Reading Journal :]]]

"How can you get very far,
If you don't know Who you are?
How can you do what you ought,
If you don't know What You've Got?
And if you don't know Which To Do
Of all the things in front of you,
Then what you'll have when you are through
Is just a mess without a clue
Of all the best that can come true
If you know What and Which and Who."

Confusing isn't it? Yes I know. I had to read it several times before I could fully understand it. But Hey, I got it in the end! :)
I think to me it means that, if you don't know what you already have, than how are you ever going to know what you want? I guess, my view on it needs a little work. But it's hard to explain. It's funny because it reminds me how there was this quote that said went something like "we search for the things that are right in front of us." And I don't know if we do or if we don't. But I do see that sometimes, we want so much, that we don't stop and look and see if we already have it right in front of us.

My only question would be, "How do we know who we are?"
Because I'm sure, alot of people have gone pretty far in life, without needing a definition of themselves.

Reading Journal! <3

"Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully.
"Yes" said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever."
"And he has a Brain."
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has a Brain."
There was a long silence.
"I suppose," said Pooh, "that that's why he never understands anything."

Currently I'm reading, "The Tao Of Pooh" by Benjamin Hoff,
Holly (Hollister, Hollypocket, Golly Holly, lady who eats paper and doesn't like hugs,etc)
gave it to me :]
At first I accused her of the book not being hers, but in the end it was. (Oops.)
As soon as I read this quote I LOVED it, and i had to read it out loud to Gary and Dani, it makes me smile and it reassures me that just because you may have a brain, it doesn't mean your all high in mighty and that you know everything that has to be learned in the world :)
Sometimes you have to not use your brain to find out important things
(If that makes sense)
Like you don't have to think with your brain all the time.
Something pooh, must have realized. Because I don't think he ever used his brain...or even had one for that matter :)

Eh anyways; I want to put two more Tao Of Pooh Quotes, because I love these so dearly :)

"Pooh looked at his two paws. He knew that one of them was the right, and he knew that when you had decided which one of them was the right, then the other one was the left, but he never could remember how to begin."

I love this one because, sometimes,
we want to embark on a journey but we can never decide where to begin,

"We wont try too hard or explain too much because that would only confuse things."

"After a blackout, all you have to do is keep on not knowing. If you can't remember, you hope you never remember. You indulge your selective amnesia. You operate under the philosophy I dont think, therefore I am."

Personally, Smashed is becoming one of my most favorite books. :)
It's also teaching much about how from her own experience that things happen, most often things happen for a reason. And even if in that moment, it's not what you wished to have happened. Later on, it will on make sense. Anyways, this quote confused me. I mean..don't you want to remember most things? And not just forget them. I mean those are memories, whether you wanted them to happen or not. They did, you can't do anything to change that. And not remembering a memory (blacking out) would scare me. I would want to remember, not just wish to forget. And that philosophy makes no sense whatsoever to me...If you don't think, than how do you know what you are? I mean you need to think to know what you are. So therefore...what do they mean "I am"? You are what exactly?

My question would be: "If you forget certain memories of your life, than does that mean you forget what made you who you are today?"

"They make me convinced that life as we know it is some kind of purgatory; in which everyone suffers and is punished, and every one of us is licking her wounds."

"I have no idea how miserable I am until I hear myself confess it out loud."

I love this quote simply because the fact is, most times we feel many emotions that we don't know that we have until we finally say it. It's like we are secretly in denial. Until we finally like admit it to ourselves, you know? Well i don't know what other way to explain it. It's just one of those quotes that as soon as i read it, it makes perfect sense to me...even if it doesn't to anybody else.

I have only one question for this and it is why can't we just realize our emotions when we feel them? Why do some of them only come when we finally admit it to ourselves. Or why do they need to be a surprise?

bahahahahaha ♥ :)