Ups and Downs
Things that made me depressed today:
- Pointless waste of time classes.
- Thinking of things I do every single day but never enjoy.
- In a crowded room, counting the ratio of painfully fake and aggravating people to people I might actually want to talk to.
Things that cheered me up today:
- Cookies from Hannah.
- Kevin Fanning.
- People who asked what was wrong and if they could help (you know who you all are, thanks).
- Snow, beautiful snow.
- Physics (put cheese on it).
- Chopin, Debussy, Schubert, Bach.
- Strangers who caught my eye in the hall and smiled.
The second list is always longer, sometimes that’s just difficult to see. I’m better now.
“I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me, but it’s hard to stay mad when there’s so much beauty in the world. Somtimes I feel like I’m seeing it all at once, and it’s too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that’s about to burst. And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain, and I can’t feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life…”
—American Beauty
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I wish that I could say that I introduced you to American Beauty, as I did Usual Suspects AND Shawshank.
Posted by kylen at January 29, 2003 10:17 PM :: LinkYet, I for some reason take pride in the fat that you find meaning in movies that I love. Watch more movies, and feel better about life. Or, like me, feel better about life until you go out into the world…and realize that it’s nothing like the movies that you love.