Bee’s Musings

In the past few days, I’ve found my patience with people to be running thin. The people driving who dont use turn signals. The people in the store who stop right in front of where you’re looking. In general, I’m quickly losing faith in the human spirit, and the ability of people to even remember the golden rule, let alone live by it.

In times like these, I like to read Mother Theresa’s poem entitled “Anyway”

People are often unreasonable, illogical and self centered; Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; Give the world the best you’ve got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and your God; It was never between you and them anyway.

I did it! I finally finished Anna Karenina!

It was a good book, although I’m not sure I would rank it as one of the best books ever written. At least I can now put it on my list of “Books I’ve Read”

I read a really great blog post today from Fast Company, about how to “Start Before You Know Where to Start.” I’ve been struggling a lot lately with knowing where to start with new projects, sometimes both personally and professionally. So many things seem overwhelming - a scary prospect for me, since I’ve always seen myself as someone who could do virtually anything if I set my mind to it.

I’m not going to say that the FC blog really is helping me to overcome this feeling. I’m hoping that all these feelings pass on their own.

But check out the blog. It is really good. And its got a quote from Nietzsche - you should read it at least for that!

First - congratulations to my friend Layne and the love of his life, Lisa, for getting engaged on Christmas Day. I’m very excited for both of them!

Secondly, I’d like to thank my friend Layne for not knocking his now fiance out right after proposing. Wow… people are classy. Read the story here. Really. Wow.

I knew there was a reason that I’m never getting married, or for that matter, engaged. Scary.