you're as ________ as you think you are

having things and being happy are two different things.

1.) it can be right in front of you, everything you wanted, but if you're not convinced in your own heart/mind that you are happy, you will be miserable.

2.) on the other hand, you can have what some would consider a ''shit life'' but can be convinced that you are truly happy in it.

a person is rich in proportion to the things he is willing to live without.

100% of people who live will die. the things that make you cry the happy tears on your deathbed can't be bought with money.

And really, the ''things'' that make you cry happy tears on your deathbed aren't ''things'' at all. they're ideas.

happiness, or more accurately, your state of mind, has effects on the physical world, not the other way around.

That which you imagine, feeling its end, will bring itself about. your imagination is creative. it creates what you live: happy or sad.

disagree? well it sure isn't gold that makes you happy ;-) it isn't a bunch of ppl who make you happy either. you know you can be surrounded by lots of friends, and yet feel all alone.

you also know you can talk to just one really good friend, and they don't say a word, and you feel better. what has that good friend done to make you feel better? nothing. absolutely nothing. the ''healing'' took place in your mind, in your perception of your friend. it all depended on what you were convinced of.

you are convinced of the truths that govern your life, and that is the only thing that makes them true. yes, the line is drawn in some places; proving that there is an absolute truth** that keeps everything within certain boundaries. but as far as having a happy and successful life are concerned, it's what you imagine, feeling its accomplishment, that shows itself on the screen of your ''life movie.''




** Note: absolute truth has been dealt with in the previous entry ''perception is delusion.''

you'll never get the patent for this idea...

brake lights that extend all the way across the back of the vehicle, and the harder the brake pedal is pressed, the more of them light up. THAT way, you can tell how hard the person in front of you is braking, so you can either avoid being in a pile-up, or tell if the person in front of you is just riding his brake down the hill.


And while we're at it, let's add a similar apparatus to the dash, so the driver can tell if he or she is braking harder than normal because let's face it...some people brake extrememly hard: they wait till there's 15 feet of stopping distance to go from 50 mph to''0.''


and don't give me that ''oh, that's a worthless invention.'' The WHEEL SENSOR was a worthless invention. just check your air monthly like you're supposed to, right? All it does is cost ABSURD amounts of money, be complicated, be easily broken, slow down the tire changing process, and my idea would actually be used all the time to save lives and improve the flow of traffic...make it not so much of a stressful thing, too.