Antimatter

Antimatter

by Russell Edson

. On the other side of a mirror there’s an inverse world, where the insane go sane; where bones climb out of the earth and recede to the first slime of love.
. And in the evening the sun is just rising.
. Lovers cry because they are a day younger, and soon childhood robs them of their pleasure.
. In such a world there is much sadness which, of course, is joy . . .

This one puts things in a new perspective, doesn't it? Life and pleasure and misery are all relative. Things are, only because we see them that way. Suggests the importance of stepping outside your immediate surrounds to gain the eternal perspective.

The Bridge Builder

I didn't write it, but I'd like to think this is dedicated to all those diligent teachers and writers out there, who've already learned the lesson, but spend their time sharing them with others.

The Bridge Builder

by Will Allen Dromgoole

An old man going a lone highway,

Came, at the evening cold and gray,

To a chasm vast and deep and wide.

The old man crossed in the twilight dim,

The sullen stream had no fear for him;

But he turned when safe on the other side

And built a bridge to span the tide.

“Old man,” said a fellow pilgrim near,

“You are wasting your strength with building here;

Your journey will end with the ending day,

You never again will pass this way;

You’ve crossed the chasm, deep and wide,

Why build this bridge at evening tide?”

The builder lifted his old gray head;

“Good friend, in the path I have come,” he said,

“There followed after me to-day

A youth whose feet must pass this way.

This chasm that has been as naught to me

To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be;

He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;

Good friend, I am building this bridge for him!”

Choose Something Like a Star

Choose Something Like a Star

~By Robert Frost

O Star (the fairest one in sight),

We grant your loftiness the right

To some obscurity of cloud--

It will not do to say of night,

Since dark is what brings out your light.

Some mystery becomes the proud.

But to be wholly taciturn

In your reserve is not allowed.

Say something to us we can learn

By heart and when alone repeat.

Say something! And it says, 'I burn.'

But say with what degree of heat.

Talk Fahrenheit, talk Centigrade.

Use language we can comprehend.

Tell us what elements you blend.

It gives us strangely little aid,

But does tell something in the end.

And steadfast as Keats' Eremite,

Not even stooping from its sphere,

It asks a little of us here.

It asks of us a certain height,

So when at times the mob is swayed

To carry praise or blame too far,

We may choose something like a star

To stay our minds on and be staid.

My Manifesto

We had to write a personal manifesto for my History of Civ through Theater class. Here is mine. Still dunno how I feel about it...

“Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive, who is youer than you.” ~Dr. Seuss

My Life is My own

*- “Men are that they might have joy.” ~2 Nephi 2:25

• “While in the pursuit of happiness, one should stop and just be happy.”
• "Most of us are about as happy as we make our minds up to be." ~Abraham Lincoln
• “Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.”
• "It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from." ~C. S. Lewis
• “When things go wrong, you can either laugh or cry. I choose to laugh, because crying gives me a headache.” ~Marjorie Hinckley
• “Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.” ~L. Frank Baum
• “Don’t take life too seriously. No one gets out alive anyway.”
• “Go on, enjoy yourself, call the life you live today your own… get rid of this too-much grief… for those solemn people and those people who scowl, life is not really life, but catastrophe.”
• ~Euripides
• "The best way to cheer yourself up: cheer everybody else up." ~ Mark Twain
• “God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.” ~C. S. Lewis

*- “But before ye seek for riches, seek ye for the kingdom of God.” ~Jacob 2:18

• “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.” ~Albert Schweitzer
• “If you are rich, and you die, you still die.”
• “Spend your life on something that will outlast it.” ~ William James
• “The best things in life aren’t things.”
• “Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at change.” ~ Dr. Wayne Dyer
• “There are two ways to be rich; make more or desire less.”
• "Try not to be a person of success, but rather a person of virtue." ~Albert Einstein
• "But if I feel like just a teardrop in the rain when I meant to be a river- God sees the ocean in me.” ~Cherie Call

*- “All these things shall give thee experience, and shall be for thy good... therefore, hold on thy way.” ~ D&C 122:7,9

• "Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults." ~Socrates
• “Don’t say ‘why me?’ say ‘try me!’”
• “You don't have to move the sky, but you can chase the clouds away. You don't have to change the world, but you might do it anyway.” ~Cherie Call
• “Always expect the worst, then when good things happen you’ll be pleasantly surprised.” ~Marjorie Pay Hinckley
• “You fell? Well, get up.”
• "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." ~Lao-Tzu
• “This day we sailed on.” ~Christopher Columbus
• “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail better.” ~Samuel Beckett
• “When life hands you lemons- smile. How often do you get free stuff?”
• "Whether you think that you can or that you can't, you are usually right." ~Henry Ford
• “Our problems are opportunities to discover God’s solutions.”

Stick to your task till it sticks to you.
Beginners are many, but enders are few.
Honor, power, place and praise
Will always come to the one who stays.
Stick to your task till it sticks to you;
Bend at it, sweat at it, smile at it, too—
For out of the bend and the sweat and the smile
Will come life’s victories after awhile

The Rose

It is only a tiny rosebud,
A flower of God's design;
But I cannot unfold the petals
With these clumsy hands of mine.

The secret of unfolding flowers
Is not known to such as I.
GOD opens this flower so sweetly,
When in my hands they fade and die.

If I cannot unfold a rosebud,
This flower of God's design,
Then how can I think I have wisdom
To unfold this life of mine?

So I'll trust in Him for His leading
Each moment of every day.
I will look to him for His guidance
Each step of the pilgrim way.

The pathway that lies before me,
Only my Heavenly Father knows.
I'll trust Him to unfold the moments,
Just as He unfolds the rose.