Resolution

So, I've decided that I don't have time to do nice, well thought out blog posts this semester. If you could see the "Edit Posts" section of this thing, you'd have a great laugh at how many half-begun posts there are.

I suppose I'm just the type of writer who can only compose when inspiration hits. As much as I hate to say it, inspiration rarely works around my school schedule.

What a drag.

However, I do want to get in the habit of posting in here regularly, so I figure that a bunch of small posts is better than a big one every few months.

I will try to put some kind of quote every time in addition to what song is helping me make it through the day, which I always put at the end of the post. That way I look like I'm trying!

So here's today's quote!

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.
- Jim Rohn

So, in current Mike events, I purchased The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupèry. It's one of those books, much like The Phantom Tollbooth (which, if you haven't read, please do. It'll change your life, guaranteed.) in that it's written for children, but is just as clever for an adult. Like a Disney movie with less publicity and more words. The author makes an argument for children, admitting that even though he, himself, is an adult, he still enjoys childish tendencies. It's written in an interesting way, with a lot of Ferris Bueller-esque narrations. I'll give you a little slice of it:

"Whenever I encountered a grown-up who seemed to me at all enlightened, I would experiment on him with my drawing Number One, which I have always kept. I wanted to see if he really understood anything. But he would always answer, ‘That’s a hat.’ Then I wouldn’t talk about boa constrictors or jungles or stars. I would put myself on his level and talk about bridge and golf and politics and neckties. And my grown-up was glad to know such a reasonable person."

His drawing, by the way, is of a boa constrictor that has eaten an elephant whole. I've put the drawing to the right.

It's a nice little read.


- Mike


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