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"If nothing else, one day you can look someone straight in the eyes and say, 'But I lived through it. And it made me who I am today.'"

I've been looking for this quote for a long time. Well *I* haven't. But my soul has been.

Do you know what I mean?

I really feel like the universe is coming together a little bit right now. It scares me a little and some parts hurt to think about, but I appreciate it.

I'm putting myself back together. It's taken almost four years, but I'm taking back what's mine.

Everything is going to work out the best way. It may not be my way, or my friend's way, or my mom's way, but it'll be the right way, and that's enough for me.

(Oh, and let's thank Nicole, she's the one that posted this quote first and helped me find it, if a little inadvertently.)

Just a Thought...

;)

(Unfortunately, someone sent this to me in an email, so I have no idea who to give the image cred to. It looks like there's a link in the photo though -- bizarro.com ?)

Writer's Workshop: 2010

Mama Kat does a wonderfully fun writer's workshop every week and in celebration of the first Thursday of 2010, this was one of the prompts: 3.) What do you predict will happen this decade? (You can be funny or serious if you like).

I predict that the world will not end in December 2012. The Mayans were right about a lot of things, but they were also wrong about a lot of things.

I predict that my mother will be begging me to get married before 2020 rolls around (she's already said that 24 is the optimum age... that's 2014 for me!). I predict her to be planning my wedding all the time and to hear the oft-repeated phrase, "Valorie, if you don't use your baby maker soon, it'll stop working." Not so subtle, Mom.

I predict that I will eventually graduate from college. Maybe. Hopefully. 2012 for undergrad, 2014 or 2015 for grad? Maybe I'll get married and graduate all at once! (Not.)

I predict that Britney Spears will commit another scandal for the media to popularize; the recently married Jonas brother will get divorced; and another celebrity that was "the best" in their field will pass away.

I predict that marijuana will be legalized in at least most of the US. I also predict that by then we'll have invented a new drug to "fight war" against.

I predict that there will be some kind of reform in the education system. Hopefully, it will include ending this abstinence-only method of teaching sex ed. Helloooo, clearly it doesn't work.

I predict that President Obama (if he isn't assassinated or dies in a freak accident) will be re-elected in 2012, then that we'll have a Republican president (or just not Democratic, since I think the Republican party may be slipping down a slope it can't recover from) in 2016.

I predict that the Twilight fandom/cult will fade (hopefully quickly), that Harry Potter #7 Parts 1 & 2 won't be as good as the book, and that something else will come to fill those voids. I also predict (at the very least) talk of another Star Wars remake by 2020.

I predict the global warming obsession to fade (since the global cooling obsession in the 70's and 80's did); I predict Al Gore won't get off his soap box though -- he'll just say he was given bad information then find something else to preach about.

I predict that something bad will happen in North Korea, and that things will not be fixed in the Middle East.

I predict that I will have been to China at least twice, and will have risked my life going to church there more times than my parents will ever be comfortable with.

What are your predictions for the decade? :)

A Thought While Researching

I'm reading a lot of John Stuart Mill and Henry David Thoreau tonight in an attempt to do some quick research for a paper I have to write and somewhere between the lines of passive resistance and utilitarianism (the harm principle), I had a thought:

In worrying about who we will be tomorrow, we lose sight of who we are today.

I've been so freaking guilty of that recently. Damn.

World's End

Today is the day I kind of expected the world to end.

End of the World theory (revised)

So, on Wednesday, I was theorizing about the end of the world and how it was going to happen that day because time would so exactly line up that it would be 12:34:56 7/8/9. However, the world obviously did not end. So, now I have a new theory - the world is actually going to end on August 7, 2009 at 12:34:56 Greenwich, UK time. Why Greenwich time? Because it is the zero hour that all other time zones are based on. And why August 7th? Because most Europeans write "August 7" as 7/8 and we Americans just changed it as a final "suck it, England" when we separated. So, at 12:34:56 7/8/9, the world is going to end. The only thing that remains to be seen is whether it will be am or pm. We'll see.

(You know what's sad about that? August 7 is my aunt's birthday. Too bad.)

End of the world?

At 12:34:56 7/8/9 (in an hour or so, in other words) I fully expect the world to explode and all of us to be sucked into a vortex full of doom.