brains

If you ask how I got so bitter
I'll ask how you got so vain
And all our questions blur together
The answers always sound the same.
-- The Weakerthans, None of the Above

I wish there was a switch you could hit to step outside of yourself. Issues that seem so important are so minimal when they aren't yours. Living in the moment always seems so important, until it's over and there is a new one to embrace. Maybe that's one of the reasons that friends are so important - they can tell you when you are becoming too obsessed in your own issues. This is why it is so important to be involved in other people's lives; so that you remember that you are only one small person in a huge world. It is one thing to theorize everything, and a completely different thing to realize them. Action. Is. The. Key.

Passiveness gets you nowhere.