I have been unable to post anything in the past few days as my brother was visiting and my brain was too busy between retrieving really old childhood memories to share and conjuring mindless tricks to pester him with. As I said, too busy. So now that he's gone back home, I'm here. This post has been birthed from all that nostalgia.
Whether you heard them from your mum, the bully at school, your favorite TV actor, your teacher or you read them off the internet or the back of a bus, there are some things that define the way you understand stuff around you and the way you react to them. They alter your belief system. To find yours, think of your About Mes, your email signatures, your Facebook statuses or your daily recite-to-self mantra. Here are some of mine:
Great people talk about ideas.
Not everyone who shits on you is your enemy.
Be your own biggest critic.
When you're laughing too much, there is some crying right ahead: when you cry too much, happiness is sure to follow. Life's like that.
Do not force your children to behave like you, for surely they have been created for a time which is different to your time. (Hazrat Ali)
Whether you heard them from your mum, the bully at school, your favorite TV actor, your teacher or you read them off the internet or the back of a bus, there are some things that define the way you understand stuff around you and the way you react to them. They alter your belief system. To find yours, think of your About Mes, your email signatures, your Facebook statuses or your daily recite-to-self mantra. Here are some of mine:
On Social Interactions
Live amongst people in such a manner that if you die they weep over you and if you are alive they crave for your company. (Hazrat Ali)Great people talk about ideas.
Average people talk about things.
Small people talk about other people.
Not everyone who shits on you is your enemy.
Not everyone who gets you out of shit is your friend.
On Self Discovery
Be your own biggest critic.
If there is even a single thing you learnt from an experience, it was worth experiencing.
Once I know who I'm not then I'll know who I am. (Alanis Morisette)
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
On Life
What goes around, comes around.
Empathy is more meaningful than sympathy.
When you're laughing too much, there is some crying right ahead: when you cry too much, happiness is sure to follow. Life's like that.
Do not force your children to behave like you, for surely they have been created for a time which is different to your time. (Hazrat Ali)
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