A repost from Tumblr. Highly true.

Random Thoughts Of People Our Age

1. More often than not, when someone is telling me a story all I can think about is that I can’t wait for them to finish so that I can tell my own story that’s not only better, but also more directly involves me.

2. Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you’re wrong.

3. Have you ever been walking down the street and realized that you’re going in the complete opposite direction of where you are supposed to be going? But instead of just turning a 180 and walking back in the direction from which you came, you have to first do something like check your watch or phone or make a grand arm gesture and mutter to yourself to ensure that no one in the surrounding area thinks you’re crazy by randomly switching directions on the sidewalk.

4. I totally take back all those times I didn’t want to nap when I was younger.

5. The letters T and G are very close to each other on a keyboard. This recently became all too apparent to me and consequently I will never be ending a work email with the phrase “Regards” again.

6. There is a great need for sarcasm font.

7. Sometimes, I’ll watch a movie that I watched when I was younger and suddenly realize I had no idea what the fuck was going on when I first saw it.

8. I think everyone has a movie that they love so much, it actually becomes stressful to watch it with other people. I’ll end up wasting 90 minutes shiftily glancing around to confirm that everyone’s laughing at the right parts, then making sure I laugh just a little bit harder (and a millisecond earlier) to prove that I’m still the only one who really, really gets it.

9. Lol has gone from meaning, “laugh out loud” to “I have nothing else to say.”

10. I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.

11. How many times is it appropriate to say “What?” before you just nod and smile because you still didn’t hear what they said?

12. What would happen if I hired two private investigators to follow each other?

13. I find it hard to believe there are actually people who get in the shower first and THEN turn on the water.

14. I can’t remember the last time I wasn’t at least kind of tired.

15. Bad decisions make good stories.

16. Whenever I’m Facebook stalking someone and I find out that their profile is public I feel like a kid on Christmas morning who just got the Red Ryder BB gun that I always wanted. 546 pictures? Don’t mind if I do!

17. Why is it that during an ice-breaker, when the whole room has to go around and say their name and where they are from, I get so incredibly nervous? Like I know my name, I know where I’m from, this shouldn’t be a problem….

18. You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you’ve made up your mind that you just aren’t doing anything productive for the rest of the day.

19. Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after DVDs? I don’t want to have to restart my collection.

20. I hate being the one with the remote in a room full of people watching TV. There’s so much pressure. ‘I love this show, but will they judge me if I keep it on? I bet everyone is wishing we weren’t watching this. It’s only a matter of time before they all get up and leave the room. Will we still be friends after this?’

21. I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste.

22. When I meet someone new, I’m terrified of mentioning something they havn’t already told me but that I have learned from some light internet stalking.

23. I like all of the music in my iTunes, except when it’s on shuffle, then I like about one in every fifteen songs in my iTunes.

I...

sort of...
kind of...
slightly...
okay maybe more than those three above combined...
and make that into an adverb...
(they're adverbs right?)

have a crush.

Things I've been meaning to write about - Part 3

I can't believe 4 months have passed ever since I first wrote about my anxieties with going into college. It's been too fast, now that I write about it in this half-asleep stupor I'm in, I realize everything has been nothing but an amazing zip, a colorful blur, a specter seen from a kaleidoscope.

In college I've learned perhaps one valuable thing -- you work your ass off for something you want. I've learned that unlike high school, no one comes to your rescue but yourself, and that's a good thing.

I've experienced more things in these 4 months than I must've experienced in my whole high school freshman experience. My first literal hell week with less than 15 hours of sleep, my first exemption in 2 exams, my first real debate competition that escalated from more than the quarter finals, my first college sport win (I was not an athlete of course), my first drunk weekend, my first midnight rendezvous that did not just consist of sitting in a park under the stars, my first time to travel to places alone, and lots more firsts.

Of course, there are still loads more firsts to write about. But I won't write about them until they happen. ;)

Happy first sembreak of our first year in college, everyone.

Things I've been meaning to write about - Part 2

Recently I've been feeling stumped due to my spiritual dryness. Honestly though, it's not the dryness that bothers me but the fact that it has escalated into something spiritual. If this were religion-centered, I would simply tell myself to reflect for a few days, pray hard, and emerge feeling better.

That's not what has been happening, however. Right now even praying seems like a daunting task.

I feel it's part of the fact that I find myself slowly disagreeing with the sermons of the parish priest in the nearby church, I hear bad rumors about the parish priest of our village, YFC isn't the same from where I came from, and I've been letting myself be surrounded by people who don't believe instead of me teaching them otherwise.

I want my faith back. That's all. I want to have that thing with God again. I want to feel as though I'm living for something else. If I can't restore my full trust in my religion again especially since it's detesting all types of things I have an open mind with (like the RH bill, for example, and the Church's threat to excommunicate people who are for it), then at least the full trust in my spirituality and in my God.

Things I've been meaning to write about - Part 1

It was almost 4 AM, a couple of friends and I were still up, talking about both trivial and substantial things, about topics that encompassed life and whatever else that lay beyond it. Naturally, we got to the talk about choice and morality, God and man.

"You know what I don't understand?" He asked.
"What?" I replied.
"Coincidences. And gays."
"I don't follow..."
"Look, the Church believes that we have choices, well, what if we really don't? What if it was part of God's plan for us that we choose the choices we're presented with? What if... what if Adam and Eve's disobedience were part of His plan?"
"This is a sensitive topic, one which, had it been conducted with other people, I would have trouble speaking up."
"But think about it. What if our choices weren't really choices? He must've presented us with two different opportunities, but He had one plan in mind."
My other friend chirped in, "But what does this have something to do with what you said earlier, about the gays?"
He looked at us apprehensively for a minute or so, until realization finally dawned on me.
"I get it!" I said. "So, with this you mean why are gays looked down upon by the Church when there is a possibility no matter how small or how we're unsure of, that these gays didn't just make choices... this was God's plan for them?"
"Exactly."
"Fascinating."
"Too bad we will never be able to know."
"We will. In His time."

So I saw this picture from Tumblr

and I'm not at all trying to be a cynic or anything, but sometimes I just have a different perspective than everybody else.

Let's figure this image out, shall we?

The teeth on your head
Lets me light
That you need me smile
there's a truth in your eyes
Sayin' you'l never goodbye me
The iPod of your hand
Says you'll net me
Wherever I tree
You say it best
When you say
Empty at all.

I don't know. I have to stop looking at the bad side of things.

Cute picture, though. Yes?