Indeed, agreed.
seetheworldbeforetheworldends:
Collect moments, not things. Yes, agreed. But maybe collect some things to help you remember those moments. Take some photos, too.
"Perhaps you are indeed carrying within yourself the potential to visualize, to design and to create for yourself an utterly satisfying, joyful and pure life style. Discipline yourself to attain it but accept that which comes to you with deep trust. And as long as it comes from your own will, from your own inner need, accept it and do not hate anything."
—
Rainer Maria Rilke
So happy when words just appear in my life to comfort and guide me.
This is a desperate plea…
Guys, GUYS! I made this video for my school to win a teacher’s lounge makeover (this is the first time IN 5 YEARS I’ve shot and edited anything. Kind of a big deal/embarrassment for a kid who went to film school).
Here’s what I need you to do:
1. Click here: https://www.facebook.com/SchneidermansFurniture?sk=app_162891010412392
2. Click the tab that says: Schools! Vote here!
3. Click to the second page of schools, click on the Nellie Stone Johnson video and then click the “like” button underneath it.
Then like it on YouTube as well. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgppO4nxXCg)
**Right now the winning school has 145 likes. I know you can help me kick their ass.**
“What else can I do?” Oh my gosh, I thought you’d never ask! Share the video and these instructions with EVERYONE YOU KNOW. (Isn’t it annoying when people make these pleas on FB? I know, and I’m totally doing it to you.
You guys read how much I complain about my job or lament how hard it is, right? Well, it’s because I care DESPERATELY about public education and get frustrated when I can’t make massive change right away.
How does this video have anything to do with that? Liking and sharing this video is saying, “Hey teachers and staff at public schools (specifically the ones facing the greatest challenges in our country re: student achievement aka NELLIE STONE JOHNSON) we appreciate you and think you should have a beautiful place to unwind and recharge before shaping this country’s future.” Plus I’ll totally complain less and share only ADORABLE stories about students if you do this. Deal? DEAL!
I can’t wait to see shares of this video and desperate pleas on my behalf because I will be showering you with compliments of what a great friend you are, how smart and funny and pretty/handsome you are and how much I want to buy you a drink of your choice (if only I didn’t make less than a teacher’s salary).
THANKS FRIENDS!
“Adolescence is best enjoyed without self-consciousness, but self-consciousness, unfortunately, is its leading symptom. Even when something important happens to you, even when your heart’s getting crushed or exalted, even when you’re absorbed in building the foundations of a personality, there comes these moments when you’re aware that what’s happening is not the real story. Unless you actually die, the real story is still ahead of you. This alone, this cruel mixture of consciousness and irrelevance, this built-in hollowness, is enough to account for how pissed off you are.”
― Jonathan Franzen, The Discomfort Zone
"What a slut time is. She screws everybody."
— The Fault in Our Stars, John Green.
This+Ashley Judd’s article (http://bit.ly/HAhERX)= Get it together, world.
“She could not explain or quite understand that it wasn’t altogether jealousy she felt, it was rage. And not because she couldn’t shop like that or dress like that. It was because that was what girls were supposed to be like. That was what men - people, everybody - thought they should be like. Beautiful, treasured, spoiled, selfish, pea-brained.”
― Alice Munro, Runaway
District 9 3/4.
All of my nerdery, all of the time.
*headdesk* This is what’s wrong with the U.S. right now. Seriously, as a human being and an educator, it hurts my heart. Thank God The Daily Show is amazing.
Step 179: Stop enjoying things ironically. Just enjoy them.
Know what? I love Britney Spears and Forever 21. And I could pretend like it’s this whole meta thing where I’m not actually enjoying it but rather just making this esoteric statement on lowbrow culture, but (insert handjob motion here).
The truth is that I love trashy dance pop and the garments that are its clothing equivalent. You don’t need to make your tastes a self-conscious statement about who you are. Just unapologetically like the things you like.
