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I’ve spent a lot of time reminiscing about my college days, regretting mostly my attitude towards life. Nearly all my life I’ve spent my time hating my surroundings, my circumstances, the people I’m around, when I should have relished in the good of it all. I love downtown Knoxville, yet only chose to explore it my senior year. I love the Smoky Mountains but took that fact that it was only 45 minutes away for granted. It’s not the place I live that’s a black hole, it’s my heart, my ability to love and appreciate all that is good. I hope to live life a little differently, finding things to love instead of hate. And this goes for people too. Now I’m the person who pretty much goes off of first impressions, pretty accurate ones if I do say so myself; however, it does no good to hate people for imperfections that probably resonate more greatly in the plank in my own eye. It’s not people that make your life difficult, it’s how you perceive them. People only influence your life if you let them. Searching for the good in people regardless of the bad in them, only brightens your perspective on life I think. Maybe it’s the Descartean in me but I’m inclined to believe that life is all about perception rather than reality. If I perceive it to be, then it is. Now moving on…..
Now that I’m back home I have two doggies to write about, my senior citizen lab, and my juvenile fluffball. This morning I wake up to pathetic cries, as my parents have let the spoiled indoor pomeranian, outside. He’s perched on the usual window, crying the usual bloody murder. But that scumbag, I know as soon as I let him inside he’ll want to go outside to play with Pepper. After crying about 5 souls worth, Ninja starts to feel dejected. He wanders looking at the window, looking at the door, crying, sniffing a plant on the side, looking at the window, crying. Pepper barks. There’s people at our front door. ”MOMMMMMMM, PEOPLE, MOMMMMMMMMM” I hear you, quite loud and clear my love. *squeak* *squeak* *squeak* (Ninja’s attempt to be territorial as well) I hear you too munchkin. This somehow bonds them, protecting their one owner and their one house. And as I look towards the backyard I see a pomeranian trailing a dog literally 16x’s bigger than him. I don’t know if you can visualize a black fluffball following a huge lab around everywhere, but it is quite hilarious. It’s like the literal animation of a fart cloud, Pepper farts, out comes out cloud Ninja. Or one medium dog short of the cingular bar. This could be the start of an interesting friendship.
BUT instead I bought my first pair of Louboutins. MUAHAHAHAHAHA….MUAHAHAHAHAHA