Even manholes are happy in the sun!

Yes, it really is called a manhole

Shut up and deliver

It's quite amusing how most people find it they deserve credit for their effort. For instance, if you're into sports, playing soccer or what ever and your team isn't exactly doing so well, it'd be natural to at least appreciate the good effort. It is natural to create the illusion of that good effort being something aside the result of the match.

"Oh, so we lost, but at least we were giving it our all out there, and that's something to be proud of." No, it's not. If giving it your all isn't good enough for you to win the match, then that alone isn't something to be proud of. Your effort is reflected in your results, and therefore you shouldn't extract it from the equation and treat it as a sole factor. You look at your results and judge by it as a whole. Then you can extract the different factors and figure out where you need to improve, but they have nothing to say, unless the end product delivers.

This applies to every aspect of life. If you do one thing, that alone will not define you as a person. Only the sum of your actions will define you. You can be proud of a single good deed, but it will be a fake pride unless your sum of actions define you as a good person.

If you've tried your best, but still fail to deliver, do not expect a pat on the shoulder for good effort, for you have not deserved it.

Don't you stop

The sun is shining, the air feels warm, people are smiling, I am
smiling, my friends are smiling, it is summer.


This will probably be one of my best summers yet. Not only because of the vacation I've planned, but because I've finally found some friends to do nothing and what ever with. A walk in the park, an in-the-middle-of-the-day-in-the-middle-of-the-week-beer in the city, a few hours of Super Smash Bros. or some quality barbecuing. Life is sweet to those who are not bitter, and I'm far from it.

I'm also looking forward to starting at my new school, meeting new people, new friends, new experiences. Having one of my better friends go to school in the same building as well as two of my cousins, won't hurt either!

We will probably miss some of those we leave behind, but I'm guessing they'll miss us more, as some of us move on, and some lag behind.

I for one will never stop moving, and if you're anything like me, neither will you.
So lets do just that and enjoy the summer for all it's worth.

The Grand Puzzle has broken

It still surprises me when people change over night. Lately I've witnessed it several times, but still, it seems I'll never grow accustomed to it.

It seems our expectations are turning on us, continually poking us in that, oh-so-annoying way. We see it fit that everything will fall into place as we wish it, never sparing a thought to the puzzles the people around us are building. Why can't people face the fact that it's not all about them? They even argue that they are aware of other people's needs, but still they think other people should pay more attention to theirs. And that's the bottom line.


We fail to include others in our puzzle, seeing it fair, as they fail to include us.

I'm struggling with the idea of me being the only one building a grand puzzle. I simply don't want to believe it. Yet, I'm pushed closer and closer to that conclusion, day by day, as I see how my closest friends turn on each other, all because of their personal expectations and their loss of their once existent reason I knew them to have.

I'm left wondering if they'll go back to normal when this is all over.
As people manage changing over night, maybe they can change for good, and not bad, for once.

Music is my therapy

I doubt I'm the only one out there that has a special relationship to music. I simply can't live without it, not in harmony at least.

Music can balance me out in a way nothing else can. I can be in any mood, and certain songs would make all thoughts disappear, simply filling me with it's sound and feelings.

My favorite song for this very effect is Weird Fishes/Arpeggi by Radiohead, from their newest album, In Rainbows. I really can't put my finger on it, but there's something about this song that simply gives me the chills. I'm instantly put at ease, completely calm, completely relaxed. It's like my reset button.

Love the album art!

Anyone else got a reset button? Or maybe an up-and-go button?

How did Pac-Man escape the Arcade?

After countless hours chasing and getting chased by Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde, I decided it was time for a change of scenery. The old labyrinth was starting to bore me. Shocking, I know, but still, it was.

It didn't take a lot of effort escaping either, it quite simply worked it self out. And there I was, out in the real world.

It would surprise you how equal our worlds are. You say I've been living in a game all my life, but the way I see it, you're living in a game yourself.
You all follow your given rules, day in, day out. You work your way though life, one goal at a time, one piece of the puzzle falling into place every day. You've been taught not to give in when facing downtimes, knowing that soon it's going to be your turn to be the hunter, and not the hunted.

The only real difference I can find is the deepness in your game. It's on a completely different level, like.... 99 or something...

But I feel like I can fit in just fine here. I feel like I can play this game as well. This game you call life.