tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16738585.post114168730913658149..comments2023-10-09T06:23:59.550-07:00Comments on YellaLand: In Light of the Oscars...Yellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00177322637079005617noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16738585.post-1141920098373935942006-03-09T08:01:00.000-08:002006-03-09T08:01:00.000-08:00-Some of the choices in life "will choose you," sh...-Some of the choices in life "will choose you," she said. "How you face these choices, these turns in the road, with what kind of attitude, more than the choices themselves, is what will define the context of your life."-<BR/>Thank you for that quote.<BR/>It's so awful for their son, what a horrible thing...demondollhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07109263098173803603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16738585.post-1141857362158585482006-03-08T14:36:00.000-08:002006-03-08T14:36:00.000-08:00And see how random and unfair it all is? She wasn...And see how random and unfair it all is? She wasn't even a smoker and she died of lung cancer... that was the saddest thing. I really feel for their son... Cheery outlooks aside that is rotten, rotten luck to lose both your parents before you are grown. No one can convince me to put a positive spin on that...Yellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00177322637079005617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16738585.post-1141852993417931142006-03-08T13:23:00.000-08:002006-03-08T13:23:00.000-08:00Just had to send you this. From the LA Times obitu...Just had to send you this. From the LA Times obituary on Dana Reeves. She and her husband gave a commencement speech. <BR/><BR/>"Several months before her husband died, the couple gave the 2004 commencement address at Middlebury College in Vermont.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Some of the choices in life "will choose you," she said. "How you face these choices, these turns in the road, with what kind of attitude, more than the choices themselves, is what will define the context of your life." <BR/><BR/>I think even I needed to hear that. - AriannaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16738585.post-1141757539857921232006-03-07T10:52:00.000-08:002006-03-07T10:52:00.000-08:00LOL! So true. -ALOL! So true. -AAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16738585.post-1141756507437918032006-03-07T10:35:00.000-08:002006-03-07T10:35:00.000-08:00Yes on Reese. Remember Julia Roberts? She got an...Yes on Reese. Remember Julia Roberts? She got an award for wearing fake boobs, like she couldn't have done that in her sleep! The male portion of the academy kept that VHS tape in the VCR just a leeeeetle too long I suspect.<BR/><BR/>On luck and nature: I suppose this is like the debate about nature vs. nurture in raising children. Having now had two sprung from my womb I can definitely attest that they have personalities FULLY formed. That is luck of the mixture of genes and nature for sure. <BR/><BR/>It is all about the idea that when opportunity knocks you must be ready. And I think the only thing we really control is getting in the path of opportunities... and even that fails on a major scale for most people.<BR/><BR/>It's a good thing for the successful that most people fail. So what does it do for the unsuccessful then? That is the question. My search is how to not put life on hold 'until' things are accomplished. You know how women put happiness on hold till they lose weight? <BR/><BR/>Can we say Mercedes Ruell?Yellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00177322637079005617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16738585.post-1141712997359370312006-03-06T22:29:00.000-08:002006-03-06T22:29:00.000-08:00I think one must always look at the life we have c...I think one must always look at the life we have chosen and learn to love or at least appreciate what we have...because it's chosen and because it's now. Because we are a blip in the existence of this universe and we better fucking enjoy it or get the fuck off and make room. Indeed, there is so much that we cannot control. However, I don't believe one is successful or a loser based on the outcome of those choices. We are simply a product of those choices, the randomness of nature and even a little luck or lack of it. Though I respect the examination of failure or even futility ...enormously, I feel (based on personal experience) that it is quite dangerous to call ourselves names. It plants a seed of self hate that can easily grow and grow. The same goes for success. For if you think it was all your talent and charm that got you there...watch how fast the mighty shall fall. I have pangs of self pity when I watch the Oscars, but they are very small. Mainly because I see how the above plays into the "success" of some, just as it plays into the "failure" of others. As if Reese Witherspoon could not have done that role in her sleep. OR perhaps she just makes it look easy...ah...that got me thinking. What REALLY comforts me are the has-beens. I truly get great comfort and fear simultaneously seeing photos of actors I'd long forgotten and who everybody else has long forgotten. Then they show up on a red carpet and you remember them...for that instant...but they're not working, they havent' for a while and then I remember: choices, luck and nature. It makes me cheer when they get a job or make a comeback or show up on a reality weight loss program and I am grateful again for my obscurity; it's safety. Here, I can fail in private. <BR/><BR/>1) Live in California<BR/>2) Live in LA<BR/>3) Ever think of returning to Texas<BR/>4) stay with a man longer than I should<BR/>5) Have children...oh, wait<BR/>6) pay off my students loan (I just MIRACULOUSLY managed to handle one, still have the big one)<BR/>7) LOVE beer<BR/><BR/>-AriannaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com