as always....

well, sam, thanks again! (how many of these blogs have i started like this?)
you give brilliant advice, and you're one of those people that reminds me that i might actually be right about people sometimes! so thanks
as for not taking the easy road in life.. yeah, i know. if i wanted the easy road.. well, i wouldn't be sitting here right now.. i'd be off. well, someplace.... we'll NOT continue this line of thought...
anyway, so yeah, actually, i had a dream last night that really made me think about easy way vs. right way... comes back to robert frost and grade 10 english... "two roads diverged in a wood, and i - / i took the road less travelled by / and that has made all the difference"
anyway, but the thing is i'm right before that fork in the road... so i know it's coming, but i don't know what it'll be, or what will come of it... i guess the best thing to do is just sit back and relax; however, for those of you who know me, you'd know that i'm not the type.
anyway, let's move on to a different topic. (yes, sam, i know, for clarity, i should publish this post first, and then make a new one. watch me not take your logical thought - go feminist writers!!)

so i've been raised in an environment where consultation and conflict resolution and mediation were not ideas that were discussed, but actual facts. perhaps you think i live in a utopic mindset... it's possible.... after all, i have been known to live in the past (although not THAT far back...), but hear me out. so i've always kinda thought consultation : state your thoughts and move on with life. but lately, i've been involved in different organizations and i'm finding that it's more like : foreplay, state thoughts, story, example, state more thoughts that are different than before, a bad example, very awkward pun... try to end, then come back with another thought that is supposed to make it all good again, but actually serves to make it all convoluted...
in other words, it becomes a nice, long speech. even among friends... so i'm sitting there thinking: why? why all the jargon and nonesense, when we can just cut to the chase and move on with life? perhaps go out for coffee? go home and study? or hop a plane, and.. well, moving on....
also, why is it so difficult for poeple to accept things as being simple? are we so used to making life complicated that we need things to be complicated for us to have faith in them?
if so, that's pretty sad, eh?
i guess life is complex and we are creatures of habit.. but that's no excuse... we have the most massive brains ever... with each nerve in our brains making about a thousand synaptic connections with other nerves... that's, well, you do the math... tis a LOT! so why can't we accept simplicity and see the beauty in it?
some will argue that we live in a fast placed world, etc.. so we can't really sit back and relax.. however, i've been to simpler places.. lived in them.. and those places, in many ways are worse off than us (they have less chronic diseases.. but everything else is the same or worse).
anyway, oh, yeah, here's another completely unrelated thought: what things can split up a good friendship and destroy it? and why? if it's a good friendship, shouldn't it be able to withstand the winds of trial?
well, for that matter: what is a good friendship? (and for those of you who feel like leaving a comment along the lines of "well, tahereh, that's for each person to figure out" you can start deleting the thought right now! be straight up. and don't be afraid.. you can sign as anonymous if you want..)
ooo.. speaking of which, i've been told that it'd be nice to pass on some readers to my friend's blog.. ok, this is worth a new post... so i'm gonna post it... bye!