Time

Panta rei. Everything flows, or rather, everything changes. You cannot step into the same river twice, or so Heraclitus said way back. He was a pretty smart guy. Everything changes, including you.

Because you can't really say that you are the same person, can you? Each and every moment, there is a process going on, the system within is achanging. There's always new information to be balanced, to be taken in, absorbed.

The learning process never ends, nor is the a limit to the knowledge you can take in. With the knowledge, and everything, can you really then say that you are the same person now that you were minutes ago? Or is there a core deep down inside you where you can always be yourself, a core which doesn't get rocked by the influx of information, of knowledge.

Everything changes. In a world of changes, what can you then trust, believe in? Religions change, politics change, humans change. What can you really trust to be there, in the end?

The beauty of a sunset, the flow of the written word. The trill of the birds in the morning, the joy of being alive. The little things that we do not appreciate enough. We really should.

Creativity

Here we go again. Ugh, creativity shot to pieces by the fact that I just haven't got as much time. Work piling up, project due in two weeks. Whoever said that being a student was easy?

But I am working on releasing that creativity again. I bought me a great book called "The Artist's Way", and I will try to spark my creativity by following the advice. I already started with the morning pages, which is, I write three pages every morning about....anything running through my mind. It's a way of getting in contact with that inner artist, and well, I hope to get more creative.

I always wanted to write, but well, with everything around me, I just never seem to have the time to do that. And then I found out how great PSP or any other graphics program is, and I am forever stuck. Creativity can come in so many ways, and I love that. I love being creative. Days when I am not creative are just days when I want to drag the covers over my head and not get out of bed.

What does your name mean?

Hippolyta

H is for Heavenly
I is for Innocent
P is for Proud
P is for Philosophical
O is for Openhearted
L is for Lively
Y is for Yummy
T is for Thrilling
A is for Abstract


What Does Your Name Mean?

Back to uni

Well, technically it was back to uni yesterday, but hey.

Always such a joy to go back to school, a fresh start, new experiences to be had. Hah. More like the pains of having to pay up for all the material. "Would you like the new coursework, or be able to eat this month?" The prices are horrendous, really...they're asking for two good-sized virgin sacrifices, at least. Or possibly a limb.

Starting my second year now, and when I look at all the new students on campus, I start to wonder if I was also that lost last year. There's new people everywhere, and they don't have a clue to where they should be, or what they should do. Amusing.

It feels like an eternity ago. Starting uni for the first time, that is. After one BA, there is still the thrill of starting a new course, the prospect of what you are going to learn. But also, there is the irony that you remember very little of the course you took last year, and so, what did you really learn?

I shouldn't take pedagogy. It makes me think way too much.

All you need is love...

Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love.

There's nothing you can do that can't be done.
Nothing you can sing that can't be sung.
Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game.
It's easy.

There's nothing you can make that can't be made.
No one you can save that can't be saved.
Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be in time.
It's easy.

All you need is love, all you need is love,
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.
Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love.
All you need is love, all you need is love,
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.
Nothing you can see that isn't shown.
Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be.
It's easy.

All you need is love, all you need is love,
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.
All you need is love (all together now)
All you need is love (everybody)
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.

All credit to the Beatles, for creating a great song.

Masks

We're all wearing masks, everyday of our lives. No matter what we do, who we are - the mask is there. The family mask, the mask you wear for friends, the mask when you meet new people. Somewhere, along the road, do you know who you are? Which is the original mask - the ultimate one?

Is there even a you any longer?