"It is not the ctitic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

~Theodore Roosevelt

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Greetings

~Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence.
Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.
Perhaps the action you take will be successful;
Perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow.
But any action it better than no action at all.
~Norman Vincent Peale

Alright, so, I find blogs more interesting with pictures, and I realized I hadn't put one up in a while. Story: I got a laptop for graduation! I honestly don't know what I'd do without it. My desktop had been having lots of issues and I didn't really use it anymore. Well, the computer had actually been my brother's and needing a sixth computer, he took it to his apartment sometime in the fall (haha, I don't really know how many he has, and I'm not trying to be rude). He backed up all my information and I finally got it. I'd been doing fine without it, so it hasn't been a big deal.

Anyway, I found this picture of me with my parents before the Sterling Scholar dinner last year :)

Totally different topic, I have paid attention lately to what people say when they pass someone they know or only talk for a minute. It generally goes something like this:

"Hey, how are ya?"

"Good, how are you?"

"Oh, good..."

Ya, that's about it. Kind of sad really. I say good no matter how I am really doing. Why? Because "how are you?" is something we blurt out all the time and most people don't really care why you are having a bad day. Besides, you're a downer if you say you're "bad" when you just pass someone-you don't have a chance to explain. Actually, you're always pretty much a downer unless you say "good" or "great."

I realize these things are necessary. I do it automatically. It's how our society is. And really, if we didn't make this seemingly pointless small talk, if we only talked when it was necessary and always said exactly what we thought, social interaction would be kind of depressing-not that it isn't sad that we lie all the time...

Now I'm just talking myself in circles. I see how we need it but sometimes I just have to laugh at the way we talk :)
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