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At about 100 meters from the cargo bay of the space shuttle Challenger, Bruce McCandless II was farther out than anyone had ever been before. Guided by a Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU), astronaut McCandless, pictured above, was floating free in space. McCandless and fellow NASA astronaut Robert Stewart were the first to experience such an “untethered space walk” during Space Shuttle mission 41-B in 1984.
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Muse
I’ve been finding it a bit hard to keep inspired lately, and when I do get inspired it only last for an hour or two. Could it be the monotony of my 9 to 5? Is Babylon setting hurdles for my Muse to catch up to me? Or is it the other way around - Babylon becoming my greatest hurdle to catch up to my muse? Whatever it is, I think I need to close my eyes….think…and reflect about the things I love to do, and why I haven’t had the drive to pick up any one of those things and do it. Music, skateboarding, drawing. It’s even been 2 weeks since I’ve posted anything on this blog, or even looked at anything that relates to any of my interests. You know what, I think I might be figuring out what it could be as I write this. It could partly be the monotony of my job and how I start my days at work - reading the news. How I start my days (no matter where I’m at) will set the pace for the rest of that day. If I read some depressing ass shit on the news, it’d probably have an affect on the rest of my day. From now on, I’ll start my days a bit different. I’ll kick off every day by giving thanks, then reflect on who and what I love. I’d be damned if I let my self age unnaturally.
If you magnify your limitations you create your own prisons. If you enjoy those freedoms that are yours now, you automatically increase them. You are in a clear position at this moment. You cannot expect a blissful time innocent of problems. That is not the nature of life or of existence.
Breaking the Ice →
Burnout checks in with the first part of his trip to the Philippines with Flip.
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We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
Amid the mad scramble, you do make your own reality. I admit that this sounds too simple, but you will not be caught in an earthquake if you do not want to be, and no one dies who has not decided to do so. You make your own reality—or you do not.
And if you do not, then you are everywhere a victim, and the universe must be an accidental mechanism appearing with no reason. So that the miraculous picture you have seen of your body came accidently into creation, and out of some cosmic accident attained its miraculous complexity. And that body was formed so beautifully for no reason except to be a victim.
That is the only other alternative to forming your own reality. You cannot have a universe in between. You have a universe formed with a reason, or a universe formed without a reason. And in a universe of reason, there are no victims. Everything has a reason, or nothing has a reason.
So — choose your side.”
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