"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." -- unknown

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results - Albert Einstein

answer to guestbook.
November 21, 2002 - 8:24 am

with questions no less.

the shoes are too tight metaphor? i thought i had explained it. the show said: 'my shoes are too tight, but it doesn't matter because i've forgotten how to dance.' i changed it to 'my shoes are too tight, but it doesn't matter because i never learned how to dance.'

in the show, the old man was against the young couple. he did not care that they were in love. things in the show transpired and it changed his view. he came to realize that because his peoples traditions can be wrong. the traditions said the couple should not be together, that they were going to be wed to others against their will.

the old man said the line right before he helped the young couple be together. it means that before he helped them...he knew something was wrong (his shoes were too thight), but he didn't know what it was...he didn't understand why the couple wanted to be together, that they would come to love the people they were promised to wed in time. he had forgotten the power of love and freedom and happiness (he had forgotten how to dance).

he helped the couple and to complete the unsaid part of the metaphor...he found new shoes and danced, if perhaps only for a night.

what would i say to the kid on the bus? that would be between myself and him.

what's the position i'm in? that goes back to my mba saga. i have job with people i like and who i actaully think like me. financially i'm not satisfied. i've been accepted to one mba school and have appliations to two others. even when i think i've thought through an entire process, i often realize too late that i havn't. i don't have a career dream..so going to get my mba could well be a very expensive waste of time. staying where i am is probably going to lead to great frustration because i can't do then things i want to do. i'm also concerned that what my company does could well be come obsolete..so staying isn't much of an option.

i could look for another job, but i don't want any job around here. i live in a small town. i'm leery of moving to a bigger place without first having a job..and yet it's hard to apply for a win a position when you don't live there..

THEN there's a whole mess of personal/relationship things i've gotten myself into..

basically. i have about a week now to get my last application in. then find out if i've been accpeted and sort out the 'career' part of my life.

i'm feeling..like my entire life is chaos. i could simply just drop everying. ride out what i have now and know that it's not going to be the life i want. that's the easy path.

i can go for the mba, and know that i might be wasting tons of money...

i already said this. so arn't you glad you asked?

btw, do i know you?