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I know, but say your in the middle of something extremely sad but boring, and your going to the fair the next day? Is it bad to want the present moment to go on so you can go to the more joy-filled fair?

But the present moment is all you ever have, so it keeps going on.

"Many people live habitually as if the present moment were an obstacle that they need to overcome in order to get to the next moment, and imagine living your whole life like that. Always, this moment is not quite good enough because you need to get to the next one."

"You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how important you are!"

"You can practice this by taking any routine activity that normally is only a means to an end and giving it your fullest attention, so that it becomes an end in itself."

"The ego … reduces the present to a means to an end."

"Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within."

"The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation. … Both are illusions. The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory."

"If there is no joy, ease, or lightness in what you are doing, it does not necessarily mean that you need to change what you are doing. It may be sufficient to change the how. “How” is always more important than “what.” See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it."

"To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment."

"If not now, when?"

Various Eckhart Tolle quotations.

But how do you get to the fair faster? Is the really boring activity the present moment or the fair? Or both?

When the sky is grey and overcast, is it automatically miserable just because someone uses that particular word to describe the sky? A word is just a label, not an actual thing. A tree is not a tree--it is beyond words.

What does that have to do with that?

No offense

I hope it doesn't snow tonight. I need to get some more Pepto Bismol tomorrow. I won't be buying any spicy junk food, either. Don't worry.

Being calm.

Crap. Patient Doofus is up to his little remarks again. Kept going on and on about my hair because I wasnt able to put it up so I had to go long - whatever, it's just hair. Then I went to take his temperature and he said "Oh, deep throat." Are you f'n kidding me?! What a Jack ass!

I decided to sign up for an extra shift - definitely not because of him, it's for the doubletime. Money sure doesn't come easy.

Recently unearthed my old flute from the cupboard it's lived in for years. I'm completely incompetent with it though, investing in it I naively thought that they're just a type of upgraded recorder (loved playing the latter as a kid!) In any case, it's such a beautiful instrument I am highly tempted to start out again with some online beginner's tutorials.

I've had this headache for a day and a half now and it just won't shift. So fed up.

Homework, actually.

Cookies!

There are a lot of Easter pails shaped like the heads of currently popular TV and movie cartoon characters in stores now. They kind of give me the creeps because it would be like reaching into their skulls and taking candy out of their brains. I can see all the kids now on Easter morning, swinging around the hollowed out, decapitated skulls of Trolls and Ninja Turtles.

That would be fine for Halloween, but Easter? I don't think so.

Last winter my house underwent an unfortunate roof tile armageddon, and builders have finally been contracted for repairs this week. Recently, since a new neighbour shouted up at me in my room it's as though the whole world is intent on invading my privacy. Now there are strange humans on the very roof.

yes i remember that picture...i havent been online in a while...im very scared