Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Adapt?

new classes
new teachers
new semester
new roommates
new room
new ward
new hair
new clothes
new job?????
new traffic
new hours at work
new people at work
new calling
new friends

and yet so much of me feels so constant

Monday, August 29, 2011

Getting to know you

Its funny how the people you've known the longest can be the people who have become the strangest to you. I guess its because everyone stops asking the simple questions: whats your favorite color? whats your favorite animal? What kind of music do you like? what is your wildest dream? and do you hope that someday it will come true? And then when they find out the answers to the questions they are all shocked becuase they didnt ever see that side of each other. "I didn't know you liked Bob Marley" "I didn't know you have always dreamed of owning a bakery" "I didn't know that your favorite animal is an elephant" Of course you dont know, because you never asked. You tell me that you value me in one way or another, but how can that be when you have no idea who I am. You dont know that I want to go to Kazahkstan and eat an apple and see Tulips. You dont know that I want to touch people's hearts with something so simple like a cookie and a smile. You dont know that my only dream in life is to make other people see the world the way I see it: wonderful and full of people who are all looking for the same thing- LOVE. I want to unite the world with food. And I want you to ask me why and be legitamently interested in my answer.

Friday, August 5, 2011

Judging Dark Alleys

I gues it isn't fair to say that someone is completely trusting or completely untrusting. Everything in life takes discernment. For example, you aren't going to go out and ask a complete stranger to hold on to a hundred bucks for you. You don't know anything about them and even if you did, wouldn't you have to judge whether they are trustworthy or not? So I know they say that judging people is wrong but dont we judge people all the time? Aren't we judging everything all the time? A dark alley? Don't go down there it's dangerous. What makes it dangerous? Scary people are there? Well how the hell do you know that if you never go down it? But who is willing to take the chance? No one. Because everyone is judging everything all the time. And those who don't are considered stupid. People who judge are said to be smart. And yet Jesus said not to judge. I wonder if Jesus would walk down a dark alley. Are these dark alleys not comparable to the dark people you seems to discard everyday? The sadest part is that because no one is going down these dark alleys, no one finds the gold on the side of the road. Allbeit that it was probably chucked out from a car during a highspeed chase or something but it doesn't make it less valuable.
And I love that walking through a field at night is dangerous. Well I wanna walk in a field at 2am