lookin' for the flow - another 3-minute poem

so many people these days
lookin' for the flow
the way to go
the note that takes them
across the globe
but what are they really looking for?
some quote
or poet
or rhyme that supposed
to show it
show them the future from the past
in front of them through crystal glass
technology built to bring them back
remember the times when typing was wack
writing was in
and filling the communication gap
but they try their best to find something
someone else's writings
and teachings
to guide them on to higher sightseeing
farther travelling
better life dreams
but where they really need to look
is inside
the book to be written
lies in front of their eyes
but instead they disguise
their lies
diminish their size
while upgrading their status
the best of G5 flies
when will people look back
but not to reminisce
maybe looking for something
they shouldn't worry to miss
because it hasn't been written
that's the truth from the past
shows a reflection to the present
looking back through the glass
and realizing that
their possibilities
are inside,
within,
not a past man's cries
or sighs
but a new man's dreams
a new woman's vision
today's flow
today's rhythm

love.life.

sea

you look out upon the world
eyes bleary from the waves
crashing down in front of you
soft flowing curls lapping at your toes
tired from the day's content
from the obstacles you overcame
expressing joy from all you found
the secrets lying underground
underwater and over air
breathing deep the ocean air
looking out at the sky
horizon bright
seagulls fly
wishing you were nowhere else
but here with her
casting aside tools of war
battling across the ocean floor
waves of waves, armies many
brilliant blue but cautious white
leaning in and sweeping away
tempting you to another day
knees buckle
your breath rushes away
thinking of her
thinking of the moments just past
when your eyes were blurry
from the sea air
or from the water's weight
upon your heart


love.life

getting back

i'm hoping to have more time to write on this blog in the coming months since my general work/school situation has changed. there should be a ton of topics to discuss, and i'm just gathering them in my head a little bit, but they shall arrive!

trust in others,

love.life

I want to make $1 million

That's a reasonable goal right?

Through life I'm guessing people go through enough money to say they make $1,000,000 big ones throughout that time. I'm thinking I should keep a tag somewhere in my life telling me what I'm at, approximately of course. Is that a relevant goal though? I mean really, for life, we're always supposed to be so focused on NOT money, NOT financial wealth, NOT being greedy. But does working for a living and trying to attain some worth for that really greedy? I mean obviously people abuse power that they gain sometimes, but is buying a pair of Louis Vuitton kicks really some kind of anti-christ of morality? Does it make you a bad person for being able to afford more than one piece of property on Earth? I'm really not sure, but I do know that I have some pretty high goals for myself, and whether I attain them or not, I'm going to keep pushing myself, and that means pushing for high salaries, etc. In a way it really just seems like a natural part of life. Hopefully I'll make a couple million in my lifetime :P make sure my children are safe and taken care of. Maybe if I'm really fortunate, I'll have the possibility to become a venture capitalist, or angel investor, w/e you want to call it. Help other reach goals that otherwise really wouldn't be possible. Ah the wonders of the world, help yourself, then comes the next guy. I wonder if I can do both at the same time. Talk about breaking the mold, now that's something to really reach for.


love.life.

commenting

hey,

so i just figures out how this whole Blogger setting stuff works, and it should be possible to add Comments without the need for a Google account, and any other account for that matter. Test it out, hopefully it works!

inspiration

hey again, back after a while now, i guess i decided to let the posts on here age a little.

i was thinking about what i would write today, and then i thought, hmm i really need something to inspire me. and it just hit me, what really inspires people to do anything? i don't mean the silly things in life like walking around or eating or anything, but actually accomplishing anything in life. we all know we could basically sit around like idiots for our entire lives, and end up have a perfectly complete life, if that's what you want to call it. so what brings us past that point, to do everything we do every day? haha, maybe some of you are like me, thinking right now that maybe some of the things you do sometimes shouldn't have happened at all. but meh, at least you're doing something!

i diverged a little bit. what really inspires people? what keeps them together, and makes sure that they dont go crazy with all the things going on in their lives, or complete lack there of at times? i'm really not certain, i'm thinking, like alot of other things to do with life in general, there's alot of factors. maybe they believe their parents will smite them down if they dare be lazy. or maybe God will judge them at the end of their days. or maybe they want to do something great, and prove to the rest of the human race that they are superior, or maybe just lucky. probably a combination of all these things, and a hell of alot more.

one interesting thing is relationships, and i don't just mean the love kind. why do people take the time to get to know others? are they actually yearning so much for comparison that they really go out of their way to determine how successful they are? because really, even if you think you're an introvert, there's definitely a part of you that wonders where you're fitting in with the rest of the world. and therein lies the relationship: the interaction with the rest of the world. so what makes good relationships, or bad ones? or i think most importantly, what makes great ones? i've always, always wondered the answer to that, i wish i could just simply go out, act the way i am, and have great relationships with people. unfortunately humans are rather complex, and there's always people that don't see eye-to-eye with you (and you definitely don't see anything to do with them). It's rather unfortunate in a way, because who knows where those relationships could lead if they really were great. it's hard to judge how other people truly react to you, and in a way, maybe that's good, because if we could, it would become incredibly awkward everytime we acted like asses and knew it right away (as if that doesn't happen enough). I guess it's only when we really care about a relationship that we put in the effort to not act like a fool. but how do you get someone else to care about your relationship? haha, another question i'd love to answer, and properly.

ok i diverged alot....so....what inspires people? relationships? haha, maybe. maybe nature, or science, or technology. maybe everything. maybe just life.

Richard Feynman - The Universe in a Glass of Wine

Again, something unoriginal, but it really blew my mind when I heard it. This is a special lecture Richard Feynman gave to some graduates at Caltech where he taught. The audio recording, and a pretty ballin' picture of Feynman can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6ck3rO_m3A&NR=1

If you're in an awkward location where you can't listen to it, here's the text which I typed out myself:

A poet I think it is once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." I don't know, and I don't know if we'll ever know in what sense he meant that, for the poets don't write to be understood. But it is true that if you look in glass of wine closely enough we see the entire universe.
There are the things of physics: the twisting liquid which evaporates depending on the wind and weather, the reflections in the glass, and our imagination adds the atoms. The glass is a distillation of the earth's rocks, and in its composition we see the secrets of the universe's age, and the evolution of the stars. What strange array of chemicals are in the wine? How did they come to be? There are the ferments, the enzymes, the substrates, and the products. There in wine is found the great generalization: all life is fermentation. Nobody can discover the chemistry of wine without discovering the cause of much disease. How vivid is the claret, pressing its existence into the consciousness that watches it!
And if in our small minds, for some convenience, divide this glass of wine, this universe, into parts - physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and all - remember that nature does not know it! So we should put it all back together, not forgetting ultimately what it is for. Let it give us one more final pleasure: drink it and forget it all!

Enjoy, and read this one last quote of Feynman's,

Physics is like sex; sure, you can get some interesting results, but that's not why we do it.