the smartest people remember 5th grade

I’ve found that smart people, who are good teachers, are quick to slow it down and write it out step by step. Even for what seems like the simplest of problems. I want to be one of these people.

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cross multiplication. i miss 5th grade.

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"it's weird how you go from being strangers to being friends to being more than friends...then back to being practically strangers again."

love

just to remind myself:

There is only one way to really get over someone who you have been in love with, and that is to become another person. This is really the only reason why people fall out of love with each other. The fights, and tantrums, the small and big flaws (she makes that noise when she chews, he has no ambition) are never enough to really make you fall out of love. Feel betrayed, or irritated or angry, yes. But falling out of love requires a shift of perspective, and thus, shift of desire. Like looking at an old shirt and thinking, ‘God, how could I have ever thought that was cool?’ Sometimes we do it together, each person growing and changing till you turn around and look at each other and know that’s it, except for nostalgia. Sometimes it happens while you are still together, whether you want it to or not, and it hurts like hell, wishing you were still capable of being that person you used to be, the one who fell in love, the one your lover fell in love with. Sometimes it doesn’t happen till a long, long time afterwards, and there is still the three-in-the-morning ache, the in-jokes with their pointed poignancy, the missing.

We are like jigsaw puzzle pieces made out of modeling clay, firm and fixed in our outlines as long as we fit together, variable lumps otherwise. You reshape your edges and become something new, a tab where there used to be a hole, straight where you were once curved, and everything changes.

more lessons

Rule no. 3: limit I’m sorry’s

Rule no. 4: don’t say you’re boring

Rule no. 5: give the dog a bath, regularly

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Can’t help but notice the period of blank space below, which was filled with real life excitement…I met a boy who inspired me to want things, but the power of wanting doesn’t outweigh the power of time. So it ended almost as fast as it started. Maybe, if it actually was as right as it felt, it will all make its way back to order some day. For now, I’m trying to be the person who is calm, accepting, and forward-looking. Sometimes, when you feel trapped in a cream-colored-windowless-office-space-prison, it’s harder to exhibit these characteristics than it should be.

I don’t want to feel foolish. I don’t want to miss opportunities. I want to do this right.

wanton

Time and space and deep breaths. I continuously find myself wanting more of all of these. and yet, somehow, I know I could be focusing that energy on maximizing the time and space and deep breaths that I am already lucky enough to have.

stolen

I found the following happiness formula on one of my favorite yoga blogs, Julia Lee Yoga, and had to share it on Daily Cup of Yoga. I love how each step builds upon the other.
1. Commitment
In every life you are meant to commit. That is why the word is commit-meant. Commitment gives you character.
2. Character
Character is when all your characteristics – all facets, flaws and facts – are under your control. Yin and yang meet there, totally balanced. Character gives you dignity.
3. Dignity
People start trusting you, liking you, respecting you. Dignity will give you divinity.
4. Divinity
Divinity is when people have no duality about you. They trust you right away. They have no fear about you. Divinity gives you grace.
5. Grace
Where there is grace, there is no interference, no gap between two people, no hidden agenda. Grace gives you the power to sacrifice.
6. Sacrifice
You can stand in any pain for that person. That sacrifice gives you happiness.
7. Happiness
You should make yourself so happy, that by looking at you, other people become happy.”~ Yogi Bhajan
NAMASTE!