Comments on: Crossroads http://zionide.com/2005/05/02/crossroads/ . Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:48:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Bri http://zionide.com/2005/05/02/crossroads/#comment-698 Bri Tue, 03 May 2005 16:32:35 +0000 http://wp.zionide.com/2005/05/02/crossroads/#comment-698 (Bri sits Nick down, is tempted to wag his finger at him, but is compelled to smile, this guy is so adorable). Look, mate: I'm forty-four, failing marriage, two kids, came out only three months ago, the disaster of a guy I lost my heart to won't give it back, I've wasted so much time, but as John Mayer sang to me (me!) I think the best of me is still hiding up my sleeve. I am scared and excited and so happy not to have my nose pressed against the glass anymore, looking in at my life, there, next to the jelly beans. You, my young Padawhan, will have crossroads all the way down the garden path. They're your way of you telling your life not to be complacent. Don't accept mediocrity. And that's fine, but there will always be toleration, simply because sometimes we just have to wait a little. So tolerate it and go find something else to celebrate. We should never be without joy. You can have your cake and it it too. You just have to have the next one baking while you're scarfing this one. You have time. You have choices. You have crossroads. (Bri sits Nick down, is tempted to wag his finger at him, but is compelled to smile, this guy is so adorable).

Look, mate: I’m forty-four, failing marriage, two kids, came out only three months ago, the disaster of a guy I lost my heart to won’t give it back, I’ve wasted so much time, but as John Mayer sang to me (me!) I think the best of me is still hiding up my sleeve.

I am scared and excited and so happy not to have my nose pressed against the glass anymore, looking in at my life, there, next to the jelly beans.

You, my young Padawhan, will have crossroads all the way down the garden path. They’re your way of you telling your life not to be complacent. Don’t accept mediocrity. And that’s fine, but there will always be toleration, simply because sometimes we just have to wait a little. So tolerate it and go find something else to celebrate. We should never be without joy.

You can have your cake and it it too. You just have to have the next one baking while you’re scarfing this one. You have time. You have choices. You have crossroads.

]]> By: Kerrikbear http://zionide.com/2005/05/02/crossroads/#comment-697 Kerrikbear Tue, 03 May 2005 02:48:38 +0000 http://wp.zionide.com/2005/05/02/crossroads/#comment-697 Oh Nick, if I had it to do over again! I know you sometimes feel SO ancient, but the reality is that you are still such a young pup, with only a few things in your life that dictate you act responsibly...if not now, when? In 20 years when you wake up one morning and realize you're still sick of 'tolerating' your life? It's easy to say, "Yes, of course, life is meant to be lived", but the trick is to figure out just what it is for us, the individual, to wring the best out of it. Then, if you are lucky enough to get an inkling of what that's all about, be fearless. Ahh, who am I to advise?! All I know is that when I look back now to those crossroads you speak of, and the decisions I made, I wish I'd have taken more chances and concentrated more on the journey and less on the destination while I was still unencumbered enough to take a big ol' chomp out of life's ass, you know? Oh Nick, if I had it to do over again! I know you sometimes feel SO ancient, but the reality is that you are still such a young pup, with only a few things in your life that dictate you act responsibly…if not now, when? In 20 years when you wake up one morning and realize you’re still sick of ‘tolerating’ your life? It’s easy to say, “Yes, of course, life is meant to be lived”, but the trick is to figure out just what it is for us, the individual, to wring the best out of it. Then, if you are lucky enough to get an inkling of what that’s all about, be fearless.

Ahh, who am I to advise?! All I know is that when I look back now to those crossroads you speak of, and the decisions I made, I wish I’d have taken more chances and concentrated more on the journey and less on the destination while I was still unencumbered enough to take a big ol’ chomp out of life’s ass, you know?

]]> By: Vig http://zionide.com/2005/05/02/crossroads/#comment-696 Vig Mon, 02 May 2005 15:35:39 +0000 http://wp.zionide.com/2005/05/02/crossroads/#comment-696 Well, me too. I spend so much time whining and hating my charmed life that it's embarassing to admit. There's little way that I can scrap the job path I'm on because I want to continue to pay the mortgage. If you can do it ~ please don't wait. This soul killing life, real or unreal, is a trap. Good luck! Well, me too. I spend so much time whining and hating my charmed life that it’s embarassing to admit. There’s little way that I can scrap the job path I’m on because I want to continue to pay the mortgage. If you can do it ~ please don’t wait. This soul killing life, real or unreal, is a trap. Good luck!

]]> By: Joel http://zionide.com/2005/05/02/crossroads/#comment-695 Joel Mon, 02 May 2005 12:38:09 +0000 http://wp.zionide.com/2005/05/02/crossroads/#comment-695 Sounds like a cyclical thingie. Don't worry: it'll always be there. Sounds like a cyclical thingie. Don’t worry: it’ll always be there.

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