"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

Monday, June 14, 2010

Scars

~God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars.
~Elbert Hubbard

I have to admit, scars can look pretty cool. But really, most scars have stupid stories behind them. Ya, you can make up something awesome about a fight or saving children but most of us get scars in really stupid ways.

Okay, so I really only have one very light scar. Short story: I fell off my bike. I get crap from my friends whenever I bring up the long story. It's on my knee in a strange shape that you can't see unless you look.

I also claim I have another scar. It's not a white line or anything, but there is a permanent line indented in my pointer finger. No one would notice unless I pointed it out. Story? I was wrapping a friend's birthday present... with tin foil. That was a very painful cut. Very painful.

So, last week I was making chocolate chip cookies. I had enough extra dough to make two more on the last pan. I put both pans in at once and set the timer. When I had to turn them around I wasn't thinking about how close the two shelves were. While I was trying to turn the bottom pan my hand touched the top shelf.


It's been four days and it's starting to look better. (the picture doesn't quite show how it really looks :) ) No, I don't know that it will scar. I've never burned myself this bad before. My brother thinks it looks pretty cool and wants an awsome scar :) I don't know, as much as I hate skin things... which is hard to explain if you don't know... I think it looks pretty cool, too.
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