8 great anti-hacks to fundamentally change your life

I love the way this article thinks.

It’s perspective. The kind of perspective that requires variety, and discursive thinking, and morning runs during sunrise. The kind of perspective that requires new experiences, reflection, and carefree conversations with friends….

…There are no perspective hacks. None. You just have to suck it up, live a little, and wallow in the mud of life. You have to get your hands dirty with this beautiful business of living. You have to question, meditate, and fail often. You simply have to make space for perspective and hope that it will come eventually. You have to spend time in a manner that would seem self-indulgent to most.

In my view, perspective is the king of all anti-hacks

“Don’t worry about what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive.” - Howard Thurman

…The big come down ACOUSTIC. This is a bunch of tracks from an acoustic live set that I stole off Rafe’s shared folder a while back now.

They’re sooo good, I didn’t realise how good they were till the other day. I would love-love for them to do a proper unplugged session. I know unplugged may not work for all tracks but still would be sooo gooddd.

Had korma for dinner. Had fallen asleep from heat and exhaustion - well intended for it to be a nap, but then awoke short of 9pm meh.

Now I’ve eaten I feel sleepy again heh.

I’ve managed to shoot something for today.

God why am I so shattered?

…Like making a Jokeresque Threesixtyfive today.

But it’s soo cliche, as in cause of TDK I’m sure there’s a zillion batman related images that’s sprung up.

What’s the other thing I felt like saying today. Oh yeah, I feel in a weird mood, part of me feels like utter shit and not wanting to do anything apart from sleep. The other half of me wants to go all proactive and stuff.

Threesixtyfives Sunday theme is “All good things must end” which is rather a sad feeling theme - sigh.

From Sunday onwards I only have 100 shots left of threesixtyfive.

Bobs threatened to deleted this blog if I don’t upgrade my WP haha. So I need to get round to doing that.

Today I don’t feel like photography at all. Not that I want to stop or give up on my projects, I just don’t feel like trying at all.

And my nails are sore from chewing them, because I’ve epically failed to stop.

Festivals in a few weeks, I’m still not exciting nor am I finding much comfort in trying to figure what bands to see based on the fact there’s hardly anyone I want to see! And the few ones I do clash!

I wonder if I can be arsed to installed sunbird andhave it sync from gcal again, tho I’m quite happy with the gcal interface anyway.

Sigh.

I’m off to work a bit earlier than usual just so I can purchase some sort of delicious (biscuit) fried meat product in bread to start me off in the day since the market is on. I just felt like a change to my usual phafting about with breakie. Then again somehow I managed to make two poor excuses for poached eggs yesterday for breakie though decided not to do that again because I make lame poached eggs.

Feel a bit down this morning, the heat is still getting to me, and also felt the tiredness even after going to bed quite early for once. I also don’t think I slept too good, I swear I woke up randomly in the middle of the night in a start. I’m not sure…

Anyyhoww, I’m off for fried meat. Ciao.

Co worker - “Are you a goth?”

Me - *laugh* “Ha, No”

Co-worker - “Are you a emo?”

Me - *odd face* “No!”

Co-worker - “Then what are you then?”

You see, I don’t get why people have to label themselves one thing or the other - as on another co-worker asking the co-worker who asked me (work that line through your head slowly, you’ll get what I mean) the same question, she replied “I don’t know what I am, I’m just me”, in which I replied - “Ha yes! Exactly!” - indicating of course that I didn’t understand why I had to be placed under a label and I couldn’t just be ‘me’.

I’m guessing this all came up because so far they know my taste in music is somewhat different to all of theirs, and hence forth the associations with that are made.

Quite tired today, the heat is giving me a real beating. I hope this weekend is nice though. Oh just looked at five day forecast and it says rain :(

I CAN’T WAIT TILL FRIDAY ^_^

I just rewatched The Eternal sunshine of a spotless mind again, and I still love it. It’s such a pretty film and so so good. It asks the question; is it better to have loved, or to have never loved at all?

Many people wish they could erase the memories of past failed relationships, thinking that the pain, hurt, anger and so forth can be removed with it. But really, is it better?

I guess it’s hard to admit that relationships have to have the good and bad times, if you delve past the raw moments near the end. The mess, the tears, the hurt, the pain, the complications and the stale sensations - when you reach those precious moments from the beginning. The chase, the tiny small memories where you were laughing and smiling and felt on top of the world. Are those memories really worth the sacrifice to save yourself a little heartache?

And some people let their past haunt them, and stop them from ever moving on into a relationship thinking it will go the same way, that through means of your personality alone it is already destined to fail from the start - what can be different this time round that will make it last compared to the last time round? But if you never try, then you will never know? Is the risk of trying worth the possibility of something amazing?

Though I want to know, if two people were in a relationship and it went wrong, and then their memories were both erased of the whole thing - would they naturally still be drawn to each other again anyway? Do people become drawn together no matter what? Or is it all circumstantial? That everything has to be just right for people to be drawn and attracted to one another?

Maybe it’s a mixture of both, as in circumstances have to allow two people to get together, yet at the same time it would be nice (and very romanticist of me) to think that certain people will always been drawn towards one another eventually.

PS. My favourite photo I’ve seen today, it’s amazing…

I’m in a real soundgarden mood since last night - I don’t know why.

So yeah, today I had decided I was going to bake something - it was either going to be cake or treacle tart. I settled on treacle tart only because I had the bread available for the breadcrumbs at the time, and I was worried the bread would go off it left longer.

Anyhow, I just finished it, and I was a little worried since the filling barely just managed to cover the pastry dish - but it tastes delicious though might be slightly over cooked (filling is a bit chewy) as I was paranoid about the pastry underneath not being cooked through. So next time I’m going to make slightly bit more filling and trust my instincts that it will be baked sooner.

I love it, I love how I can bake so easily, I just find a simple recipe that looks like it’ll work, and I give it a go. And pretty much 9 and half times out of 10 I produce something that’s edible and also tasty (opinion shared by others and no just myself on that note).

The only beef I have from this tart was that it was ready brought pastry, so maybe one day I will learn how to make the pastry from scratch too without messing up.

Baking seems like a money using venture though, I keep having to buy tins and ingredients, ha I came back from some shopping in town on Sunday with an armful of tins and mon pere just gave me that look and asked if I was starting a bakery. Ha.

Anyhow I have the set up to make a victoria sponge, though I think I’ll leave that for another time. I do have to make fudge to take for the essex folk before I leave mind. I was also tempted to bake browies, as they went well with Paul and even his family when he took them back with him ha. But actually brownies are a bit of a ballache what with the melting chocolate part.

Oh I’m so giddy, and I’m also probably going to get fat what with all the baking products I’ll have to consume because I’ve made them - but I’m hoping that my laziness will help counter this, as in I’m counting on the fact I’ll not be arsed to bake often. And hence less to eat and I won’t end up getting fat.

Anyhow, I got loaddss of jobs I need to do still that I’ve been putting off because I’m bad :( Darn it. Plus I am totally broke as hell, and hence I must resist spending money after I’d finished my shift at work for the week.

I CAN’T WAIT TILL THE WEEKEND.

Edit: I haz tart