Live Life...

A man or woman is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates his fate. Things do not change, we change. Keep your thoughts. Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
Man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. So it is with us as human being to be a part of something. How deep the ruts of tradition and conformity. Rather than love, than, fame than money, give me truth; for truth, will bring you true happiness.
Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Real happiness is when a person resigns himself to himself. However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. Men are born to succeed, not fail. What more failure that to fail in achieving the ultimate gift of happiness. One cannot buy happiness. The cost of happiness is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. Or rather plainer, be not simply good, be good for something.
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see. I wish to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I can not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. Do not short live your life. Man is that he might have joy, but joy comes not because man simply is. Real happiness is peace with ones self and the self assurance that he has lived all that was life, not world. I do not wish to live which is not life; I want to leave deep and suck all the marrow of life.

Nice Guys Finish Last

No one can not fight against lonliness,

My station defines me as solitude.

I am satisfied with adequate, and lowliness,

though people may be drawn to my attitude.

I'm ground down with heel and toe,

But I endure Because I need it.

I strive kindness because the seed I sow,

Will hopefully burst in the heart who freed it.

It's always been true what they say,

About good people future and past.

The good people will always pay,

The nice guy finishes last.

Sweet Heart's Dance.

My first impression of a Layton High dance was something along the lines of "Wow they go all out!". You see when I got asked to sweet heart's by Jewel Knight, I knew that we'd be dancing in the gym and people would be jumping everywhere. I was surprised on both fronts. The gym was decorated very well with a canopy, chinese lanterns, pillars surrounding the perimeter of the canopy and cute pink windows hanging in between each pillar. It was cool. My date was fun, my group was comfortable and I was dog tired...I had the misfortune of swimming at state the same day. I still managed to wake up long enough to have a blast but I didn't last for more than half an hour after I got home...I threw my clothes on my desk got into some shorts and crashed. hehe. But I still had alot of fun.

State Swimming 2009

State swimming was four times more successful than last year by far! Davis (seeing as how there only six of us that actually swam) got 12th which is amazing! My relays did fantastic, trounced condie and his team by three seconds in the 400 free relay. shaved off three seconds from our best time as well. We (Colten and Parker Simonson, Zack Santella and myself) now sit at a 3.25.00 range. 8th place over all but hey dude we totally kicked the crap out of previous Davis records. Like in the 200 freestyle relay. We (Me, Mitch Brown, Colton Simonson and Zach Santella) knocked the old Davis record out by four seconds!!! We're now at a 1.32.00, which put us in fifth place at state. Personally, I bested my fifty free time by .2. Which is significant drop in the fifty free cuz all you're doing is down and back really really really REALLY fast!!! I got a 00.22.75. Which is really good, fastest on the team...but not the fastest in Davis history. i'm a tenth way though. I'll get it next year hopefully :) Even though I desperately wanted it this year :( Ah well, life is full of disappointments. I'm proud of myself for doing so well though, especially at my age. Anywho I loved seeing Joe and Condie again (Joe's in the middle and Condie's on the right in the pic---->) I'm actually going to, probably, hang out with Joe this coming weekend. Great boys, both of them. I look up to them (literally in Joe's case haha that boy is monstrously tall) alot. They are good upright people. Joe made a really nice compliment to me right before the fifty free. I was talking to him and he was talking about how nervous and scared he was because last year he choked and blew it. I was talking to him about that, and when I was done he said "Alex you always make me feel good." At first I thought he was being sarcastic, but he was serious. And that gave me a bunch of warm fuzzies. The kid's a senior and he's one of the coolest people I know. A great role model. Overall a very successful weekend I think.

NOVELTY....

Sorry about the delay on this update, but I didnt want to do this post until I had pictures.Definately one of the funnest dances ever though. Cassidi looked absolutley stunning (always does) and we had a blast. Though she probably thinks I'm a total retard cuz I jump around like an idiot cuz I can't dance to save my life. However, she eventually got into it, and my group did too and we had quite the evening. Wasn't REALLY awkward, which I was grateful for. She's a fantastic friend, hope to see her more often. Anyway our day activity was really interesting. We decided to go bowling, however I forgot that the poor girl had a shoulder injury and couldn't bowl with her dominate arm...sooooooooooooooooooooo I tried bowling with my non dominant arm...that kind of hurt. So I had to switch hands after the first game. I had a blast, and I think she did to (at least I hope she did). Altogether fun date, fun girl, fun time, fun dance.

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When you get a year older, your not just sixteen or whatever age. You're 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1. Some days, you're four, when someone hurts you deeply and you want to cry. Other days you're 8, when theres absolutely nothing wrong in the world cuz you are playing and having a good time. On occasion you may be 12, and you're tired of everyone treating you like a child. Some days, you're 14, and you want to slap someone around cuz of all the drama that surrounds you. And some days you act you age. But its important to realize that we're not just one year; we are several. Because no one is the same age all the time, and no one can predict exactly how they'll react to certain situations. At times we feel like the world is crashing down on us, and we feel like Atlas, bearing the world on our shoulders. Other times, we'll feel like nothing else exists accept for us and what we're doing. Bad things will happen, good times will end, nothing will ever stay exactly the same, and good and bad situations will arise. How you react really depends on what age you are when the situation happens.

Everything Happens For a Reason....

"Trust thy self: Every Heart vibrates to that iron string, accept the place the divine providence has found for you; the Society of your contemparary, the connection of events. Great men have always done so and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their beings and we are now men, and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendant destiny; and not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but guides, redeemers, and reformers and benefactors, obeying the almighty effort, and the advancing chaos and the dark..."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Nothing happens for no reason. Be yourself, every heart vibrates to that iron string [of life]. Or should. Where are YOU from, what do YOU like to do, what do YOU dislike? What are YOUR favorite things, YOUR fears, YOUR DREAMS! Who are you?

Ok I really want to write something, but I know what so I chose a random picture from my phun photos folder and i'm not going to attempt to expound on it :D

Just laugh! :P