Human Composition

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow some-times in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in onerealm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.
--Anais Nin

Let It Go

Let It Go By T. D. Jakes










There are people who can walk away from you.
And hear me when I tell you this! When people can walk
Away from you: let them walk.
I don't want you to try to talk another person into staying with you,
Loving you, calling you, caring about you, coming to see you,
Staying attached to you.
I mean hang up the phone.
When people can walk away from you let them walk.
Your destiny is never tied to anybody that left.
The Bible said that, they came out from us that it might
Be made manifest that they were not for us.
For had they been of us, no doubt they
Would have continued with us. [1 John 2:19]
People leave you because they are not joined to you.
And if they are not joined to you, you can't make them stay.
Let them go.
And it doesn't mean that they are a bad person it just means
That their part in the story is over. And you've got
To know when people's part in your story is over so that you
Don't keep trying to raise the dead.
You've got to know when it's dead.
You've got to know when it's over. Let me tell you something.
I've got the gift of good-bye. It's the tenth spiritual gift,
I believe in good-bye. It's not that I'm hateful,
it's that I'm faithful, and I know whatever God
Means for me to have He'll give it to me.
And if it takes too much sweat I don't need it.
Stop begging people to stay.
Let them go!!
If you are holding on to something that doesn't belong to you
And was never intended for your life, then you need to......
LET IT GO!!!
If you are holding on to past hurts and pains ......
LET IT GO!!!
If someone can't treat you right, love you back,
And see your worth.....
LET IT GO!!!
If someone has angered you,
LET IT GO!!!
If you are holding on to some thoughts of evil and revenge......
LET IT GO!!!
If you are involved in a wrong relationship or addiction......
LET IT GO!!!
If you are holding on to a job that no longer meets
Your needs or talents
LET IT GO!!!
If you have a bad attitude.......
LET IT GO!!!
If you keep judging others to make yourself feel better......
LET IT GO!!!
If you're stuck in the past and God is trying to take
You to a new level in Him........
LET IT GO!!!
If you are struggling with the healing of a broken relationship.......
LET IT GO!!!
If you keep trying to help someone who won't even
Try to help themselves......
LET IT GO!!!
If you're feeling depressed and stressed .........
LET IT GO!!!
If there is a particular situation that you are so used to
Handling yourself and God is saying
"take your hands off of it," then you need to......
LET IT GO!!!
Let the past be the past. Forget the former things.
GOD is doing a new thing for this New Year!
LET IT GO!!!
Get Right or Get Left .. Think about it, and then,
LET IT GO!!!
"The Battle is the Lord's!"

Are You Going to Finish Strong?

Nick Vujicic has no arms or legs but has come to terms with his lot in life and he delivers an inspirational speech to these school kids that they will probably never forget.

Can't Do Anything Right

Today was one of those days...

Child Prodigies

Ever read of some amazing accomplishments of young people and just wonder what it takes to achieve what they have? Check out these examples.

In 2001, a Nepalese boy named Temba Tsheri became the youngest person to climb Mount Everest. While traveling with a French hiking group, the 16-year-old reached the summit of the mountain, which is approximately 29,035 feet high!

It took six weeks at sea, but Michael Perham, a 14-year-old from Hertfordshire, England, managed to sail solo across the 3,500-mile long Atlantic Ocean in his yacht, the Cheeky Monkey, in January 2007.

Child prodigy Ruth Elke Lawrence was only 11 years old when she passed the Oxford entrance exam in mathematics, and became the youngest person ever to attend the prestigious university. With her father there to accompany her to classes, Ruth graduated with a bachelor's degree in two years instead of the usual three. Now in her thirties,Lawrence teaches at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

The Guinness Book of World Records credits Balamurali Ambati as the youngest person to become a doctor. Balamurali graduated from NYU at the age of 13 and from Mount Sinai's School of Medicine at age 17. He currently teaches and does research in ophthalmology, and has a long list of awards and honors under his belt.

Arfa Karim Randhawa of Pakistan caught the attention of Bill Gates after passing her Microsoft Certified Professional examinations at age ten. After she asked for a job, Gates suggested she should stay in school, but did offer her an intership instead.

In the small country of Bhutan in southern Asia, the youngest monarch in the world ruled the throne for over 30 years. Jigme Singye Wangchuck was only 17 when he became the "Druk Gyalpo," or "Dragon King," back in 1972, and he remained in power until 2006, when he handed over control to his oldest son.

Perspective

"You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic."
-- Doris Egan (House M.D., House vs. God)

Wanted: The Inexperienced

I used to be one who would totally rule out the idea of being with a younger man. But lately, I don’t think it’s as bad as I made it out to be. I mean, yeh… a younger guy is going to be immature in some ways. But just think of all the things you can teach and influence him to do just because he doesn’t have as much experience. LOL No… I am not being manipulative, but sometimes people with less experience have more opened minds. A friend of mine is with a guy much younger than she is and they are so happy. Maybe this young boy thing should be a point to consider.

Trials To Endure

"The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured."
-- Dean Acheson (1893-1971), American statesman and lawyer; served as United States Secretary of State in the administration of President Harry S. Truman during 1949–1953.

Always Remember to Never...

"Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use."
--Wendell Johnson

Quotes From Steven Wright

• "Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark."
• "Many people quit looking for work when they find a job."
• "When I'm not in my right mind, my left mind gets pretty crowded."
• "I used to have an open mind but my brains kept falling out."
• "For every action, there is an equal and opposite criti-cism."
• "The colder the X-ray table, the more of your body is required to be on it."
• "Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time."
• "If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer?"
• "I planted some bird seed. A bird came up. Now I don't know what to feed it."
• "What happens if you get scared half to death twice?"
• "Boycott shampoo! Demand REAL poo!"
• "I intend to live forever - so far, so good."
• "Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work."

Work Will Never Be Done

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."
--Bertrand Russell

Life's Time Machines

"We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams."
--Jeremy Irons

What Not to Say to a Police Officer!

1. I can't reach my license unless you hold my beer.
2. Sorry, Officer, I didn't realize my radar detector wasn't plugged in.
3. Aren't you the guy from the Village People?
4. Hey, you must've been doin' about 125 mph to keep up with me. Good job!
5. Are You Andy or Barney?
6. I thought you had to be in relatively good physical condition to be a police officer.
7. You're not gonna check the trunk, are you?
8. I pay your salary!
9. Gee, Officer! That's terrific. The last officer only gave me a warning, too!
10. Do you know why you pulled me over? Okay, just so one of us does.
11. I was trying to keep up with traffic. Yes, I know there are no other cars around. That's how far ahead of me they are.
12. When the Officer says "Gee, Son....Your eyes look red, have you been drinking?", you probably shouldn't respond with, "Gee, Officer your eyes look glazed, have you been eating doughnuts?"

Wish I Was Here Right Now...

Oxymorons

"Once Again" is an oxymoron, is it not? It's part of the tradition of putting two terms together that have no business being anywhere near each other.
You may remember such classics as... jumbo shrimp, deafen-ing silent, military intelligence, sweet sorrow, organized chaos, Icy Hot, nondairy creamer, mutual differences, mandatory options and head butt.
Any other additions to the club?

My Doggie

"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole."

-- Roger Caras (1928-2001), American wildlife photographer, writer, wildlife preservationist and television personality.

I Love My Doggie

Always Space for Dessert!

“Just think of all those women on the Titanic who said, "No, thank you," to dessert that night. And for what!”
-- Erma Bombeck (1927-1996), American humorist who achieved great popularity for her newspaper column that described suburban home life humorously from the mid-1960s until the late '90s.

Giving Up Meat

The teacher in an adult Sabbath class asked a woman to read about the Israelites wandering in the desert. "The Lord heard you when you wailed, 'If only we had meat to eat!'" she began.

"Now the Lord will give you meat. You will not eat it for just one day, or two days, or five, or ten or twenty days, but for a month - until you loathe it." When the woman finished she paused, looked up and said, "Hey, isn't that the Atkins diet?"

Lesson in Irony

“Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.”
-- Agnes Repplier (1855-1950), American essayist and writer, known for collections of scholarly essays in Compromises

Gettin' some...

Q: Why is air a lot like sex?
A: Because it's no big deal unless you're not getting any.

Finding the G-Spot

If a woman's partner wants to find the G-spot, and have some fun during the search, try the Bowling Ball. Hold your dominant hand (right for most people) palm up and curl your thumb and middle two fingers like you were holding a bowling ball. Keep the index and pinkie fingers straight. Curve the middle finger slightly more than the ring finger.
Now, thumb goes on the clit, middle two fingers go in the vagina, and outer two fingers (index and pinkie) massage the labia majora and/or perineum.
Rock your hand back and forth. If you're doing it right, your thumb will be massaging her clit on the forward rock and your middle two fingers will be stroking in her vagina on the backward rock.
As she becomes aroused, the curved tip of your middle finger should be on or near her G-spot and you can feel the difference in texture from the surrounding vaginal wall.
Vary the speed and pressure of the rocking motion until her eyes roll back, her toes curl and she loses the ability to form a coherent sentence.

Tax Time

When NASA started sending astronauts into space, they quickly discovered that ball-point pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat this problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion developing a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside-down, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to over 300 C.

The Russians used a pencil.

Your taxes are due again--enjoy paying them.

I'm Not Just Lazy

Life's Like a Poker Game

"If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and can't tell who the sucker is--- it's you."
--Anonymous

Sex Complaints

Women complain about sex more than men.
Their gripes fall into two major categories: (1) Not enough. (2) Too much.
Better it be too much than not enough...

Things You Don't Want To Hear During Surgery

• Bo! Bo! Come back with that! Bad Dog!
• Better save that. We'll need it for the autopsy.
• Wait a minute, if this is his spleen, then what's that?
• Oh no! I just lost my Rolex.
• Oops! Hey, has anyone ever survived 500 ml of this stuff before?
• There go the lights again...
• Ya' know... there's big money in kidneys... and this guy's got two of 'em.
• Everybody stand back! I lost my contact lens!
• Could you stop that thing from beating? It's throwing my concentration off.
• What's this doing here?
• I hate it when they're missing stuff in here.
• That's cool! Now can you make his leg twitch?!
• Well folks, this will be an experiment for all of us.
• Sterile, shcmerle. The floor's clean, right?
• What do you mean he wasn't in for a sex change?
• OK, now take a picture from this angle. This is truly a freak of nature.
• This patient has already had some kids, am I correct?
• Nurse, did this patient sign the organ donation card?
• Don't worry. I think it is sharp enough.
• What do you mean, "You want a divorce"!
• FIRE! FIRE! Everyone get out!
• Rats! Page 47 of the manual is missing!
• Isn't this the one with the really lousy insurance?

Beggars Can't Be Choosers

Over this long weekend I took some time to reflect on my life as it is now. I dwelled a lot on how relationships in life are never perfect. I think the more I say it is the easier it will be for me to accept it. Being a combined perfectionist, idealistic, control freak is a bad way to be…

Last week in the office we were having a discussion about relationships. Coworker-J, who is in her mid forties and is unmarried, lately has found a new love interest and is enjoying life to the max – absolutely glowing. She has always made it known that there are certain absolutely minimum requirements for her to be with a man. He must be taller than she is – and that is no easy feat because she is about 5’10” tall herself, he must be good looking and physically fit (read no big belly) and must be a gentleman with opening doors for her and picking up the tab etc. For a woman of her age she is still very physically attractive so I guess it is not unfounded for her to demand an equally attractive mate.

So, Coworker-D then turned to me to say that I must not give up hope of finding that happiness with someone because even at Coworker-J’s age she still found it. Coworker-J did interject to tell me don’t wait that long because you miss out on a lot. Despite knowing that, why didn’t Coworker-J settle? It’s great to have ideals but at what point does it become pointless to demand so much?

I think I have some bomb inside that is almost at meltdown. I know several persons will say that I am still young and there is no need to rush, yadda yadda… but remember I am the perfectionist, idealistic, control freak? Yeh… what a quandary…

I have my ideals in a mate and lately I have been feeling that those requirements are baseless. Who am I to require “perfection” from someone when I am far from it? My biggest sore point is my weight. I’ve always wanted someone to love me just the way I am – all of me, but that is the first thing people see and judge you by. People are typically disgusted by an obese person. They don’t want to be with someone whose defect they will constantly have to be on guard to defend because that’s just the way people are.

If you took me as a person and put me in a size 6 body I think they would want to be with me, but since I am not attractive then there’s no real motivation. There was one guy who said after he left me that there are so many sexy women out there running him down, why should he stay and put up with my shit in a relationship. There was another guy who faked a relationship with me in hopes that I would lose the weight, and when I didn’t... And one guy didn’t want to take me anywhere to be seen with him. Really, I could go on with examples. And plain and simply… it hurts.

My initial reaction is why do people have to be so superficial, but everyone’s allowed their own ideals – heck even I have some. I’ve even been told that I am picky. *shock* You can see from my examples above that I have made pretty bad selections from my ideals. Perhaps I am overly ambitious in the type of man I want to be with considering that I have so little to give back. I’m always the one to love first and the last one to leave. I must give it to them for appreciating who I am on the inside to a certain extent – most end up still wanting to be friends, but it just goes to show what inherently is really important. Then it hits home that beggars can’t really be choosers.

Easy for you to say just get up and get on a diet and exercise 3 hours daily and lose the weight then if it’s such a problem. I really wish I could get over this hump and get the mindset to do it. I can’t explain it… but it’s almost the same reason someone suffering from depression can’t just will themselves to get up and be happy tomorrow. It just doesn’t work that easily.

There’s Friend-T who is somewhat aware of the struggle I have with my weight and constantly tries to reassure me that I am not as “fat” as I think I am. She’d point out women who are bigger than I am and show me how they’re enjoying life and they even have men too! LOL Maybe I am caught up with my state more than I ought to be and that is the root of the problem? I really don’t know. I just know that it comes up a lot.

My insecurities are in hyper-drive lately. I have to deal with the harsh realities of it all. And these ideals? They’re slipping. I can feel myself settling. I don’t want to hear that I deserve more because every time I go after more it backfires and I am left standing with nothing more than a broken heart and dented self-esteem.

I used to look down on some girls who would throw themselves at guys and in no time end up sleeping with them. I really thought about what their motivation could be to do something like that – giving them the benefit of the doubt that being a slut isn’t the cause but a symptom. I’ve concluded that they’re searching for some comfort in these men, perhaps some attention they didn’t get from their own father or just the feeling that for the moment when they’re in that man’s bed that they’re sated. While we have different symptoms, I can relate to that need of those girls to be wanted.

Hi. I am a 26 year old obese woman and I’m learning to accept that chances are I will be alone for the rest of my life.

Make The Effort

"The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort. "
--Colin Powell.

What is Love?

"Love is not a feeling, it's an act of your will."
-- Don Francisco

Friends Don't Stifle Friends

"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."
--Alice Walker

Before It's Too Late

"You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher (1803-1882)

Acting The Fool is Innate

"It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly."
-- Anatole France (1844-1924), French poet, journalist, and novelist

What do men want?

"The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything."
--Friedrich Nietzsche

Silence isn't always good...

"Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say."
-- Samuel Johnson

Quandry of A Virtuous Woman

"Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction."
--Adlai Stevenson

Personal Growth

“Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.”
-- Chinese Proverb

Men Are Like Fine Wine

"Men are like fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something which you'd like to have dinner with."

--Anonymous woman

Jamaica IM Shortcuts

• TWY = Tek Weh Yuself


• XA = X Amount


• AO = Alms Ouse


• BC = Blood Claat


• BPT = Back Pon Top


• BOAL = Buss Out A Laff


• BOABDL = Buss Out A Big Dutty Laff


• CAS = Crack A SmileDWL = Dead Wid Laff


• DWLAPUMS = Dead Wid Laff And Peepee Up Mi Self


• FR = Fi Real


• KMN = Kiss Mi Neckback


• KYAWO = Kut Yeye And Wheel Out


• LIH = Lick Innu Head


• LM = Likkle More


• MPD = Mad People Dem


• MYODB = Mine Yuh Own Dyamn Biznezz


• NR = Nuff Respect

I read this and I BOABDL

Every Hoe Has a Stick a Bush

“For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.”


Ivan Panin (1855-1942), Russian emigrant to the United States who achieved fame for claiming that the text of the Hebrew and Greek Bible contained numeric patterns.

April Fool's Day Hoaxes

In the Julian calendar, April 1st was designated as the New Year's Day and was so celebrated till 1582, when Pope Gregory XIII ordered the adoption of the new Gregorian Calendar, which specified January 1st as the New Year's Day. Many French resisted the New Year's Day change, and as a result they were dubbed fools and made the victim of pranks. They were sent on 'fool's errands,' delivered fake invitations for parties and tricked into believing things that weren't true.

Here are a few pranks courtesy of Wikipedia...

• In 1998, Burger King ran an ad in USA Today, saying that people could get a Whopper for left-handed people whose condiments were designed to drip out of the right side. Not only did customers order the new burgers, but some specifically requested the "old", right-handed burger.


• In 1996, Taco Bell took out a full-page advertisement in The New York Times announcing that they had purchased the Liberty Bell to "reduce the country's debt" and renamed it the "Taco Liberty Bell." When asked about the sale, White House press secretary Mike McCurry replied tongue-in-cheek that the Lincoln Memorial had also been sold and would henceforth be known as the Lincoln Mercury Memorial.


• The BBC television program Panorama ran a famous hoax in 1957, showing the Swiss harvesting spaghetti from trees. They had claimed that the despised pest, the spaghetti weevil, had been eradicated. A large number of people contacted the BBC wanting to know how to cultivate their own spaghetti trees.


• In 2008, the BBC reported on a newly discovered colony of flying penguins. An elaborate video segment was even produced, featuring Terry Jones (of Monty Python fame) walking with the penguins in Antarctica, and following their flight to the Amazon rainforest.


• George Plimpton wrote a 1985 article in Sports Illustrated about a New York Mets prospect named Sidd Finch, who could throw a 168 mph (270 km/h) fastball with pinpoint accuracy. This kid, known as "Barefoot" Sidd[hartha] Finch, reportedly learned to pitch in a Buddhist monastery. The first letter of each word in the article subhead spelled out the fact of its being an April Fool joke.

Idiots

"Most people don't know what they're doing, and a lot of them are really good at it."
- George Carlin