Friday, December 28, 2007

My Big Idea

It goes like this: when someone likes you, you're indifferent. When someone doesn't like you, you're crazy for them. And that just isn't fair, now is it? You know the cliché where you want what you can't have. I've found myself in situations like that, and when I get over the person I look back and think, "what was the big deal?"
I tell myself this person (or whatever) is awesome, and I refuse to believe anything different until that person makes it quite clear who they really are.

We pursue what's just out of our reach. We're doomed for dissatisfaction because we always want more--or at least what we assume is more. In hindsight, we realize we were just pursuing what we already had.

Every person on this earth should make a pact to seclude him or herself for six months and then at the same moment come back to each other. Maybe then we'd see every person in the same light. If you can't have anyone, maybe you'd appreciate everyone.

Thursday, December 27, 2007

PJs

You know what's a really odd word? Pajamas. It's such an everyday word, yet has anyone questioned its usage until I just did? Actually, my family has rejected the word and replaced it with "sleeping clothes." It makes perfect sense: clothes you sleep in. However, it provides great imagery of clothes that are actually sleeping themselves.

In order to provide answers as well as questions, I just did some research for you. Apparently, the word pajamas (also spelled pyjamas) comes from a group of pygmies in Africa that used to make tiny clothes out of leaves and bark to wear while they slept in order to protect them from the cold.

...Not really. It's actually derived from the Persian word Payjama meaning "leg garment."

The other answer made sense, though--you believed me, right?