The next great adventure
Sometimes I feel very strongly that life is like a training ground, and it teaches you today the things you’ll need to know in the future. It might teach you patience, perseverance, tolerance, strength of character, understanding, compassion… All kinds of things that will help you as you get older and experience more. Of course, it might not even teach you anything, but is that the fault of life, or of your own obstinate character?
A lot has happened in my life. I’ve experienced a lot of things, and learned a lot of things. Some things I’ve learned along the way is that some things are worth it, even if they cause you pain – the pleasure you get from it is worth the pain, and so you continue to pursue it. As long as there’s pleasure in it, of course!
I have an iPad
I’m sitting here in bed writing my first blog post with the iPad. This is what the iPhone almost was… I had hoped to use it to blog too, but it was just too tedious to write with the tiny keyboard, whereas the iPad’s just a whole lot better.
Yes, I obviously got an iPad… And I’m really enjoying it too. It’s just damn convenient. Different to a laptop, you can only do one thing at a time, so multitasking isn’t really an option. But that just helps you focus.
The biggest reasons I got it was for instant unloading of photos from my DSLR onto here, and upload them to Picasa. Oh, and the book reading. And watching movies in bed with it. And browsing the web while I’m away from the computer. And YouTube.
And it’s about the same size and weight as a book, so no need to carry around laptops in backpacks, etc
The echoes of your mind
When you’re interested in something, say a new car, you’ll see more of that car on the road than you ever saw before. Did you manifest them into being? No.
What happens is that your mind is aligned to something that it wasn’t aligned to before. As such, when it comes into your sphere of awareness, you become aware of it, because that’s what’s on your mind and you see it around you. You’ll take advantage of new opportunities to drive it, learn about it, talk to others about it, and maybe even eventually buy it.
What’s on your mind becomes real. You attract things to you that echo what you want inside of you.
More on the glasses
So I went for my eye test on Friday last week, and found that I’m longsighted, which means I have great long vision (20/15), but crap short vision (I don’t know what the visual acuity reading is for my short-range vision… I’ll have to find out, I think). I got tested for glasses, using different lenses to determine the best type for me.
<— I got the glasses yesterday and they’re supposed to aid me with reading and computer use, but there’s a bit of a problem. They only work within about a foot range of my eyes, and anything outside that range is blurry. Great if I sat about a foot away from the screen, but instead I sit about 2 feet from the screen.
Everything changes…. again
I guess it started a year ago, when that woman wanted to be my submissive. It started a series of events that ended up being all about my own evolution as a person.
I’ve been writing in this blog since 1998. That’s 12 years of online journaling and blogging. That’s 12 years of my life recorded in this blog. It’s gone through a number of transitions over that time, from different domains and different styles, but one thing has remained the same – it’s been an online record of my life for the past 12 years.
That’s pretty amazing.
Everyone grows, and 12 years holds a lot of growth. I used to be weak and pathetic, unable to even get a second date for 5 damn years! But all those experiences helped me grow into someone who didn’t have a problem getting a date or finding someone to actually spend time in a relationship with. All those relationships over the years have helped me work out what was best for me.
