Business {on Significant}

For Guitar and my voice. Capo on third fret, slow. Verse 1 ( Em .. G  |  D .. A ) : All around me are familiar faces.   Worn out places.  Worn out faces. Bright and early for their daily races.   Going nowhere.  Going nowhere. And their tears are filling up their glasses.   No expression.  No expression. Hide my head; I want to drown my sorrow.   No tomorrow.  No tomorrow. Chorus ( Em .. A ) : And I find it kinda funny.   but I find it kinda sad. The dreams in which I'm dying   Are the best I've ever had. I find it hard to tell you   Cuz I find it hard to take. When people run in circles it's a very, very (Em .. G .. A)    Mad world.    Mad world.    Mad world.    Mad world. Verse 2  ( Em .. G  |  D .. A ) : Children waiting for the day they feel good.   How I l...

There is this something about love, about friendship - this something which I've identified as vulnerability. When we are insecure (or/if because) we've been hurt before by friends, family, lovers...there is a tendency to hide ourselves. We hide who we are so that we don't get hurt...because when we are rejected for living as we know, it is easier to hide so that the rebukes stop. I've experienced this and it hurts now to talk about it. I've felt my trust and confidence betrayed. Sometimes the worst betrayal, is when the deceiver is in my past. Or in my heart, still there. Deceiving with fantasy. Then, if that fantasy is projected onto a real person and they reject you...or reject who you pretend to be, in your fantasy, the pain doubles. To have true relationships we must feel comfortable with who we are, at least comfortable enough to show who we really are - to be vulnerable to criticism, to rejection. Otherwise we always feel like they don't know us,...

The others are dumbfounded...someone should have asked them for their tickets after that play.

Do not run from the Lion, take your stand. Someone else is behind you when you do.

Wired has a really neat blog article from last year, give yourself a treat and take the 5 minutes to read it...fascinating how our brains work.  Here's the video from the article :

Insanity is “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” -Einstein

This is incredible!