Thought Questions

As promised, I'm sharing another site I stumbled upon today. I intend on doing this more often than I have been. Maybe once my life calms back down. :)

Thought Questions is the new site I found. After finishing my 50 Questions to free my mind, I realized how much I enjoyed answering them, if not for your benefit, for mine. Now this site has 285 questions at this time and adds a new one daily. I am thinking this will be something I do off-the-blog, but share when I feel it's something worth sharing or really important to me.

Looks like I need another notebook! I currently carry one for my personal thoughts that I don't feel like sharing here or that I am not near a computer to write, a planner for 2010, a planner for 2011 and a notebook for lists and quotes. Geez, maybe I write too much. ;)

I just really enjoy deep thinking, reflection and self examination. I always have.

And lately I *love* writing. I guess I always have done that too. But now I almost crave writing. . . so this seems like an opportunity to do both of those for my own benefit. :)
♥ Sara

"If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a
new one, check your pulse. You may be dead."
-Gelett Burgess

Stumble Upon.

I'm not sure what my deal is lately, but I can't get enough of writing. I have so much to say, my head is just filled with stuff to share.

And today I discovered Stumble Upon. Ok, I've heard of it. I've seen it on Facebook, but I never paid attention. I never bothered clicking on it.

Until today.

New plan. Well, adding to all existing plans. . . I will be periodically (maybe daily, maybe more, maybe less) be sharing a site, story, picture, quote, whatever that I stumbled on and thought I'd like to share with ya'll.

This is where tagging is going to become essential. And I don't plan on including pictures with these posts, so they most likely won't be linked on Facebook.

So, without further aideau, my first website share. . . .

This is actually a story that I read a couple years ago. I believe on of my professors brought it to my attention, but when I stumbled on it today, I couldn't help but get the goosebumps all over again.

Ironically, I stumbled upon this link right after which was simply the following quote:

"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could
be, and he will become what he should be." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

The two go together very well, now I'm definitely not saying that the teen was in the right, or that he necessarily "got what he deserved." But, the victim certainly had a brilliant plan and quite possibly changed the teen's life forever. In the utopia that is my mind right now, that one random act of bravery/kindness did just that. I wish we knew the rest of the story.

I would love to know what happened after he left the restaurant.
I would love to know what happened the next day.
I would love to know where he is now.
I would love to know what he's doing.

And that quote. . . oh it is so true. I wonder how many people's lives could be changed by one random act of kindness. Or even better than a random act of kindness, just knowing that someone has confidence in them and their lives, knowing that someone believes in them.

I think it's important to remember that everything we do and say affects someone else's life. . . this is definitely something I am trying to be more conscious of. . .
♥ Sara