Do You Realise?

Random (scattered) thoughts at the end of a very full day...

...Sometimes when you're a perfectionist, and harder on yourself than anyone else is, you can get sooooo consumed with your drive to be perfect and do everything that you end up projecting all of your own self-doubts onto others, ultimately tricking yourself into thinking that it's them that is/are demanding so much from you (when really, it's you). This never results in goodness. Actually, it just puts a whole big ball of negative energy out into the universe around you. So if you're like me in the above-mentioned "perfectionist/harder-on-yourself-than-others-are" kind of way, be aware of this... and be careful not to do it...

...There's a beautiful story that Tracey recounts in her new show (Two in the Bush! - Opens this Wednesday night - woo hoo!!!) about Joan of Arc. Apparently, when she was burned at the stake, she asked a man in the crowd to hold a cross so that she could see it, and asked him to shout out assurances of salvation so that she could hear them above the roar of the crowd and the flames. In the show, Tracey's character reminds us to make sure that when the roars of life get loud, make sure that you always have a friend to shout out assurances above the flames... I think this is my favorite part of the show. And I am thankful for those friends that I always seem to have, that shout assurances loud enough for me to hear them above the roar in my own head....

...Peace Camp starts tomorrow and Two in the Bush opens on Wednesday night - EXCITEMENT!!!

"Do you realise???
that you have the most beautiful face... we're floating in space... that happiness makes you cry... that everyone you know, some day, will die...
And instead of saying all of your goodbyes, let them know you realise that life goes fast, it's hard to make the good things last, you realise the sun don't go down, it's just an illusion caused by the world spinning 'round"
- The Flaming Lips