Monday, December 19, 2011

I like Christmas. Here are some quotes I've seen the last few days and liked

How is your holiday season? Mine is lovely. I realized after my last post that I could do a better job of making my life feel like Christmas is nearing. So I've been reading Christmas stuff, listening to music of the holiday, surrounding myself with family [my dads sisters were in town this week--I love them!], and contemplating again the real meaning behind Christmas and what it really means to me.


 Here are some quotes I read and liked that don't really have much to do with anything I've been talking about.

You Might Be Happy
Her mind is full of situations that will never happen. But they do happen, in her mind, over and over again. All the worst case scenarios, the best case scenarios and every single scenario in between. She imagines unimaginable situations, conversations, happenings. In her mind everything is possible, even the impossible. Sometimes her brain is so busy calculating all the ‘what-ifs?’, it has no time to do anything else. She has such trouble forgetting about all the things that could possibly, or impossibly, go wrong. Almost compulsively she has hundreds of variables in her head of how past situations could have gone different. Some of them keep coming back, they haunt her, they taunt her. She tries to oversee everything, not just this moment, but the next one, and the next day, and the next week, and the next month. She tries to figure out all the possibilities, so out of all of them she can try to make the best one actually happen. One of the possibilities is, stranger, that you let go. I know it is difficult, but you might be happy. 


”I think you could fall in love with anyone if you saw the parts of them that no one else gets to see. Like if you followed them around invisibly for a day and you saw them crying in their bed at night or singing to themselves as they make a sandwich or even just walking along the street and even if they were really weird and had no friends at school, I think after seeing them at their most vulnerable you wouldn’t be able to help falling in love with them. ” via

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