kades
24 March 2009 @ 09:04 pm
So, for anyone that doesn't know: I'm finally inked. Two more photos of it under the cut.

It's permanent. They tell me it never comes off. I've been talking about getting it done for years now, so I guess it's really strange and sort of surreal that it's there every morning when I wake up. But I love it; I love what it represents in my life, and how something so small can encompass a feeling so infinite. I've realized that talking about it with others really makes me uncomfortable though, because it is something so personal, and I feel like no explanation I could verbally give will ever make them fully understand. I don't know, it's weird.

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PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS LIKE, 'WHAT IS WRONG?' ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, THAT IS JUST MY FACE )


I found this quote today; I can't get over how me it is:

"Over the years I have developed a picture of what a human being living humanely is like. She is a person who understands, values and develops her body, finding it beautiful and useful; a person who is real and is willing to take risks, to be creative, to manifest competence, to change when the situation calls for it, and to find ways to accommodate to what is new and different, keeping that part of the old that is still useful and discarding what is not."


One more day left in America. ... Yeah.
 
 
Current Mood: weird
Current Music: Starstrukk - 3OH!3
 
 
kades
15 March 2009 @ 11:53 am
“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All the people of the world. I mean everybody, no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world, but hundreds of them, thousands maybe.”
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Current Mood: impatient
Current Music: Idioteque - Radiohead
 
 
kades
24 February 2009 @ 09:36 am
"It doesn't count if you believe in yourself when it's easy to believe in yourself. It doesn't count if you believe the world can be a better place when the future looks bright. It doesn't count if you think you're going to make it when the finish line is right in front of you.

It counts when it's hard to believe in yourself, when it looks like the world's going to end and you've still got a long way to go.

That's when it counts. That's when it matters the most."


I wish everyone in the world could figure this out. I wish a lot of things for a lot of people lately. Mostly I wish I were in France already, waking up to mountains and thousand-year-old buildings. Thirty more days to go...
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Current Mood: groggy
Current Music: Paris 2004 - Peter Bjorn and John
 
 
kades
18 January 2009 @ 02:50 pm
“Stop planning your life and let it plan itself. Quit trying to find the perfect boy and let him find you. If you don’t want drama, then don’t talk shit. Things are only as complicated as you make them.”
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Current Mood: peaceful
Current Music: Collarbone - Fujiya & Miyagi
 
 
kades
25 August 2008 @ 12:45 am
"One day, you will die.

You will stop and the world will carry on. Lovers will love. Others will shop, laugh and cry. Sometimes alone. Sometimes together. The radio will keep playing.

But you will be gone.

Only the love you gave, the souls you touched and the people you changed, will remain.

They will carry on for you. They will pick up where you left off.

There is nothing to be sad about here."



At work today, I helped at least sixty people. It was mechanical: "how can I help you?" and nothing more. It wasn't until someone paused to say "thank you" that I stopped being a robot, hesitated on my feet, and said "you're welcome." I smiled, and she smiled, and just for that second, my entire day started over.

There should be more people in the world like her. Appreciation is truly a learned gift.
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Current Mood: exhausted
Current Music: Say - John Mayer