Attempting Reality

If you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that don’t work.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.

Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

We accept the love we think we deserve.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.

You miss 100 percent of the shots yuo never take.

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become your actions. Watch your actions; they become your habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

“Stop saying I’ll be happier when. And start saying I’m happier now because.” – Nataly Kogan

I’ve been thinking lately about this long quote that more than just very helpful in a teaching way but also inspiring enough to realize how we as society are responding to life’s problems, issues and epidemics. Comment your thoughts on this quote below:

The probability of widespread annihilation kept going up. The only way to stop was to show it. To scare people straight. What reasonable human being would be galvanize by the potential destruction of everything they’ve ever known or loved. To save civilization, I would show its collapse. But how do you think this vision was received? How do you think people responded to the prospect of imminent doom?

They gobbled it up in a chocolate eclair. They didn’t fear their demise, they repackaged it. It can be enjoyed as video games, tv shows, books, movies, the entire world, whole-heartedly embraced the apocalypse. But sprinted towards with gleeful abandon. Meanwhile your earth was crumbling all around you. Civil ten years epidemics of obesity and starvation, explain that one?

Bees and butterflies start to disappear, the glaciers melt, the algae glooms, all around you, the calamine canaries are dead and you won’t take the hint. In every moment there is a possibility of a better future, but you people won’t believe it. And because you won’t believe it, you won’t do what is necessary to make it a reality. So you dwell on this whole terrible future, you resign yourselves to it. One reason because that future doesn’t ask anything of you today. So yes you saw the iceberg, you were on the Titanic, but you all just steered for it full steam ahead. Why? Because you want to sink. You gave up. It’s not the monitor’s fault, that’s yours.