User Profile
Add Friend
Add Note
Track User
Send Message
Send V-Gift
You're not sleepy as you seem
Stay awake, don't nod and dream
Created on 2003-08-06 17:57:54 (#1236591), last updated 2009-12-17
6,894 comments received, 8,980 comments posted
Basic Account [Gift]
2,974 Journal Entries, 23 Tags, 57 Memories, 0 Virtual Gifts, 6 Userpics
Basic Info| Name: | Jenna |
|---|---|
| Birthdate: | 1987-01-21 |
| Location: | Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
Contact:
alyndria@gmail.com BioI'm 22. I'm a student, a cashier and babysitter, and a volunteer. And really, I'm boring. Trust me: you probably don't want to read my livejournal.
At the heart of our matter as human beings really the best thing of all is passion. Passion for another person, passion for a job, a cause, even passion for a book. Maybe that's even what it is all about at the end of the day-- our purpose: trying to furnish your life with so many different kinds of passion that everywhere in it there is something that fills you to bursting and makes you want to tell the whole world about it.
Jonathan Carroll
...
"the lesson of the moth"
Don Marquis
i was talking to a moth
the other evening
he was trying to break into
an electric light bulb
and fry himself on the wires
why do you fellows
pull this stunt i asked him
because it is the conventional
thing for moths or why
if that had been an uncovered
candle instead of an electric
light bulb you would
now be a small unsightly cinder
have you no sense
plenty of it he answered
but at times we get tired
of using it
we get bored with the routine
and crave beauty
and excitement
fire is beautiful
and we know that if we get
too close it will kill us
but what does that matter
it is better to be happy
for a moment
and be burned up with beauty
than to live a long time
and be bored all the while
so we wad all our life up
into one little roll
and then we shoot the roll
that is what life is for
it is better to be a part of beauty
for one instant and then cease to
exist than to exist forever
and never be a part of beauty
our attitude toward life
is come easy go easy
we are like human beings
used to be before they became
too civilized to enjoy themselves
and before i could argue him
out of his philosophy
he went and immolated himself
on a patent cigar lighter
i do not agree with him
myself i would rather have
half the happiness and twice
the longevity
but at the same time i wish
there was something i wanted
as badly as he wanted to fry himself
At the heart of our matter as human beings really the best thing of all is passion. Passion for another person, passion for a job, a cause, even passion for a book. Maybe that's even what it is all about at the end of the day-- our purpose: trying to furnish your life with so many different kinds of passion that everywhere in it there is something that fills you to bursting and makes you want to tell the whole world about it.
Jonathan Carroll
...
"the lesson of the moth"
Don Marquis
i was talking to a moth
the other evening
he was trying to break into
an electric light bulb
and fry himself on the wires
why do you fellows
pull this stunt i asked him
because it is the conventional
thing for moths or why
if that had been an uncovered
candle instead of an electric
light bulb you would
now be a small unsightly cinder
have you no sense
plenty of it he answered
but at times we get tired
of using it
we get bored with the routine
and crave beauty
and excitement
fire is beautiful
and we know that if we get
too close it will kill us
but what does that matter
it is better to be happy
for a moment
and be burned up with beauty
than to live a long time
and be bored all the while
so we wad all our life up
into one little roll
and then we shoot the roll
that is what life is for
it is better to be a part of beauty
for one instant and then cease to
exist than to exist forever
and never be a part of beauty
our attitude toward life
is come easy go easy
we are like human beings
used to be before they became
too civilized to enjoy themselves
and before i could argue him
out of his philosophy
he went and immolated himself
on a patent cigar lighter
i do not agree with him
myself i would rather have
half the happiness and twice
the longevity
but at the same time i wish
there was something i wanted
as badly as he wanted to fry himself
ConnectInterests (104):
agnosticism, agoraphobia, alpha phi omega, animals, anxiety, apo, art, artists, babysitting, biographies, board games, books, boston, bowling, calvin and hobbes, cheese, chuck, cities, clouds, comedy, community service, cookies, depression, dermatographia, discovery channel, down comforters, dr. seuss, dragons, eddie izzard, education, exploring, eyelashes, fantasy, feeling with my eyes, fibromyalgia, fiction, firefox, guitar hero, guns, heavy blankets, history, house, impossible dreams, into the woods, italy, jim henson, jonathan carroll, juice boxes, kids, knee socks, languages, laser quest, libraries, lucille ball, m.c. escher, marilyn monroe, me, mel brooks, museums, music, musicals, north shore community college, nscc, pasta, people watching, perry bible fellowship, photography, pixar, poetry, portraits, questionable content, rain, red rover, reptiles, robert mccammon, s'mores, scavenger hunts, self portraits, shiny things, short stories, sledding, snakes, sociology, socks, soy milk, stars, sushi, sweatshirts, tea, traveling, treehouses, tv land, twitter, underwater creatures, useless trivia, video games, volunteering, walking, what's my line?, whiskey sours, working with kids, xkcd, you,
External Services:
 | alyndria@livejournal.com | |
 | alyndria121 |  |
Friends [View Entries] Friends (53):
_lostinaworld, anadandy, animalcracker24, beautifulraven, bigc975, bitterjoymoon, bulrogue, captain_quint, chocolatemog, conman711, crossbonestyle, dark_raven87, dragonkisanth, eimiayumi, galeforcewynd, godswraith, grinning_fox, i_heart_311, ice_cream_eyes, iharthdarth, jrc520, ketala, kung_fu_monkey7, lediva, maeveenroute, monkeyjb, muffinflavored, northshore_hxc, oakenguy, onehopeful, petrungarino, pjainey, raz_a_ma_taz, sairisse, sandjampanda, sirenphotos, snowwand, sotp_chris, stellarichards6, superrob, sushigrade, tales_of_wonder, termonfeckin, the___distance, theeyeofket, thelorelei15, thiel, thielpoems, tianaran, triplehdm, wafflesizzle, whitneybelle, your_obsession_
Mutual Friends (47):
_lostinaworld, anadandy, animalcracker24, beautifulraven, bigc975, bitterjoymoon, bulrogue, captain_quint, chocolatemog, conman711, crossbonestyle, dark_raven87, eimiayumi, galeforcewynd, godswraith, grinning_fox, i_heart_311, ice_cream_eyes, jrc520, ketala, kung_fu_monkey7, lediva, maeveenroute, monkeyjb, muffinflavored, northshore_hxc, onehopeful, petrungarino, pjainey, raz_a_ma_taz, sairisse, sandjampanda, sirenphotos, sotp_chris, stellarichards6, superrob, sushigrade, tales_of_wonder, termonfeckin, the___distance, theeyeofket, thelorelei15, thielpoems, tianaran, triplehdm, wafflesizzle, your_obsession_
Also Friend of (26):
1000_things, adversion, biancasunshine, christine012184, coscaram, da_rk_knight, dark_reaver, decker2003, dr_chad, fallen_angel_gt, flame_bitch, get_medieval, hereticprincess, jackgable, jim_lad, lilbit7287, manlypanda, marinshe, mutefuzzybard, queenrose24, salty_jesus, synthshadows, thegoldenginnie, vermiciousknidd, whaleomlette, xxxdmcxxx26
Communities [View Entries] Watching (7):
Member of (18):
Feeds [View Entries] Watching (1):
