2013

I will accomplish the following this year:


102.5kg Clean and Jerk

80kg Snatch

~300lb Back Squat

-Pass 1B with an average above 70.

-Survive this winter work term, long and scary winter commute and all

-Find the time and energy for my guitar in these busy days

-Live life happily (hopefully.)

He fights

Whenever I start making progress in things I desire, something or another comes out of no where, whacks me down and beats me up. Sometimes I feel like giving up, I know that many others would have given up long ago. But I always remember this quote, it's really close to my heart: “The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly" - Thomas Paine

He looks back through light

The pillars of creation. What an absolutely amazing and incredibly symbolic picture. I love it so much, just imagining wandering space and seeing something like this...Though I'd be so small that there's no way I could get a vantage point nice enough to see the entire thing, nor probably the heat sensing capabilities. But the really amazing thing, is that even though we have this picture...This formation hasn't existed for our entire lives...In fact, 6000 years ago it would have been overwhelmed and disappeared into the supernova around which it formed. It's similar to how we can look in the mirror and in fact we are seeing backwards in time.

He learns

Maybe for some of us it's not about the academic superiority, not about the competitive grades or the goodlife-guaranteeing-universities, maybe for some of us, doing well academically is about that moment when you learn. That moment when you connect, the spark of intuition, the realization of possibilities, the fascination with everything that is and the obsession with everything that can be.

He sees infinity

http://djer.roe.ac.uk/vsa/vvv/iipmooviewer-2.0-beta/vvvgps5.html

A picture of 1 billion stars, zoom into it, REALLY zoom into it.

See the insignificance of each star in the total?
 Every star, just like our sun that dwarfs us wholly

 What is our feeble species?

 It's funny really, people treat infinity as something that cannot be reached, cannot be seen...But all that we have to do to see infinity is actually look up at the stars. One light year alone is such a vast distance that no human mind can properly comprehend it, it's just out of our scope...Therefore, it is to us, infinity.

He promised

No, I have broken way too many promises to myself to break this one.

He ponders the moment

That one moment, where one must decide between doing what is right and what is easy.

It is always interesting, and often surprising to see what people decide, I feel like it is an indication of true character.