Pal franse pa di lespri pou sa
Speaking French doesn't mean you are smart
What I take from this is that just because you go through the right steps, get the right education, doesn't make you smart. It's the life lessons that really make you wise. It's the long conversations about life that you have with your friends on a Sunday afternoon. It's the struggles you go through, the coping mechanisms you make, the support network you create.
On another note. I babysat last night and watched the end of "The Upside of Anger." It was an okay movie but I really liked a few of the narrator's quotes.
"People don't know how to love. They bite rather than kiss. They slap rather than stroke. Maybe it's because they recognize how easy it is for love to go bad, to become suddenly impossible... unworkable, an exercise of futility. So they avoid it and seek solace in angst, and fear, and aggression, which are always there and readily available. Or maybe sometimes... they just don't have all the facts."
"Anger and resentment can stop you in your tracks. That's what I know now. It needs nothing to burn but the air and the life that it swallows and smothers. It's real, though - the fury, even when it isn't. It can change you... turn you... mold you and shape you into something you're not. The only upside to anger, then... is the person you become. Hopefully someone that wakes up one day and realizes they're not afraid to take the journey, someone that knows that the truth is, at best, a partially told story. That anger, like growth, comes in spurts and fits, and in its wake, leaves a new chance at acceptance, and the promise of calm."
I'm doing well. There isn't much to update. I'm doing the same ol' studying thing. :)
What I take from this is that just because you go through the right steps, get the right education, doesn't make you smart. It's the life lessons that really make you wise. It's the long conversations about life that you have with your friends on a Sunday afternoon. It's the struggles you go through, the coping mechanisms you make, the support network you create.
On another note. I babysat last night and watched the end of "The Upside of Anger." It was an okay movie but I really liked a few of the narrator's quotes.
"People don't know how to love. They bite rather than kiss. They slap rather than stroke. Maybe it's because they recognize how easy it is for love to go bad, to become suddenly impossible... unworkable, an exercise of futility. So they avoid it and seek solace in angst, and fear, and aggression, which are always there and readily available. Or maybe sometimes... they just don't have all the facts."
"Anger and resentment can stop you in your tracks. That's what I know now. It needs nothing to burn but the air and the life that it swallows and smothers. It's real, though - the fury, even when it isn't. It can change you... turn you... mold you and shape you into something you're not. The only upside to anger, then... is the person you become. Hopefully someone that wakes up one day and realizes they're not afraid to take the journey, someone that knows that the truth is, at best, a partially told story. That anger, like growth, comes in spurts and fits, and in its wake, leaves a new chance at acceptance, and the promise of calm."
I'm doing well. There isn't much to update. I'm doing the same ol' studying thing. :)
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