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Just wanted to say goodbye to all the cool people I've met here! I don't think I'm gonna be around the forum any more. If anyone wants to keep in touch, please feel free to email me! (especially all you cool B.A. folks ) Thanks to everyone who took the time to reply to my posts and answer my questions, I really appreciate it! And thanks for the support and motivation. I'll miss it, but it's just time to go. Take care, and good luck and best wishes on your journeys :)

Peace, ...

I am so sickened by people who feel they're "entitled" to eat animals; people who feel they have the right to take the life of another being; people who are so disconnected from this Earth that they cannot appreciate the lives of all the tiny creatures. How can you turn a blind eye to their undeniable suffering? Worse--how can you support it? or be so detached that you can take pleasure from the products of such suffering? People like this make me ill. I no longer wish to associate with ...

I did something I swore I'd never do again: went out and bought "fat jeans." Yeah, I've now officially outgrown my last pair of jeans So off to the mall I went, where I found tons of gigantic ugly jeans on clearance sale for like $8. Bought 2 pairs since that's all I'll have to wear now. What a humiliating experience.

I'm so disgusted with myself and my life right now. 2 days ago I was on cloud 9 after running Black Mountain... Today I tried to put on my jeans and have ...

= Rationalizing Fried Things

LOL.

i still need to write about black mountain...

Ran up Black Mountain today. Will write more about it later.

For now...

I feel like there are a few things that can lead a person to 'enlightenment' or whatever you'd like to call it. Closeness with god or whatever deity you believe in, closeness with nature, peace with yourself and the world around you. There is something about pushing yourself to your limits that lets you see things so clearly. Giving something all your effort, every last breath you have, every last ...