The '10' List 5

10 Verbal Photographs

1. I recently read the book from H. G. Wells titled War of the Worlds and the plot, much better than the movie, fascinated me. There were alien spaceships with laser beams destroying the earth in the novel. My dream consisted of laser guns that were sold on the black market contributing to many deaths.
2. I recently went to a bar this past weekend that had the sign “No Colors” on the door. If not thinking clearly one could interpret this as a racial segregation sign for businesses, but it is actually for gang colors. It is unbelievable that people have to actually do this.
3. Imaginations can provoke some enticing thoughts when bored. I was sitting at the DMV and I imagined that the sky was Green and there were three moons at night.
4. An older woman, who I believe was a student, was disabled and in a motorized scooter. She was trying to get through a set of doors in the library, that were manual, and a set of boys remained idle, laughing, until I came to help her open the door. People can be horrible beings.
5. When I write I usually like to listen to my record player. It gives me that authentic feel and helps get my thought process going. I envisioned a room full of record players, set on the exact note of the exact song, playing simultaneously. I think that would be breathtaking.
6. There is hardly any movie that I have seen with Nicholas Cage, where he doesn’t, at least, do mediocre job. He is a good all around actor.
7. When blizzards come the clouds form a gray barrier blocking the sky. It almost looks like a water droplet filter surrounding the earth.
8. Somebody close to me is addicted to morphine. It is a sad, but true altercation between the body in the drug, and I have experienced it first hand to some close to me. You would think that a demon has possessed their body for how bad they want the pill and the things they would do or it.
9. I saw a billboard that said, “Lucky in Love.” It reminds me of an older poppy Beatles song from the mid-60’s.
10. Driving in the country, if in the right state of mind, can be totally relieving. There is not a care in the world, just you with your thoughts. Everyone should slip into his or her own abyss once in awhile.

10 Treasures

1. Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do. With such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling. -Vincent Van Gogh
2. You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it. -Malcolm X
3. You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong. -Warren Buffet
4. Change is difficult but often essential to survival. -Les Brown
5. Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake. -Henry David Thoreau
6. The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. -Chinese Proverb
7. The Lover’s attempt to assert himself into a false, ideal reality. -Barthes On Neutral Writing
8. Lover seeking to identify and be identified. -Barthes On Neutral Writing
9. He knew how to Love . -Hoagland
10. Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing. -William Shakespeare

Usually when I write these lists I try to be as thorough into my present life as possible. Recently I have been having a difficult time in my life in the sense that things are starting to change for better and worse. I need to write to help keep my mind at ease. When I do these lists I try to stick to a topic that I spent most of the previous week thinking about and that is, of course, life. I have discussed behavioral psychology in people and how it interacts with others lives. People’s intentions can really affect their outlook and everything that is matter around them. Also the bodies need for something to happen, to be constantly amused building dependency. My life has serious incapacities that need to be filled, but I am filling them one by one. Sometimes I feel as if I am in my own personal war-zone and everything around me is kicking on the gravity towards my determination to succeed. I have established different passages in my verbal photographs of my lie, but I ended with my thought process in the country while driving because that is what leads me to that special cognitive wonder world in my mind.
For my treasures, I have picked a series of quotes that have influenced me, not only throughout my life, but also in general. I often worry about where I am going to end up or what I am going to do with my degree. There is constant pressure that begins to pry at your thoughts that begins to push you off the cliff. These were quotes that kept me stranded on the needed land. Van Gogh taught me to go with the flow and just adapt of love for what I do. Buffet’s quote left me with a sense of wonder because I disagree with it. I think people learn from their mistakes and it taught me not to be afraid to make one; you have to go with your dreams. Life can be a beautiful thing if I allow it. I am dealing with a significant amount of change to the point to where nothing seems the same anymore. My intentions are different, my relationships are different, and my writing, in turn, builds solid credibility. Brown change is essential to survive and Thoreau infers to follow your dreams at all times. You only live one time. Shakespeare finalizes my quotes because he is respectfully, inconsistent in this rhetoric. He is saying life signifies nothing when life actually signifies everything. Take the bull by the horns and go out and travel, talk to that girl, walk in the middle of the night, or just drive in the country. Life can be magnificent if you let it.