I am in a love/hate relationship with someone.
Yes, she smells nice (referencing this blog post) and yes, she is pretty (and I am not the only one that thinks so). And, umm, no, she is not a girl.
(Can you imagine me posting that I have a love/HATE relationship with someone? I can’t see that lasting long.)
As you may have guessed, I’m talking about Hawaii. And I don’t really have a relationship with Hawaii, because Hawaii cannot love or hate me. The loving and hating has very much to do with me and my viewpoint. If I take a mean, short-sighted view and cannot see past two apartments infested with termites, cockroaches, and five girls, I will hate Hawaii (sounds crazy doesn’t it?) and my only hope will be that I like geckos.
On the other hand, if I can look past the inconvenience that if you took the termites out of the house it will fall down, I will see a land with waving palm trees, white, golden, black and even green beaches with some pretty big waves. (And the honeymoon begins.)
And then I can take a view so big that it’s small (if you use that you have to mention my name and if you don’t, it’s plagiarism and I will sue you); the fact that I live on a volcanic rock. In the middle of the ocean.
Yes, she smells nice (referencing this blog post) and yes, she is pretty (and I am not the only one that thinks so). And, umm, no, she is not a girl.
(Can you imagine me posting that I have a love/HATE relationship with someone? I can’t see that lasting long.)
As you may have guessed, I’m talking about Hawaii. And I don’t really have a relationship with Hawaii, because Hawaii cannot love or hate me. The loving and hating has very much to do with me and my viewpoint. If I take a mean, short-sighted view and cannot see past two apartments infested with termites, cockroaches, and five girls, I will hate Hawaii (sounds crazy doesn’t it?) and my only hope will be that I like geckos.
On the other hand, if I can look past the inconvenience that if you took the termites out of the house it will fall down, I will see a land with waving palm trees, white, golden, black and even green beaches with some pretty big waves. (And the honeymoon begins.)
And then I can take a view so big that it’s small (if you use that you have to mention my name and if you don’t, it’s plagiarism and I will sue you); the fact that I live on a volcanic rock. In the middle of the ocean.
And that’s just depressing.
Attitude is the paintbrush of the mind. It can colour any situation.
Attitude is the paintbrush of the mind. It can colour any situation.
Wow, I can't imagine hating Hawaii, much less you, Josh, hating it! That is a great quote! Did you come up with that quote?
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The attitude one or the view so big that's its small? I didn't make up 'attitude is the paintbrush of the mind' one. But I did make up the one about the view so big that's its small.
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