A friend told me this: "Missing someone does not make me happy" and that got me thinking.
How about if missing someone makes someone happy because they realize that there must have been something "real" to even miss the other person in the first place.
How about if missing someone makes someone happy because they know that they have "felt" something, an exquisite feeling of being alive?
How about if missing someone makes someone happy because they have the good times to look forward to?
Basically, what about the intangible? I mean that it is possible to find comfort in something that seems non-existant to other people.
If you miss someone, is it preferable to be sad? or would you rather be happy? Which emotion professes the existance of an attachment?
Sunday, February 19, 2006
Ok...is it just me or WHY am I having such a HARD time trying to understand Romantic Poetry?
We are reading the Wordsworths' work now, and yet I just can't seem to find them sensual enough the way people say they are supposed to be *confused scowl*
Now give me Milton any day and not only will my brains be put in a torture chamber, but I can at least find his works as sensual as he deemed them to be.
BUT NOT WORDSWORTH's! I don't know if this is a failing in me. I don't know if I should read more of his poems in order to appreciate his varied tastes. I even read the Lucy poems and I still don't find them captivating. Maybe I should wait till I read Blake and Byron and the rest to understand Wordsworth. Still..I just can't see what all the fuss is about him.
Any Wordsworth fan can care to help elucidate me on the merits of this (*ahem*) genius?!
We are reading the Wordsworths' work now, and yet I just can't seem to find them sensual enough the way people say they are supposed to be *confused scowl*
Now give me Milton any day and not only will my brains be put in a torture chamber, but I can at least find his works as sensual as he deemed them to be.
BUT NOT WORDSWORTH's! I don't know if this is a failing in me. I don't know if I should read more of his poems in order to appreciate his varied tastes. I even read the Lucy poems and I still don't find them captivating. Maybe I should wait till I read Blake and Byron and the rest to understand Wordsworth. Still..I just can't see what all the fuss is about him.
Any Wordsworth fan can care to help elucidate me on the merits of this (*ahem*) genius?!
Thursday, February 16, 2006
Better late than never...
(special credits to Frankengirl for her insistence ;-))
My first Meme
Instructions: Remove the blog in the top spot from the following list and bump everyone up one place. Then add your blog to the bottom slot, like so.
1) Kiss My Mike
2) Ultimate Writer
3) Golgotha_Tramp
4) FrankenGirl
5) MysticGyspy
Next select five people to tag:
1) Frankengirl
2) ActonBell (aka Happy Trails)
3) Holly (aka Self Portrait as)
4) Bored Dominatrix
5) Panacea
What were you doing 10 years ago?
Studying.
What were you doing 1 year ago?
Living.
Five snacks you enjoy:
1) Ice cream
2) Cheesecake
3) Granola
4) Coffee
5) Fruit
Five songs to which you know all the lyrics:
1) You gotta be(Desiree)
2) Think of Me (Phantom of the Opera)
3) Sand in my shoes (Dido)
4) Falling into you (Celine Dion)
5) Secret Garden (Bruce Springsteen)
Five things you would do if you were a millionaire:
1) Investigate what this is all about...surely there must be some mistake..
2) Pay off my debts.
3) Invest in something..definitly a house, or property of my own..
4) Help people I know (family or friends) who may be in need.
5) Donate to charities, organizations whose causes I support.
Five bad habits:
1) Procrastination :(
2) Bad sense of direction
3) Indecisive
4) Scatterbrained (at times)
5) overwhelmed easily
Five things you like doing:
1) Dreaming dreams
2) Reading
3) Art
4) Having good conversations
5) Sports
Five things you would never wear again:
1) white shirts
2) Round-framed glasses
3) Uncomfortable shoes
4) Strange gold earrings
5) Leggings
Five favorite toys
1) Novels
2) Diary
3) Good pens
4) Little notebooks
5) Some inspiration
(special credits to Frankengirl for her insistence ;-))
My first Meme
Instructions: Remove the blog in the top spot from the following list and bump everyone up one place. Then add your blog to the bottom slot, like so.
1) Kiss My Mike
2) Ultimate Writer
3) Golgotha_Tramp
4) FrankenGirl
5) MysticGyspy
Next select five people to tag:
1) Frankengirl
2) ActonBell (aka Happy Trails)
3) Holly (aka Self Portrait as)
4) Bored Dominatrix
5) Panacea
What were you doing 10 years ago?
Studying.
What were you doing 1 year ago?
Living.
Five snacks you enjoy:
1) Ice cream
2) Cheesecake
3) Granola
4) Coffee
5) Fruit
Five songs to which you know all the lyrics:
1) You gotta be(Desiree)
2) Think of Me (Phantom of the Opera)
3) Sand in my shoes (Dido)
4) Falling into you (Celine Dion)
5) Secret Garden (Bruce Springsteen)
Five things you would do if you were a millionaire:
1) Investigate what this is all about...surely there must be some mistake..
2) Pay off my debts.
3) Invest in something..definitly a house, or property of my own..
4) Help people I know (family or friends) who may be in need.
5) Donate to charities, organizations whose causes I support.
Five bad habits:
1) Procrastination :(
2) Bad sense of direction
3) Indecisive
4) Scatterbrained (at times)
5) overwhelmed easily
Five things you like doing:
1) Dreaming dreams
2) Reading
3) Art
4) Having good conversations
5) Sports
Five things you would never wear again:
1) white shirts
2) Round-framed glasses
3) Uncomfortable shoes
4) Strange gold earrings
5) Leggings
Five favorite toys
1) Novels
2) Diary
3) Good pens
4) Little notebooks
5) Some inspiration
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