a beautiful thing

it's funny sometimes how things can go instantly from sucky to awesome by just simply taking action. if there's one thing i (should) have learned on multiple occasions, it's that if something truly is bothering you but doing something about it seems so awkward - do it anyway. as long as your underlying purpose is reasonable, things will work out for the good more often than not - though perhaps not as you might intend or even expect. this proved itself to me once again today

well, i suppose in truth i have learned this - but sometimes it's hard to take it to heart when you're bummed about, upset about, or feel like giving up on something... or worse depressed. fortunately that latter one's a condition i haven't had to deal with for a little while now, except maybe mildly on brief occasions. anyway, i'm getting off-topic

bottom line is this. don't be afraid to tell people what you want. there's far too much stuff to do, relationships to develop, experiences to be had, skills/character/knowledge to obtain to waste time trying to indirectly accomplish things - especially if other people are involved, and you care about how they're affected. just get to the core desire and be smart about how you present it. people can always surprise you, by how much they want what you want

anyway, enough of "preaching". it's just something that's come up again and again, so i thought i'd mention it... the kind of thing that makes you go "awww yeah" =)

a bunch has happened this past week, and i may or may not get to them in the blog. thanks alicia though for brightening my day earlier this week! maybe i'll make it out to seattle sometime. i do miss you!