What makes you feel alive?

“This is the real secret of life—to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.” -Alan Watts

I just try to do the best I can, and I try and acknowledge when I have made mistakes and when I am wrong.

How small we are in this universe. Its something that i already thought about a few times, but it sort of re-entered my brain again today. We are tiny, almost nothing to the universe, but we take everything so seriously as if every tiny mistake is going to end it all. Thinking about it just puts things into perspective. It makes the small a... Read more

In my mind I do, but not really as much as would actually benefit me. It also depends on when and what. Someone else here mentioned that its easy to say all the right things, but doing them is another story. I cannot agree with this more. Sometimes we know what to do, but just can't.

"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." - Thomas A. Edison

Not as much as I should, but it's tough. It's easy to say the correct things, or, at least the things you feel are correct. Doing them though is a completely different story.

Who are you people that visit this site?

The forest. Its calming, its the one place i can go to reduce stress.

Take a few moments to think about the small things in life that bring you joy or make you smile. We are so focused on the bigger things, on the bigger picture, that we forget to enjoy the small moments in life that help shape our days.

To become self employed. I have been working towards this for a while, and I am finally in a place where things are progressing, slowly, but still progressing.

Creating habits. When I want to start something new, I always find it extremely difficult to make a habit out of what ever it is that I want to start doing. If I want to start training with a workout program, I will either need someone to train with me because this will force me to actually do it since someone else is relying on me, or I will n... Read more

Depends on the debate! We should live in reality and in the present moment, but, sometimes escaping into imagination is just too tempting, the possibilities are truly endless there. I think that our imagination can be used as an escape from reality at times. It can also motivate us through the stories we come up with.

One is for them to be able to actually understand me, and I them. I have been in relationships in the past where I constantly heard "I don't understand you..". This was said to me because of my thoughts, my actions, decisions, and generally the words I chose to say and the way I chose to say them. Talking with other people though was m... Read more

I try to be calm and patient with people. You never know where the other person is coming from and what hardships they have in life, so I always try to keep this in mind when speaking with others or confronting others. Especially in situations where the conversation can lead to arguments and to more negative directions. I believe that being more... Read more

It was more of a feeling rather than actually being lost. It was just a time that felt as if nothing was working out in life. I wasn't living the life that had always been my goal, even though I had every option to do so, and I just felt stuck in the situation I was in. I worked for years on projects that didn't seem to result in anything. R... Read more

If, when I speak to someone, they choose to react, or to listen. Most of us just react when we are spoken to, it's become difficult to turn off the auto-react mode in our minds and to just listen to what the other person is saying and meaning. When I speak to someone and can see and feel that they are actually listening, and not just coming u... Read more

Half the time I make food..

While visiting some friends, two of them that are in a relationship had an argument in front of us all. The argument could have ended quickly as just a disagreement, but instead it ended in a very strange way. It ended when the girlfriend started crying and the boyfriend started laughing at her about her crying.. The part that I didn't unders... Read more

To live my dreams the best I can, and to not let momentary distractions blind me and take me away from the path that I am on.