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  <pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2006 12:26:38 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>Well I don&apos;t know where to start.  Found some stuff out, now long story short a few people probably hate me for being steadfast, and someone said some really hurtful stuff.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I guess that&apos;s what happens sometimes.  For the most part I&apos;m able to brush off the hurtful stuff because they were just pissed, but it still really irks me.  I guess that&apos;s what they wanted after all--when parting, unfortunately, sometimes it&apos;s deemed necessary to prove that you&apos;re better than the other person.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I dunno.  I need to continue studying.  Pulling an all-nighter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yeah, fun...</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2006 00:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>Do you think you live a moral life?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There should be no denial that people as a whole are intrinsically selfish.  It really is a dog-eat-dog world out there, and you really do have to fight to survive.  People in general aren&apos;t very naturally receptive to the &quot;do unto others&quot; rule.  A very long time ago, I had a bunch of &quot;well why can&apos;t they look at it from my perspective&quot; moments, then came to the realization that in order to expect people to look at my perspective I should probably be willing to look at theirs.  Perspective plays a huge part in life--if things are always other people&apos;s fault, chances are you should probably open your eyes and start walking in other&apos;s shoes.  If you can&apos;t do that--if you can&apos;t put aside your own concerns for just an instant and take on someone else&apos;s, you&apos;re helpless.  Stop reading right now, go get a jamba juice, put on some ridiculous-looking yet &quot;chic&quot; sunglasses, go out shopping, get shitfaced to let go of all your problems, hook up with someone, rinse and repeat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Personally, in general I try to let go of my selfishness.  A true friend is one who doesn&apos;t always put themselves before you.  Someone who has the ability to let go of their immediate desires to fulfill a promise.  Someone who you can trust, who you feel comfortable around.  Someone who&apos;s not always selfish--the saying &quot;bros before hoes&quot; comes to mind, although it goes for both genders.  This is also, rather ironically, the type of person you want as a significant other--someone who&apos;s loyal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Someone who won&apos;t keep &quot;looking for something better,&quot; and someone who cares about you enough that you can trust them with your love.  Unfortunately, the vast majority of the population is not that way.  People lack a conscience.  People don&apos;t think and instead follow their sexual organs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eh.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What can you do?  Here&apos;s exactly what you can do:  Develop a conscience.  Use it.  It will keep you out of trouble and make you a better person.  Get on with your life, make judgements as you see fit, and hope you eventually find someone else with a conscience.  You&apos;ll never know for absolute sure whether someone is trustworthy or not (although if you&apos;re attentive, you should usually be able to tell), so live your life, cherish your &quot;true&quot; friends, learn from your mistakes and don&apos;t be afraid to take chances or leaps of faith.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unless you&apos;re on LSD.  In that case, try to stay away from the leaps of faith.</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2006 21:08:13 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>So, for the longest time in my life I was afraid--not petrified, but afraid--of what others thought of me and what they WOULD think of me.  I recently came upon a realization:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fuck them.&lt;br /&gt;Fuck them up their stupid asses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since then, I have been happy and getting on with my life.</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2006 23:25:18 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>hmm..</title>
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  <description>I think people need to realize that people who care about shit also need people to care about them.  If someone&apos;s understanding for you, you had better be the same for them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the same sense (but, of course, completely unrelated), it&apos;s funny (if a bit unfavorable) how much men in our society are supposed to suck it up and be a human wall of mental and emotional strength in order to be attractive, yet vulnerable in order to be amiable.  I guess the perfect guy in most girl&apos;s minds must be a hard, easily (but not too easily) pierced shell and a soft, malleable center.    You know, the guy who attracts them by broing it up with the bros, and then admits that he&apos;s NOT A BRO AT HEART, he&apos;s a sensitive, caring man and really was just dying to be her one and only teddy bear from the moment he saw her.  Oh, they love the soft, malleable centers.  Don&apos;t get me wrong, I far from hate the female race--I love girls.  I want a girl--I want someone who finds me simultaneously attractive yet endearing.  I want someone who I can make happy.  That&apos;s important to me.  But what&apos;s also important is that there&apos;s a sense of balance in the relationship.  I don&apos;t expect &apos;em to mirror exactly what I do (god knows how hard it would be for anyone to mirror my ridiculous niceness AND my humility) but just something to show me that I&apos;m more to &apos;em than what I do for them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And it would be pretty embarrassing if any of &apos;em read this.  I guess it could help with the endearing part... but I think I&apos;m already cute and cuddly enough, don&apos;t you?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hey, girls.... NATHAN&apos;S ATTRACTIVE.  PASS IT ON.</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 09 Jul 2006 10:20:34 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>Hah... I already miss her. =(</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 06 Jul 2006 03:28:18 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>So.  Here I am.  Alone.  In Palo Alto, without a friend in sight.&lt;br /&gt;Someone was supposed to call me yesterday, but instead decided to go out and see fireworks, say they&apos;ll call me today, turn off and/or ignore their phone and promptly &quot;forget&quot; to do so.&lt;br /&gt;I wasn&apos;t able to sleep last night, my mind, heart, and adrenaline were all racing until I finally managed to tire myself enough at 430 or so.  I was in no shape to work today, so I called in sick.  I took my mom to the airport awhile ago and I&apos;m currently sitting here, with no friends around, and not even some family to keep me company.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am SUCH a wreck right now.  I literally feel like dying... I feel so powerless..</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 06 Jul 2006 00:17:43 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>I never thought this day would come... I still dunno if it has.</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 24 May 2006 18:02:11 GMT</pubDate>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 14 May 2006 11:57:50 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>We were one in words&lt;br /&gt;You finished my sentence&lt;br /&gt;I could never attract tomorrow&lt;br /&gt;It pushes me aside&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I sink in waters deep&lt;br /&gt;Your presence kept me floating far from depths where secrets lie&lt;br /&gt;Maybe in another lifetime I can be the first you meet&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I once read a poem&lt;br /&gt;Held my breath but that moment&apos;s gone&lt;br /&gt;First time I felt life somewhat hurt&lt;br /&gt;I need an option, a reason, and some hope&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yell at me I want to be, your light that shines&lt;br /&gt;But my ground is shaking and I might fall&lt;br /&gt;I wish that I could say, I wish that I could be your evil in a closet&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-In Flames (Evil in a Closet)</description>
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