thirstythong

“But the most significant derivation from the meaning of as ‘water’ is the concept of people who have gathered near a body of water to grow rice for one another, and founding a stable community, sharing rain and drought, plenty and famine, peace and war: from ‘water,’ its basic meaning, has come to designate ‘the homeland, the country, the nation.’ It is in this ultimate exception that the monosyllable nuoc reverberates throught the deepest and farthest recesses of the Vietnamese collective unconscious and stirs there the most potent feelings. The nation’s fateful course, marked by ups and downs, is figuratively rendered as a ‘tide of water’ (van nuoc) with its ebb and flow. The highest virtue demanded of a Vietnamese is that he or she ‘love the nuoc‘ (yeu nuoc).” –Huynh Sanh Thong (no relation)

Bored People are Boring

More often than not, I see a status update on Facebook that reads to the effect of:

“I’m bored.”
“Life is so boring.”
“I’m bored, just want to die.”

As a matter of fact, bored people are boring.

I don’t state this as a judgment on people’s personal character. Hence, I state this as a call to action.

If you want company, go out and make it.

If you want excitement, go out and create it.

If you want money, go out and get it, and save it too.

If you want pizza, go out and get it, or get it delivered, but you gotta make that phone call.

In other words, no one in the world can give you life. You have to give yourself, and those around you, life.

Bored people are boring.

Excited people are exciting.