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The Art Of Contentment

The Art of Contentment. For most of us, being single will be more of a phase than a final destination. This is the best place to practice the art of contentment. Someday, I’m sure most of us will fall in love and get married. But the thing is, love will always be tested. Someone more handsome, beautiful, more charming, richer, funnier, sweeter would come along. If you have not practiced the art of contentment as a single person, chances are you would be tempted to want that and not cherish your chosen one. Practicing the Art of Contentment as a single person means that you take what life gives you, good or bad, you’re willing to see it through. It means you don’t walk away everytime things get tough because it builds in you patience, perseverance, understanding and a hundred different virtues that people in a hurry will never have. Being single means you would find how it feels to be alone thus, allowing you to cherish every moment you spend with your chosen one. The art of contentment means you wouldn’t mind if life had to make you wait for so long to find the love of your life, because you know that the waiting would only make the finding much sweeter.

A Time to Know Yourself Better. Being single is a time of your life when you can get to know yourself better. You can pursue different interest and passions without having to ask another person’s approval. It is a phase when you can keep focus on other things, discover your potentials and talents, and see yourself become more than what you expect to be. Allow yourself to surprise you. Stop wasting precious energy trying to figure out why you’re still romantically unattached. It’s all in the mind. Take the time to go see your friends, spend time with your family, do charity work and you will realize that you are not, and never for one moment, was alone. Try to get to know yourself first before you try to get to know other people. To be truly loved means to be known and accepted for who you are. How do you expect other people to know you and to love you, when you don’t know who and what you really are?

A Choice Between Good and Best. Sometimes the dilemmas we face are not between what is absolutely bad and absolutely good. Sometimes, it’s between good and best. Treat this stage of your life as a phase to evaluate who is good for you and who is best for you. Sometimes, you won’t hear music, or feel magic to know who’s best for you. The heart just knows and it doesn’t need any romantically charged scenario to decide on the matter. Trust in your heart, and trust that time will eventually lead you to, not to the perfect partner, but to the most suitable partner for you. Being single is a phase of life that we need to be thankful for, because being single means our hearts have yet to choose the best one for us.

Take your time, the world will wait. Being married doesn’t guarantee that it will make your life happy. It doesn’t guarantee anything at all. Sometimes, it only brings two miserable people together only to make their life even more miserable. Without the right intention, the emotional maturity, financial security and of course, unwavering love, you’re better off unattached.

Living Life. Don’t put your life on hold for Mr. and Mrs. Right but don’t let it waste away with Mr. or Mrs. Wrong. Life is about things that you do and happen to you everyday. It’s not about the things that could have happened but never did, or things that you think would happen in the future. Live life now. Live it to the fullest and stop beating yourself up, trying to be perfect on a Saturday night date. Allow life to surprise you with its most wonderful blessings. Expect the unexpected.

(Have no idea where original source is from. Found the word file on my laptop, but it certainly wasn’t written by me. Enjoy.)

Googling produced the name Mariel Calalo

nighthawks:

This is so bizarre!

The H1N1 vaccine has seen a lot of skepticism and worry this week after a cheerleader for the NFL Washington Redskins, Desiree Jennings, is suffering from Dystonia. This is a neurological condition in which muscles are affected, causing twisting, abnormal postures and repetitive movements. The disorder can be inherited or caused by infection, a reaction to drugs, physical trauma, poisoning, or can be birth-related.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dystonia

http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/health/101309_woman_disabled_by_flu_shot_reaction_dystonia

http://www.examiner.com/x-13791-Baltimore-Disease-Prevention-Examiner~y2009m10d16-Woman-claiming-she-acquired-dystonia-from-a-flu-shot-may-have-it-all-in-her-head

» Polaroid may give it another shot

inthegutter:

adgpage:

cryw0lf:

thelos:

taf:

The rise and fall of Polaroid Corp. and its wondrous technology is one of the great business stories of the 20th century. Polaroid was the Google of its time: the hot stock, the place the smart people wanted to work, headquartered in the most socially and technologically progressive city in the country. Cambridge, if you can believe it.

Polaroid’s ruin was complete and spectacular. The Globe and many other publications chronicled its grisly extinction, shuttered factory by shuttered factory, massive layoff by massive layoff. The slow-moving tsunami of digital photography wiped Polaroid from the map. Seven or eight years ago, I proposed a short biography of Land to an editor who was commissioning books about American entrepreneurs. The turn-down was gentle: “Thank you, Alex, but no one has any idea who this man is.’’

Now the strangest thing is happening. Like vinyl records, the Polaroid photograph is enjoying a modest comeback. Whether it succeeds is anyone’s guess. What’s driving the resurgence, in part, are the distinctive and inimitable qualities of the Polaroid color palette. “The color fields looks less like photographs and more like paintings,’’ says Grant Hamilton, an Iowa-based photographer who works extensively with an SX-70 Alpha One that he bought on e-Bay for $30.

[…]

The other allure is genuine instant photography. Yes, you can see digital pictures immediately, but holding them and passing them around is another thing. I use various Internet services to make digital prints, but I don’t receive them for a week or more. Printing at home looks easy in the Hewlett-Packard ads, less so in reality.

[…]

At least two companies believe there is life left in the defunct brand. In Holland, a small band of technologists, entrepreneurs, and photography geeks who call themselves the Impossible Project - the name derives from a famous Edwin Land quote, “Don’t undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible’’ - bought a Polaroid film factory on the day it was to be closed, and are trying to get production back on its feet. They hope to be producing new film packs within a few months.

Someone else has their eye on the Polaroid franchise - Polaroid itself. A Boston-based company, Gordon Brothers, owns the Polaroid name and patents with a Canadian partner, and they are planning to relaunch some products, maybe a camera and definitely some film. “There is clearly still a following,’’ says Gordon’s president, Stephen Miller. “The balance sheet was broken, but the brand wasn’t,’’ he continues. “This is one of only four or five brands that has 100 percent awareness, like McDonald’s or Coca-Cola. People around the world want to see us succeed.’’

That last paragraph is particularly interesting. There’s been a lot of news about Polapremium and the Impossible Project, but so far Polaroid itself hadn’t made a lot of noise about reviving the film and cameras themselves.

WIN

EPIC WIN

Yes Please! I never got to play with one (I got into photography way to late) but I would love them to bring it back so I can.

You realise you still can, right? There are, quite literally, millions of Polaroid cameras out there in working condition. Film is expensive, but there’s still heaps of it around - sometimes you luck out across a big cheap stash if you know where to look. Just search on Flickr and you’ll see that Polaroid is still well and truly alive.

spaceships:

(via aboyinmidair, tmblg)

Variations of awesomeness by Karen Kurycki.

Gotta say: I get the strange feeling that everything “original” tmblg posts, I’ve already seen somewhere on tumblr many moons before… but it only really takes off when he “discovers” it.

Hmmm.

I know what you mean. He’s not the only tumblr like that either. Kind of annoying, but I guess that’s just the way it is…

Question for anyone who's written a thesis before

buyhercandy:

Should I hand-write or type my notes while I’m doing research? Usually, for “normal length” essays (2000-4000 words), I hand-write all of my notes. For my thesis, though, I’m concerned that it might all get a bit disorganised if I hand-write everything.

Thoughts? Past experience?

About how long for your thesis? And how long do you have?

If it’s, for example, a 6-month research project and a 20,000 word dissertation, I would say type your notes up. It’s much easier to organise and search and rearrange bits and pieces. In fact there’s even software for it - Evernote and the like. You could make up a wiki as well.

What I do is have a word processing document (or a Gmail draft) for each topic, and type everything to do with it in there. That way, if I feel like writing a bit for real (as opposed to just making notes) I can do it straight off, and it’s all in the same place.

Gmail’s great for this because of the autosave function, by the way.

At the end of the day, though, I think it’s about picking something and sticking to it, whether it’s a notebook or a Word document.

meganmcisaac:

for those that only follow me because you want to see the photographs i have made (which is probably all 900 of you) i apologise for the lack of photographs lately. i havent not (ugh double negative) been making photographs, i just can’t afford to develop the 14 rolls of film i currently have sitting here. perhaps i will dust off the digital tomorrow morning. and yes i am aware of the fact that i should be saving my money so i can develop film instead of buying a pack of smokes, i just needed a quick fix, alright! i should also quit giving so much money to the homeless people with creative signs in pdx. ramble ramble. i will probably delete this is four minutes.

I hope your tomorrow is better. Moving away is always hard; keep at it!

Dear Tumblr 2

tlow:

Another Tumblr wishlist item. I wish I could post more than one picture per entry. I never quite know what to do (should I post the same caption under multiple pictures, can I just post them sequentially and hope people get it, sometimes I even make a point of mentioning that there are more interesting photos to be found by clicking ?) and I honestly don’t want to invest the time photoshopping photos for tubmlr posts, it is supposed to be simple.

You can use a Text post to insert multiple pictures. Only downside is the images don’t show up on peoples’ dashboards - only image placeholders come up and you have to click through to the permalink.

» Marco responds to my minirant

spaceships:

peterberkman:

unalone:

marco:
unalone:
Jesus Christ. I tell you people that a 5-minute game made me cry, that it’s one of the greatest and most beautiful things I’ve ever seen, and a total of one person replies. I post a picture of a camera lens coffee cup, and I get 87 notes as of this writing.

This isn’t indicative of the decline of society or people having shallow taste. The lens mug has far better appeal to this audience than a sad video game. I bet the Shiba puppy cam got a lot more fans, too. Sorry, but people enjoy things that make them feel good.

Point taken.

Nah man, I don’t accept that.

People have to challenge themselves, the world is full of a lot of people who just settle for whatevers in front of them. Passage may be sad, but its a masterpiece about love and life expressed in a new medium like never before - it’s much more of a masterpiece than that stupid coffee cup (which is cool, but at the end of the day is a fucking product).

TUMBLE ADVENTUROUSLY.

Word. Not that it should be taken that seriously but Marco’s response kind of reminded me of Brave New World. People floating around in a smiley drug-induced haze, conditioned to be eternally content and to want it that way. Easy to control and too numb to care or even notice.

Sometimes I just feel like I’m wading through a sea of barfily trite images and quotes. Or smart-ass memes that are good for one laugh. And I’m as guilty as anyone. Photos of a lone cabin all aglow in some snowy forest? Im all over that shit. Instantaneous sensations of coziness and warmth and feel-goodness. What is “shallow” if not that? Eye-candy has no nutritional value whatsoever.

People can obviously do whatever they want with their blog. But just to FILL UP your tumblr with stuff that’s basically interchangeable and mindlessly easy to appreciate and unarguably aesthetically pleasing — I mean, fuck. Your tumblr is just a half-price Nicholas Sparks book. In massmarket paperback.

So yeah. I try to only follow people whose posts consistently challenge, inspire or provoke me. But those tumblrs are hard to find because others rarely reblog them. “Does this take less than 5 seconds to skim? No? Ok, next.” That’s the problem with Tumblr. And it’s disheartening to see the lead developer defending this.

(Case in point: I wonder who even read this far.)

Totally agree. It’s easy to fall into what I call a Tumblr-stupor; scrolling past page after page of reblogged eye-candy and “liking” everything.

A few weeks ago I got completely sick of it, and ended up unfollowing a whole bunch of people because I realised that even though I like a lot of the content of certain tumblrs, it’s not really contributing anything to my life. Since then I’ve been actively reviewing everyone I follow. My life is complicated enough and I waste enough time on the net as it is, and it’s really taken away from things that I should be prioritising.

benwasser:

Wait, so you mean all I’d have to do to become tumblr-famous is follow everyone?

Hah.

I didn’t want to add to the other thread of discussion because that’s exactly what they are after.