Thanks for Hanging Out
Recently after hanging out with a friend they turned to me and said “thanks for hanging out.” Which is a seemingly harmless statement, which, for some reason, provoked a firework display of thoughts in my brain. The main thing it reminded me of was of myself a year ago when I said that very same phrase to a friend. Their response was quite enlightening: “Brooke, you know you shouldn’t have to thank me each time we hang out, I hang out with you because I want to not because I have to.”
I could just over thinking this comment, but after this response I have stopped thanking people for hanging out. Yet, should we thank people for hanging out? They are taking their time, energy and often time resources to invest time in our lives. Is this “thank you” just an implied non-verbal thing that we never say but we should assume people are saying to us? Shouldn’t we show gratitude for the people we have in your lives?
I may just be bias as I think that we have become an over grateful society, apologizes and thanks run so rapid they seem to mean nothing. I am thankful for each and everyone of my friends if I say it or not. The key is finding the balance between fake and genuine .
All the world’s a stage.
Shakespeare had it right when he said ” All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players… “ (Jaques, As You Like It Act 2, scene 7) We are all “characters” in this worlds play. The beauty of it is that we are the writers of our own parts. Each of us decides who we will be. Each with our own talents, whither that means screen, stage, or writing we all get to decide how much of us the world truly gets to know. Some of us have many different characters and get caught up in the drama of life. Others strive to be real as possible which comes with its own set of problems. Whatever your style is, don’t ever forget to be yourself. Now sit back and enjoy the show.
Lights Out
In honor of earth hour the lights went out at the Seattle Space Needle as well as many other businesses and buildings across Seattle.
Here are my before and after pictures of the Needle.
Bring It On 2009
I thought I would just take a moment and wish everyone a happy new year. Sure, I’m five days late but hey that’s better than never right. We still have 360 days to enjoy 2009 it is my hope as I’m sure it’s yours to make 2009 better than 2008. Time just keeps on ticking. My good friend and signer TJ Sherrill wrote a song titled “Wheel” in which a verse goes ”…whither I’m five years old or tomorrow I’ll be one hundred the ticking of the clock just don’t stop, it ticks to loud in my ears this ticking sound ticks away my years…” I’m often reminded of these words when I think of each new day and how fast time really does seem to “fly.” Time is one of uncontrollable factors of our lives.
Well here’s the point where I would normally add a bunch of New Years Resolutions but I don’t think I will this year I think I’ll just make the resolution to make this year the best I possible can for myself and others and leave it at that.
Here’s to a great 2009! Bring it on!
Semantics, or something like that
With a little help from my friends at Wordle I was able to genrate a word cloud of the words I use on this blog.
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