Today I suddenly realized how funny my name sounds in English.
I'm sitting in my (host) couch on a sunny, Wednesday afternoon. I'm having my morning coffee/music/cigarette trio.
I'm thinking about this dude, Joe, that I met with Dan Ha. We had gone for dinner two days ago, and then for breakfast the next day. I'm thinking how I'd just rejected his invitation to a day at the beach (because I'd preplanned a day of work) and dinner (because I'd felt I hadn't eaten at (host) home for a while).
Then I'm thinking about the concepts of being there for people you'd just met, and for people you'd known for a while.
Then I'm remembering this dude, Mike, whom I've met a couple of times--twice for smoking, many times in class.
I remember our grammar professor would call him Miguel because it's the Spanish equivalent to "Mike."
Then I'm wondering, 'Does Mike find it weird, strange, or offensive that the professor calls him Miguel? It's like calling a Native American kid "Wind of the Mountaintops" because that's what his name translates to in English.'
I'm also thinking it must be weird for the professor to call him Mike because they don't have that name in Spanish.
THEN, I'm thinking it must be maaad weird for English-speaking people to call me Sun.
I'm thinking of how someone would picture the sun in all its glory when I say my name.
BAM!
I suddenly fully realize that my name is the strangest thing for an English-speaking person!
Finally, for the first time in 20 years!!!
I'm laughing out loud, in my pj's, in the middle of my empty living room, at 3 in the afternoon.
3.25.2009
3.23.2009
20. A Swirling Revelation
Staring into white sheets of Thought,
New awakenings, sheer serenity.
Count from then to now, numbers past infinity.
1, 2, a free score.
It's what you learn that's more
than caring for what you've lost.
New awakenings, sheer serenity.
Count from then to now, numbers past infinity.
1, 2, a free score.
It's what you learn that's more
than caring for what you've lost.
3.21.2009
3.19.2009
18. Is Your Own Death Real To You?
Q1. Is your own death real to you?
Q2. What is considered real?
Something is real if it happens in the lives we live. Rocks are real to us because they physically exist in our lives. Thoughts are real to us because they are thought within the lives we live. Heaven is not real to us because it did not happen in our lives, although we may believe it to be real for religious reasons. Dinosaurs are not real to us because they did not exist in our lives, but we believe them to be real because we have their remains. WWI is not real to us because it did not occur in our lives, but we believe it to be real because we have footage and testimonies.
Q3. How does perspective play a role in the value of “real?”
Example scenario: Bill saw Joe kill Mandy’s brother Steve. Bill, Joe, and Steve were there at the time of Steve’s death, but Mandy was not. To Bill, the murder of Steve happened in his life because he witnessed the event. Therefore, the death of Steve is real to Bill. To Mandy, however, it did not happen in her life because, technically, at the time of Steve’s death, Mandy had no awareness of the occurrence. Therefore, the death of Steve is not real to Mandy. However, she could believe through reasoning that it is real when she sees Joe’s bloody hands and the dead body of Steve.
Q4. Was the death of Steve real to Steve?
The death of Steve is real to Bill and Joe because it happened in their lives. However, for Steve’s death to be real to Steve, it must occur in his life. Factually speaking, Steve was not alive at the time of his death. Therefore, Steve’s death did not occur in Steve’s life. Therefore, Steve’s own death is not real to him.
Q5. What is the underlying meaning of this logic?
Everyone’s death is real to you except yours. You must still be living while your death occurs for it to be real to you. Therefore, your own death does not exist in your world because you cannot die while you are still living. Technically, YOUR OWN DEATH IS NOT REAL TO YOU.
Q2. What is considered real?
Something is real if it happens in the lives we live. Rocks are real to us because they physically exist in our lives. Thoughts are real to us because they are thought within the lives we live. Heaven is not real to us because it did not happen in our lives, although we may believe it to be real for religious reasons. Dinosaurs are not real to us because they did not exist in our lives, but we believe them to be real because we have their remains. WWI is not real to us because it did not occur in our lives, but we believe it to be real because we have footage and testimonies.
Q3. How does perspective play a role in the value of “real?”
Example scenario: Bill saw Joe kill Mandy’s brother Steve. Bill, Joe, and Steve were there at the time of Steve’s death, but Mandy was not. To Bill, the murder of Steve happened in his life because he witnessed the event. Therefore, the death of Steve is real to Bill. To Mandy, however, it did not happen in her life because, technically, at the time of Steve’s death, Mandy had no awareness of the occurrence. Therefore, the death of Steve is not real to Mandy. However, she could believe through reasoning that it is real when she sees Joe’s bloody hands and the dead body of Steve.
Q4. Was the death of Steve real to Steve?
The death of Steve is real to Bill and Joe because it happened in their lives. However, for Steve’s death to be real to Steve, it must occur in his life. Factually speaking, Steve was not alive at the time of his death. Therefore, Steve’s death did not occur in Steve’s life. Therefore, Steve’s own death is not real to him.
Q5. What is the underlying meaning of this logic?
Everyone’s death is real to you except yours. You must still be living while your death occurs for it to be real to you. Therefore, your own death does not exist in your world because you cannot die while you are still living. Technically, YOUR OWN DEATH IS NOT REAL TO YOU.
3.06.2009
17. Purity
When a baby stares at you as you pass by on the streets--that's what innocence looks like.
16. Joy
When you have a big goofy grin on your face and you feel like nothing can take that away--that's what happiness looks like.
3.05.2009
15. My Grammar Professor Won The Lottery.
Today my grammar professor came back from our 10 minute break and she started freaking out, telling us she won the lottery, that her friend and she are splitting 600,000,000€. That's $350,000,000 for each person. She asks us what she should do with the money, she has no idea, she's so shocked. We're screaming, go buy houses, go buy an island! We're shocked beyond belief ourselves! Buy a mansion! Give money to your family! She keeps asking, what else, what's your advice? 10 minutes before class ends, she makes a list of all the command verbs we used. She corrects them, saying we were horrible with our verb conjugations. Apparently she acted out a lottery win to get us to use imperative form for Spanish verbs. I have never been so badly played in my life.
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