Monday, June 05, 2006
funny... [not haha-funny, but more like hmmm-interesting-funny] i went to church yesterday, and i was just feeling rather content with my life. for a good couple weeks now, i'd just pray and say, hey Lord, i'm pretty happy. i've been pretty happy for a lil while now. no major headaches or challenges, nothing to feel too guilty about or disappointed about in my life. i've been on the straight and narrow path for a while and all is good... is there anything i need to improve or work on?
God's funny that way... today i got an answer. i think i really need to work on my friendships. i saw noreen this past weekend and it was so good to see her. i remember those nights when we'd be doing wedding stuff and end up talking about all kinds of other relationship-y things that had happened in our lives. and same with mina. got to see her this weekend too, but it's all just so different from before. friendships get built around those small moments when you're just chillin, hanging out, or even while doing a project like wedding stuff together. now, it's like i have to schedule little dates with my friends just to see them... i suppose it shouldn't be that bad, but [here comes some excuses] with all the wedding stuff going on, it's been a little difficult to have spur of the moment time. and there are some people that i really hoped to cultivate stronger relationships with. but of course, like any relationship, they all take time, effort and energy.
i am happy for all forms of communication though. it does help in staying in touch. now, i just gotta get myself to be chatty enough on the phone. i seem to have lost that teenager-like ability to just gab on the phone with girlfriends forever. and aim is great and all, but crap, i think that's why i'm developing carpal tunnel! maybe work contributes to it too...
God's funny that way... today i got an answer. i think i really need to work on my friendships. i saw noreen this past weekend and it was so good to see her. i remember those nights when we'd be doing wedding stuff and end up talking about all kinds of other relationship-y things that had happened in our lives. and same with mina. got to see her this weekend too, but it's all just so different from before. friendships get built around those small moments when you're just chillin, hanging out, or even while doing a project like wedding stuff together. now, it's like i have to schedule little dates with my friends just to see them... i suppose it shouldn't be that bad, but [here comes some excuses] with all the wedding stuff going on, it's been a little difficult to have spur of the moment time. and there are some people that i really hoped to cultivate stronger relationships with. but of course, like any relationship, they all take time, effort and energy.
i am happy for all forms of communication though. it does help in staying in touch. now, i just gotta get myself to be chatty enough on the phone. i seem to have lost that teenager-like ability to just gab on the phone with girlfriends forever. and aim is great and all, but crap, i think that's why i'm developing carpal tunnel! maybe work contributes to it too...
quotable quotes
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"To try is to risk failure. But risk must be taken because the
greatest hazard of life is to risk nothing. The person who risks
nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid
suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change,
grow, live, and love."
~unknown
"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."
~ Abraham Lincoln
"live a life that others will remember years from now, NOT because it pointed to you but because of how it pointed to the One who made you."
~ Mark Hart, the Bible Geek
"we grow up learning to become self-reliant, but really we need to be God-reliant"
"we could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors....but they all exist very nicely in the same box"
"never wound hearts that love u, never give them the endless pain, because wounded hearts are like roses that never bloom"
"there comes a time when we have to stop loving someone not because that person has stopped loving us but because we have found out that they'd be happier if we'd let go"
