Benzamin Buttons

• It's funny how sometimes the people we remember the least make the greatest impression on us

• Along the way you bump into people who make a dent on your life.

• It's a funny thing about comin' home. Looks the same, smells the same, feels the same. You'll realize what's changed is you.

• Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.

Benzamin Buttons

And in the spring, 2003, he looked at me. And I knew — that he knew — who I was. And then he closed his eyes, as if to go to sleep....

All you need to know is in the curious case of Benzamin Button

Some people, were born to sit by a river. Some get struck by lightning. Some have an ear for music. Some are artists. Some swim. Some know buttons. Some know Shakespeare. Some are mothers. And some people, dance!

Sounds stupid but I like this music (apart from the lyrics)

My Life Timeline and philosophy within

Personal life is a combination of 3 things...

1. Time wasted with people who didn't matter with the things that did

2. Time wasted with people who mattered with the things that didn't

3. personal enjoyment time-time spent for self pleasure----before knowing anything we start out as a kid having a good time....it didn't really matter the fear of being judged. But along the way I have forgotten to enjoy time by myself...dragged into the dogma of pts 1 and 2 trying to make myself follow their way (1) or make them follow my way (2). I probably will keep doing so until one day I find myself how successfully I have wasted my life. Probably its only then I will go back to my childhood philosophy and start enjoying by myself.

I hope that day comes sooner in my life!!

Guys vs Gals

Guys are selfish but gals are self centered---William Monyham (Debbie's husband)

A girls monologue!

If I could I would live my life over.
This time I would try to make more mistakes.
I would try not to be so perfect,
I would laugh more.
I would be so much sillier than I have been that I would take few things seriously.
I would be less hygienic.
I would risk more, take more trips, contemplate more sunsets, climb more mountains, ford more streams.
I would go to more places I have never been.
I would eat more ice cream and fewer beans.
I would have more real problems and fewer imaginary ones.
I was one of those people who lived every minute of life sensibly and productively.
Of course I had moments of delight.
But if I were able to go back it would be for good moments only.
Because, if you don’t know it, that’s what life’s made of: moments.
Do not waste even this one.
I was a guy who never went anywhere without a thermometer, a hot water bottle, an umbrella, and a poncho.
If I could live my life again I would travel more lightly.
If I could live again I would start going barefoot when spring comes and not stop till fall’s long gone.
I would walk down more side streets, contemplate more dawns, and play with more children, if I had my life ahead of me again.
But, come now.
I am 85 years old.
I know I am dying.

Jorge Luis Borges