cool stuff to help us get through life

 

this is the page i care about the most i think.
life is hard for everyone. as i accept who i am, i am learning that being gay means life will be even harder.
i have gone from being in the majority (as a white, middle class american male) to being a part of the most hated minority.  from not having to think about AIDS to being one of those who has to worry the most about AIDS.  from never having to worry about being ridiculed for who i am to having people who have never met me, want to kill me just because of who i am.  from going to church, to "christians" unblinkingly telling me i am going to hell.
life is hard... very hard sometimes.
i've learned that to make it, we have to be there for each other.  that is what my page is all about.
this page, i hope, will be an inspiration to anyone who needs to be picked up and held when life gets hard.  it is a collection of poems, music, words, thoughts... whatever brings peace.  cool.

 

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if you have anything that should be on this page, let me know! craigers24@hotmail.com

Different Land

"It's about one moment.  It's about hitting the wall and having to make a choice, or take a stand, or turn around and go back.  The moment you think you know where you stand, the things that you're sure of slip from your hand, and you're suddenly a stranger in some completely different land"
Jason Robert Brown
 
 

this came from my friend katie:

The Perfect Man

The perfect man is gentle
Never Cruel or mean
He has a beautiful smile
And keeps his face so clean.
The perfect man likes children
And will raise them by your side
He will be a good father
As well as a good husband to his bride.
The perfect man loves cooking
Cleaning and vacuuming too
He'll do anything in his power
To convey his feelings of love on you.
The perfect man is sweet
Writing poetry from your name
He's a best friend to your mother
And kisses away your pain.
He never has made you cry
Or hurt you in any way
And Unfortunately to all the women,
The perfect man is gay.
 
 

this came to me from my friend bry:

"A life with love will have some thorns,
But a life without love will have no roses."
 
 
 

a friend emailed this to me.  it is really good!  the first thing someone has given to me just for this page :-)  thanks dude.

NEVER BE CONTENT WITH SOMEONE'S DEFINITION OF YOU.
INSTEAD, DEFINE YOURSELF BY YOUR OWN BELIEFS, YOUR OWN TRUTHS ,
YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING OF WHO YOU ARE AND HOW YOU CAME TO BE. AND NEVER BE
CONTENT UNTIL YOU ARE HAPPY WITH THE UNIQUE PERSON YOU ARE!
 
 

I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately ,
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life to put to ralph all that was not life
and not when I had come to die discover that I had not lived.

Henry David Thoreo
 
 
 

O ME! O LIFE!

O me! O life! of the questions of these recurring,
Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill'd with the foolish,
Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more failthless?)
Of eyes that vainly crave the light, of the objects mean, of the struggle ever renew'd,
Of the poor results of all, of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me,
Of the empty and useless years of the rest, with the rest me intertwined,
The question, O me! so sad, recurring - What good amid these, O me, O life?

Answer.

That you are here - that life life exists and identity,
That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

-Walt Whitman
 
 
 

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure,
than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much,
because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat."
- Theodore Roosevelt
 
 

"Don't take the narrow path. Go where there is no path, and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 

"go without hate, but not without rage, heal the world" - paul monette
 
 
 

DOES IT MATTER?

Does It Matter?
My father asked me if I am gay and I asked, "Does it matter?" He said,
"No, not really."
I told him, "Yes." He said, "Get out of my life."
I guess it mattered.
My boss asked me if I am gay and I asked, "Does it matter?" He said,
"No, not really."
I told him, "Yes." He said, "You're fired fagot."
I guess it mattered.
My friend asked me if I am gay and I asked, "Does it matter?" He said,
"No, not really."
I told him, "Yes." He said, "Don't call me your friend."
I guess it mattered.
My lover asked, "Do you love me?" I asked, "Does it matter?" He said,
"Yes."
I told him, "I love you." He said, "Let me hold you in my arms."
For the first time in my life something matters.
My God asked me, "Do you love yourself?" I asked, "Does it matter?" He said,
"YES!"
I told him, "How can I love myself, I am gay?" He said, "That is the way I made you."
Nothing will ever matter again.
Author - Unknown
(i got this in an email.  it is great so i wanted to post it, but i don't know who wrote it.)