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"I feel like I have to know everything before I feel like I know anything"-
april 2007

Random

I was looking through my journal that I write in on occasion .. and saw this. Something I wrote not to long ago but didn't really remember. Make of it what you want...

"Life is a Blank canvas until you paint it. Your life can change in the instant it takes you to pick up the brush" -Jessica George

True Beauty

True Beauty

SMILES in the face of tragedy
STANDS when life pushes her down
SPARKLES without a spotlight
Becomes the JOY of the moment
Fights her battles with STRENGTH
VALUES family and friends
Knows BEAUTY dwells within
Allows TRUTH to surface
Holds on to HOPE
LIVES in the present while
REMEMBERING the past
Knowing the FUTURE lies ahead

(picture of my mom)

Full disclosure: my mom just got done with chemo treatment. Now her hair is growing back.

Right or Left

A majority of the population is right-handed. I join in this majority but in an effort to think differently; I like to experiment doing things left-handed. I am fairly good at writing left-handed while taking notes during class although it takes much more time. So just now I was playing around with my computer settings and changed my mouse to "left-handed." I caught on quickly to navigating around windows and on the internet but I found it to still be odd. I didn't understand why I thought it was so weird (besides that I have always used my right hand.)

Suddenly I figured it out, the way the mouse pointer is tilted, with the pointer end on the left top corner, works with being right handed. It is angled this way because when you write right-handed you pen/pencil is tilted that way. I thought it was odd that it didn't change tilt with the change of which hand you make the mouse. All it does is change the buttons on the mouse. I searched through all the possible settings for the mouse on my computer and besides the "right-handed tilted pointer" there was an actual right hand pointer option. I found that all the options were "right-handed." I am surprised that with all this new technology having the mouse tilt the other direction like when you write left-handed is not an option.

I would guess that most left-handed people have just become accustomed to the "natural" right handed mousing "option" especially when using a computer in a public setting. So changing their own personal computer would only make using other computers more complicated, unless they are going to change the settings every time they use a computer.

What does everyone think?