Two generations have grown up without the experience of putting a package of Lance salted peanuts into a 6.5 oz. bottle of original formula Coca-Cola.
Author: sparse_array
The Life I Didn’t Live
I have a weakness in perspective. I look at the life I have lived and compare it to the life I dreamed of living. There are so many places where it is easy to percieve failure and success; I focus on the “failures” and judge my life from that view. But it’s false judgement. Our lives are what we wanted to do, what we did, where we succeeded, and where we failed, not some zoomed in, pixelated, binary (success/failure) picture without context.
Context
Information without context is the enemy of truth.
Snoring
Snoring is what men and dogs do when they’ve gotten everything they want.
Perfect Discipline
The most amazing observation about my systemic lack of discipline is my perfect discipline in filling up empty ice trays.
Wet Wipes
For the first time, I heard someone use “just like when you stopped using toilet paper and started using wet wipes” as a general phrase referring to improvement.
Wait… I never heard anyone say that.
Coping
You pick up the bag with the frayed edges, with the worn and discolored handle, and you take your pain with you. That’s how you get to the next day.
Real Love
The purest expression of love is putting someone else’s wants and needs ahead of your own.
A Failure in Compassion
Understand that asking a person suffering from PTSD to revisit their trama when they aren’t ready or willing is the same as asking them to let it happen again.
No Good Choices
Sometimes we don’t have much of a choice. It’s either back of the bus, or face down in the road.
Approaching Zero 