January 2011
You’re with your parents:
You’re with your friends:
You’re with your boyfriend/girlfriend:
When he says perhaps, he means ‘no’;
When he says no, he is not a diplomat.
When a lady says no, she means ‘perhaps’;
When she says perhaps, she means ‘yes’;
When she says yes, she is not a lady.” — Voltaire (Quoted, in Spanish, in Escandell 1993.)
You are the sort of person that needs a peaceful environment. You seek release from stress and freedom from conflicts and disagreements, of which you seem to have had more than your fair share. But you are taking pains to control the situation by proceeding cautiously and you are right in doing so as you are a very sensitive person.
Which ever way you turn you feel that you are being utterly thwarted. There is considerable conflict in the air but you will stick to your beliefs and not be deterred in endeavouring to attain your objectives.
Although you are, deep down, a very caring person, you are very particular in the choice of friends and indeed very demanding at times. You can be most quarrelsome and controversial and it is because of this argumentative trait you can at times explode into open conflict - conflict with even those you may care for and love. It is because of this inherent argumentative streak in you that may have resulted in broken hopes and dreams.
Whatever has caused the situation, you just don’t seem to be able to sustain or maintain relationships as you would wish to. What you really seek is to be able to develop a relationship with someone with whom you can truly share: Love, Serenity, Peace and Quiet. But you are a very demanding person and it is your nature that leads to disquiet and discord: you are like the tide, flotsam and jetsam… One minute you experience ‘highs’ and a few moments later ‘lows’. This obviously will introduce discord into any relationship and with this demanding attitude - the ideal state you desire is unable to develop. Despite the urge to gratify your natural desires, you impose a considerable self-restraint on your instincts in the belief that this demonstrates your superiority and raises you above the common herd. You are extremely critical of everything that is presently going on around you and you find it difficult to listen to or to take advice from anyone. You enjoy the original, the ingenious and the subtle.
You would like to be respected and valued for yourself and this can only be achieved from within a close and harmonious relationship.
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing?
…Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God?” —epicurus (via weknowsolittle)
Godzilla - Blue Oyster Cult
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thee song to listen to today. look at that sunshine. as one of my students has said, “Haters make me famous.” lol smart kid.
One of my students said this about another one. The one who said this, is 15. What the fuck? He’s one of my favorites, really he is, because he says things like this that catch my attention.
As I heard it, I did what I usually do when I hear him say something that I find weird (idk how else to describe it) for a kid to say.
I stop, turn around and ask him to repeat it. He starts laughing right away cause he knows where I’m going. I just start asking him questions to figure out how he got that perception. Usually I first have him repeat what he said. Then I ask him why? Like a kid. Asking, why? why? why? But how come you think that? Did that happen to you?
After he’s explained his point of view, that’s where I usually try to convince him otherwise. Sometimes I can persuade him to see the light, sometimes we meet halfway and sometimes he sticks to his opinion.
I don’t ever condemn him for what he says, merely ask why he thinks the way he does. It’s a trip I’ll tell you that. And it saddens me too. This kid’s way of life is so different from my and I just can’t believe half the stuff he says sometimes. How can he even come to that conclusion? Logically it doesn’t make sense to me, cause I grew up in a different mind set.
Even though more than half the things he says blows my mind, I’m glad he says them. The more he says, the more I get to know what his perception of life is, and the more chances I get to convince him that life isn’t as bad as he thinks, and that there is more to life then just gang banging and drugs.
If there is any kid that I seriously want to change, it’s him. He has so much potential and seriously doesn’t know it. I got mad respect for that kid though.
rebel-scum182:lalalaalejandrax3:tssthatssosweet:
How I danced when I was their age:
How I dance now:
Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
I remember you saying you read this Bryan, do you still have it? I want to read it.







