Leave Rapunzel in her tower! Let her cut off her own hair and use it as a rope to climb down. She needs to learn to do things herself or you will be taking care of a child in an adult body who will never learn to do it for herself.

Do not save Cinderella from her lowly financial position! If she never earns her own money, she will never appreciate “your” money or “our” money. She expects you to take care of everything and thinks that money grows on trees.

Kiss Sleeping Beauty and you will awaken the evil, jealous queen. If you want an ornament on your arm at the party, buy a nice pair of cuff links. They’ll stay faithful, won’t nag, “Honey, how do I look?” or say, “Not now, I just did my hair (makeup, nails’, etc.).”

Remember…Barbie has everything because someone else gets it for her. Where’s Ken when Barbie’s messing around to keep herself from being bored? Ken’s at the office earning the money to afford Barbie’s affections.

It’s time to grow up.

I truly miss writing here. Possibly you miss me a little too. Mostly my absence is purely lack of emotions. I just don’t know how I should be feeling about the things that have happened and are happening around me.

Possibly though, I don’t write as often here because my inner perfectionist wants to save this space for real insights and helpful articles. To entertain, it says to enlighten, to encourage. In the wee hours of this morning I thought about why I started writing this blog. I looked back at my earliest posts.

People, reduced to the fundamentals, are very much alike. You read my stories because my stories are your stories. We all move through the same basic curriculum. Basic human experience is universal and People experience this curriculum in vastly different ways, in vastly different arenas.

We, as individuals can’t do everything, have every experience. There aren’t enough hours in the day, or years in our lives. But we can deeply experience some things, and share what we learned with others. It takes all kinds.

I may succeed brilliantly in my effort to put something here every other day and I may fail spectacularly by blowing it tomorrow. We shall see.

Either way I thought this a good time to remind you that I’m writing here because together, we might figure a few things out.

And one thing we can always count on is that humans need to figure a few things out.

Thanks for being here who ever you are.

And how can I live without you
You’re such a part of me
And you’ve always been the one
Keeping me forever young
And the best is yet to come

I’m going in search of the adventure of being alive.

And it’s complicated: why am I not looking for happiness when everyone has taught me that happiness is the only goal worth pursuing?

Why am I going to risk taking a path that no one else is taking? After all, what is happiness?

Love, they tell me. But love doesn’t bring and never has brought happiness.

On the contrary, its a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; its sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we’re doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony. All right then, peace.

Peace? If we look at the Mother, she’s never at peace. The winter does battle with the summer, the sun and the moon never meet, the tiger chases the man, who’s afraid of the dog, who chases the cat, who chases the mouse, who frightens the man.

Money brings happiness. Fine. In that case, everyone who earns enough to have a high standard of living would be able to stop work. But then they’re more troubled than ever, as if they were afraid of losing everything. Money attracts money, that’s true. Poverty might bring unhappiness, but money wont necessarily bring happiness. I spent a lot of my life looking for happiness, now what I want is joy.

Joy is like sex – it begins and ends. I want pleasure. I want to be contended, but happiness? I no longer fall into that trap.

One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes inside people.

He said, “My son, the battle is between two wolves inside all of  us. One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.”

“The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith.”

The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, “Which wolf wins?”

The old Cherokee simply replied. “The one you feed.”

I have just recieved my lecturer’s report. Not bad, an average of 4.24. That means I must have been doing something right.

Here are all the comments I received.

He’s damn good in Maya and very inspiring as a teacher!

Love his lessons. Never boring. Gives a lot of visual examples to excite the mind and provide motivation to learn. Probably could give more breaks so that lecture doesnt become too dry.

he know his stuff really well and organize the lesson in a way where it is more interesting for us to absorb

He truly know his facts well enough. And to make things easier for us, he makes notes and show us nice films to encourage us in our 3d maya.

he is a nice lecturer, just that maybe can make classes more interesting.

The lecturer is extremely good in 3D modeling and it’s quite inspiring to see his works.

They should double your pay!

He knows what to teach & how to explain it to the class such that we understand it instantly.

He is proficient in the subject and would teach us tips to do certain actions using the program. He would also showed us relevant videos and tell us how to break them down in maya.

He provides us with good guidance and cares for our well being. He gives us notes and on hands lessons when needed.

Very caring and patient. One of the most lenient lecturers. Understands what he is teaching very well, which also helps me to understand even better.

I really feel that he is a great lecturer and offers to help us with our work and assignments. He is also very hardworking when he teaches us tutorials.

Very talented and tries his best to share his passion for his work with us.

His is a very nice guy and good at what he is teaching!

He put in effort to point out the mistakes each student made in their assignment and talk to them individually on how to improve their work. He is hardworking.

I think he should be more interactive with the class, and not just teaching it from the screen itself. He should be more concern about the students’ work and maybe go around helping those students who need help with the lesson, as many students from his class is not understanding the subject.

It’s been a week of running, jumping and climbing trees. Off to the hospital now. Taking Alice. Will come back with mum.

and get well goodies.

Have a great Tuesday.

I have no words of wisdom tonight.

I’ve been wondering.

I can always wonder, it seems.

There I am in one future, with a long gray ponytail (and a long gray beard?) and quite possibly a hump. Sitting alone under a tree. Wondering.

Maybe. Best to keep my thoughts to this day, for now.

I need a cup of hot mocha.