Showing posts with label Become Yourself or Become Forgotten. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Become Yourself or Become Forgotten. Show all posts

2007-03-08

Become Yourself or Become Forgotten

continued from "Today's Post will be "Ghost" Written (click here to read)

The preface of this is best explained with part of the "Best Quote Ever" post (click to read)

"I've read many quotes from many individuals travelling across many centuries of time. Thoughts from lives past bring new teachings that sit down with old learning to create enlightened understanding. I become a vessel for these people to travel in, so they can continue their journey in a new soul." - (the former) Adam Stuart

"People only see what they are prepared to see." & "Hitch your wagon to a star." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You must do the thing you think you cannot do" - Eleanor Roosevelt

"People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be." - Abe Lincoln

"Knowing is not enough; We must Apply. Willing is not enough; We must Do." - von Goethe

"Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you've got." - Jim Rohn

"Follow your bliss." - Joseph Campbell

"If you can dream it, you can do it." - Walt Disney


"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter." - e.e. cummings

"They say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." - Andy Warhol

"If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded." - Maya Angelou

"Project yourself into the probable future that will unfold with each choice that you are considering. See how you feel. Ask yourself, 'Is this what I really?' and then decide." - Gary Zukav (this is especially good when you are afraid and/or have caught a case of the "What-Ifs")

"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." - Helen Keller

And finally........

"It's never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot

....Unless the time you were given is up, as it is for our dear departed friend.

Today's Post will be "Ghost" Written

Today's post will be written by someone other than our normal writer. Unfortunately, in an effort to keep his promise to be at his son's baseball game and keep his committment to completing his grad school assignment, the former Adam W. Stuart pushed well beyond his limits and left this earthly realm sometime around 3:30 this morning (here he's seen jump roping with this wonderful son worth keeping a promise to).

It is widely rumored he died listening to Three Doors Down's song "If I go crazy will you still call me Superman?" His rings were found next to him, indicating which one went to which child, that he wore to always feel they were with him. Sadly, what he said as he put each one on was never revealed to anyone, and this secret has died with him.

Although his zombie-like ghost was recently seen in Classroom 208, getting grades done and giving meaningful assignments to the students he dearly loved and believed in, it is widely believed that his spirit is now wondering somewhere in the sands of time.

He has run into some of the great spirits who helped him live his short, but definitely full life. In a never-ending attempt to enlighten himself and the world around him, he continues to learn from others in his new spiritual home and share this new learning with any who feel they could use it; this time via a mysterious email arriving on my computer.

Appropriately, at the memorial service many students quoted him often quoting Socrates "The one thing I know is that I know nothing."

Through the sheer will power of the heart, and a glitch in the computer system, this email mentions what his new friends told him they wanted us to know, to believe, and to live. It was sent from an unknown location, with the subject line containing Adam's last words:
"Become Yourself or Become Forgotten"........