"it's the middle of the night there chief, what are you doing--?"
"learning how to be a human, and part of a family"
"yeah, i think you speak for a lot of us there"
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from the movie Martian Child
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i want, i want, and i keep wanting.
i can want muddy toes, and a city without sirens. i can want fresh flowers in my windowsill, and origami stars from bangladesh for my curtains. i can want to spend a summer sweating out all my fears in india. i can want to take the day off work to help pick carrots for a nonprofit. i can want the perfect boots to tromp through the falling leaves in.
i'm also learning, that sometimes all i want, is exactly what i have.
but i can want. and i do.
..and the road home, wherever that is.
i want, i want, and i keep wanting.
i can want muddy toes, and a city without sirens. i can want fresh flowers in my windowsill, and origami stars from bangladesh for my curtains. i can want to spend a summer sweating out all my fears in india. i can want to take the day off work to help pick carrots for a nonprofit. i can want the perfect boots to tromp through the falling leaves in.
i'm also learning, that sometimes all i want, is exactly what i have.
but i can want. and i do.
"it is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look. to affect the quality of the day- that is the highest of arts." -- henry david thoreau
"I like too many things and get all confused and hung up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion." --jack kerouac
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OMG. I have been searching for the name of this movie for the last two months. You just saved my sanity.
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