Archive for 2003

• 5.24.03 "A Guide to Writing Letters" is posted in Quote/Lyric, Reflections

I love letters. And I hate letters. Of the typical forms of communication (in person, on the telephone, via instant messages, through emails/letters), writing can easily be the most or least expressive. While letter-writing appears to be the slowest of the above, it is the only way to express oneself in entirety. Of course many will contend that discussing something in person is the easiest way to avoid miscommunication. With many topics, a steady dialogue or eye contact may be necessary. However, for the time and precision needed to say exactly what one wants and for someone to understand precisely what was expressed, there is no better form of communication than writing. (more…)

• 4.20.03 "Two Ways to Look at Life" is posted in Reflections

I’ve been wondering whether some people consider life a series of events and others a long continuum…or whether some people just don’t seem to have a lot of events in their life. Anyone that knows me well knows that I always have “something big” in the works. Other people don’t always have something to report. I wonder whether it’s because of their view on life or because there actually isn’t anything exciting going on. (more…)

• 3.15.03 "Slow Down and You’ll Get There" is posted in Reflections, Work & Career

Slow down so that you can get to where you really want to be. That’s my only real lesson of late. I guess the biggest problem with “the system” that we all subscribe to from elementary to graduate school is what’s at fault: we don’t need to do everything and we don’t need to be where we want to be at 21 or 26. All we really need to have is a notion of what we need and what we want. We don’t need to be there today, we just need to move toward it. (more…)