One True Thing
It’s 3:30 a.m. and I’ve decided to let my Tumblr serve as a slightly (keyword slightly) more in-depth look at my personal life and thoughts.
I’ve been reading One True Thing for the past four hours (after having watched the movie multiple times and loving it). This book really does inspire me to become more aware of the small things we take for granted. The relationships that we take for granted, especially parental relationships. Growing up, I never had the strongest bond with my dad. I always felt distance from him, like a symbol of a failed dream for athletic superiority. I was never the quarterback he had so hoped for. Especially after losing their first son, I was my dad’s last chance at achieving his full American dream. I was (am) everything he wasn’t.
It wasn’t until he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last summer that I started to realize that the anger I had built up was no longer worth it. The time we have on this planet is already short enough. His time is even shorter now, but I hope that the experiences, conversations and memories we’ve built up over this year have helped build a bridge in the gap of communication we had.
My recommendation to the people reading this (if any): “It’s so much easier to choose to love the things that you have, instead of always yearning for what you’re missing, or what is is that you’re imagining you’re missing”.…and go watch One True Thing…Meryl Streep was definitely cheated out of an Oscar!
Watched ‘The Thing’ tonight…I spent a good hour genuinely scared that my cats could be The Thing!
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I’ll never understand why that old lady was afraid she’d die from swallowing a fly, but didn’t give a hoot about swallowing a horse, a dog, a cat…crazy old lady.
My cat loves my beard as much as I do…it’s always good to come home to a good friend.
Austin, Texas by Notsuoh Photography on Flickr.
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Guadalupe St.
I decide to be the D.D. and end up looking the most drunk in every picture…never fails.
Ben Kweller cover of The Beatles “Wait”…awesomeness incarnate.
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