Its easier to accept you are ugly than to pretend you are beautiful.

Layers

Like an onion, I have many layers. The top most layer is out to please you, to hurriedly accomplish things to make you happy. The inner layer, is at times more reflective, it wants to do a little for itself, learn a little music maybe? The one inner still is always in turmoil, unconvinced by this charade, wanting to halt in its steps, take no further step at all. To stay put. Then, there is the innermost layer.

It just doesn't give a fuck.

From start to finish

You fail to start sometimes, just because you are scared if you will ever finish. That is why perhaps intellectual challenges are much harder at times, as compared to physical challenges as they do not have well defined goals, so you never really know if you have finished, you are never really sure that you are happy. I believe the ability to tune out everything else, when you are in pursuit of a special challenge must be a very useful trait to have. I wouldn't know much about it though, been there just once or twice !

Mercenary

When you start feeling like a mercenary, its your cue to move out. Things which are not driven by passion do not count in the larger scheme of things.

He read it over and over again, till it made no sense at all.

Twenty and Three, for the record.

When I was a child, the colors were much brighter than what they are now. Trying to go back to a place where they are bright once again.

Text Pad in a Browser

There should be a text pad in a browser. So the next time you want to cut+copy+paste some good lines you just came across, you don't have to open up a note pad or your blog for that matter, like I just did. Anyways, this so beautifully sums up a lot of what I think.

Most of us don’t hear a voice inside our heads. We’ve simply decided that we’re going to work in finance or be a doctor because that’s what our parents told us we should do or because we wanted to make a lot of money. When we consciously or unconsciously make that decision, we snuff out that little voice in our head. From then on, most of us put it on automatic pilot. We mail it in. You have met these people. They’re nice people. But they’re not changing the world. Jobs has always been a restless soul. A man in a hurry. A man with a plan. His plan isn’t for everyone. It was his plan. He wanted to build computers. Some people have a voice that tells them to fight for democracy. Some have one that tells them to become an expert in miniature spoons. When Jobs first saw an example of a Graphical User Interface — a GUI — he knew this was the future of computing and that he had to create it. That became the Macintosh. Whatever your voice is telling you, you would be smart to listen to it. Even if it tells you to quit your job, or move to China, or leave your partner.