if sarah died
by no one would cry at her funeral
i am that person who would bend over backward to make things happen for my friends and family. last wednesday i drove to philadelphia to pick up a friend from school cause his family hates him or something. i wasnt expecting anything for it-he just asked and since i was free i said why not. in return i got an awesome mix cd called "if sarah died, no one would cry at her funeral."
it got me thinking. although i know he was just kidding around it, the title made me realize something. as i sit here listening to john coltrane i think to myself that i am too nice. when driving, im the person who lets all the cars who have to make a left hand turn go. i always stop for pedestrians. when im going in or out of buildings i always hold the door for whoever is behind me even if they are perfectly capable of holding the door for themselves. i say thank you for everything even if it doesn't deserve thanks.
when im driving, i'm the person who gets cut off, and who has to sit at intersections for 10 minutes because nobody will let me go. im the person who will get pulled over for going 5 over the speed limit, and as the cop is writing out my ticket, a car going 80 will fly by. in buildings, im the one who the door falls on even when i have my hands full. im the pedestrian who always has close encounters with death because cars dont feel like stopping.
people always tell you what goes around comes around.
when is my 'what'' gonna come back around?? cause i need it lately. the fall/ winter always seem to be the worst time of year for me. and maybe its the lousy weather. all i know is that its beat city. i can't wait til the spring when i start classes again. then ill be 5 months closer to italy in august (and greece in 06 with lindsay!)
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sarah i barely know you and i would cry at your funeral. you are an awesome person! don't ever stop putting other people before you. it is so rare a quality. i've been in situations where i'm thinking NOW-now would be the perfect time for someone to repay the kindness i've always shown them. and i got...nothing. it's not fun at all, but hey no one is perfect. my new expectation: expect nothing. you'll either get what you expected or be very pleasantly suprised. =)
you're not alone, think how the big guy feels :) always giving but not many appreciate it at all, always taken for granted
hard to expect anything 'back' from a ruthless self absorbed world
but keep up the niceness, we are all bound to cross paths someday on the road, at the food store, and the record shop
ah man the songs great, just that lisp is killing me
What if... the small acts of kindness you perform for others, in traffic, holding doors, are the repayment for their kindness that they've been waiting for... it doesn't take something big to make your day; to make you smile.
It'll come when you're least expecting it. Don't think that you don't have an effect on other peoples' lives.
pay it forward..
Aww Sarah..I love you dude! Would it make you feel better if I started to online stalk you? That makes everyone happy.
Really though, you're a better person then I am. I try to do these things (like always letting people make left hand turns) but when they don't do it fast enough I get aggravated and nervous that the people behind me are going to kill me so I just go. And always opening the door for people? When they don't say thank you it always upsets me. Like, was it that hard to say thanks? But when someone holds the door open for me I always make sure to smile and thank them so they don't feel bad.
You're probably making someone's day every time you do something nice. Isn't there some little short proverb-story thing out there about this? I think it's in the chicken soup books. There were two, one isn't a proverb-story thing:
-A girl was working at a drive-up coffee/donut place (and now I'm gonna make up the rest of the story cause I can't remember) and one day one of her usual customers was having a bad day so she gave him a free donut and a smile. A few weeks later is was raining and she was all wet from having to stick her head out the drive up window all day. The guy drove up and..seeing that she was having such a bad day came back later with a rose and a tip for her!
-Someone was nice to a homeless man and gave him money..homeless man was happy and bought food..he saw a stray dog and gave it some food and took it home to the homeless shelter. The shelter caught on fire that night and the dog saved everyone. See the moral?
uhm wait i'm confused i think melody mullins likes cheeseburgers
hmm
maybe this was meant in a really good way
i think .. at my funeral.. i would want people to stand around saying "remember the time Kam had to reach in a toilet to get the office key"
or like
"remember the time Kam tried to do jump on her snowboard and landed on her face"
and laugh
i don't care, laugh at me, laugh with me, i'm dead, and i'm gonna wake up in a meadow petting lions.
Hahaha, I'm the same way. Like, of course I want people to be sad that I'm gone, but also to remember some of the stuff I did, whether it was funny, annoying, or whatever. Just remember me.
I don't know maybe I'm cynical but I don't think I even want people to be sad that I'm gone. For me, death is an easy and quick escape from this awful system of things. Sure i'd like to see the great tribulation and survive it and never have to die... but i wouldn't really mind just bein done with it and wakin up
I duno, death just doesn't scare me at all whatsoever. I think this is sorta a good thing cos if i'm ever threatened with death i'll just be like 'yeah, so?'
But I don't know... i'm sure I would be devastated if a member of my family or a friend died. Soooooooo .. I don't know I don't make sense.
thats how my dad's family does it, they always have like a dinner party afterwards
Irish wake
Is petting lions the main activity you always see yourself doing in paradise too!?
Oh yeah. Definitely. And horseback riding. Bareback.
Oooh I never thought of that one because I'm terrified of horses and all, but I'd love that! I'd feel like and Elf!
yeah i've never ridden bareback. But I want to so bad. Like just hold on to the mane. And run like the wind.
Hey lets all recreate that ER funeral scene for Sarah!
At first I thought you meant ER the show but then I knew you meant Empire Records. Cool.
My sisters and I used to play Funeral. One of us would pretend to be dead and the two others would be crazy people attending the viewing like the old lady with her umbrella that poked a whole in the dead person's head.
whaaaaaaaaatttt?
thats weird lindz!!!
Yes it is. My sisters and I were nuts.
I think this game started after Park Bench got old. One of us would be pretending to sit on a parch bench and one of the others would walk up or whatever and pretend to be doing something. Interaction. THen the first person would get up and leave and then the third sister would enter. Endless cycle.
this is why we are friends. sicko.
maybe no one would cry cuz they saw how bad you were at dancing..
i used to live in wharton, and i would go to your funeral. for that reason alone.
Sarah Fonseca...good times, nice kid. You may be my lost sister sepearated at birth, I've often thought many of the EXACT same thoughts, still do. Just never discount yourself, which is something I'm learning to not do in my own experience... Keep being the person that you are, because you're awesome, and you're precious to Jehovah.
Recently I've heard some published reports on how this time of year (weather wise) has a terrible affect on peoples minds & moods, it's just one of those things. Hopefully this winter, I'll be keeping busy, and I'll definately steal you anytime you're free.
l8terz
SARAH!!!! i hate the winter too. and all i can concentrate on now is tollying just going to italy. we live in the wrong hemisphere. snows pretty to look at but this darkness at the time is killing me. but the positive thought is that now you can get really good at guitar so when we go, romancing all those boys will be a cinch for you.
but now here is another suggestion to make you feel better. since i care about you so much, when you die: can i give your ughougly?
id be honored gooley
awww... i doubt this very much...
haha this got me thinking as well. Ive alwyas wanted people to be ok at my funeral. I want everyone to go out to the diner or play manhunt afterwards. Id want people to have fun and remember the good times not get all teary eyed. Id want like Goldfinger playing with big candy bowls all over the place.