Monday, March 2, 2009

A moi la peine, à toi la vie

It's been a crazy few weeks.

My plans to teach Ballroom have really exploded into something I absolutely love. Granted, it's still in the planning stages. (If you're familiar with the INTP, you'll know that such is where I get most of my joy in this type of thing -- planning/thinking/scheming/figuring things out/etc.) I've decided to partner business-wise with my ballroom partner (who teaches Classical Ballet) to form a nonprofit dance academy. I'm loving it.

Who would have thought that I would enjoy playing with the bureaucracies of starting up a business... but I am enjoying it. I think it's mostly because it's new to me, something I haven't delved into yet.


However, there has been a heaviness that I've been feeling kind of in the distance. It's almost sorrow, but mostly undefined. Granted, I'm fairly certain the root: People who believe life is life for some but a sentence for others.

I don't know how to deal with them any more. They think it's okay for life to be [expletive deleted] because it will all be worth it in the next life.

The next life.

What about this one?

Seriously.

What about this one?

5 comments:

  1. President Hinckley said "In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured."

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  2. Haha, I'm an INTP too! I didn't realize we're only 1% of the population.

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  3. Good quote, Alan! I like this one:

    “Romantic love is not only a part of life, but literally a dominating influence of it. It is deeply and significantly religious. There is no abundant life without it.” (Elder Boyd K. Packer, BYU Fireside, Nov. 3, 1963).

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  4. Alan & Scott: That's exactly what I mean, much of the LDS population believes homosexuals are exceptions to these quotes. I gave Scott's quote to my parents and they said, "Elder Packer was talking about heterosexual romance, not homosexual romance [because homosexual romance doesn't truly exist]."

    Colin: We may be only 1% of the general population, but I would bet we're probably 20-30% of the online population (if not more).

    And I don't know about you, but I absolutely love being an INTP.

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  5. I think I could stand to do a little less reflecting/evaluating and a bit more action. It's pretty boss, though INTJ's are called Masterminds. What blatant favoritism!

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