I’m not much for goal-setting…

I mean, of course we all need some goals, but the idea of mapping your whole life out in major goals, and sub-goals needed to reach those goals, is just too rigid and closed-minded an idea for me.

 

“With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.” 

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Life is for exploring, I think. And by boxing yourself into a pre-planned path, and not even just the path, but also all the directions you’re going to take while you’re on that path, is just too… limiting. (And also leads to feeling like anything that doesn’t fit into the plan as being something “wrong” or disappointing… sometimes, life has its own plans, you know? And I think it’s better to accept them, rather than fight them. 🙂 Sometimes, it’s even better than what we originally had planned.)

 

The Best Goal is No Goal – by Leo Babauta

 

 

So, while I do have some goals, such as preferred career choices, and some projects I want to finish (e.g. my novel(s)), the majoriy of the time I believe in living life by the day, by the moment, and trying my best to be present in the now, as opposed to planning for the future. I more or less believe that the future has a way of working itself out, and most of us think about it way more than we have to, or should.

 

“I paid attention to what was going on around me, which is what you need to do. Then you’ll start seeing the things you’re missing.”

           – Lacey Weatherford, Crush

 

And sometimes, we all need to take a few moments to relax. Take a walk. Meditate. You know.

 

You have to open your mind to going places you never expected to go. If you live without goals, you’ll explore new territory. You’ll learn some unexpected things. You’ll end up in surprising places. 

– Leo Babauta.

 

Anyway, on the topic of new things, and life’s little adventures, I’m working on this blog dedicated to finding new things to try within everyday life. Hopefully to maybe show people how even the littlest things can add so much more fun to our life! If we just stop to notice them.

 

There are plenty of little ways to expose ourselves to more spontaneity and randomness in our daily life, and just to take the time to explore. Because I believe the rule we were taught from my video game development class about the construction of video games —

 

“It’s about experiences: Learning new skills, exploring, challenges and competition. The longer those last, the deeper the experience.”
– Sean Murray, Hello Games (Joe Danger) 

 

— is true to our real life as well. And maybe you like the way things are right now, and you don’t want to quit your job, or go climb a mountain, or travel the world. But the point is, you don’t have to take such drastic measures, to seize each and every day. (At least, I don’t think so.)

 

There are so many things to do, and little ways we can have more fun and stop ourselves from getting into a rut. I think the important thing is, just to keep your mind and heart open to the little things that make life special. 

 

— thelittleadventureblog.wordpress.com

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forever is
the moment when today turns into tomorrow
and tomorrow turns into today

it is
going backward and forward
in circles that grow
infinitely and

forever.it

is the continuum hypothesis
where infinite sets can have different sizes
all too great to contain within a single mind
like the line between insanity and

this.

it is bigger than the biggest imagination of the most imaginative child
and smaller than the smallest mind of the most small-minded man

it is anything divided by zero
and a ribbon in the shape of an eight

it is the lie or promise behind true love and
the faith or wish between heaven and hell
and an illusion that makes it seem as though
things can actually last
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and as real as
the day after sunday, and the day before monday

it.

is something no mind can see hear or know
and the only truth that’s worth it, is this, to

remember:

forever is (everything and) nothing, and
nothing (and everything) is forever.

“the storytellers” excerpt: faster, faster, faster!

  faster, faster, faster!

     oh, wind, please stop pushing me backward.

i need to catch up —

the wind howls in my ears

grabs at my arms, legs, hair. engulfs me in a mini tornado.

dark, wet leaves wildly dance about, and the trees can barely stand still, and i can barely keep going

but, please

i have to. i need to.

my legs trip over branches, and twigs, and there is no opening.

no opening.

large waving twig arms, and old, rotting trees cover the sky

block the clouds

the darkness and fog work with the wind

they keep pushing at me, pushing at me, throwing rocks, dead leaves, anything it can find at me.

i have to close my eyes,

     and i trip

and i keep falling, and falling

i gulp

     and try to breathe

     but the air refuses to come to me

i open my mouth to scream

but my voice turns into bubbles

and something strange is entering my lungs and

i knew i should have taken those swimming lessons

i stop trying to call out to someone, anyone,

because no one else lives here anyway

no one else but me exists here

in this world where the sun never rises.

“the storytellers” excerpt: sometimes, i sit on the trees while i write.

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here is a short excerpt from the novel series “the storytellers”.

please comment and let me know what you think, thank you! 🙂

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      sometimes, i sit on the trees while i write.

               i wear a yellow dress — the one with the white flowers on it that my grandma gave me — and mis-matched stockings and yellow shoes and my favourite sun-hat.

          we don’t get very many windy days here.

          so hats are safe.

          even when seated atop the trees. among the leaves.

the leaves tickle my face, my hair dances over my eyes, my notebook pages refuse to stand still. flustered by the scene, my hat takes flight. soaring to the sky, waving goodbye to me with its satin ribbon arms.

     today is unexpectedly windy.

what? my favourite hat!

     i reach out to grab it’s satin ribbons.

oh.

not a good idea.

and the ground races up to meet me.

i’m trying to tell stories (my writing projects)

but i’m pretty new to novel/story writing, so.

please. i’ll be posting excerpts and things, and any feedback at all would be much appreciated! ^^ thank you in advance~

to start this off, some of the projects i am working on:

1. novel called “in case you cared” a slice-of-life, coming-of-age type story told in a mixture of poetry and prose

2. a series of short story type snippets about a family, called “life with the charming family”; i’m doing this as a writing exercise and i’ll try to post an entry for it at least once a week starting sometime next week ^^

3. novel series called “the storytellers”, a group of novels about different people who love to tell stories, each person using a different medium (painting, directing, composing music, writing, etc.). part fantasy, part slice-of-life. dual world settings.
related post(s):
sometimes, i sit on the trees while i write;
faster, faster, faster!

more excerpts:
i want you to be happy;
please be okay;

so. i hope you will support me as i try to find my way around this writing thing. ^^ i have a bad habit of dropping projects before they are finished if i have no one holding me accountable for them, so hopefully, posting regularly on this blog will help me actually see these writing projects through. 🙂

thank you to anyone who has taken the time to read this~
i hope you will leave me a comment, and maybe we can get to know each other ^^ i am always up for meeting new people, and making new friends 😀

– rain.