I was updating my profile, but apparently I only have a limited amount of space in which to express myself, so I'm going to post this quote here instead of trying futilely (is that a word?) to find space for it on my profile.
Favorite Quote of the Moment:
I know we haven't met, but I don't want to be an ant. You know? I mean, it's like we go through life with our antennas bouncing off one another, continously on ant autopilot, with nothing really human required of us. Stop. Go. Walk here. Drive there. All action basically for survival. All communication simply to keep this ant colony buzzing along in an efficient, polite manner. "Here's your change." "Paper or plastic?' "Credit or debit?" "You want ketchup with that?" I don't want a straw. I want real human moments. I want to see you. I want you to see me. I don't want to give that up. I don't want to be ant, you know?
~Waking Life
About Me
- Heather
- Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
- Where to start? Well, start at the beginning, as the Mad Hatter said, and when you get to the end...stop. I'm 25, married, and living in the mountains. I'm a student at Virginia Tech, working towards a BS in Crop & Soil Environmental Sciences (yeah, it's a long major) with a focus in agro-ecology, and a BA in Philosophy. My husband and I welcomed our son into the world on February 6 of this year. We hadn't planned on a family so soon, but if it's happening, it must be for a reason! My philosophy is this: Every moment could be your last. Never let an opportunity go by to tell the people you love how much they mean to you. Always ask yourself, "What can I learn today?" And above all, never let anyone else tell you how to live your life. Only you will know what is important to you. "All you touch and all you see / Is all your life will ever be" ~Pink Floyd
5 comments:
I don't think I've heard of this movie. That's a good quote. I don't want to be an ant, either. I'll stop living if I become one.
Even Satan hates spammers.
Ever seen Dazed and Confused? Same director, some of the same actors, but definitely different than any other movie I've ever seen. It's about lucid dreaming and exploring the concept that life may not be reality and reality may be less real than our dreams, among other things. Honestly, Jimmy, you seem to be the kind of thinking person who could appreciate it, although I would (and do) recommend it to anyone who would listen. I'll warn you, though...you'll need to see it more than once.
Some days, I have to be ant-like.
I've burned so many of my empathic receptors over the decades, I welcome numbness occasionally.
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I will definitely put that film on my Netflix queue. I love stories that play with our assumptions of reality. Sounds good.
right up Jim's alley for sure, we've had many a conversations about dreams/reality. I believe one even involved some sort of threesome and Jim trying to convince me and another co-worker it happened, just in an alternate universe, sorry James, your secret is out now. LADYS BEWARE....Sounds like a great movie. I love movies I have to watch more than once to "get it"...
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