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blindinglights7 said:
I seem to work better late at night too. It's a good thing to stay up late for the quality of the homework, but then I don't get enough sleep. Maybe it's the motivation factor. It's late, you want to get your homework done and go to bed, so you actually work better...But I know I should get it done early, so I can relax later, and go to bed at a decent time.
I've done that many a'time. I don't really have anything to say about it, because it would just be an extended contradiction from me, again.
It sure is a good feeling to get things done, though, isn't it? That's part of the secret. The myth of "momentum" is that once YOU get things rolling, things become easier. Or maybe it should be thought of as inertia...
Anyhow, it is good that you were so productive.
I wonder..... I think I got rid of it, but I had a collage of sorts from a few years ago... but I don't know if I still have it around or not. Maybe if I find it, I'll share it here. (it was for a photo class of sorts).
As I said, a signature explanation:
*whew* this is the first time I've "explained" this one.... Well, to begin with, the lyrics. Believe it or not, those are the words of another "80's" rock band, a group called Van Halen. It's definitely an older song, but I heard it once again on the radio, and those words, which are the last part of the song, stuck in my head. I've been thinking about things like that, how things "cost" something, and also about love, etc. I liked how the song made the connection: tears (and pain, hard times, etc) are what dreams are made of. As in, the act of making a dream a reality takes work, and is often hard, and one must endure setbacks. SO in a way, tears are the price you pay. (In fact, though, the song says "save all the tears you've cried". In my own way, I see that as meaning that tears are natural, and they will be there. But once you understand what you're striving for, the tears are worth it, and you don't need to be excessively unhappy about something - just understand that it is SUPPOSED to be hard, or difficult, or trying.) It's supposed to hurt, or be painful, at least at first. "that's what dreams are made of".
And then going even further...
The song concludes with "that's what love is made of".
I've been doing a lot of thinking about love lately... Sometimes it seems like love is a dream, but I'm undecided as of yet as to if you can make it a reality. But dreams take "blood, sweat, and tears" to make come true, and love is essentially made of dreams, so.... There is a whole sort of chain there, things connected.....
As for the actual background image...
Like an image, it can be perceived from many angles. Essentially, it is an image of a person, a man. I've played around with the colors, obviously. In one light, one could say that it could in fact be either blood, or tears even, on his face. I suppose it is a rather "dramatic" shot. The character pictured has a sort of personal meaning, or representation to me, so all the more reason for me to use it. In some ways, I see that character representing a person, like myself, caught up in the conflict between dreams and reality, yet willing to sacrifice, or rather, pay the price for dreams ('blood, sweat, and tears' so to say).
additional explanations:
Also, there is a certain notion of struggling with reality itself. Part of the reason I can relate to the character pictured is due to the fact that I can be very grounded, very realistic, sometimess too serious in my perception of things. Yet also, I see it as refusing to run away from, or look away from, the truth, the facts of the matter. Despite all that, though, certain dreams are still alluring, and worth investigating, or perhaps even fighting for. Some things, perhaps, are worth the effort, worth the 'blood sweat and tears", etc.. So, be it internally or externally imposed, I guess this image represents quite a few things in my world. But a lot of it requires the personal experiences that I've had, as well as the philosophical or otherwise overanalytical perception of the story, and the character, etc, etc.
So in the end, it's still just an image.
Most of it's meaning is up to the person who is looking at it, and I've no quarrel with that. It's none of my business what anyone else sees, or takes away from it. These are just my thoughts.
Well, I guess that concludes the "explanation". I know it's a bit overkill, but I find words to be very unspecific these days, so I tend to use a lot, when describing certain things.
Thanks for reading, heh.
ANd thanks for asking about it. I suppose I do enjoy explaining things...
Today in English class, we had the entire hour to read this Edgar Allan Poe story (which is very confusing), and I got so tired I really could have fallen asleep. So, instead of using my class time, I have to do it now, instead of having the time to relax. But sometimes you just can't avoid that mid-day tiredness, or at least I haven't figured out how to! If only we could have coffee in school... 
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I only took my precal with me, because I didn't feel like dragging my physics book with me too. And I got my 3 problems done for precal, then did absolutely NOTHING for the rest of the hour, when I had stuff I could have been doing. It makes me mad now, but of course, at the time I didn't think about how it would affect me later. Grrrr.
Am I bad or what.
I always end up making horrible decisions...
I really had to try to pull A's in that...
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....I can't do that....it's too personal...
