Posted November 20, 2009 at 3:31pm
Posted November 14, 2009 at 5:30pm
Posted November 9, 2009 at 8:54pm
brad pitt.
- me: so who is going to play you in the movie?
- mike demers: brad pitt, duh. you?
- me: brad pitt.
- mike demers: sweet, it's going to be a one man play.
“I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It’s seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It’s seeing what other people don’t see and pursuing that vision.” — Howard Schultz
Posted November 3, 2009 at 12:40pm
Posted November 2, 2009 at 8:24pm
My 140 Character Eulogy
Twitter has become this incredible tool to build relationships and offer information in a valuable form. Having it in such a short amount of characters does that. Stretches our creativity to convey something relevant and impactful. So why not your eulogy?
If my eulogy could be put into 140 characters, it would read.
“Natasha lived, loved and gave all of herself in the way that she knew how. And she left everything she could bring over from the other side.”
It’s a scary, perhaps morbid thought to already consider what others will say about you when you die. Myself, it’s been an obsession of mine since childhood. Perhaps its part of a fatalistic perception I’ve inherited from someone. I just remember discovering very young, that we had a very precious, short time on this earth. I remember it hitting me at such a terrifying depth that I fell ill and refused to go to school. Such a grievious reality check for a 6 year old. All I knew is that I wanted my family with me always. To never leave them. Nothing else in the world mattered but our love. I’d live on water, if only never to step my foot outside of our yard.
What were we here for and what could we offer?
What was I meant be, if anything?
The idea that there is just nothing would kill me inside. I see the tragedy and reality around the world and have constantly told myself, what for? There are children out in the world being tortured, starving. What is my life really worth? I really don’t care to entertain that reality. I see something more. I’m irrationally and irrevocably in love with the idea of purpous, of fate. I believe we were meant for something more, and that we were born with a hardwiring to be something, amidst all logic and environmental obstruction. I’ve seen amazing people come out of dark things and awful people come out of wonderful things. They all come out completely unique and completely different. The environment not being the only influencer or vital piece in the puzzle of life. And that’s an amazing incredible thing to watch.
And what a beautiful thing about this frailty, this short time we exist. All I know is that I want to do something that supports my family and brings something special to the world. Self-delusional? Not really. Just a desire.
So I continue be open to this life in all its beauty and tragedy and amazingness in order to find and follow my purpous, to be with the people I’m meant to be with, to alter something within the small world I live in. For me, for my loved ones, for the world.
Ok, so now I’m starting to go off topic a little and fleeting from the point of this post….
For you Twitter lovers, you who value what 140 characters can offer to build relationships and relay something valuable: What would you want your twitter style eulogy to say?
Use the hashtag #140eulogy (this will in fact make your eulogy NOT 140 chars…but you get the idea)
Mine: Natasha lived, loved & gave all of herself in the way that she knew how & she left evrythng she could bring from the other side #140eulogy
