Kiss the Rain

It's so easy to make up your mind 

but the hardest thing is convincing your heart.

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Animefication

It’s not even in the standard dictionary. I just thought about this word. Animefication.  For me, it means transforming oneself into an anime character - thanks to Photoshop!

The Urban Dictionary defines animefied as something that has been changed to reveal its anime form. I think it’s close to what I was thinking.

 

Konan

Konan is a female character in the anime, Naruto. She hails from the Rain Village and was a member of Akatsuki. Her main ability is Paper Ninjutsu.

Me as Konan…

Into the Wild

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods;

There is a rapture on the lonely shore;

There is society, where none intrudes,

By the deep sea, and music in its roar; 

I love not man the less, but Nature more...

- Lord Byron

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I think this movie is about an adventure of a lonely, troubled heart, seeking to be free. 
Here are some quotes i like from the movie Into the Wild:
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"Two years he walks the earth. No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta. Thou shalt not return, 'cause "the West is the best." And now after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure. The climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual pilgrimage. Ten days and nights of freight trains and hitchhiking bring him to the Great White North. No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild. - Alexander Supertramp May 1992 "


"I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong... but to feel strong."


"I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth."


"Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past."


"If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed."


"The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences."


"The sea's only gifts are harsh blows, and occasionally the chance to feel strong. Now I don't know much about the sea, but I do know that that's the way it is here. And I also know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong. To measure yourself at least once. To find yourself at least once in the most ancient of human conditions. Facing the blind death stone alone, with nothing to help you but your hands and your own head."


"What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?"


"When you want something in life, you just gotta reach out and grab it."


"Happiness only real when shared. "




Franz: I'm going to miss you when you go. 
Supertramp: I will miss you too, but you are wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from the joy of human relationships. God's place is all around us, it is in everything and in anything we can experience. People just need to change the way they look at things.
Franz: Yeah. I am going to take stock of that. You know I am. I want to tell you something. From bits and pieces of what you have told me about your family, your mother and your dad... And I know you have problems with the church too... But there is some kind of bigger thing that we can all appreciate and it sounds to me you don't mind calling it God. But when you forgive, you love. And when you love, God's light shines through you.
Supertramp:: Holy shit! 

You Are Worth It

One doesn’t love in order to do what is good or to help or to protect someone. If we act that way, we are perceiving the other as a simple object, and we seeing ourselves as wise and generous persons. This has nothing to do with love. To love is to be in communion with the other and to discover in that other the spark of God.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

Every day, God gives us the sun – and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Every day, we try to pretend that we haven’t perceived the moment, that it doesn’t exist – that today is the same as yesterday and will be the same as tomorrow. But if people really pay attention in their everyday lives, they will discover that magic moment. It may arrive in the instant when we are doing something mundane, like putting our front-door key in the lock; it may lie hidden in the quiet that follows the lunch hour or in the thousand and one things that all seems the same to us. But that moment exists – a moment when all the power of the stars becomes a part of us and enables us to perform miracles.

Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. Our magic moment help us to change and sends us off in search of our dreams. Yes, we are going to suffer, we will have difficult times, and we will experience many disappointments – but all of this is transitory it leaves no permanent mark. And one day we will look back with pride and faith at the journey we have taken.

I could have. What does this phrase mean? At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have happened but didn’t. The magic moments go unrecognized, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything.

But love is much like a dam: if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure, and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

I’m going to fight for your love. There are some things in life that are worth fighting for to the end. You are worth it.

Source: Paulo Coelho’s Blog entitled “By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept…”