Biting Off More than I Can Chew, Better than Starving

I put quite a few things on my plate this year. I'm the President of my Scholarship Hall at the University of Kansas, I am a columnist for the University Daily Kansan, I am an avid blogger, a full-time student enrolled in 17 credit hours, and I am training for my first marathon in October.

But I am also a growing boy, and growing boys need to eat. There is a lot on my plate, but who's saying I won't want seconds?

I'll leave you with two of my favorite Henry-quotes:

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that an airplane takes off against the wind, not with it." -- Henry Ford

"I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms." -- Henry David Thoreau

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I came across this from "The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows." It's truly amazing how much power words can have. This is nothing short of mind-blowing (to me at least).

sonder

n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends,routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.