August 28, 2026

Attack on Titan

“Everything that you thought had meaning: every hope, dream, or moment of happiness. None of it matters as you lie bleeding out on the battlefield. None of it changes what a speeding rock does to a body, we all die. But does that mean our lives are meaningless? Does that mean that there was no point in our being born? Would you say that of our slain comrades? What about their lives? Were they meaningless?... They were not! Their memory serves as an example to us all! The courageous fallen! The anguished fallen! Their lives have meaning because we the living refuse to forget them! And as we ride to certain death, we trust our successors to do the same for us! Because my soldiers do not buckle or yield when faced with the cruelty of this world! My soldiers push forward! My soldiers scream out! My soldiers RAAAAAGE!” ~ Erwin's famous and final speech as he leads the Survey Corps on a suicide charge

August 19, 2026

Troy [2004]

Achilles: [to his men] "Myrmidons! My brothers of the sword! I would rather fight beside you than any army of thousands! Let no man forget how menacing we are, we are lions! Do you know what's waiting beyond that beach? Immortality! Take it! It's yours!”

June 18, 2026

Quote

Jim Carrey delivered a commencement address to the 2014 Maharishi International University of Management class

“You can fail at what you don't want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love”

“Your job is not to figure out how it’s going to happen for you, but to open the door in your head and when the doors open in real life, just walk through it. Don’t worry if you miss your cue. There will always be another door opening. They keep opening.”

"Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world."

June 16, 2026

An Opportunistic Mindset: not pessimist, not optimist. Opportunistic.

Life is a pendulum. Relish the happy moments, move past the shitty ones. It's normal, it's human. The glass isn't half full or half empty, it's just a glass of water. The only question is whether you drink it or not.

Rose-colored glasses on everything isn't a great way to live. Neither is a dark, bitter one. But the worst way of all is the indifferent, apathetic one. The person who feels nothing, reaches for nothing, lets the pendulum swing without ever leaning into it.

So channel the energy. Build something. Find the hint of glimmer and gold, the thing that powers your passion, and chase it.

That's the lifestyle I want to inhabit. The world is too large and there's too much opportunity everywhere for you to sit still. It's there for the taking, so take it.