Voices for the Soul
1) Eason - 2/26
2) Hins - 8/27
3) MUCC - 12/15
4) Jay - 12/21[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="Food for the Soul!"]

I have no destiny; I have only a path, with many fragile moments.

"Wheel of morality, turn turn turn. Tell us the lesson that we should learn..." -Animaniacs
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或許我真的是一個自虐狂。我決意來SF的原因之一就是想要品嘗孤單。對於一個如果我想的話,身邊從來不會缺少朋友的人來説,孤身在一個差不多是完全陌生的地方,霸道地暫時佔據著他人生活的一部分,因爲自己的任性而為不少人,特別是自己最重要的親人帶來了許多的不便。看著四週清楚描述出一個年輕人20年的生命:衣物、拼圖、CD、獎盃、玩具、家常用品等等一切,述説著一份與我無關的幸福。而我,在房間裏劃分了自己的一個角落,繼續著我尋找自我的腳步。未來是迷茫的、幸福是狡猾的、而我,是否能夠保持隨遇而安的心態呢?去年大概這個時候我也來到了SF。同一個地方,同一個我,所差的,只是時間而已,心情和際遇卻是天壤之別。但是,如果沒有去年,我又是否懂得放開自己,走到這一步呢?人生,太長了,多少悲傷絕望蔓延不斷。人生,太短了,多少夢想失之交臂無力追求。我們,太渺小了。我們,卻也是最重要的。可愛的孤單,歡迎你的到來。因爲,你會讓我明白,當我與幸福遇上的時候,不要傻傻地錯過他。可恨的孤單,希望你早日離去。因爲,你會一直提醒我,生命的盡頭,剩下的還是自己一人而已。
Finally, I'm getting a good taste of what it is like to be on my own and not having much that belongs to me. Perhaps it's a taste of the loneliness I have come to romanticize in my so many years of listening to other people's adventure stories.My uncle whom I'm staying with is great, bu there are limits to how many times I can listen to "your mom misses you" or "you should go back as soon as possible" or "my kids are different from you, they miss home a lot and don't want to leave home" or "you can't just go on wandering all over the place" or "you're a girl, you should just find a stable life and live it"...Ahem. As all of you who know me know... this serves well to fuel my fire. I know that they are expressing this as part of their empathic feelings for my parents. But just because I left home doesn't mean I love them any less or that I don't miss them. It just serves no purpose if I start crying on the phone to my mom and tell her how much I miss her. Either it'll get so bad that I'll leave SF and go home or she''ll get really worried and pack her bags and run to SF to get me back to NYC. Not ideal scenarios.BUT this is what it's all about isn't it? Me always wondering how other people felt when they left home and ventured elsewhere in search of a different life, not because there's anything wrong with their home life, but because there are so many other things out there.[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="240" caption="Inward Spiral"]

Ah 2008. It taught me so much, especially in the subject matter of utmost importance to most people but I had neglected: Love.
Ok, it’s not just LOVE as in the type where you fawn over another individual or want to wear/parade this person like a badge of pride. It’s where you really want to give everything to someone.My answer to my experience in love can be summarized by this. This song also came out around when I was suffering the most and accompanied me through many grieving nights. One of my friends who always seemed happy and chirpy, while listening to this song, became sad. And when I made fun of her, she said “we all have our pasts.” And I hurried to apologize to her. Yes, we all have our pasts. 感情的事,實在是不足爲外人道。What is wrong; what is right? Even someone who smiles and jokes around all the time may be hiding the most profound pain inside.One of my friends had a huge struggle in the past year with someone I deemed ENTIRELY unworthy of her. He is a a two-timing, scheming, manipulative… ahem… *insert strong adjective that denotes distaste*. A year ago, if you told me that I would actually begin to understand how this unimaginable thing could happen, that such a smart and wonderful woman would fall so hard for… er… scum… I would laugh…Then again…A year ago, if you told me that I would actually try to understand the perspective of the third party in an established relationship;