Fun with sayings and translating them.

si me engañas una vez, la culpa es tuya. si me engañas dos veces, eres una perra. si me engañas tres veces, la vergüenza es mío. estas oraciones resumen los pensamientos que tuve mientras estuviera en el colectivo esta mañana. estaba bastante feliz con mi cerebro por haber pensado estas oraciones y es bastante chistoso, o no, ¿me equivoco? no, creo que es bastante chistoso.

también estaba pensando en la palabra, resiliencia, es decir, la definición significa algo como la habilidad de regenerar y volver a un estado de homeostasis. entonces, como seres humanos, ¿como podemos acelerar este proceso? ¿es algo que debemos esforzarnos a entender para que podamos recuperarnos? ¿el proceso dura toda la vida? ¿podemos acelerar las cosas emocionales si tenemos muchas cosas tristes que nos acontecen? que mala suerte chavón. pero que pasa si no quiero endurecerme hasta el punto de no sentir nada?

ojalá pueda encontrar algunas respuestas durante el año que viene.

Esperanza

Esperanza=Hope. What is it? Why does it exist? Isn't it a figment of our imagination? If there are doctors out there who can prescribe pills that act as placebos, then doesn't the same exist mentally with the idea of hope? I mean this in the sense that we can override the hopelessness and put ourselves in an improved mental state.

So bad things happen. Bad things happen to good people, people like you and me. If something unfair happens to us in a relationship that shakes our faith, so being good people, are we just supposed to forgive and forget? Do bad people have bad things happen to them? Or is this process the way by which good people become bad? I'm realizing that loosing faith in mankind due to bad experiences will inevitably turn a good person bad if bad things keep occurring or if the severity of the bad thing is bad enough.

I see myself as a good person. One who won't let the ex determine my happiness. Sure, happiness is relative, due to the greenness of the break, but with time, I hope to have hope again. For this is the only true way people can heal and improve their situation, which is the only way we can survive and push on.

It doesn't really matter what our trials are, we have to pick ourselves back up, dust ourselves off, and keep walking. I am the type that needs to heal as I walk. As much as it might help to pick myself back up, heal, and then start walking, I need the walking in order to heal. I need to know there is someone out there who wants me to heal or someone I want to heal for.

Moral of the story, as much as I don't think I have hope, I do. As frustrating as it seems, time will fix my problems. I feel like I am the type of person who needs to be proactively doing something to better my situation. How can I proactively wait? It's oxymoronic in its sense.

Here's to hope. If I must patiently wait to obtain it, I'll do it proactively.

Peace.

Indecisive girls deserve unhappiness

hi. girls suck. that's right, i said it. every guy has thought it at one point in his life i'm just stating what we all know. i feel that if every young boy understood this fact then their lives would be a lot easier for they would understand what us wiser men already know. why are girls indecisive? i'll tell you of an experiment i played. a girl came into my class 3 weeks into the semester and asked if she could sign into my class. i explained that i had 17 people on my waiting list that i turned away, so it wouldn't be fair. she explained that she had some epiphany that learning Spanish should be one of her life pursuits and she really needed to be in the class regardless of how much work it would take her.

this is where i started having fun. i explained that she had missed 9 assignments and 9 quizzes. she also missed a test and the first chapter of an online workbook. i explained that she'd need to write a paper so as to make up the in-class quizzes that she couldn't make up. i also started dropping this phrase, "are you sure you want to add this class? i mean are you sure?" her response was, "yes, i really want to take this class."

i told her to follow me over to the grad office so i could print off the syllabus and course outline. i also explained she'd need to buy the book and online workbook, which cost $190. she said she had anticipated the cost and was willing to do whatever it took.

we walked over to the grad office and i printed off the syllabus and course outline and explained the assignments. i repeated myself, "are you sure you want to do this? i mean it is going to be a lot of work and money." she stated, "well i am pretty sure, i mean i felt like i really wanted to do it, knowing full well it was going to take some work."

i handed her the materials and showed her the online workbook. at this point in the semester we were almost to the 2nd chapter test which means she's got to do the online workbook before its deadline (the next day), and get ready for the test. again i repeated, "are you sure you want to do this? i just feel like it's a lot of money and time. she responded, "um, wow it is going to be a lot of work. i think i want to do it."

at this point, i sign her add slip and tell her to add the class and get ready for the 2nd test. we discuss the alternate assignments she can do to make up for the quizzes and she tells me she'll see me the next class period.

i never see her again.

why are girls indecisive? why is it that if you question a girl on her decision she will become more and more unsure? this girl deserves unhappiness because she felt strongly about learning Spanish. she had an inner desire/motivation that caused her to plead her case until i let her join. it's scary to watch this indecisiveness carry over into relationship with the male gender. which guy out there wants a girl who is unsure about whether or not they want to spend time with/date/marry him. screw girls and their indecisiveness. may happiness never find these girls as they don't deserve it. word.