Creepy.

Different style for Pixar. About half way through I realized why they didn't put this one at the beginning of Cars 2.  Oddly enough, I liked this. 

A Letter about Improvement.

I know I already posted today but I felt inspired by this and wanted to share. "To the individual who is weak in the heart, fearful in the heart: be patient with yourself. Perfection comes, not in this life, but in the next life. Don't demand things that are unreasonable, but demand of yourself improvement."

Two.

“Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.” 

"Here ends another day, during which I have had eyes, ears, hands and the great world around me. Tomorrow begins another day. Why am I allowed two?" 

G.K. Chesterton wrote beautiful things.

A Quick Story that I Love.

I've noticed recently that if it's late and there is no one in the family room to keep my dog company, she opens my parent's bedroom door and curls up in a ball on the floor next to my dad's side of the bed and goes to sleep. It's as if my parents have another small child that can't sleep through the night alone. She loves my dad. I think it might be because he lets her lick his plate after every meal.  

A Letter About Looking Back.

“If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.” - Audrey Hepburn


After viewing this video you will know at least three things about me: 
1. I love my roommates. 
2. I love my dog. 
3. I often have strange men in my apartment.  

Two days ago I posted my facebook status as, "I have a paper due on Monday so my roommates and I are dancing around the apartment dressed like Spice Girls." 

I don't know why people thought I was kidding. 

School of Life.

Depressing? Yeah. True? Probably. I like this short film. A lot. Watch it twice. 

Also, I came across this quote that I really like by William James. I think I like quotes and short films for the same reasons. They are like little bursts of insight that pertain to the school of life. 

 "Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life...Seize every first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make...Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. If he keeps faithfully busy each hour of the working-day, he may safely leave the final result to itself. He can, with perfect certainty, count on waking up some fine morning to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation."  

Probably easier said than done, but still inspiring.

A Letter About "No" Goals.

1. No treating early rising as if it were some sort of terminal illness.

2. No more Cheetos. 

3. No more swearing. (exceptions may be valid during the following situations: near misses with my car, locking myself out of my apartment at night in the freezing cold, and walking in on my roommate naked.  *clarification: she was the one that was naked, not me.)

4. No more youtube videos of furry creatures that seem more important than my homework. 

5. No more worrying about things that I can't change. 

6. No more daydreaming about Chris Hemsworth. 

I can hear my roommate (not the naked one) laughing in the living room and it always makes me want to laugh. She's the best.