things-that-matter

I hope when people ask what you're going to do with your English degree and/or creative writing degree you'll say: 'Continue my bookish examination of the contradictions and complexities of human motivation and desire;' or maybe just: 'Carry it with me, as I do everything that matters.'And then smile very serenely until they say, 'Oh.

Between the natural way and the path of grace there is a deep abyss. It is in that gap that we live our lives as a giant struggle between good and evil, Satan and God, despair and love. Whenever despair wins, it is the natural way. Whenever love wins, it is a moment of grace. When love is victorious and defeats despair completely, you've reached the path of grace.

And what, O Queen, are those things that are dear to a man? Are they not bubbles? Is not ambition but an endless ladder by which no height is ever climbed till the last unreachable rung is mounted? For height leads on to height, and there is not resting-place among them, and rung doth grow upon rung, and there is no limit to the number.

We__e been so busy with these things we let ourselves think actually mattered, but they don__. There__ no such thing as the right career, or morality, or destiny, or fate. There__ only life. And whether you honor it or ignore it. It__ ironic, but in trying to find God we__e been ignoring life.

So I was just thinking about how something happened today and it was quite insightful, humbling and puts things into perspective. If you look at anything, everything has it's 'story' so to speak. For instance, for me to even write this status requires an obscene amount of processes (essentially limitless). Just the biological processes that have to take place are in the trillions. Then you add the technological component, the psychology behind it(self-awareness/consciousness). Then you start looking at the macro factors behind it which include how I came into existence, how life came to be for that to occur, how earth came to be, the sun, the solar system, the galaxy, universe...etc. So the odds for all those things to occur for me to write a simple (or not so simply) status like this....is pretty fucking incredible to say the least.

You Change , the things WHEN YOU let your thoughts be like the mind of Christ.

I dwell on endless possibilities.

You may be biggest coward & looser of the world if you can't even ask for the things that you need the MOST & want it anyway.

When you care about things, it ends up wearing you out.

When you are angry try your best to go to sleep, it keeps you away from speaking, writing and thinking while you are angry.

Write as much as you can. Read as much as you can. Use the library and the internet carefully for research and talk to people about things that matter. If you have an idea in your head talk it to people as a normal conversation, to get their natural opinions. And don__ forget to jot down discreetly any new ideas you get from people. God may use other people to convey messages to you, that may add more information to the ideas you already have.

It's only awkward if it matters.

My voice is never much louder than a ripple, but even small voices sound loud when you talk about things that matter.

If You See Things As It Is, You Will Never Know What It Is

Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.

To be able to influence Tanzanian literature and African literature, and sell our books in Tanzania as well as in our continent, we need to be committed to what we do. And what we do is writing. Write as much as you can. Read as much as you can. Use the library and the internet carefully for research and talk to people, about things that matter. To make a living from writing, and make people read again in Tanzania and Africa; we must write very well, very good stories.

In the end, what matters is this: I survived.

Even if things aren't going the way we want right now, we will always get through it.