I just had to post this as a follow up to the last video I posted. YouTube party don’t stop, yo.
Wake up in the morning feeling like Chad Hurley
Grab my Laptop, get off my bed
I’m gonna hit You Tubey
Before I rate, wash my face with a bottle of Pro Activ
Cause when I Tube until the night, dont bother me aight?
I’m talking – favorite on vi de os
Watching make-up tutorials
Only because of the girls girls
Rick Rolling, streaming our favorite cd’s
Putting on Ustream parties
Looking up baby kitties
Don’t stop, make it rock
YouTube never let me stop
Tonight, Imma fight
Till we see the sunlight
Tick tock, on the clock
YouTube party don’t stop,no
Woah-oh oh oh
Woah-oh oh oh (x2)
Ain’t got a care in world, and got plenty of views
Ain’t got no money in my pocket, but I’m already here
And every one is here supporting as we keep on the swagger
Hey have you played Modern Warfare 2? Whats your gamer tag-er?
I’m talkin bout – everybody getting Tubed up
Talkin bout Miley Cyrus
Why is she such a Ruckus?
Now, now – we goin until we pass out
This has become a pro-blem
Look at guitar man strummin
Don’t stop, make it rock
YouTube never let me stop
Tonight, Imma fight
Till we see the sunlight
Tick tock, on the clock
YouTube party don’t stop,no
Woah-oh oh oh
Woah-oh oh oh (x2)
I’ve already said that my year off from dating taught me how to be a better friend to guys. That statement isn’t entirely correct. And it sounds kinda goofy.
It taught me how to be a better friend. Period.
My friend circle includes girls, too, ya know. I wasn’t good to them before because I was too busy chasing guys. Chasing guys meant…well, that was all I was really preoccupied with as far as my social life went, so it kinda figures I wasn’t trying that hard to be anyone’s friend. It’s kind of embarrassing to admit, but that’s what it was.
So now what?
I guess I’ll continue taking in the rain and hope I produce a crop useful to for whom it is farmed. Or as my mentor person puts it, I’ll be hanging out in God’s workshop.
Land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is farmed receives the blessing of God. Hebrews 6:7 (NIV)
Okay, so my dating sabbatical started on 28 February 2009.
10 months in, around Christmas, I tried to cheat by cutting it short. Bad idea. Or a good one, depending on how you look at it.
The short version of the story goes like this:
I get set up on a blind date. I go on a blind date. It was okay. Two days after the blind date, I go on another “date” with an old friend who was in town from grad school. Because of the blind date I went on two days before, I come to the realization that I have romantic feelings for this friend. I tell him that. Things don’t go well. We don’t talk anymore.
I wrote about this event around New Year’s while I was still grieving the loss of that friendship. At first I was depressed, thinking it was all my fault. Then I got angry because I felt used (I had been rather unfairly toyed with). Then I got over it.
It felt kind of like karmic justice for all the times I’ve used someone else for my own personal satisfaction. Yes, I know karmic justice isn’t Biblical, but you know what I mean.
My point is that I understood for the first time what it felt like to be used. Now I know more than ever to never do that to anyone again. Or at least I hope I know better now.
So in the long run, what happened–and the sadness, anger, and grief that came with it–was for the better. It was another lesson for me in what it means to love my neighbor and I ended up not cutting my dating sabbatical short. And now I get to write about it.
