logan607 ([info]logan607) wrote,
@ 2007-01-04 16:30:00
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Current location:@3:15, standing in line at the post
Current mood: hopeful
Current music:I've been searching for a long time, I still have hope
Entry tags:hope, milgram, new york city, nyc, peace, wesley autry

Peace, Hope and Harold
3:28:08 PM


My sister gave me this. I wear it constantly. I hope for some peace.

I'm still excited about 2007, it's only a few days old and I'm hopeful for the future for two reasons.

Reason One
So the big thing in NYC is this 50 year-old guy, Wesley Autry, jumps onto the train tracks to save the life of a kid he doesn't know. The train rolls over both of them and his two daughters, four and six, are sure he's dead. But it turns out, Autry pushed himself and this guy into this pit full of sewage as the train rolled over both of them. They're both fine.

I still believe that people as a whole are a bunch of selfish scumbags. I should know, I'm one of them. That's why when something like this happens, an entire jaded city of 11 million plus takes note.

They just re-did the Milgram experiments and the results were the same. What a freaking disappointment. But you've got singular people like Autrey who, when asked why he did what he did, shrugs and says, "I thought the guy needed help."

Reason Two
I have a plant that my family brought over from Asia. His name is Harold (yes, I name my plants - trust me, that's the least of my oddities).

He's been with me for over a decade. When my ex moved in with me, her two cats used him like a #$@@# salad buffet so I put him outside where my upstairs neighbor promptly dropped buckets of cement on him.

Harold's been a nasty mess for months now but this morning, I noticed that he was growing new shoots.

It's beautiful outside right now.

Blue skies above; cold, clear air below.

If you don't have blue skies where you are now, I assure you, you will.

I'm hopeful.

4:24:13 PM
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[info]jaerik
2007-01-04 10:10 pm UTC (link)
I thought they weren't allowed to do the Milgran experiment anymore, due to ethical concerns regarding potential mental trauma to the subject after discovering what the experiment was actually designed to test.

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[info]logan607
2007-01-04 10:21 pm UTC (link)
I remember my psych prof saying that too but it was just on tv last night. I recorded it but haven't seen it yet but that article notes that they did, indeed, do the experiment again.

SO F-ING disappointing - but then again, I'm sure I'd be like the rest of them.

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[info]elayna_m
2007-01-04 11:47 pm UTC (link)
I name my plants too--I have one on my desk at work (of an undetermined type) named Montgomery.

(BTW, I found you from the picturing_food community, so I hope it's okay to add you!)

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[info]logan607
2007-01-04 11:53 pm UTC (link)
Hey - no, I'm glad you added me; in my profile, I admit that I'm a recovering dweeb so it's a plus.

I'll post up some pics of Harold in the future; he look terrible right now.

Please post some of Montgomery! :)

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[info]acqua
2007-01-05 02:38 am UTC (link)
go harold! i was surprised that my plant that looks dead sprouted healthy pink flowers despite the rest of it -- no name for it though

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[info]logan607
2007-01-05 04:55 am UTC (link)
Hey you! I was wondering where you went to.

I hope you haven't abandoned us completely for myspace.

Take pictures of your plant too - and name him/her!

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[info]divinelv
2007-01-05 04:52 am UTC (link)
OMG, that guy is awesome. I couldn't believe what he did. I feel like something like that is unheard of.

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[info]logan607
2007-01-05 04:55 am UTC (link)
RIGHT?!

I don't think I could do that...

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[info]divinelv
2007-01-05 05:37 am UTC (link)
I KNOW I can't do that but I'd like to think that I might get there someday.

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[info]moonberry
2007-01-05 04:06 pm UTC (link)
this morning i read in the papers that this "subway superman" got a medal from the mayor, his family gets a free trip to disney world, donald trump promises $10k cash, and he gets a lifetime of free subway rides.

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[info]logan607
2007-01-06 12:56 am UTC (link)
He totally deserves it.

I think if a guy fell in the tracks, 50% of people would do something. But here, the train was speeding down the track about to hit the guy, and Autrey jumps in!

That's just nuts...

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[info]ly_ph78
2007-01-05 06:16 am UTC (link)
I always believe that there is always a place with beautiful skies, and grass, and lovely flowers, and INCREDIBLE human beings...

I remember thinking my every day purpose is to do good...
this was the PUREST, most fulfilling time of my life. ha :)

My dad named every of his plants too :)

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[info]logan607
2007-01-05 09:38 pm UTC (link)
Tell him to name the strangest one, Harold.

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[info]mittenhat
2007-01-05 08:51 pm UTC (link)
i had a rose plant named mathilda in college.

she died.

i saw the milgram thing the other night. . .just backs up my general theory that society sucks and blows at the same time.

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[info]in_aeternum
2007-01-06 05:24 am UTC (link)
Hey
We are not in NY
Unfortunately, the New Year did not welcome me with an embrace. I lost all my sensory feeling in my right leg, I had to get back home ASAP and begin my treatment with iv. So, we had to cut our vocation a week short, so we didn't even make it out to Manhattan. I apologize, I was looking forward meeting you and others. Bummer, I suppose till next time. I will write about it in more detail in my journal.

Why do you judge yourself so hard, do you really believe in what you say?

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[info]logan607
2007-01-06 07:49 am UTC (link)
First of all, don't apologize. Meeting would have been great, but clearly you've got much more serious things to attend to. I'll keep an eye out for your journal entry.

As for me, when I was younger, I thought I was different, but I'm the same as everyone else. A bit kind, a bit thoughtful, a bit vain, a bit mean, a bit selfish. I have glimmers of goodness but we all do.

They say that great people, like Autrey, grow in their sleep. They only come out when they're required to. I'm honestly not sure what I would do in the same situation. I would like to think something similar but I'm far more self-involved than even I would care to admit.

Well, this is depressing!

Smile.

I, a complete stranger, thought of you and yours at 2:48 in the morning - Happy New Year and many more.

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