Life Advice
Read extended version here. I especially love #1.
1. Marry your best friend.
2. There’s no such thing as a “grown up,” and if you try to be one, you’ll wind up becoming a poser at best and a killjoy at worst.
3. Most grownups stop learning. Don’t.
4. If you’re an artist or “creative person,” stop trying to “be original.”
5. If you focus on what’s fair and what’s unfair, you’ll stagnate.
6. If you’re not failing, you’re doing it wrong.
7. You can’t reason with a lizard.
8. Stop reading the newspaper.
9. Do something that’s not for money.
10. The hour before bed is for you.
11. There is no such thing as highbrow and lowbrow.
Beautiful choreography and song “Turn to Stone” by Ingrid Michaelson. Gives me chills.
Oh em gee! I just stumbled upon this and can’t believe it! Ryan and I dreamed up this invention when we were in high school!
We called it a Spoonreo…it keeps your cookie from falling apart when you dunk it in the milk.
We should have patented it, because apparently someone stole our idea ;)
Who can say
There once was very poor man living in a village who had a very fine horse. So fine, in fact, that the lord of the castle wanted to buy it. But the old man always refused.
”To me this horse is not merely an animal. He’s a friend. How could I sell you my friend?”
One morning he went to the stable and found his horse gone.
All the villagers said, “We told you! You should have sold your horse. Now he’s been stolen instead. What terrible luck.”
”Bad luck or good luck,” the old man said. “Who can say?”
Everyone laughed at him. But 15 days later the horse returned, followed by a whole herd of wild horses. He had escaped from the stable, courted a young mare, and returned with the rest of the herd following behind!
”What luck!” the villagers cried.
The old man and his son began training the wild horses. But a week later the man’s son broke his leg trying to train one of the horses.
”Bad luck,” said his friends. “What are you going to do now without your son to help you? You who are already so poor.”
”Bad luck, good luck, who can say?” the old man replied.
A few days later an army belonging to the lord of the land passed through the village and forced all the young men to become soldiers. All… except the old man’s son, because of his broken leg.
”How lucky you are,” the villagers cried. “All our children are gone to war, but you’ve been able to keep your son. Our sons will probably be killed…”
The old man replied, “Bad luck, good luck… who can say?”
The future comes to us in bits and pieces. We never know what lies in store for us. But if you always maintain a positive attitude the doors of chance remain open, and you will be a happier person.
”Remember that happiness doesn’t depend on what you are or on what you possess, but only on how you think.”
Dale Carnegie
”Contentment brings happiness even in poverty. Discontent brings poverty, even in wealth.”
Confucius
