Sleep Deprivation

Thursday, December 11, 2003
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Here's how I work.

1. Love - The unconditional surrender of one's emotions. Love is the strongest bond two people can share and that is a strength that I will value as long as I breathe. When you see love, it can leave you in awe of the power it contains. My parents' love for me gave them incentive to move away from the country they grew up in and to restart their stuggle for life, just to know that their child will have a better life. They sacrificed the foundations of their livelihood, for the dream of my future. My friends' love did not falter even as we all struggled during our childhoods. We gave what we had to each other even as we ourselves already were lacking. We have forged such a strong bond of brotherhood through our childhood suffering. And finally, there is love for that one other; the double-edged sword that is the signature of life's pain and happiness. The closest we will ever be from feeling heaven or hell. Yet, this is love in all its glory, with rough tenderness that gives life meaning, gives life purpose. It is the rarest to find, the most fragile to preserve but it is the angel on which upon happiness finds flight. It is hope and it is life.

2. Pride and Honor - Our blood can replenish and wounds can heal, but tears upon our pride are scars that plague us. My pride is what I respresent, it is what I have experienced and what people have left for me to pass on. When we were young, our honor was constantly challenged by over-confident arrogancy and they were always met with fists and pain. We fought with fierceness like no other for our pride was all we had to stand for. My honor is the code which I live by. It consists of lessons from the past and words beyond their years. It is the rubric on which I challenge my the issues I face in life. It is my heritage and my path upon which I tread. I will not let what knowledge I have gained to wither away. I will not let such glory be tainted. Until my blood runs dry, my pride will not fall, my honor will be my strength.

3. Modesty - I do not understand why the competative nature of life must drive people to act in such an arrogant ways. Blind presentations of your strengths cannot be exchanged for respect. Maybe they it gives yourself self reassurance to be reminded of your own strengths by yourself. However, if you really have strong roots in it does not need to be expressed through arrogant words or actions. The strongest of people need no words to show their excellence. On the other side, weakness is a gap in ourselves that some will attempt to cover up with false reassurance of empty strengths. Modesty is the greatest show of dignity achievable. It shows that you are not afraid of your weaknesses and do not need to express strengths in order to divert attention away from your lesser points. Silence is the representative of underlying strengths on a far higher standard then those strengths that must be verbally or actively shown. It is the basis of the quality of character and the only pure, true showing of strength.

Stephen at 8:21 PM


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