A lil something to think about…

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I seem to always be running out of space on my computer. The chore of backing up and deleting files on this laptop of mine turned from an annual affair to monthly, and these days to a bi-weekly one. I’m in a boat, and my boat has a hole in it, and the hole  gets bigger each day. Each day, I do my best to scoop water out of it. But now it appears that the hole has outgrown the boat.

I was clearing out some files a little earlier when I ran into this video I had put together for the StART Society Benefit Concert. So I decided to upload it to YouTube for archival purposes. For anyone unfamiliar with what we do there, StART is an academy that uses the arts and performing arts to bring healing to underprivileged children. This video was played through the overhead projector at the beginning of the concert.

I had never before used video editing software and this was my first attempt. I found it unusually odd actually, that despite all my hands-on-ness in the online field, that I’d only directed, but not dabbled.

Highlight Reel

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Taunja, a friend of mine on Facebook, posted this really great quote on her wall today.

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This is a great, great quote. But you know what I realised? If you’ve found your life’s real passion and engage in it everyday, your behind-the-scenes will totally kick the ass of everyone else’s highlight reel. Here, I’ll give you an example (I don’t currently live this life, but am working up to it).

“I spent the first half of my day writing at a quaint neighborhood cafe in the the suburbs. Every so often, I peered up to watch the world go by. In the early afternoon, I picked my son up from school and we talked a bit about how his day went. He told me about this new kid at school who dressed funny, and how he went up to talk to him because no one else would. After Oliver completed his homework, we decided we would make pizza and we got into a food fight. It took over an hour for us to clean up the mess, but it was well worth the 5 minutes of laughter.”

Others may tell me tales of their visits to castles in the sky, but it wouldn’t come close to my experience of heaven on earth.

Chinese Zodiac Reading For Those Born In The Year Of The Rabbit (1975)

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According to the Chinese Zodiac for the coming year, I’m pretty much f***ed. Wealth will go down, relationship with loved ones will be weakened, career wise someone is out to destroy me, and they advised me to not provoke the Gods because disaster lurks.

Zodiac readings often end up being spot on because people become what they believe they will become. People with good readings get energized and go after their dreams full of confidence, and people with bad readings give up at the first hurdle, negative thoughts clouding their head, “It is as predicted…  it really is playing out. Why bother? I’m going to fail anyway. I’ll try again next year.”

The potency of a negative thought feeds off the strength your mind assigns to it. Don’t let a bunch of stars millions of light years away captain your life. If the scales are tipped against your favour, just scale harder. Make your future. And lets show 2012 what 1975 can do. Yichalal!