Only in Oakland...

Only in Oakland are crackheads actively recruited as part of your local neighborhood watch.
Only in Oakland do you get hit on regularly by Asian guys.
Only in Oakland will you see two guys drunk in a tree debating politics.
Only in Oakland can you walk to work and see a magnificent lake and a magnificent pile of puke all within the same 40 minutes.
Only in Oakland do you see a crew of ducks led by one bad ass white duck with a fro and black and purple spots.
Only in Oakland can you get hit on by a drunk midget on a scooter.
Only in Oakland can you tell off your boss and not get fired.
Only in Oakland will you not get mocked for loving a football team that sucks harder than Jenna Jamison.
Only in Oakland can you start a riot just to steal shoes and weed
Only in Oakland can you run reds, speed, talk on your cell phone and race your car in front of a cop and not get pulled over.
Only in Oakland will a robber be thoughtful enough to lock up your car and roll up your windows after he steals your IPOD.
Only in Oakland can you truly escape into the present.

Where does your greatness lie?

Lately, I've been feeling this insatiable need to do something FANTASTIC, DIFFERENT, GREAT...but where do I get it? What do I do? and how do I do it? Where do people like Frida Kahlo, Bill Gates, Stephen Hawking get it.

I wonder if most people go through life wondering where there greatness lies? We are all in fact great. We are all divine. At least, thats what I have read. I guess true greatness can only manifest itself through our passion and our passion comes from our talent. The trick is to find your talent ....hmm I guess that is where I get stuck. I don't know what I am truly good at. I have such a short attention span. I haven't stuck with anything long enough to see if I'm truly good at it.

I guess I love to live and to experience new things. I'm talented at that. I have a passion for that. So does that make me great?...Last time I checked they weren't making movies about crazy little loud mouthed Mexican girls that get in a lot of trouble and manage to come out clean.

I think you have to be destined for it. People are put in your path to help you and encourage you and inspire you to be great. For example, Sean Parker was just put on Mark Zuckerberg's path. It seems to much like fate. I dunno, I'm just rambling, rumbling, thinking will I be great, can I be great, what am I destined for. Because I thnk, I feel Im destined for something GREAT. It's just waiting to be awaken within....Maybe we all are.

Please tell my heart.....

My mind knows that death is a part of life...but my heart doesn't.
My mind says that it is only a transition and I will see her again....my heart says please don't go.
My mind says that if the inevitable happens we will all go on and be ok....my heart will be broken forever.
My mind says that I have to be strong....my heart aches every time I look in her face.
My mind says she will be ok...my heart studies her face for traces of death.
My mind says show no fear...my heart is scared.

Please tell my heart what my mind already knows, Please tell it, Scream it, Inbed it, For everytime I look in her eyes my heart sees the sadness and the fear and it cries in silence, It screams, It thinks the mind lies. How will I ever convince my heart that it will all be ok? How will I ever go back and feel the same? When will my heart catch up with my mind. When will my heart be kind?

I ask her this, my sister, my soulmate, my heart, what will I do? Who will love me like you?, and she says, very simply,"Tell your heart it will be ok, tell it over and over again, tell it and tell it until it believes it is true, tell it that no matter where I am I will always love you, Love never dies and you will carry me there,In your heart, for your heart is my heart and we will never part, this is whats true."