comes, and they find it is much like yesterday’s today was—a good time to think about the changes they’d like to make, but perhaps not a significant enough day to actually do anything to start making the changes.
Humans have screwed a lot of things up, but we have perfected the art of procrastination. We procrastinate everything, and most of the time we don’t even realize we’re doing it. This stems partly from our denial of our mortality. Modern society and life in the first world has distanced us from death, so much so that we can almost forget about the inevitable end to every human story. F We believe, if only abstractly, that we will always have a tomorrow to do the things we should have done today. or many, even still today, procrastination means death. They cannot procrastinate the need to hunt for food and the tomorrow they would place their burdens on is not necessarily sure to come.
We think the New Year is going to bring that breath of fresh air, that kick in the pants that we all need to liven up, buck up and actually do something to (in most cases) improve our situation. This explains both resolutions and broken resolutions. We make our resolutions in the early days of the New Year, and they are generally broken before January is out. We enter the New Year expecting inherent change, and we are disappointed when we find out that this new year is remarkably like the last (no 2012 pun intended, but har har anyways). Thus we break our resolutions and generally fall back into the same old habits.
Is this a bad thing? If those habits are comfortable and make you happy, then I don’t think so. Otherwise, don’t procrastinate your own happiness. The best day to change something is always Today.
