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What Do We Want in Life? There Is Actually Only One Correct Answer!
This is a really interesting question because many of us really haven't got the faintest idea as to what it is. And if we do, we don't know why that's what we want. We may also think the answer is up for interpretation but my theory is that there's only a single answer. Let's first explore some of the popular answers.
Success! We always hear about people wanting to be "successful" in life. What does this even mean? What justifies success? I guess it's up for interpretation. But it seems that many people have this idea of success being directly proportional to wealth. People want a lot of money or at the very least want a stable "above average" job to allow them to buy nice things.
If you dig deeper into this, we can ask why. Why do people want nice things? Why do millionaires buy Lamborghinis? Fun is the obvious answer but there's likely more to it. It's a statement. It's saying "I win" or "I'm better than you". Success in its own definition means to accomplish. We seek to succeed over those around us. So for some percentage of us who seek success, what we're actually looking for is conquest.
This isn't actually a display of vanity. We're primates and we are biologically programmed to strive to be the alpha male. If we were any primate other than humans, having this drive for dominance would be useful. But in a human society, it's value dwindles to where it's almost obsolete.
So if you answered "success" for the purpose of flaunting your success over those below you, it may be in vein. Don't worry though, you have plenty of time to reconsider your answer.
The other answer, the most popular answer, is happiness. Happiness is a concept that has been strangled with ambiguity and can be very difficult to define. But I think it's the right answer if you commit to it. What do I mean by that? Well I don't mean part-time happiness. Or happiness and sacrifice. Or happiness in moderation. I mean relentless, extreme happiness. Rapture.
I want to take a quick detour here to talk about polarity. It's common to believe that you can't have light without dark, foreground without background, and also happiness without sadness. People always say they have their "ups and downs". And it makes sense, in theory, that without sadness, the best you could hope for would be a perpetual state of melancholy.
But that's wrong. It's entirely possible to be in a constant state of ebullience. We can experience rapture every day. And we can be happy constantly. We can raise our baseline from neutral to happy. And then we can swing between happy and extremely happy. This is very, very possible.
Then why aren't we? Why don't we do this? There are plenty of contributing reasons. For one, the society we live in isn't designed for sustained happiness. I'm not going to go into it in this post because it's a little out of the scope, but I do intend on writing about it in the future.
So far, we have two answers to the question of what we want in life. We've somewhat ruled out "success" in itself being a bad choice of answer. Let me explain to you why happiness is superior to success by presenting a third answer.
Legacy. People absolutely hate the idea of coming into this world, dawdling through life, and dying not having changed anything. People are sickened by this thought. We all want to make the world a better place and we all want to be remembered once we're gone. Because it's a nice thought, isn't it? To think that somewhere, at some stage, someone is thinking about you, the things you did, or is living a better life because of your actions.
You see success and legacy are mutually inclusive. You cannot be unsuccessful and change the world for the better. If you make the world a better place, you'll generally think of yourself as successful unless your ego refuses that notion.
I want to offer a thought as to why legacy is a waste of time. Now, many of you are probably thinking that's a huge call to make, but hear me out. I used to be all about legacy. I really wanted to be somewhere in the history books. I wanted to make the world a better place. And don't get me wrong, it's a great thing to want to make the world better, but there's a difference between what we want and why we want it.
Why do we want to change the world or be remembered for what we did, the mark we made? Firstly, because we enjoy helping other people and we'd rather do good than bad. That's obvious.
But the second and less obvious answer, is the fear of mortality. Humans hate the idea that once we die, it's over forever. We hate being mortal even if it seems stupid to admit. By changing the world, by making history, we can somehow avoid mortality and live forever in the history books or in the memories of those who live after us.
If you really get with the idea of death, and I mean really get with it, you'll realise that you'll actually never be in a position to experience the pleasantries of your legacy. After all, you'll be dead. If your consciousness evaporates after death, then you cannot experience what it would be like to be proud of all that you achieved. What's more is you cannot even comprehend that there are people still living (friends, family, and others) who were changed or are better off because of you. That's a somewhat gruesome thought but in actuality is one of the most liberating thoughts one can have.
When you hear someone say, "nothing really matters", you can't help but think they have a truly bleak outlook on life and are incapable of caring for anyone or having aspirations in life. But if you come to the conclusion that this is absolutely true, it's not a sad thought at all. It's a very freeing thought. And once you have this thought, your life immediately improves. If you're interested in reading more about this, I've just written an article on the liberation one will experience when fully realising nothing really matters.
To summarise those few paragraphs, legacy is of no use to you when you're dead. Your counterargument might be, "yes, but the people around be will be better off because of what I did and the legacy I left". This is also false. Only you can experience the people around you right now. Them being better off is only of value to you if you're able to interpret that in relation to yourself. Without you, these people have no significance because they only exist in relation to you. Just like the sun only appears in relation to how our eyes see it. In fact, if you don't exist to perceive the existence of these people, then they don't exist either!
I will unpack this idea further in a future post.
And so I'm making an argument for happiness. It's the selfish argument but it's the right one. So what do we really want in life? The answer is "maximum happiness". Because no doubt a life comprised of 100 units of happiness will be a better life than a life comprised of 20 units of happiness. So we should seek maximum happiness in life. This is the best possible life. And it's pretty difficult to argue against.
How do we go about maximizing happiness? It's two-fold. We remove that which is mutually exclusive to happiness and amp up the existing happiness. More on this to come.
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How in the world is Mitt Romney leading any polls in any State right now? I've posted before about how broken our two party system is and I stand by that. But I will go so far in this rant as to say there is NO two party system. We have politicians that use different platforms with very different stances on issues to get elected. Once elected they break half their campaign promises or cannot get their promises through legislation. The rest of the time they spend serving those that helped them get elected and guess what? That isn't YOU or ME...its the persons and corporations that funded them!
Please stop voting for the RepubliCrats people! Perfect illustration of my point is Bush and Obama. One is a supposedly staunch conservative and Christian and the other is supposedly a bleeding heart Liberal with ties to Christianity but most likely a Muslim. Both passed legislation that none of us wanted, both sent our troops or continued to perpetuate war in the Middle East, both have increased the Nations debt, and both helped to bail out the people and companies that caused our economic crisis to begin with. The list goes on and on but hopefully you get my point. If Obama is all about Change as he promised in his campaign then why are we seeing so many similarities?
Fast forward to Mitt Romney. Puhlease! Does anyone think (a) he is any different from the same ole government politician that will usher in the kinds of changes this country needs to see in order to thrive again and (b) does anyone seriously think he will beat Obama even though his popularity is in severe decline? I am no prophet but I can guarantee you something. If Romney wins the nomination and somehow actually beats Obama...he will be NO different. He will be another RepubliCrat that at best may take credit for an upswing that he did nothing to create or at worst continue to drive us into the dust of history.
The ONLY man running for office right now that is talking a different game is Ron Paul. He may be lying through his teeth and he may be another RepubliCrat when all is said and done...BUT...he's a very good actor if that is the case. The fact is his campaign isn't a bunch of new and fresh ideas like most think. Its actually just a return to our roots and Constitutional heritage. It has taken 235 years for us to lose focus and mess things up this bad. I would rather it not take 235 more to realize that our Framers and Forefathers had it right and start running things again, as they would and as they taught.
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Sunday, February 14, 2010
I am just a bit confused because before i had 6 followers, all of which were my friends. but after 2 weeks i now have 23.
And most of you seem from different countries.
Followers, how did you find my blog?
Why are you interested in it?
Do any of you know each other?
19 comments:
- Té la mà Maria - Reus said...
very good blog, congratulations
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- February 14, 2010 at 11:56 AM
- Naimi said...
hey :) I find your blog I don't remember how lol, then I liked it because you're funny and the subject you are talking about have a little something. Anyway, regards from Quebec, Canada ! :)
- February 14, 2010 at 4:14 PM
- Akash Khandelwal said...
well..i was finding..some interesting blogs..nd got ur on d screen..
quite..gud stuffs..u wrote..
- February 15, 2010 at 9:14 AM
- secretly poetic said...
I found your blog by clicking on the Next Post>> button on my dashboard.
- February 22, 2010 at 1:44 AM
- nike said...
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- February 24, 2010 at 6:55 PM
- Pokemon Trainer Randall said...
Ha I stumbled across your blog through the "next blog" button. Read your profile and saw you liked some amazing films AND were Christian. So, yeah, I'm following you :P.
- February 26, 2010 at 2:03 PM
- Dave H said...
I just found your blog by clicking on the 'Next Blog' link at the top and yours seems interesting..
Regards from Shropshire England, UK.
- February 27, 2010 at 2:21 PM
- Audra- Raw and Untold said...
I was looking throught blogs after adding a post to mine i liked ur first post i saw good stuff on here
- February 27, 2010 at 9:52 PM
- Dancing Queen said...
I think your blog is one of those blogs you just have to carry on reading babe!!! I read all of it and in the death colum i started crying it was so good!!!love lexi xxx
- February 28, 2010 at 10:50 AM
- Nicole said...
Hi! I randomly came upon your blog after clicking "next blog." You and I seem to have similar blog entires. Random rants.. thoughts.. etc. Thought it might be fun to follow someone just randomly writing! :-)
- March 2, 2010 at 9:41 AM
- Manx Hatter said...
I just dicovered it randomly
- March 2, 2010 at 2:14 PM
I am not a follower, but I'm glad to see that there are other people who click the Next Blog button!
- March 3, 2010 at 1:21 PM
- Wolfy said...
I'm not currently a follower but, like many ofthe others, I found via "Next Blog". I write a Fishing / Outdoor blog.
- March 3, 2010 at 2:56 PM
- L.Cabrales said...
I stumbled upon your blog.. while at work, hitting next blog to keep myself from stabbing my legs just to wake up. Then yours woke me up!
I do not know anyone else, I'm sure. Although I haven't really checked.
I really like the way you think though!
- March 6, 2010 at 12:23 PM
- willson said...
The popular comment layout is common, so it is easily recognized scanning to post a comment. If the comment section is in a different format, then I am going to spend more time trying to decipher what everything means.
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- March 7, 2010 at 10:40 PM
- willson said...
The popular comment layout is common, so it is easily recognized scanning to post a comment. If the comment section is in a different format, then I am going to spend more time trying to decipher what everything means.
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- March 9, 2010 at 10:05 AM
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I just went through random blogs and I found yours.
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- April 5, 2010 at 12:36 AM
- arlee bird said...
You must be in another dimension of weirdness because I too clicked next blog out of curiosity and here I am. I'm not going to become a follower, but of course if you click to my blog and follow mine then I'll be obligated to follow yours. But yeah it's freaky that you've got all these followers from all over the world. I mean it's kind of scary in a way.
If you follow my blog then let me know in a comment and I'll come back here.
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"Good to be home." I was looking up at the rather old looking front door of my family's home. The house was ridiculously sized, especially since my mother and brother were the only one's living in it at this time.
I walked up to the door with my suitcase wheeling behind me and up the steps. When I got to the door I debated whether or not to ring the bell or just walk in. I hadn't been home in a few months. I'd spent the first semester of my senior year in Italy. My brother and I were almost a year apart in age down to the month, but I was still younger. I had skipped a grade in Junior high, putting my brother and myself in the same graduating class.
Deciding to just walk in I pressed down on the door handle and pushed the heavy wood open. I walked in to find the foyer darkly lit. "Hello!" I called out somewhat.
I heard footsteps in the upstairs hall and when I looked up to the top of the stairs, their stood my brother. We had very few similarities. Besides our black hair we almost had nothing else in common, accept for DNA. My brother took after my father, deceased I might add, with dark brown eyes and tanned skin with his classic good looks. And I tended to look more like my mother, I had a very vintage female look as she used to say. I had gray eyes and fair skin. I stood out in my family that was for certain. Though I took after my mother in the looks department, no one was really certain how I got my gray eyes. My mother's were hazel.
A smile graced my lips as I released my suitcase and stood hands on my hips. My denim skirt, black and purple polka dot bustier, black chuck taylor lace up knee high boots and black and purple knee high tube socks, stuck out in great contrast to the elegant foyer in which I stood.
"Caleb." I said sweetly.
He made his way down the stairs and grabbed me in a tight embrace. "It's so good to have you home sis. So much has been going on."
"So I've heard. How are the guys?" I asked.
Caleb broke the hug setting me back on my feet. "Good, Tyler and Pogue are good."
"And Reid?" Reid and I were a thing, well had been. When I left he said that he thought we should see other people. In Reid language it meant he wasn't sure he could be true to me if I wasn't around. So I agreed because it was what he wanted. Caleb gave Reid hell for it, since I left that night after crying my eyes out into my human pillow, my brother.
"Fine." Caleb bit out.
I smiled at him. "Caleb, Reid was right to break things off, he's a bit of a flirt and if I was gone and found out he'd cheated on me it would've been ten times worse."
"So you're back to finish out your senior year at Spencer?" Caleb changed the subject.
I nodded. "Yep."
"So how was Italy?"
"Italy...was...incredible." I said breathlessly a smile on my lips. "I took to Rome like I was home. It was absolutely wonderful. I made friends with a few kids from school. I had real Italian food for dinner every night, and I got some amazing pictures. I have to go to the photo booth at the pharmacy and print like a million pictures for you." Caleb laughed at my enthusiasm and gave me another squeeze.
"Well I'm glad you had a great time. And while I didn't have my little sister around to disturb me I sort of met someone." He said shyly.
I grinned. "Really? A girl?"
"Yes a girl you dork." He ruffed my hair and I pushed his hands away laughing. There was a knock at the door. "And that would be her, Kate and the guys right now. "
"Oh uh I'm going to go upstairs and put my suitcase in my room, be down in a few?" It wasn't really a question but Caleb nodded and patted my shoulder.
"I really am glad your home." Caleb smiled. I grinned back.
"Me to." I hurried off up the staircase after snatching my suitcase, just as I turned to go down the hall I heard the front door open.
"Hey man." Pogue.
"What's up?" Tyler.
And the faintest as I got further away. "Dude you look like shit." I suppressed a small laugh. Typical Reid. I made it to my room and opened the door. I was suddenly reminded of how different my room was from that of my room in Italy. I'd stayed in a very stunning Villa my mother had gotten for me. My room their was small, and consisted of a simple metal framed bed with white linens. The thin double doors leading to the small second floor patio were hidden by white curtains and the walls were simply white.
But my room here was an extravagant mess, or so I liked to think. My walls were all black, my ceiling the same, the carpet beneath my feet was a royal blue, and my bedding was black and white zebra print. The double doors that were leading to my own second story balcony were hidden by white curtains. All in all this bedroom was almost the complete opposite of my room in Italy, and to be honest I'd missed the color. I had several large framed photos on my walls, different animals of course. I'd grown up loving animals.
I set my suitcase on my four poster canopy bed and walked to my en-suite bathroom. It was more my mother's style rather than my own. It was plain and simple. Tile covered the walls and floor, the tube was against the far wall with a sliding glass door so I could shower as well. Their was a toilet and a sink, keeping my bathroom very simplistic, but I didn't really need more than that. I checked my hair and make-up in the mirror went back in to my room. Pictures were on my royal blue wood painted five drawer dresser across from my bed. And their were more pictures on my two night tables on either side of my bed. They all consisted of family and friends.
Friends. Had any one besides my brother really missed me? Well I knew of one person who did, she wrote me an email every other day. Evangeline Parry. Pogue's little sister, she was eight and I was the closest she had to a 'sister figure' since I was ten years older than her. Pogue's mother had passed away shortly after giving birth to young Evangeline, leaving Wade Parry and his son to raise a young infant girl. I'd stepped in to be the big sister role model when I was twelve and Evan was two.
Evangeline was a shy quiet girl, not very outspoken like her brother at all. She inherited that particular trait from the late Jillian Parry. Jillian or aunt Jilly as all the kids had referred to her growing up, was soft spoken and very sweet. How she'd fallen in love with a blunt man like Wade Parry had baffled many people. Her death had been devastating to everyone, especially Pogue, so he'd decided to be the best older brother he could. And he was.
And then their was Rylee Simms, my oldest friend. She and Tyler were twins, fraternal twins. They both had stunning eyes and dark hair. Tyler's hair was actually natural where as Rylee liked to dye hers on a regular basis, to steer clear of the 'norms'. Georgie and Trevor were great parents to both of their kids. Tyler took after his father while Rylee, was almost a perfect mix of both. They were polar opposites though. Tyler was shy quiet and studious, while Rylee prided herself on being loud, boisterous and artistic more so than brain smart.
I knew Rylee had been really upset with me when I'd chosen to start my senior year in Italy. We were supposed to spend our last year in High school together, but the opportunity arose for me to go to Italy and I jumped at the chance. I'd always wanted to go. Rylee had practically thrown a tantrum that I wouldn't be there to start off our year together at the grand Dells party. But I told her if she was my friend she'd support me. I'd understood her position though, I was leaving her with four guys and a lovesick Kate which wasn't much better than a guy at this point since she'd always be with Pogue. I felt microscopically bad and even worse when I found out Reid and Tyler had beat up a potential boyfriend who asked her to fall fest.
So with one last glance around my room and a smile I headed back to see everyone. I was sure Rylee wasn't downstairs, cause she rarely went anywhere with the guys on a Saturday. It was her painting day and she liked to sit up in her room and just paint. And Evangeline was to young to be traveling around with the others.
As I reached the bottom step I could hear the conversation in the grand living room. "I don't know what he was thinking?" That was Tyler and it had me quite curious.
"Would you shut up baby boy?" Reid bit out.
"Let us see, Reid?" That was a voice I didn't recognize. It was a girl, must be Caleb's new girlfriend.
I continued to listen as I stood to the side of the entranceway leading in to the grand living room. "No." Reid replied curtly.
"Oh come on why not?" Kate was teasing him. What had Reid done that he didn't want anyone to see?
"No." Reid repeated.
"Dude it can't be that bad." Pogue sounded as though he was about to laugh.
"Reid if you don't like it maybe Sarah and I can fix it." Kate offered. Fix what? What had Reid changed?
"It isn't that I don't like it, I just don't need your guys' approval." Reid scoffed. I could practically see him rolling his eyes and crossing his arms over his chest in a defensive manor.
I decided to interrupt and stepped in to the entrance way. "Sono indietro!" (I'm back!) I said raising my arms to the sides and posing jokingly.
"Guys Cordi's home from Italy." Caleb said.
"No dipshit we couldn't see that." Reid bit out bitterly and moved passed me through the foyer and out the front door.
"What's got his panties in a twist?" I asked calmly as I turned back to the others. I didn't get a response right away since Kate chose that moment to stop staring stupidly and tackled me to the ground in a hug. "Girl unless you want everyone to see I'm not wearing panties I suggest you get up." Kate jumped up quickly and I climbed to my feet laughing. "Sorry, I was only kidding." She hugged me again.
"Damn have I missed you." She said letting me go, Tyler and Pogue engulfed me in a group hug.
"Good to have you home from Italy Squirt." Pogue teased ruffling my hair as they both pulled away from me.
I smiled. "Good to be home, like I told Caleb."
"Uh..." Caleb grabbed the 'new girls' hand and brought her towards us.
"Sarah this is my sister Cordi, Cordi this is Sarah my girlfriend." Caleb introduced us quickly.
I smiled and held my hand out to Sarah. "It's nice to meet you."
She smiled back. "You to." Sarah seemed like a sweet girl and I could tell by the way Caleb was looking at her, that he cared for her a lot. Quite possibly he was even falling in love with her. "Caleb's mentioned you a few times."
I didn't want to upset her by telling her, he hadn't mentioned her on any occasion while I was gone. But that was typical Caleb, he would start seeing someone and not tell me or introduce me unless he thought it was going somewhere. He told me once it was so I wouldn't get attached in case things didn't work out between him and whoever. So any girl that actually got to meet his family was really special and obviously Sarah was. "Really? Good things I hope." I said jokingly.
Sarah nodded.
"So I think I 'm going to go see what Reid's problem is." I told the others. "I want to tell you guys all about Italy, but I don't want to have to tell the stories a million times." They agreed.
"Just be careful, Reid's been a bit pissy lately, Uncle Rich has been hounding him again." Tyler informed me.
I sighed and nodded, no wonder Reid's panties were in a bunch. Uncle Rich could be a little overbearing sometimes, we all saw it even Aunt Melinda thought so, but Uncle Rich thought Reid needed tough love. I'm not saying he's a bad father, he's just hard on Reid sometimes.
So I headed out the front door and saw Reid sitting on the front steps. "Hey stranger." He glanced over his shoulder and then back to the driveway, where Tyler's Hummer was parked behind Caleb's mustang. He dropped the cigarette between his fingers onto the stone driveway and stepped on it with a boot adorn foot. "So you giving me the silent treatment? Doesn't seem fair really since you broke up with me." I sat next to him and he looked over at me, those blue eyes that no one else could read, displaying only one emotion to me. Loneliness.
"How was your trip?" He asked looking away.
Ok I could build up to the question of what's bothering him. This is just how Reid works, you have to know how to steer him around. And I knew well. "Good, I had a lot of fun. Made some friends." I answered honestly.
"Guy friends?" Reid asked.
I let out a small laugh and shook my head. "Yes, but not what you're thinking." I replied sweetly. "So what did you do?"
"I overheard part of your conversation, what exactly did you do?" I asked.
Reid looked over at me and then back at the cars. "Something stupid."
"You do a lot of stupid things, this can't be that bad." I nudged his shoulder a little. Reid sighed and reached up with one fingerless gloved hand and grabbed his beanie pulling it from his head. In the dimming light of the night sky and the small porch light I could see the faint coloring of brown were blond use to be. I wasn't exactly certain what to say. I'd always seen Reid as a blond, and his hair was always cut to fall over his forehead, but now it was a little shorter and messy but I could tell it was styled forward at least somewhat. "Oh wow." I said unable to stop staring.
"Stupid right? I was having a bad day, so I went and bought some hair dye. Thought if I changed the way I looked I'd feel a little better." Reid never could hide the truth from me. Before we dated I was usually the person he would go to to just talk, cause I would listen. Tyler would to but he always felt like he was making Tyler take sides. I lifted my hand to Reid's head and gently ran my fingers through the newly light brown tresses to straighten out the wild hairs. I heard Reid sigh when my fingers came in contact with his scalp. "So go ahead, tell me how stupid I am."
Deciding that I actually liked it I shook me head. "I can't." He looked over at me again. "I actually really like it. It's different."
"Really?" Reid asked.
"As long as you didn't do it to fit in with the guys, yeah."
"Like I said bad day. You know me I don't like fitting in." Reid replied. I stopped fixing his hair and set my hands on my thighs.
"Well I like it." I affirmed. "So want to tell me what's bothering you?"
Reid shrugged and pulled some keys from his jacket pocket and began fiddling with them. "Dad's jumping down my throat again about how my grades suck and no college is going to want me."
Uncle Rich would not accept the fact that Reid wasn't going to go to college. Reid had no desire to go in to the family business of real estate. "He always does this Reid why do you still let it get to you?"
"Because he's right, I'm not good enough for anything. I. Have. No. Ambition." He punctuated each word at the end. "And to top it off mom thinks breaking up with you is the stupidest thing I've ever done."
"Well I'll have to agree with your mom on that." I said playfully nudging him in the shoulder again. "But I don't want you thinking you're not good enough, cause you're great. You really are and whatever you do you're going to be amazing at it and you'll be able to throw that in Uncle Rich's face."
"What if he's right? I'm not smart like the other's, I don't really have many hobbies..." Reid trailed off, but I could hear the distinct sound of failure in his words. Reid was anything but a failure he had just been under Uncle Rich's thumb for far to long. And my brother never really helped either.
"Than you'll be a professional pool player and travel the globe, beating opponents from every nationality." I teased.
That got a genuine Reid Garwin smile. Yes a smile, he smiles just for me though. "Andare con confidenza nel senso dei vostri sogni. Vive la vita che avete immaginato." I'd been speaking Italian since I was five, it was almost impeccable. My father spoke it and as a young girl I idolized him, so I decided I wanted to learn. He taught me what he could and when he started getting sick, he hired a private teacher for me and Caleb.
"And what does that mean?" Reid asked looking over at me.
I smiled. "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. Henry David Thoreau." Another came to mind that was fitting as well. "Fidar del vostro proprio istinto. I vostri errori hanno potuto pure essere I vostri propri, anziché qualcun'altro." My words were soft. "Trust your own instincts. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else. I'm not sure who said that."
"You know, I have to agree with my mother." Reid said and looked away from me, a small blush fell on my cheeks.
I heard the front door open and looked behind me and saw Caleb. "It's December and you're sitting out here without a jacket, are you insane?" He asked.
My hands had suddenly started to rub at my arms, I hadn't even noticed I was cold. This is what happened when I was around Reid. He was intoxicating and everything around me was nonexistent. And then Caleb's eyes landed on Reid. I stood up and looked at my brother 'don't.' I mouthed wordlessly.
Reid stood up and followed me back in to the house. He tried to put his beanie back on but I grabbed his hand. "Leave it, I like it." I told him with a kind smile.
He glared at me somewhat and then nodded his head, his eyes softening and he stuffed the beanie in his jacket pocket. We walked in to the grand living room and all eyes focused on us. "Holy shit dude!" Pogue exclaimed looking at Reid.
I glared at him. "I think it looks nice and if anyone else has a rather negative comment about it, think twice before speaking because I might just shove my boot up your ass." Tyler and Pogue both diverted their gazes elsewhere where as Sarah and Kate smiled.
"I like it." Kate said kindly. Her and Reid weren't the best of friends since he'd insisted on hitting on her for the first two months of Pogue's and her relationship, but they were friendlier than sworn enemies.
Sarah nodded her head in agreement. "You look handsome." Reid didn't reply he simply stalked over to a single seat and plopped down hands in his pocket, body slumped one leg angled and bent properly at the knee the other stretched out. I made myself comfortable on the armrest of his chair.
"So, what was your trip like?" Tyler said quickly turning the subject to something else as Caleb walked in the room with a cup of coffee in hand. He took a seat and I began my tales.
Next Day:
"Welcome back Cordi." I smiled at the barista. Her name was Lacen and she was so sweet. She attended Spencer on scholarship and she worked at my favorite coffee place in town.
"Thanks Lace. So my usual please?"
"Sure thing." Lacey smiled and rung me up. I paid with the cash I'd retrieved from my wallet and then slipped the extra change into the tip jar. I walked around to sit in my usual corner and spotted and head of light brown hair. Smiling to myself I walked over. "You're up early for a sunday." I said taking a seat across from Reid.
He looked up from his coffee cup. "Spent most of my night thinking after I got home."
"Yeah? What about?" I asked casually. Lacen brought my coffee over and set it down looking at Reid.
"Would you like a refill?" She asked gesturing to his cup of black coffee. Reid shook his head and Lacen smiled over at me. "Let me know if you need anything."
I smiled and nodded at her. "Thanks."
"I thought about a lot of things." Reid finally replied after Lacen went back behind the counter.
"Like?" I probed.
Reid gave me that 'I'm-not-telling' look. "Nothing important."
"It has to be to keep you awake all night. Reid Garwin enjoys sleep about as much as he enjoys women and pool, maybe even more so." I teased him.
He gave a short curt laugh. "Fine, I was thinking about what you said last night. I started wondering about my future."
"Reid whatever you do with your future is up to you." I told him and sipped my caramel flavored latte.
Reid nodded. "Yeah I know. Then I got to thinking about you."
"Yeah. Remember when we broke up, you knew I wasn't sure I could be faithful while you were away?" I nodded silently. "Well I never did anything but flirt. And now that your back it just got me thinking is all."
"And I think...no I know that I've fallen completely in love with you. Last night when you ran your fingers through my hair I just, I realized how much I missed that. And I wanted to kiss you so bad." Reid chuckled mirthlessly. "I don't know when I turned into this mushy Reid, but it doesn't completely suck."
I smiled sweetly. "So what are you saying?"
"I think you know."
A mischievous grin appeared on my lips. "No, I don't."
"Ok have it your way. Cordi can we please pick up where we left off. I want you to be my girlfriend again. I made a stupid mistake breaking up with you." Reid said to appease me."Do you want the 'I'm nothing without you' romantic explanation?"
I giggled. "Heavens no. That would ruin all my imagery of you Reid Garwin. You are spontaneously romantic and very un- cliché please don't ruin that for me."
Reid smirked. "Ok I wont. So?"
"So..." I drawled. "I'll think about it." And with that I stood with my disposable coffee cup and headed out of the coffee shop. I leaned against the poll of a stop sign just on the corner and waited for Reid to exit the coffee shop. It didn't take long, he turned and headed away from me. "So I thought about it!" I called after him.
Reid stopped and turned around. He looked at me and cocked his head to the side. I started walking towards him, dropping my now empty coffee cup in a trash can to my right. I stopped a few feet from him. Reid took a few steps towards me, closing the space between us almost instantly. I looked up at him, I wasn't tall like my brother and his friends, but I wasn't extremely short either. "And?" He questioned.
A smirk lifted to corners of my mouth and I quickly reach up a perfectly manicured hand and grabbed his neck pulling him down our lips crashing together forcefully. Reid wrapped his arms around my waist, and pulled me in tighter as my hands sifted through his light brown hair. As I pulled back from his lips I sighed contently. "So was that answer enough for you or did you want another?" I asked jokingly.
Reid pressed his lips to mine again kissing me good and hard. I loved his kisses. I had missed his kisses. "Cord!"
We broke apart and I turned my head. "Rylee."
"What's this? You're back and already dating another guy?" She asked looking stunned.
I frowned. "Another guy?" She pointed to Reid and I giggled. "Oh no, Rylee..." I turned Reid's face to the side and grinned. "It's Reid."
"Oh, ok well then everything in the world is right again...hey wait Reid what the hell did you do to your head?" Rylee exclaimed.
"Not now Ry we're kind of busy." I told her with a devious grin.
"You'll call me later?" Rylee questioned with a smirk of her own.
I nodded. "Of course."
Rylee smiled. "Fine. Have fun." And she walked away.
Reid looked back down at me and smirked. "Where were we?"
"Uhm...right about...here." I murmured against his lips.
AN: Short and simple one shot. I wrote this while I was having my writers block with chapter 17 of Untouched and decided to post it and see what I kind of response it got. If you haven't seen pictures of Toby Hemingway as a brunette check out my page I'll add a link.


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The guys over at 8 Bit Dad said on twitter recently that, "If we don't post everyday, it means we've been putting family first." Man I love that. You wouldn't believe how far I had to scroll back on their twitter feed to find that quote. I am awful at twitter. There's too many hashtags floating around, and I'm never sure if I have to virtual hug the person who talks to me or just move right to the cuddling. So confusing. Sometimes I have to step back a little and remember that blogging is something I've been making an attempt to do for only three months. I've been a parent for more than three years now! Just how parenting came before the words in real life, parenting must continue to be the primary focus over the blog. I put a lot of pressure on myself as a "new guy" in the world of dad bloggers to get a little attention without being in anyone's face about it all. The biggest part of that is posting, and there are moments where I feel bad that I didn't get a chance to finish something on a particular day. I've asked a few people for advice and then quickly left those people alone so they don't feel I'm like the annoying kid brother who just wants to follow them everywhere. I know that guy, I've been that guy, and people want that guy to go away. I even know a few people who do quite well with their own personal blogs, and I refuse to ask for pointless plugs that are apropos of nothing they would ever talk about normally. I'd love a larger audience. I'd love to power through post after post, but in the end I am a dad first and I have a long way to go in this process. Feeling a need to apologize for my parenting getting in the way of a post is a bit stupid.
This week really let me take that idea to heart. I'm gearing up for my new babysitting adventures, which will start on Monday – wish me luck! I'm also making some changes to my diet and exercise program, namely, having a diet and exercise program. I'm tired, I'm busy, and in the middle of all this are my boys. William has finally, finally, found a way to get out of his shell more. He's talking more to us, instead of just near us. He's turning into a boy who wants to do things! It's so exciting, and when he wants to live out his imagination, I'm ready to join him. I really love it.
I made a comment on my facebook page the other day explaining why I might not be getting a new post up, and people seemed to love it. My assumption is that everyone thought it was sweet, and not that people were glad to have a break from me. So I thought I'd expand on our very important search the other day.
Several months ago, it was announced that Disney Junior was going to turn into a full-time channel. Melissa and I were overjoyed with that news. Why? CLEARING THE DVR! So many Mickey, Jake, Manny, and Little Einstein episodes clogging our system. So a full channel devoted to those shows and more, made us a happy pair. Of course, it took a while to be offered in Idaho, but we have it now! Along with all the normal shows that the boys were familiar with, came a few new titles as well as some Disney movies.
One of the movies, which I had never heard of, was "The Tigger Movie." It was released in 2000 and as best as I could find, is the only movies involving the "Winnie the Pooh" characters where Tigger is the main focus. I'm not going to go into the details of the movie, though I will say if your child likes that silly old bear, they will enjoy this story. All you need to know for this is that at a point in the movie, Tigger and Roo are bouncing through the woods looking for Tigger's family by yelling, "Hello? Tigger's family?! Come out, come out, where ever you are!"
For several days, William had been saying something that typed out probably looks like this, "Comeonah iya are!!" Having my minor in toddler linguistics, I really felt like I should be able to figure out what that meant. I had no idea. Till one day we were watching the movie, again, and William joined in at that scene with Tigger and Roo using his gibberish version. That is William's idea of, "Come out, come out where ever you are!" So now it was no longer confusing, just adorable.
With my role as William's playmate becoming more and more involving, it generally means he wants more time playing with puzzles or drawing in coloring books…or any books. This week though, thanks to the folks at Disney, he had something else in mind.
I had just put Carter down for his nap, and William was running around in a mild panic downstairs having finished watching The Tigger Movie…again. While to me it was downstairs, to William it had become the world of his friends from the hundred-acre woods. I'm almost surprised that I was not scolded for tramping on flowers or splashing in puddles as I took that final step off the stairs. Honestly, I was hoping for a moment of rest or a chance to check over the latest post so I could publish it before we dove into play time. Not that day. William reached up for my hand, and I was not going to tell him to wait. For a few moments I wasn't really sure what I was supposed to be doing, then William called out, "Hello? Tigger's Fam-wee? Comeonah iya are!" Ah! We're looking for Tigger's family, and since William was leading me, I assumed he was Tigger which made me Roo. Stick the short guy with the little character. Funny, son.
So we searched. And we searched. I mean, our house is not exactly big so there was a few laps made. We hopped a little and we checked in some of the drawers, but just like in the movie we never did find Tigger's family. All in all, our adventure probably lasted less than 10 minutes, but it was the first time William has ever pulled me into his world. In those moments, time really wasn't the important thing, and running spell check on some goofy write-up wasn't something I was going to worry about when we were working so hard to find a family of Tiggers. I made sure to reiterate a point made in the movie, that Tigger didn't need to go searching for his family, they were right beside him all along. It's true that I will always be here for my kids, but still, I'll go looking for that elusive family tree whenever William is ready to bring me along again. I hope he does.
So yes, if you've found your way to my exit on the internet turnpike, I do hope you'll stay a while. I hope you enjoy what you see, and I even hope you'll recommend me to a friend. Perhaps even lots of friends?
Know that there are days where I'm in search of a huge, striped tree filled with bouncing Tiggers of every color. There are days when I'm sharing a blanket with a special little man to watch Sheetrock Hills put on their brand new play, "Snow White and the Seven Tools." Some days I've just got too much dad life going on, and that has to happen before any of this.
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Many TMT companies are characterised by being cash-rich, and therefore, their liquidity needs tend towards investment of surplus cash rather than securing access to routine borrowing for working capital purposes. In theory, liquidity management amongst cash rich companies is relatively straightforward. Once cash has been received, treasurers can then determine how best to use it, such as whether to centralise or repatriate cash where it is feasible to do so, and how best to invest it. However, the TMT sector is distinctive in the sheer volume of cash that many treasurers need to contend with, which is often far higher than those in the energy sector, for example. Unlike some other sectors, TMT companies, (with the exception of telecom companies in some cases), have relatively low overheads, with less need for major investment in infrastructure or 'bricks and mortar'. Technology companies further reduce their infrastructure costs by outsourcing manufacturing, while both technology and media companies, tend to promote a more flexible culture of home working and 'bring your own device' than more traditional industries.
The first step for many technology and media companies, in particular, to deal with their cash is to centralise into large cash pools, typically in the US and UK, with one or two further centres in Asia. For telecom companies, which often operate more domestically, their centralisation structures will depend more on the geographies in which they operate. While TMT companies are often the most innovative in their product lines, services and business models, they remain conservative in their investment decisions. In particular, security of capital remains a primary objective. As with all corporate treasurers, segmenting cash into different tranches with different return, duration and liquidity requirements (working capital, reserve cash and strategic cash for example) is a key element to a successful investment strategy. Given TMT firms will often have larger amounts that they can allocate to longer-term reserve and strategic cash than many other industries, they are often in a better position to compromise on short-term access to liquidity for these tranches. As a result, they are in a position to access a broader spectrum of instruments across a wider array of tenors than companies that need more immediate access to cash.
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Treasurers also need to ensure that they are able to take advantage of innovative investment solutions that banks are developing to be attractive to investors whilst allowing them to fulfil their Basel III obligations, such as 33 day or three month notice accounts. Asset managers are also identifying areas that can add value to investors, including products that take account of the changing liquidity appetite of banks as the primary issuers of money market instruments. As a result, it is important to review emerging opportunities regularly, and update investment policies accordingly.
As well as managing large volumes of cash, our study emphasised the importance of automation and efficiency amongst TMT treasurers. In many cases, these companies are already leading the field in adoption of sophisticated treasury management technology integrated with online dealing portals as well as electronic banking tools. As a result, these companies are amongst those best-positioned to adopt HSBC's automated investment solution that links accounts directly to HSBC and third party MMFs. By seamlessly integrating cash and liquidity management activities with investments, treasurers gain the benefit of diversification, same-day access to liquidity, and potentially higher investment returns without compromising on visibility or control over cash.
Given the volume of cash that TMT treasurers need to manage, we are anticipating that TMT treasurers will be interested in exploring further development to this automated investment solution that HSBC will be rolling out in due course. For example, by allowing treasurers to define their investment policies and limits within the system, funds can then be invested automatically within these parameters, enhancing automation and control over the cash investment process.
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