I must admit that I have never been a blogger before. Nor the OpenJournal sort of person from yesteryear. I am doing this to track my progress, to give a public record of my journey because I think there is something very fundamentally important to what I am doing: you can too.
Yeah, you. You're the reason this is existing right now, because otherwise I would be throwing up sewage into the internet for the sake of my own amusement. Which, I will admit, is another reason to do something like this. But that's just the thing right there:
We should all be doing something that we love.
My website is a headache. Coding CSS and PHP is like playing with a rubix cube that you break every ten minutes. It's not easy, and it can be infuriating at times. But I love doing it. It's Logic. It's problem solving. It's language. It's expression. I love making this for people to check out and it would be cool if someone were to click a button and give me some digital cultural credit to work with.
So the reason I am typing this Moon Blog is really I just want to include you in what I am doing. But moreso, I want to empower you to do something for you. Stop waiting for your life to take you to where you want to go. Just start now. You may have to start small, you might have to start without knowing what it is that you want to accomplish. You might have to start without being ready. But starting is half the battle.
Look at me (ok. You can stop now.). I have only a basic idea of what I want to be doing and how I want to do it: I want to entertain. I want to share in the joy of the whole world. I want to be awesome and encourage other people to be awesome too.
I don't have any answers to questions of tomorrow, but I can say this: I am creating again. I am working on my writing and I am building something in this digital space before me, and that fills me with pride and with joy as I feel my mind growing. I want you to grow too. I want you to find what makes you happy and find a way to make it part of your life.
This is me, Cosmical Rabbit, trying to make my passions a part of mine.
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
The Plan
So I don't exactly know when I was planning on starting this little regiment I have put myself to, but here it goes. Oh! Hello there. You stumbled in while I was in the middle of a thought. I suppose I should provide some sort of introduction to all this so that you don't feel too confused.
I have a plan: go. Every day of the week I will try to accomplish a goal.
Blog Monday.
Cartoon Tuesday.
Story Wednesday.
7vid Thursday.
Poem Friday.
Weekends off, because I am only human.
So. As I was saying before you came in, I don't know if I am ready. I don't know if I am ready to start this all off. I work a lot. Like. A lot. More than is probably reasonable. So my spare time is precious, and I have been so focused on getting the website running I haven't had much time for anything else.
What if I can't do this now? Why am I doing this now?
Wait just a damn minute. I'm Awesome. And what better time than now? Why do we all wait so long to do the things we want? Why do we try to focus on some "perfect time" to start a new way of living or a new endeavor? Why can't we just start by doing what we think is awesome and living that right away?
Do we really need time to get ready to be awesome? The only way for us to know our limits is to test them. The only way we can grow is if we put our plans into action. Plans are merely educated guesses, built from knowledge of the content and predictions of the outcomes. We are learning and planning all day long, but few of our plans seem to stick.
They don't stick because we don't stick to them. I am out to stick to this one.
That said, the plan (aforementioned)* is subject to change and I will not try to say that I will complete each day's goal religiously without any interruption, because lets face it: life tends to be a jealous little b!tch when it comes to a good plan, so I will say this instead: I will always be working to be as on track as possible in this plan.
So. Today's in the bag. Now I better start thinking of a good cartoon idea. Thanks for reading, have an awesome week.
* Truth time: I just wanted to use that word somehow.
Cancer Aug 20 2012 If, two hundred years ago, someone had said that we'd one day fly to the moon - most people would have thought that person to be crazy. Yet today we have the capability to rocket to the moon. There is something you aspire to, Moonchild. It is a very big dream. You want it to come true, but you're hampered by thoughts - thoughts of your own and comments made by others - that it just isn't possible. You may think you don't have the resources, or that you're too old, or that you're too young, or any of a hundred other excuses. But you can have what you want. You aren't crazy - you're a visionary for your own future. -- Copyright © DailyHoroscope. Download it now — http://bit.ly/DHmobile
I have a plan: go. Every day of the week I will try to accomplish a goal.
Blog Monday.
Cartoon Tuesday.
Story Wednesday.
7vid Thursday.
Poem Friday.
Weekends off, because I am only human.
So. As I was saying before you came in, I don't know if I am ready. I don't know if I am ready to start this all off. I work a lot. Like. A lot. More than is probably reasonable. So my spare time is precious, and I have been so focused on getting the website running I haven't had much time for anything else.
What if I can't do this now? Why am I doing this now?
Wait just a damn minute. I'm Awesome. And what better time than now? Why do we all wait so long to do the things we want? Why do we try to focus on some "perfect time" to start a new way of living or a new endeavor? Why can't we just start by doing what we think is awesome and living that right away?
Do we really need time to get ready to be awesome? The only way for us to know our limits is to test them. The only way we can grow is if we put our plans into action. Plans are merely educated guesses, built from knowledge of the content and predictions of the outcomes. We are learning and planning all day long, but few of our plans seem to stick.
They don't stick because we don't stick to them. I am out to stick to this one.
That said, the plan (aforementioned)* is subject to change and I will not try to say that I will complete each day's goal religiously without any interruption, because lets face it: life tends to be a jealous little b!tch when it comes to a good plan, so I will say this instead: I will always be working to be as on track as possible in this plan.
So. Today's in the bag. Now I better start thinking of a good cartoon idea. Thanks for reading, have an awesome week.
* Truth time: I just wanted to use that word somehow.
Cancer Aug 20 2012 If, two hundred years ago, someone had said that we'd one day fly to the moon - most people would have thought that person to be crazy. Yet today we have the capability to rocket to the moon. There is something you aspire to, Moonchild. It is a very big dream. You want it to come true, but you're hampered by thoughts - thoughts of your own and comments made by others - that it just isn't possible. You may think you don't have the resources, or that you're too old, or that you're too young, or any of a hundred other excuses. But you can have what you want. You aren't crazy - you're a visionary for your own future. -- Copyright © DailyHoroscope. Download it now — http://bit.ly/DHmobile
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Be Awesome
I have always thought (or: been told) that I needed to do something more. You know what I'm getting at, so I am not going to get all mushy and use words that will excite your emotions. No, I'd rather just get to where metal meets meat: I wanted to be awesome.
But don't we all? And, can't we all? After everything else melts away, we just want to be awesome. We find new ways to measure (or: monetize) what our idea of "awesome" is, and often, our society contributes a majority (or: all) of what we think of as "awesome."
But, as we grow (or: oh, how they grow up so fast!) learn new things about our universe, and we inevitably find something that we know to be awesome that our society does not yet fully agree with.
So there you are (being you). You are awesome already. You are a part of the universe and thinking one at that. But even though you are already awesome, I bet you are always told to be the next X (or get the next Y (or feel the next Z)). Which, if those are your things, go get 'em bro/babe! But if they aren't, that's o.k. too.
That last part is what is missing most of the time in our heavily socialized culture.
Do you. Just Be Awesome.
That's the reason why I wanted to start this whole thing. I wanted to start it so I could say that to you. So that I could say it to myself. I am just like you. I am a skeptic. I always think things could be bullshit, and I always assume that things will fail, so for me to believe that I myself was Awesome, that was not making it through the filters (or: grinders, crushers and armed tripods that talk nicely).
But I figured it out. I finally learned that you just Be Awesome. For me, being awesome comes down to a few simple things (note: this one is mine, find your own!) work hard, play often, think deeply, help others, carry conversation, allow debate, act with love, protect the innocent, cooperate equally.
So this blog and this website, this youtube channel, this Twitter are all a part of me being awesome.
This is my way. Now find your own, and walk beside me if you wish.
I am saying it to you (you blog reader, you!), to the internet (an ocean of madness and beauty), to my beloved country, to my loving world, to my spinning cosmos:
Be Awesome. #beawesome
@CosmicalRabbit
But don't we all? And, can't we all? After everything else melts away, we just want to be awesome. We find new ways to measure (or: monetize) what our idea of "awesome" is, and often, our society contributes a majority (or: all) of what we think of as "awesome."
But, as we grow (or: oh, how they grow up so fast!) learn new things about our universe, and we inevitably find something that we know to be awesome that our society does not yet fully agree with.
So there you are (being you). You are awesome already. You are a part of the universe and thinking one at that. But even though you are already awesome, I bet you are always told to be the next X (or get the next Y (or feel the next Z)). Which, if those are your things, go get 'em bro/babe! But if they aren't, that's o.k. too.
That last part is what is missing most of the time in our heavily socialized culture.
Do you. Just Be Awesome.
That's the reason why I wanted to start this whole thing. I wanted to start it so I could say that to you. So that I could say it to myself. I am just like you. I am a skeptic. I always think things could be bullshit, and I always assume that things will fail, so for me to believe that I myself was Awesome, that was not making it through the filters (or: grinders, crushers and armed tripods that talk nicely).
But I figured it out. I finally learned that you just Be Awesome. For me, being awesome comes down to a few simple things (note: this one is mine, find your own!) work hard, play often, think deeply, help others, carry conversation, allow debate, act with love, protect the innocent, cooperate equally.
So this blog and this website, this youtube channel, this Twitter are all a part of me being awesome.
This is my way. Now find your own, and walk beside me if you wish.
I am saying it to you (you blog reader, you!), to the internet (an ocean of madness and beauty), to my beloved country, to my loving world, to my spinning cosmos:
Be Awesome. #beawesome
@CosmicalRabbit
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