I'm trailer-hunting at the moment (god, I love trailers - who doesn't?) and I've already got a bunch of movies lined up to watch this holiday. 

Here's to giving my blog a good kick to wake it up.

I realize I haven't been blogging much - I guess there's just not much I could comment on. Or, to be more accurate, even if I did want to comment, I find myself wanting in words. 

With college being (finally) over, there're a lot of things that demand attention; choices need pondering, futures need planning, and decisions need making. Somehow I feel exactly like how I did a little over a year ago, when high school ended - thrown into a seemingly endless holiday period with uncertainties in how to proceed, and the responsibility of adapting to change. I think this time around, I have a lot to face up to. 

It's about time, I guess.

(Becca's Valedictorian-Graduation Speech from Grey's Anatomy 522 - 'What A Difference A Day Makes'. )

Today’s the day my life begins.
Today I become a citizen of the world.
Today I become a grown up.
Today I become accountable to someone other than myself and my parents.
Accountable for more than my grades.
Today, I become accountable to the world.
To the future.
To all the possibilities that life has to offer.
Starting today, my job is to show up wide-eyed and willing and ready.
For what, I don’t know.
For anything. 
For everything.
To take on life.
To take on love.
To take on the responsibility and possibility.
Today, my friends, our lives begin.
And, I, for one...

Can't wait.

 

 Basically changed the colorscheme to fit the header. 

I should really be sleeping.

P.S - I like aviators.

Break Me Out - The Rescues

My empty room, crowded too soon
Look for the fire escape
Picture myself running like hell
Making my getaway

The walls are caving in with no warning
The ship is sinking, I gotta swim for it
I'm running out of air

Break me out tonight 
I wanna see the 
Sun rising anywhere but here
Come with me
Oh, this could be

The only chance we get
We gotta take it
If we don't do it now, we'll never make it
Lose this crowd
Oh, break me out

We'll stare at our feet
Sneak down the street
Some kind of secret race
They'll carry on
Won't notice we're gone
So easily replaced

The walls are caving in with no warning
The ship is sinking, I gotta swim for it
I'm running out of air

Break me out tonight
I wanna see the
Sun rising anywhere but here
Come with me
Oh, this could be

The only chance we get
We gotta take it
We don't do it now, we'll never make it
Lose this crowd
Oh, break me out

The walls are caving in with no warning
The ship is sinking, I gotta swim for it
I got a feeling we're better off anyway
I don't care what they say

So break me out tonight
I wanna see the
Sun rising anywhere but here
Come with me
Oh, this could be

The only chance we get
We gotta take it
We don't do it now, we'll never make it
Lose this crowd
Oh, break me out

Do you ever wonder why people do what they do? What drives them to their actions, good or bad? It all boils down to perception, I suppose. What you do is how you react to the world, and the way you react to the world depends on how you perceive whatever comes your way. In a manner of speaking, our actions are dictated by what we take life as - "the meaning of life", if you will.

Philosophers throughout history have worked their behinds off trying to find the meaning of life, or the answer to life, or really, anything that can explain our existence, as a species, and individually. Some simply take things as they are and don't question further, most rely on faith (in other words, religion). 

I guess everyone spends their lives trying to find some sort of balance - an equilibrium that  can be kept constant in order to keep yourself happy. But, as is nature's rule, the only thing constant is change. So the conditions for this balanced state, the point of equilibrium, is always changing because circumstances change, so the world is always changing. And so life is sort of like a film, documenting our attempts to obtain and maintain that balance.

The point of equilibrium is different for everyone though, I would think. A person's personality would depend on how they balance good and bad in their lives - for some people, more good is needed than bad to keep the playing field level, and for others, it's the other way around. Some just float in between. Everything is about that balance, really. 

Life is a delicate balance of work and play - fun and responsibility. Happy and sad. Highs and lows, ups and downs, good and bad, yin and yang. 

What you've got to do is figure out what your recipe is, so that in the end everything comes out just right.

Feeling a little less that and a little more this. But I'll find my balance.

Namaste.