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Gerald

Inscribed On Tombstone:
Born: New Year's Eve, 1983
Location: SkateTown
Occupation: Incorrigible Slacker
Real Occupation: Media Student

Herein lies a...
Die-hard romantic
Tireless advice-giver
Certified gun-nut
Lazy-ass whore
Loyalist to a fault
Parody-lover
Electronic Entertainment Enthusiast
Football Fanatic
Conspiracy-theorist Crackpot
Wordsmith
Unrealistic idealist
Self-righteous moralist
Born individualist
Former atheist
Penchant for the melodramatic
Sentimentalist

Quotable Quotes

"Soon the reason is gone, and all that is left is the feeling itself..."
- Anonymous

"The thrill is in the hunt."
- Myself

"Even the strongest have their moments of fatigue."
- Nietzsche

"Fortune favours the bold."
- Virgil

"It is but a shadow and a flicker that you love..."
- Aragorn

"Beneath this mask is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof."
- V

"I have dreamed a dream... but now that dream has gone from me."
- Morpheus

"God does not play dice."
- Einstein

"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded."
- Academician Prokhor Zhakarov

"When you kill one, it is a tragedy. When you kill ten million, it is a statistic."
- Stalin

"In one dimension I find existence, in two I find life, but in three, I find freedom."
- Foreman Domai

"You see, people believe what the media tells them to believe. And I tell the media what to believe."
- Kane

"Optimists and pessimists die the same way. Optimists just live differently."
- Shimon Peres

"Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!"
- David G. Farragut

"You know you are in love, when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world."
- David Levesque

"Music... the language to stir the hearts of men."
- Shakespeare

"A man always finds it hard to accept he has lost a woman's love, no matter how badly he may have treated her."
- Sherlock Holmes

"He who attacks where his enemy does not know how to defend, will be victorious."
- Sun Tzu

"Without purpose, we would not exist."
- Agent Smith

"I know guys like you, you can do any terrifying thing you're ordered to do... but you have to do it running."
- Carl

"History has been one long series of conspiracies... the successful ones, we call governments."
- Stanton Dowd

"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."
- Winston Churchill

"One thing is true of all governments... the most reliable records are tax records."
- Eric Finch

"When a guy sleeps around, he's a player. When a girl does, she's a slut."
- Sean

"A person is smart. People are dumb, stupid & panicky, and you know it."
- K.

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Monday, June 28, 2004

New beginnings... how poignant the phrase can be.

At some point in all our lives, we've wished for a new beginning, a fresh start when we just somehow couldn't face up the pressures, or the failures of our old lives. Maybe you wished you could start out all over again when you felt you screwed up your approach to this guy/girl you were fancying. Or maybe you wanted another shot at an exam you didn't study and therefore received abyssmal grades. A dozen other situations, perhaps more... all inviting one to take a second shot and do it better next time around.

And why not? Human beings, however fallible they may be, never fail to continually hide that fact from themselves. Human pride and ego simply does not allow that much leeway for self-criticism. It's one thing to berate oneself for performing badly, quite another to admit you probably couldn't do any better even if you had a second chance.

Failures are a part of human life. As they say, what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger. Most evident with a deranged drill sergeant screaming invective at you while you endure back-breaking exercises, but I digress. If we didn't encounter failure, our human psyche would never be able to comprehend any other path than that we have followed. The caveman that could always lift a boulder with his bare hands, albeit with great difficulty, would never bother to try the log next to the boulder as a tool with which to lever with.

Which brings me back to my point. A new beginning, if available, is always welcome as a means with which to right previous inadequacies. But never lose sight of the failures one has endured, mistakes necessary so that you might appreciate the opportunity to repay them.


Runnin' away, you can't pretend...
9:23 PM

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