Legacy

    The words "your deeds are your monuments" were inscribed on an Egyptian tomb. This quote got me thinking about the word legacy. 

    A legacy is something (as memories or knowledge) that comes from the past or a person you knew or know currently. Someone said that legacy is like planting a seed in a garden you never get to see. I love this quote for many reasons. One, it's beautiful. Two, it's terrific poetry. Three, it's accurate. I am most familiar with looking at legacy like you're leaving footprints along a beach. I think that lots of folks don't care about their legacy. They don't care about the legacy they'll leave behind and how people will remember them. I admire this but I also dislike it. I admire it because, in a way, they don't care and are just reckless. They act like fools and they don't seem worried about what others think. But I also dislike this because they are reckless, fools, and don't care. Where I think I care a little too much.

Random thoughts

    When I do something daily, I will stop and imagine myself as a sloth. Hear me out. If I was a sloth, time would still move as fast as it always does and I would be, of course, slower at doing my tasks. So my thought process would look like this: "..If I was a sloth...would I be at school or just getting dressed? Or would I still be getting out of bed......?" Now, you may be thinking, "How did you even think of such a thing??" I'll tell you. In the movie Zootopia, Nick and Judy go to the DMV and encounter the sloths who work there. I guess when I watched this as a kid, I thought to myself, "If someone ended up typing in the code alongside Flash, what parts would Flash have completed by the time that person finished?", or something along those lines. And I guess this thought just stuck with me in the back of my mind.

    Another thought I constantly have happens during a long car ride. I picture a 2D figure on a bike, biking alongside the car. The figure never slows down and never speeds up. Just keeps biking in time with the vehicle. I always imagine a rope connecting this figure to the side of my family's car- almost like they were water skiing. Since this figure is 2D, I imagined they would jump over anything that got in their path and would not fall. If I imagined they fell off their bike, they would reset like a video game character. Before you ask, I don't know why I think of this and I don't know when I started thinking about this. I do, however, like to think that this 2D character is trying to get to their own destination, but they are just stuck in a time loop, biking alongside my family's car. 

    Those are my two crazy thoughts. I hope you enjoyed reading whatever this post was. :)

Simple things

Simple things in life. Here’s my list (which is incomplete):

• smelling the ocean/ lake on the breeze

• seeing sunrises

• listening to a song I’ve heard before

• skipping stones at the lake

• reading a new book

• re-reading a favourite book

• going somewhere

• making collages

• falling in love

• first snowfall

• going on a walk

• watching a movie on a rainy day

• the smell after it rains

• baking muffins

• warm night-summer walks