Raconte-Moi Histoire

I was just laying in the bathtub, I know sexy mental shot!  I was laying there because that is what one does in the bath.  And I was having this thought, it has been a reoccurring thought of mine for many years, but in the last few months it has been resounding over and over again.
The thought goes like this:
Am I the best person I can be?
Am I doing all I should be doing to ensure I am a person with a good heart and clear mind?
What does being a good person mean?
Am I the person I want myself to be?

It just flows through my mind, I now it is a very subjective thing, but what are the qualities that make someone a good person?  if you have to ask does it mean you are not one?

Then I hear songs like the one below and it just makes sense, I need to strive for stories like this, all live need to be based around some little whimsy.  Chasing the frog is what it should be, and perhaps, if i believe it and strive for it, that is what will make me the person I hope I am!

 "Raconte-moi une Histoire" by M83  (click there to listen)
i heard about this frog
it's a very tiny frog
but it's also very special
you can only find it in the jungle
so far away from me
but if you find it and if you touch it
your world can change forever

if you touch its skin
you can feel your body changing
and your vision also
and blue becomes red and red becomes blue
and your mommy suddenly becomes your daddy
and everything looks like a giant cupcake

and you keep laughing and laughing and laughing
nothing is ever quite the same really
and after you finish laughing
it's time to turn into a frog yourself
it's very funny to be a frog
you can dive into the water
and cross the rivers and the oceans
and you can jump all the time and everywhere
do you want to play with me?

we can be a whole group of friends
a whole group of frogs
jumping into the streets
jumping into the planet
climbing up the buildings
swimming in the lakes and in the bathtubs
we would be hundreds, thousands, millions
the biggest group of friends the world has ever seen
jumping and laughing forever
it would be great, right?

My unhurried legacy

Let the wheel spin, faster and faster

The other day I was laying in bed and listening to a podcast, thinking about what it is that make people tick.  It was a moth podcast, and it was a story by Kyp Malone.  Now I have talked about this podcast with a few people and have received the same similar to luke warm response.  "Its not the best story", "he doesn't delivery it well"  are some of the comments.  I do agree that for there have been many better podcasts and stories told i have listened to.  Great storytellers who could be telling the shitiest stories and still make them interesting to hear.  I truly believe that storytelling is an art!  But this podcast it wasn't about the delivery it was about what he was saying.  How honest his story was, how he was himself.  We live in a world were we have studied people for ever and now we try to categorize people by the way they deal with conflict, or the way they brush their teeth, whatever it may be.  It all seems like we are trying to create molds for people.  If you don't fit into this mold, then you are in trouble, or outcast, or worse picked on.  In the effort to bring more understanding to how people tick we are limiting people.

Every once in awhile someone sticks out of that mold and it is refreshing to see!  This is what I loved so much about this podcast.

you can hear it here Kyp Malone- My unhurried legacy