Just some thoughts I've had over the years, from 1989 onward. They're all (c) 1998, 1999, 2000, etc, me, Simon Travaglia
The greatest barrier to someone acheiving their potential is their denial of it.
I guess I should learn to accept, but not expect, Human failing
Today, as I was having lunch, I was watching the birds in the trees and wondered what it would be like if birds knew that people didn't like being shat on. As I was thinking this, a bird shat on my sandwich. Perhaps I knew too much...
Knowing the rules, and remembering to use the rules, are two completely different things. I think that's why experience is such a BASTARD at times - because you make some mistake then think "I already knew that was a bad idea!".
Accepting your faults is a major part of being realistic. Having a false "perfect" image of yourself is crazy, because you'll always be aware of how you're not living up to it.
Similarly, don't borrow someone else's spectacles to view yourself with. (I.e. don't measure yourself by other people's yardsticks)
ALLOWING yourself to smile takes 99% of the effort
I used to have a terrible fear of dying before I'd completed my mission on earth. Now I think I have a terrible fear of dying before I DISCOVER it. Still looking.
It's good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however, when you drive a steamroller down it.
Names are what people sometimes use to excuse their thoughts and actions towards you.
90% of the people I know (especially me) should listen more and talk less.
I am sitting inside, listening to the rain, waiting for a coffee, and am warm. Shit life's good sometimes.
There's no such thing as 'Facts of Life'. Only standing theories that haven't been disproved as yet.
Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.
I wonder how many suicides are attempts to end a SITUATION as opposed to a life.
Make sure you do a little living before you die.
It's strange how there's this whole set of businesses out there that you give money to, to kill you. Cigarettes, Alcohol are prime examples. And this is one of the benefits of civilisation?
The problem I have with making an intelligent statement is that some people then think that it's not an isolated occurrance.
Some people suffer under two misapprehensions: (a) Life is Fair, and (b) Things happen to you because you deserve them. BOLLOCKS. You make your breaks from what you have. End of Story. If something good comes your way - BONUS!. Why?
A classic conversation I had with a mate YEARS ago:
Me: I hate seeing my friends hurt
Dirk: Then stop hurting them.
Classic!
Sometimes you just have to SHUT THE FUCK UP, because more talk isn't going to help anything. Knowing the time is the difficult bit.
If you tell a sob story enough times, sooner or later you're going to start believing it yourself.
Maybe life's like clothes. Some things are 'You', some things aren't 'You', and some things you just have to try on for a while. Of course, some things you grow out of or into. And some things you look back on and think "HOPE NO-ONE REMEMBERS THAT!"
Being able to write an idea down succinctly doesn't make that idea any better than one which rambles on a bit. It just comes to the point sooner. In other words, we all know what we feel, but some people can express it clearer than others. Both expressions are equally an indicative of the feeling however.
Having REASONS for behaviour, and MAKING EXCUSES for it, are two COMPLETELY different things.
So your friends have faults. Accept them. Hope they do the same for you.
When you love something and set it free and it DOESN'T come back - well that's a real test of character...
In my life I've done a lot of stupid, mean, childish, selfish, spiteful, ill-advised and idiotic things. But I AM trying to cut down...
ONE DAY IT'S ALL GOING TO BE TAKEN AWAY FROM YOU. Life, Belongings, Power - Everything. All that's going to be left of you is a memory. What are people going to remember about you?
Why ask God to do something for someone if you can't be arsed doing it yourself?
Satan's an ideas man
Of all the things I could know, my own faults and weaknesses are pretty much the most important.