4/4/06 9:38pm

In the car again on the way back to Marathon from an evening in Key West. Not gonna lie that place is a little sketchy, but its got a pretty cool vibe. I could’ve spent several days there taking pictures, but in truth I didn’t really take many of the shots I could have. I always feel bad making people wait around for me or go off to some weird area b/c I’m obsessed with photography. I never get all the shots I want. Oh well, one day when I get old enough I’ll travel on my own. Either that or I’ll get a best friend or boyfriend who totally gets it and doesn’t mind following me around into ditches and alleyways to get the best angle.

Sooo like I said, I’m in the car again. So far we have not spent a day of our vacation not in the car, and I know at least tomorrow won’t be any different, so what that means for you lucky readers is a whole nother load of deep thoughts from Angie!

And all our sins
Come back to haunt us in the end
To hang around
To tap us on the shoulder
And smile silent
Its all implied you’ll die tryin
So to live this down
You might as well forget it

Still I’m convinced
What if “what if” is the worst thing there is
So we bottled and shelved all our regrets
Let them ferment and came back to our senses
Drove em back home
Slept a few days
Woke up and laughed
At how stupid we used to be.

[MISTAKES WE KNEW WE WERE MAKING]

Would it be so bad to do something you knew wasn’t what was best but do did it anyway? Like a kid testing the limits of his mother’s patience, testing the boundaries of the ability to live a life on the edge of going against everything everyone is telling you without completely slipping…is this so bad? Is it perhaps a quite normal thing? Should we as individuals make a “mistake we knew we were making” on a regular basis? It almost seems to me that this may be part of healthy functioning…? And is it not possible, that if you kept an optimistic attitude in mind that you might just be able to prove everyone wrong and the “mistake” you were making may turn out to not be a mistake at all? I bet there are a lot of occurrences out there in the world in which many people judged it initially as a mistake, but in the end it worked out beautifully. So with that in mind, should we ever listen to the critics? How much do they really know what they’re talking about? At the same time, is it worth it to go against their well-intentioned advice when there’s still a great possibility that from their vantage-point, they know something you don’t and may actually be right?

Without the bad there is no good. Its true that we have to make mistakes in order to understand what success and right decisions are. If we did everything right all the time, we wouldn’t know it was right because we wouldn’t know or understand wrong.

That being said, would it be safe to say it is ok to run myself into the ground a little bit, just for kicks, just to get it out of my system, just to get those mistakes out of the way?

mistakes we knew we were making.

All depends on what your idea of a mistake is. I’m not so sure there is such thing as a mistake as most people define the word. I think everything happens for a reason and happens for a purpose. Maybe some things are unfortunate, but that is life.

If you’ll excuse me, I have some mistakes to go make now.

And remember kids, mean people suck, but nice people swallow : )