Darkness

If you look in your heart for darkness

Darkness is what you will find

You can let it outshine your light

Use it to justify the pain you inflict on others

Or you can recognize that it does not define you

For human nature is a duality, torn this way and that

To be one, to be the other, to be both

Being is nothing at all

Because we can all be something

It is our actions that define who we are

Just make sure you can live with those actions

And make damn sure you can live with or without those who are affected by them

They may mean more to you than you ever could have realized

4/28/2012

CGS

“Darkness”

Change

“A childish mind will turn to noble ambition”

Or so I was taught by a video game long rooted in my childhood

And yet I cannot place the day when such delusions of grandeur

Were replaced by that vision of what was to come

My fantastical notions of saving a world became grounded

I was never cut out to save the world

But shaping it for the better was well within my reach

It was about time I settled in to chasing that credential

And chase it I did

Even if it took four more years

4/26/2012

CGS

“Change”

Skydiving from the edge of space

In 2008, I was made aware of Captain Joe Kittinger who jumped from 102,000 or so feet and set the record for longest free fall and highest jump among other things (thanks to my physics professor in her attempt to teach us about free fall). Then, this past Sunday October 14, 2012 I had the fortune to watch Felix Baumgartner jump from about 127,000 feet. And man, was it ever epic. Both men were amazingly brave and patient to go through with their projects. I cannot imagine hurtling towards the earth from so high up yet I imagine neither of them will ever forget it. Go science!

And yet still, I see them both differently. Kittinger did it in 1960, when technology was nowhere near where it is now. He easily could have died. In fact, his right glove malfunctioned on the way up and caused his hand to swell twice its size, but he kept going. For the experiment. Not to take away from Felix because I could never do what he did, but the tech was so much better this time 52 years later. It was still f---ing amazing but somehow just not as impressive.

Personal opinion. Both guys rock and have collected so much valuable data that it doesn't really matter. Just thought I would put that put there.