...in other words...

Quote for , Oct 17

"The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think."
-Horace Walpole

And to those of us who do both it is a tragicomedy.
That is how I see life, and how I've always seen it. Its cruelty hurts, it's insanely illogical and most of the time you really don't know should you cry, laugh or do both at the same time.

Sometimes even losing your mind feels like an option...

In other words...; Art of digressing

Quote for September 19th

Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
— Carl Sagan

They say love is blind. Same with hate, happiness, sorrow... when we feel something strongly we can't see the whole image. We only see those things which prove our point of view, not those which may shatter it. (How many of you can say that they never have been in a relationship in which they've sensed the doom long before the end actually came, but which we didn't want to see and admit out of love, or fear?) Because we are fooled by our emotions, because we hate to lose, be it our faith or our credibility. Don't we all want to save our face?
I think being 'fooled' by your emotions comes with being a human, and I'm sure it has its meaning as otherwise evolution would probably have destroyed that quality from us.
Think of sense of self-protection. If you're in danger only thing in your mind is to save your own a*s, no matter the cost. Fear of dying drives us to save ourselves, even in the end you may have no possibility to survive, but your fear of death or love for life keeps you fighting - even it'd be fight already lost.

Humans do odd things for love, or greed, or for any other reason. Mostly they just try to give reasonable excuses to their deeds. But mostly... we are just mammals, our instincts/emotions drive us, not our sense.
There's nothing wrong in acting by your emotions and/or urges, but at least we could admit doing so.

Meme and personality in progress...

Tuesday has been meme free day, until today!

...in other words...

"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As I see it, and I talk out of experience, intelligent person is able to see the irony in everything and therefore is able to find everything ridiculous. That is why I am never 100% serious - nor 100% kidding, as behind most jokes lay real problem.
Sensible person can be too attached to one's sensibility and is afraid to see whole variety behind issues, as nothing is simple, but sensible may try to simplify things to be able to reason them.

But then, I am known voice of reason and I am also intelligent, which just proves that I am complex little thing and bit weird to myself based on my own pondering over the quote..

Personality in progress

I used to be that cat crazy stitcher, but I think that I've to broaden my craziness a bit, and therefore, hereby I declare myself as that dragon crazy stitcher in addition to everything else.

Why?
As you have noticed I've done quite a few dragons during this year and my latest great idea was to get dragons tag just to be able to follow my life with dragons better (oh yes, I do read my blog sometimes - it gives me ideas). (Wikipedia's two cents about dragons.) And I can't deny my weird love relationship to those creatures.

Lesson learnt

Do not, I repeat, do not sleep 14 hours in a row, no matter how tired you are. It feels good, and you'll be refreshed but you can't fall asleep in following night.

Devotion

Description of character of Siamese cats heightens the fact that Siameses are very affectionate breed.

"Siamese are affectionate and intelligent cats - - - they also have a great need for human companionship. Often they bond strongly to a single person."

which in our case am I.
I noticed Ronja's devotion towards me when I came back from Thailand and found a cat who had got sick just out of missing me. And now, when I was away for one night over the weekend she's following me everywhere. She sleeps in between of my legs when I sit on computer, which is not like her at all (she's sleeping on the floor, and it's not usually suitable place to her highness - according to her). It may have to do with her age, as she's not young anymore (she'll turn 13 in December), but it also may have to do with the fact that she has lost so many during her life and she's just afraid of losing one more - the one who takes care of her.