Can we even escape from ourselves?
By the Skin of Your Teeth
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Memories of Holidays Past
What is your very favorite holiday?
Don’t have one specifically, I just try to make the best as they come. I wish I could be more festive.
Heroes
Every person can be a hero, a force for good. And every such person is a story of their own.
Obsessed about Shoes?
If you know someone who is obsessed with shoes and you want to cure her, you can try showing her this photo. It puts things into perspective.
Links:
- Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, Israel, where this photo was taken.
- More articles about the Holocaust.
- BBC podcast about the cultural history and sociological meanings of shoes. Everything can be turned into science, apparently.
25 Things I’ve Learned In 25 Years
Festivus for the Rest of Us
Necessity is the Mother of Invention
That would describe in a way what drives the plot of Christopher Nolan‘s upcoming film Interstellar. First teaser trailer, living right up to it’s name was just released. Watch it in all it’s glory. While we might be years away from space interstellar travel, that’s a way of solving humanity’s problems as far as resources and natural aspect is concerned. Though that’s far from the problems we have.
Okay I’ll shut up without further deviating, just watch this already:
“We’ve always defined ourselves by the ability to overcome the impossible. And we count these moments, these moments when we dare to aim higher to great barriers, to reach for the stars, to make the unknown known.
I count these moments as our proudest achievements, but we lost all that. Or perhaps we’re just forgotten that we’re still pioneers, that we’ve barely begun.
And that our greatest accomplishments cannot be behind us, because our destiny lies above us.”
Your Journey Is Your Own
“I feel like my life has taken a turn. I’m heading down a road I’ve never been on before.
Nothing is familiar. The signs don’t make sense.
Do I get off the road, or do I keep riding?
Do I go alone or take others with me?
Who do I trust for the journey?
I now understand why being a leader requires isolation.
I have to remove myself from those whose lives were affected by my decisions. Those I love… as well as those I hate.
It’s getting more and more difficult to be a brother, when my decisions are the ones a father has to make.
By the time you’re old enough to make sense of this life, you’ll know everything about me, the things I’m proud of and the things I regret, and then you’ll be faced with your own decisions. And as much as I want to help you, tell you what to do, those choices will be yours alone.
The only advice I can give you, sons, is to examine who you are as men.
Figure out what’s important to you. Know yourselves. Know what’s in your heart. Don’t be swayed by fear or history or the opinions of outsiders.
Find your own truth.
It will lead you to the things you love.” – Jackson “Jax” Teller (Sons of Anarchy, S06E01)
Weekly Photo Challenge: Grand
Mountainous regions are some of the most grandest things I can think of. I’ve been there to an extent once, I hope to travel more in the future. My pop is more lucky to travel, this is a place which he visited years ago which hangs in the living room.
My Precious
I wish I had a definitive answer for this one, I really really do. But the truth is there can’t be such a one, even you can’t even put your own name as an answer for this one. Our mistakes and flaws, no matter how bad, is what keeps us alive.
Also on another note, I just came back some time ago from watching The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug at a special screening. Good watch. My precious, get it?
The Nameless One 