Whispers and Answers – Mikkel Sørensen

first I lick my upper lip
in compliance with the pleasure trip
then the music begins to thrill
no longer does silence my heart kill

back and forth with the melody
the strict rhythmical odyssey
like an aesthetic enchant
alas, merely a sugary deviant

acid conflagating attention-deficit
only five milligrams per reincit
otherwise la fille francais decay
when le beau monde ensures a continental crossway

it is in a free fall toward the skies
a plethora slowly whispering goodbyes
assuring an ethereal panacea
and existence is a preconceived idea

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Pay it forward

Yesterday, by accident, I watched the film “Pay it forward” based on the book by Catherine Ryan Hyde. It’s about Trevor, who in social studies class, has an assignment named “Think of an idea for world change, and put it into action”. Trevor’s idea is quite magnificent:

Trevor helps three persons with something really hard (e.g. helping Jerry off drugs, his social studies teacher into a relationship with Arlene, Trevor’s mother, and finally a classmate not getting beat-up – which unfortunately leads to Trevor being stabbed and killed), and instead of having them paying back the favour, they have to pay it forward to three people each. So far it has helped twelve persons. The nine persons are paying it forward as well. It evolves exponentially, and basically helps everyone.

In 2000, when the book (and film) was released, an actual movement began worldwide. The movement based on the philosophy ‘Pay it forward’, and today there’s a Pay It Forward Foundation promoting the philosophy. The idea is beautiful, and believes in the goodness in all people, which is the problem. Believing in the goodness of human beings has an frightening relation to suicide. I would love to believe in it, but it’s quite naïve. I’m being a critic here, so if anyone out there reading this – would you pay it forward? – please answer truthfully (anonymous if needed :P)

#1: Quotes

This is my first journal entry. It’s a bit more loose than the regular. Many of my entries are quotes. Quotes by famous, or at least known people. I would like to use more personal quotes. I kept a journal for about half a year, collecting quotes from classmates. I let them write in it from time to time. The problem is, they’re in Danish. Translation isn’t hard, my grades in English is fine, but I believe they have more power in Danish and there isn’t many of them, so they’ll come on a more irregular basis, and not so often. Since this weblog has just started, I’m still trying to figure out how I’m going to do this.

So, please enjoy inspirational, motivational, weird, and many more quotes, philosophies to come. I still have some categories I want to introduce, so there’s much more in the bag.