June 22, 2009
Posted by admin | Word Count: 310 | No Comments »I can’t believe I haven’t been updating this thing, and I’m paying for it to be on the internet. But that’s alright. So I started to write this post, thinking I could come up with something to say, speak my mind, where people who read this can benefit from. Let me grab my quote book, pick a random quote, and just go from there…
“All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly until they take root in our personal experience.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What a coincidence. Here I am trying to think of something insightful, yet it’s probably already been thought of. But I can take part of saying its mine once I take that thought and do something with it.
There are times when my friends and even your friends are following what this quote is saying. What I’m talking about is giving advice. People ask for advice to help clear their minds in situations then can’t deal with alone. Advice is your thoughts, my thoughts, anyone’s thoughts being shared with others to help the one who needs it in some way or another. It gives them a different perspective towards the situation and even open up doors to options where they didn’t think was possible. When advice is taken, this is where the thought becomes theirs because they are letting it intertwine with their personal experience.
When I look back, I a lot of my friends came to me for advice in situations I’ve never dealt with. But in order for me to help them, I put myself in their shoes and think what would be the best reasonable way to deal with what’s happening. And to my friends, it makes sense. And I’m glad. It makes me feel good to help out a friend.

Nothing new has been happening. My life is still the same routine. But here and there my day goes differently than it would normally happen. Like for instance, yesterday. I decided to volunteer to go on a hiking field trip with my little sister at the Santa Monica Mountains. It was the perfect day to go hiking. I really enjoyed just being out along with nature hiking with my sister. It was so relaxing and peaceful. Hiking trips its one of my favorite things to do, but I don’t get to do it very often because I have no one really to go with. And it’s something out of the ordinary. I hope I get to go hiking again somewhere so I could get away for a bit and share the moment with someone I really care about.