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| CAMP PENDLETON WORLD FAMOUS MUD RUN - EXTRA SAT
JUNE 13, 2009
Fastest 00:42:33
Slowest 02:34:36
Men Age Group 25-29
Place Overall Bib# Name Age Finish
79/209 511/2097 7673 JOHN CHO 25 01:09:48
http://www.y-events.com/09cpmudxiop.htm
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| 10 - Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my life?
16 - My uncle had worked for a corporation and hated it - same thing every day - and I was determined never to end up like him.
27 - For all the time we'd spend together, for all the kindness and patience Morrie had shown me when I was young, I should have dropped the phone and jumped from the car, run and held him and kissed him hello.
Instead, I killed the engine and sunk down off the seat, as if I were looking for something.
"Yeah, yeah," I whispered , and continued my conversation with the TV producer until we were finished.
I did what I had become best at doing: I tended to my work, even when my dying professor waited on his front lawn. I am not proud of this, but that is what I did.
33 - I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never realized I was doing it.
34 - Are you trying to be as human as you can be?
35 - ...the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it.
42 - They didn't know anyone involved in the case. Yet they gave up days and weeks of their lives, addicted to someone else's drama.
52 - The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and let it come in.
57 - I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity.
74 - In his mind he believed he could make the illness go away by ignoring it. How else can a child confront death?
75 - In the evenings, he watched his father eat in silence, hoping for-but never getting-a show of affection, communication, warmth.
92 - This is part of what a family is about, not just love, but letting others know there's someone who is watching out for them.
104 - But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is. You know what love is. You know what grief is. And only then you can say, "All right. I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment."
Morrie stopped and looked me over, perhaps to make sure I was getting this right.
"I know you think this is just about dying" he said, "but it's like I keep telling you. When you learn how to die, you learn how to live."
105 - I thought about how often this was needed in everyday life. How we feel lonely, sometimes to the point of tears, but we don't let loose those tears come because we are not supposed to cry. Or how we feel a surge of love for a partner but we don't say anything because we're frozen with the fear of what those words might do to the relationship.
111 - And many of these patients were well-off, from rich families, so their wealth did not buy them happiness or contentment. It was a lesson he never forgot.
113 - They were light on what you'd now call "career skills" and heavy on "personal development."
118 - And in addition to all the miseries, the young are not wise. They have very little understanding about life. Who wants to live every day when you don't know what's going on. When people are manipulating you, telling you to buy this perfume and you'll be beautiful, or this pair of jeans and you'll be sexy - and you believe them! It's such nonsense.
123 - We put our values in the wrong things. And it leads to very disillusioned lives.
125 - These were people so hungry for love that they were accepting substitutes. They were embracing material things and expecting sort of hug back.
135 - I believe in being fully present... That means you should be with the person you're with. When I'm talking to you now, Mitch, I try to keep focused only on what's going on between us.
139 - Morrie looked at the body behind the glass, the body of the man who scolded him and molded him and taught him to work, who had been quiet when Morrie wanted him to speak, who had told Morrie to swallow the memories of his mother when he wanted to share them with the world.
148 - In this culture, it is so important to find a loving relationship with someone because so much of the culture does not give you that. But the poor kids today, either they're too selfish to take part in a real loving relationship, or they rush into marriage and six months later, they get divorced. They don't know what they want in a partner. They don't know who they are themselves-so how can they know who they're marrying?
155 - The little things, I can obey. But the big things-how we think, what we value-those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone-or any society-determine those for you.
156 - Look, no matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don't see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become. But if you're surrounded by people who say "I want mine now," you end up with
164 - Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.
166 - I know they knew about it. Charlotte and I were very hurt because they never called to see how she was. So we dropped the relationship.
182 - Sometimes, when you're losing someone, you hang on to whatever tradition you can.
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| 11 - The weapons I fight with are also my consolations: books, music, food, wine, nature.
20 - I didn't understand him either, but it didn't worry me. I didn't understand myself.
33 - I don't want anyone to look at me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything.
48 - Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.
56 - My God, we might even succeed in getting rid of Christmas, that annual celebration of parental guilt and juvenile greed.
63 - The whole natural world is one, linked by love, upheld by love, redeemed by love.
123 - Whatever man has done for good or ill has been done in the knowledge that he has been formed by history, that his life-span is brief, uncertain, insubstantial, but there will be a future, for the nation, for the race, for the tribe.
177 - He went through the familiar motions without enthusiasm, almost without interest.
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| Nickel and Dimed - Barbara Ehrenreich
8 - To state the proposition in reverse, low-wage workers are no more homogeneous in personality or ability than people who write for a living, and no less likely to be funny or bright. Anyone in educated classes who think otherwise ought to broaden their circle of friends.
20 - So if you wonder why Americans are so obese, consider the fact that waitresses both express their humanity and earn their tips through the covert distribution of fats.
34 - And when I sit down one morning in my real home to pay bills for my past life, I am dazzled by the two- and three-figure sums owed to outfits like Club Body Tech and Amazon.com.
37 - The right to rest and void at work is not high on the list of social or political causes supported by professional or executive employees, who enjoy personal liberties that millions of factory workers can only dream about...
54 - How many people, other than fugitives and refugees, ever get to do something like this-blow off all past relationships and routines, say bye-bye to those mounds of answered mail and voice-mail messages, and start all over again, with not much more than a driver's license and a Social Security Card to provide a thread of continuity to the past?
99 - Maybe I want to "be somebody" as Jesse Jackson likes to say, somebody generous, competent, brave, and perhaps, above all, noticeable.
100 - Maybe, it occurs to me, I'm getting a tiny glimpse of what it would be like to be black.
179 - I like to read the labels to find out where the clothing we sell is made-Indonesia, Mexico, Turkey, the Philippines, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Brazil-but the labels serve only to remind me that none of these places is "exotic" anymore, that they've all been eaten by the great blind profit-making global machine.
187 - What you don't necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you're actually selling is your life.
211 - If you're made to feel unworthy enough, you may come to think that what you're paid is what you are actually worth.
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