visitors

Sybil

"And my parting to you is that you always promise yourself:

To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind

To talk health happiness and prosperity to everyone you meet

To make all your friends feel that there is something great in the

To look on the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true

To think only of the best, to work for the best, and to expect only the best

To be as enthusiastic about success of others are you are about your own

To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievement of tomorrow

To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living creature a smile

To give so much time to the improvement or yourself that you have no time to criticize others

To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear and too happy to permit the presence of trouble

To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud words, but in great deeds

To live in faith, the faith that the world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is you."

Trevor Hall

"and just maybe, tonight, you wished for something similar..."

What am I doing?

NOW

and I believe in the miracles,

I believe in the spiritual,

I believe in the one above,

I believe in the one I love.

-michael franti

The Way I See It #186:

The world is smaller than you think,

and the people on it are more beautiful than you think.

-Bertram van Munster

I don't know what I'm doing, I don't know what I'm doing, I don't know where I'm going, did I mention I don't know what I'm doing?

postsecret 9/13/09

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. -T. S. Eliot

Shout out

I will make it through this, through everything. Keep piling it higher and deeper, I dare you.

http://www.learningtoloveyoumore.com/

lonely

I feel like all of my time and energy is being put into trying to make this school better, and the most ironic part is that no one who goes there gives a shit about me.

lists 2

journalism: "All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgarize that society. We can brutalize it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level." -William Bernbach

social science: made up of the sub-groups Anthropology, Economics, Education, Geography, History, Law, Linguistics, Political Science, Psychology, Social Work, and Sociology.

anthropology: the study of human beings, everywhere and throughout time.

cultural anthropology (wiki): One of the earliest articulations of ... "culture" came from Sir Edward Tylor who write on the first page of his 1897 book: "Culture, or civilization, taken in its broad, ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society."

sociology(wiki): a broad discipline in terms of both methodology and subject matter. Its traditional focuses have included social relations, social stratification, social interaction, religion, culture, and deviance, and its approaches have included both qualitative and quantitative research techniques.

english: "I want to do something splendid, something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I think I shall write books." -Louisa May Alcott

Why isn't there a major that says: change the people around you. Make people happy, make your community positive. encourage people to do what they want, talk to people until they feel better. care. spread thoughts and words and quotes and suggestions and advice little by little. why can't a major say, 'it's the little things' or 'it all starts with you' or even 'go out there and just do it'. these are the things I want to learn.

Or maybe I'm getting a little carried away. maybe all I really want is for someone, somewhere to tell me that I can study how to be a good person, and how to make people smile.