INSPIRE

Zen Pencils regular Robert Frost is back with one of his most famous poems. It’s easy to misinterpret this poem as being about living an awesome life after making some hard or unconventional choices, but I don’t think it’s about that at all. I read it as being about how one’s life is the sum of their decisions, for better or worse, and wondering if those decisions were the right ones. Once you make an important decision, say to backpack around the world instead of going to college, you meet people, things happen to you, you fall in love, opportunities arise and your life kind of snowballs into decision after decision until you’re dead.

Damn this is going to change the way films are made

(Source: helloyoucreatives)

choucribechir:

No Arms No Legs No Worries

Imagine being born without arms. No arms to wrap around a friend ; no hands to hold the ones you love; no fingers to experience touch ; no way to lift or carry things. How much more difficult would life be if you were living without arms and hands? Or what about legs? Imagine if instead of no arms, you had no legs. No ability to dance, walk, run, or even stand. Now put both of those scenarios together… no arms and no legs. What would you do? How would that affect your everyday life?

“There’s a theory about writing that applies — that, when you reach a serious sticking point, the key to moving on successfully is to throw out the element that you had been hanging on to because it is your favorite thing”

Man what a profound piece of advice that rings true in so many areas.

Omg she is soooo cute

A very provocative perspective, although I feel it really rests on the assumptions that the non-profits in question are 1)not fraudulent and 2)sufficiently competent.

I agree that certain aspects of our attitude towards the non-profit sector are irrational and should be re-looked. But at the same time I think we must be careful not to bring the idea too far and draw too many parallels between the for-profit sectors and the non-profit sectors. Sure with the public breathing down their necks it is hard for the non-profits to innovate and grow. But there remains to be a certain level of accountability that must be upheld. The reality is that in the for-profit sector for every Google or Amazon there are tons of other ventures out there who once dreamed to be Google or Amazon but never took off and eventually folded. Is the public ready to allow their donor money go through such risks? The expectations for donor and venture money are very different, and rightly so I would think, given their distinct natures.

It is also interesting to see how this relates to the government and its organisations. Are our high expectations for our government doing more harm than good?

(Source: ted.com)

Once again, I am amazed by what the internet can come up with by tapping into the creativity of its users.

These guys are awesome. You can feel how they really want to make a difference instead of just settling with thumbs ups.