Fighting the Current

Quotish

"Out of clutter, find simplicity." - Albert Einstein

Cleaning. Or should be at this moment. My room is slowly coming along. It looks like I'll be doing another "straighten-up for the time-being" job. Maybe I won't have too much work to do this week and I can do it after school.

I'm in a quoting mood tonight--probably because I keep finding appropriate quotes tonight.

"An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. 'A fight is going on inside me,' he said to the boy. 'It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil - he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies,false pride, superiority, and ego. The other is good - he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. This same fight is going on inside you - and inside every other person,too.'

The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather which wolf would win.

The old Cherokee simply replied, 'The one you feed.'" I have no idea where that's from, but it was in my quotes file. I really like it.

And other quotes which seem to have some bearing right about now:

"It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts." - G. B. Burgin  

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.  And when you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you." - Nietzsche

"Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength." - Sigmund Freud

My flute has been in school for over a week and a half now. I have a lesson Tuesday. Well, at least I don't have anything really to practice.

Saw Just Married last night. It was romantic-comedy-ish.

For the past two nights the moon was casting shadows on the snow. It was so pretty. My dad told me about nights when he used to take walks across the fields in moonlight, and how he once walked back in the moonlight from a caving expedition. Wish I had things like that to do...

I was editing some of my pictures earlier. I had some interesting results. I didn't start out with the clearest pictures though, and that would have helped.

I should get back to cleaning.

Oh, in case you couldn't tell, I survived exams with my sanity intact... I think I sacrificed my English grade for that though.