You live, you learn...10 years!?
So this past Tuesday Alanis Morissette released "Jagged Little Pill: Acoustic" as a 10 year anniversary of the release of the original all time best selling album by a female artist. Man, those were great songs, and they've lasted. And she is a great singer. It's funny through the years I'm seeing what she had to say in some of her songs as very true...
"You live you learn
You love you learn
You cry you learn
You lose you learn
You bleed you learn
You scream you learn
You grieve you learn
You choke you learn
You laugh you learn
You choose you learn
You pray you learn
You ask you learn
You live you learn "
I used to have those words posted on my locker in Jr. High. I can't believe it's been 10 years! I remember when that album first came out on cassette tape and we were in line for hours to get it!
Sometimes, there is just no way for people to learn other than just living...through life, I've learned a lot and have A LOT to learn! There are a few things I'd like to add to my comments from last summer about life...
The originals are here...
I'd like to add to #3, living for yourself is still pointless, just don't forget about yourself. If you get caught up in someone else's agenda, then there will be no "you" left. Make sure your happy with your life as well as serving others. The others will be happy as a result of you being happy.
New ideas from being 22:
6. Everyone is incomplete, never look at a person as "where they ended up" because who knows, in a few weeks or a few years, the tables could be turned. Just worry about yourself and keep others within pen's distance. All of us will have ups and downs and the only thing certain about the people around us is that we will all eventually pass. The people that you least expected to keep in contact with from high school could be one of your best friend after graduating college. The cutest girl you knew from Jr. High could now be the most worn looking and unhappy person you pass on the street. The kid that made fun of you in high school for standing up in what you believed in could walk up to you at your little brother's high school graduation 5 years later and apologize for all he's done, long after you've forgotten.
7. Life is 99% how you take it, you choose whether or not you're happy. This is no joke, people say this all the time, but it's true. No matter what's happening around you, you choose how to take it and how you feel about it. It's like Mitch Hedberg said, "If you find yourself lost in the woods, build a house...you've greatly improved your predicament! I once was lost, but now I live here!" There's also the story of the old mule and the dried up well...it's a very detailed story, but the short version is, there was a farmer with an old mule and a dried up well. One day the mule fell into the well and the farmer decided it wasn't worth getting the mule out and to kill two birds with one stone, he'd bury the mule in the well, since neither did much good to him anyway. When the shovels of dirt started to hit the mule's back, instead of panicking and taking it, he shook it off and stepped up. With each shovel of dirt, he shook it off and stepped up. In a few hours, the old mule walked right out of that well. What was meant to kill the old mule was what actually saved his life, simply because of how he took it.
8. The only thing I regret in life is not taking enough pictures with my friends. Even though at the time I may have thought there was no time, I could have taken the extra minute, and now when unpacking in my new home hundreds of miles away, I could remember the good times forever.
Anyway, I'll probably add more later, but for now, that's what's on my mind.
I've been watching Jamie Cullum while typing this, and wow, what a musician. He is such an incredible piano player. He plays jazz and rock...but he dances on the keys to play as well as hops up on top of the piano to tap dance and everything. I need to practice piano more.
I am sore all over because I just got back from the gym. It's my third day in there since being in Jersey. I had an epiphany the other day that when I was in high school and college, I was walking everywhere, and now, I'm not half as physically active, so I'm trying to compensate for that, but ohhhhh...it feels like my tennis days all over again....
Anyway, g'night everyone...
-Rod
Stuff related to this post:
Alanis Morissette
Jamie Cullum
"You live you learn
You love you learn
You cry you learn
You lose you learn
You bleed you learn
You scream you learn
You grieve you learn
You choke you learn
You laugh you learn
You choose you learn
You pray you learn
You ask you learn
You live you learn "
I used to have those words posted on my locker in Jr. High. I can't believe it's been 10 years! I remember when that album first came out on cassette tape and we were in line for hours to get it!
Sometimes, there is just no way for people to learn other than just living...through life, I've learned a lot and have A LOT to learn! There are a few things I'd like to add to my comments from last summer about life...
The originals are here...
I'd like to add to #3, living for yourself is still pointless, just don't forget about yourself. If you get caught up in someone else's agenda, then there will be no "you" left. Make sure your happy with your life as well as serving others. The others will be happy as a result of you being happy.
New ideas from being 22:
6. Everyone is incomplete, never look at a person as "where they ended up" because who knows, in a few weeks or a few years, the tables could be turned. Just worry about yourself and keep others within pen's distance. All of us will have ups and downs and the only thing certain about the people around us is that we will all eventually pass. The people that you least expected to keep in contact with from high school could be one of your best friend after graduating college. The cutest girl you knew from Jr. High could now be the most worn looking and unhappy person you pass on the street. The kid that made fun of you in high school for standing up in what you believed in could walk up to you at your little brother's high school graduation 5 years later and apologize for all he's done, long after you've forgotten.
7. Life is 99% how you take it, you choose whether or not you're happy. This is no joke, people say this all the time, but it's true. No matter what's happening around you, you choose how to take it and how you feel about it. It's like Mitch Hedberg said, "If you find yourself lost in the woods, build a house...you've greatly improved your predicament! I once was lost, but now I live here!" There's also the story of the old mule and the dried up well...it's a very detailed story, but the short version is, there was a farmer with an old mule and a dried up well. One day the mule fell into the well and the farmer decided it wasn't worth getting the mule out and to kill two birds with one stone, he'd bury the mule in the well, since neither did much good to him anyway. When the shovels of dirt started to hit the mule's back, instead of panicking and taking it, he shook it off and stepped up. With each shovel of dirt, he shook it off and stepped up. In a few hours, the old mule walked right out of that well. What was meant to kill the old mule was what actually saved his life, simply because of how he took it.
8. The only thing I regret in life is not taking enough pictures with my friends. Even though at the time I may have thought there was no time, I could have taken the extra minute, and now when unpacking in my new home hundreds of miles away, I could remember the good times forever.
Anyway, I'll probably add more later, but for now, that's what's on my mind.
I've been watching Jamie Cullum while typing this, and wow, what a musician. He is such an incredible piano player. He plays jazz and rock...but he dances on the keys to play as well as hops up on top of the piano to tap dance and everything. I need to practice piano more.
I am sore all over because I just got back from the gym. It's my third day in there since being in Jersey. I had an epiphany the other day that when I was in high school and college, I was walking everywhere, and now, I'm not half as physically active, so I'm trying to compensate for that, but ohhhhh...it feels like my tennis days all over again....
Anyway, g'night everyone...
-Rod
Stuff related to this post:
Alanis Morissette
Jamie Cullum
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