"He sees nothing but a seashell of a man"

[theladyrose]

Nobody ever bothers to say "You're an absolutely fabulous person and I am grateful that I know you" anymore. That was really the point of my last entry. There's this awful trend of not acknowledging all of the good work people do. I don't like seeing people wander in doubt about their own abilities. We don't love each other enough. All of us are capable of being rotten, but we also have the capability to turn ourselves in the direction we'd like to go. It seems like such a waste to question your potential when you've already got it.

This isn't quite related to what I was saying before, but I'll put it down anyway.

How clear we make it. Oh, my piglets, we're the origins of war. Not history forces nor the times nor justice nor the lack of it nor causes nor religions nor ideas nor kinds of government nor any other thing. We are the killers; we breed war. We carry it, like syphilis, inside. Dead bodies rot in the field and stream because the living ones are rotten. For the love of God, can't we love another just a little? That's how peace begins. We have so much to love each other for. We have such posibilities, my children; we could change the world.

-Eleanor of Aquitaine, James Goldman's the Lion in Winter

I'd like to imagine that the real Eleanor would have said that; it's possibly one of my favorite quotations ever. I am probably over-romanticizing her again.

And then there's another one that I like from the same play from Henry II:

We are the world in small. A nation is a human thing; it does what he do, for our reasons. Surely, if we're civilized, it must be possible to put the knives away. We can make peace. We have it in our hands.

HGTTG quotation of the day: This planet [Earth] has—or rather had—a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

Here's a second one for good measure, also from Douglas Adams: I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

If you're interested in joining my HGTTG caravan to the movie theater next Saturday afternoon (I haven't looked up the times yet) please tell me. Towels are not provided, so please bring your own :D

Comments

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

What a truly lovely post. Thank you so much.

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

You're welcome :)

[thehashmark.livejournal.com]

I agree about people not saying "You're an absolutely fabulous person and I am grateful that I know you"...

I know just one person who says it to me all the time.:D

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

:P

[(Anonymous)]

I agree with this completely. I often wonder if the people who have meant the most to me know that. I hope you know I am grateful to have known you. I don't know what I would do (or would have done) without you, especially this fall. You came through for me in a way and to an extent that no one else did. But it was not just this fall, it's been all the time since seventh grade. All the late night conversations, random experiences, and serious discussions on whatever problems we were having at the time. I can't imagine my life without them or you. I consider you to be one of my truest and closest friends. Please remember that.
-me
[side note: check the comments on your last post]

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

Dearie, you've been one of my best friends for what seems like ages; I seriously feel like I was in the same elementary school as you (I've been there a few times, anyway :P). I completely trust you and know that I can talk to you about anything and everything. It's really eerie about how similar we are in a lot of little ways. There's so much that we've done together and I am so happy that I can always rely on you. I do hope that I'm able to do the same for you as much as you have for me.

I can't wait for the Disneyland trip at the end of senior year. That will totally rock.

[dfordoom.livejournal.com]

Nobody ever bothers to say "You're an absolutely fabulous person and I am grateful that I know you" anymore.

That’s actually very true. Even when there are people who are very dear to us and whom we admire we don’t tell them. I’m not really sure why that is.

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

I have no idea either. It suddenly struck me the other day that I ought to tell that to people more often.

[horosha.livejournal.com]

I apologize hun for not catching on sooner. In case I have not said it enough lately, you're an absolutely fabulous person and I am grateful that I know you.

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

It suddenly struck me that I sound like a total egomaniac, which I didn't mean to imply. Erp.

And if I haven't said this already you are a wonderful person besides being a tremendously hoopy frood, and I really hope that things work out with you and Lauren.

[horosha.livejournal.com]

Hehe. Here's hoping that everyone's hopes work out.

Anyway, I would like to go. Take a token item for me and pretend I'm there in person?

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

I'll name my towel after you and bring it to the theater with me. Fair enough?

[horosha.livejournal.com]

Totally froody.