Hillary's+HappyTime

==Welcome to Hillary's HappyTime--where all your dreams will come true! As long as your dreams are about me and my life philosophy! ==

The Happytime's  diphilosophy statement: **__Self-discovery__** Part 1**: I must always know where I stand and never take anything at face value. I need never assume anything anyone tells me is automatically true. Everything has two sides. When people blindly accept statements or ideals as facts, that is when freedom of speech, thought, and enquiry is wasted and destroyed. When a society questions its leaders, morals, ideals, and religion, it will always improve, as people left to make their own decisions on matters of life always turn out for the better. The more freedom of thought (and, more importantly, use of that freedom), the more anchored I will be to my personal morals and beliefs. I must research "facts" that are difficult to believe. I want to learn to cut through the gobbledygook that life throws at me and find truth. Seek truth. Knowing two sides to an issue is important in discovering my own ideas about the subject and thus knowing myself better.
 * Knowing myself and my history is the key to understanding all the world's puzzles. It is important to always focus again on myself when the world forces too much stress upon me. Serenity and truth are found within myself and my past.
 * Part 2:** It is necessary to periodically release my barbaric yawp in a harmless, cathartic way. For example--getting outside, singing, music, expanding energy, getting away from hectic human society. If this is not indulged, I will release the repressed energy and stress in harmful ways. Getting back to my roots and the simplest of pure things in life with bring inner peace.


 * __Mosaic Poem:__**

I hope we are always able to risk Everything for the just and right cause
 * Part I:**



If we do not make this decision, We could never again call ourselves innocent. That in the end is what we have protected here: Innocence. That, I'm not ready to give up. We can move towards hope, That is what is beautiful. I am running toward hope, Let me run. For I quail To bring men out of ignorance. And now you bid me tear the light out of my eyes? I will not, I cannot. I'll be successful in my quest.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: Reason and free enquiry, The only effectual agents against error. To suppress free enquiry is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer As well as those of the speaker.  Give loose to the people, They will support the true religion By bringing every false one To the test of their investigation. The eternal decrees of God, Election, Reprobation, Appeared to them unintelligible, Others Doubtful. Reason and experiment have been indulged, Error fled before them. Truth can stand alone.

When you don't research your facts and know exactly what you believe, you end up looking like an idiot... and dead people come out of your television set. media type="custom" key="2861335"

Men are created equal. Endowed by their Creator With certain unalienable rights, That among these are Life. Liberty. And the pursuit of happiness.

Wanderers in a happy valley Through two luminous windows saw Spirits moving musically To a lute's well-tuned law Flowing, flowing, flowing And sparkling evermore But to sing in voices of surpassing beauty. media type="custom" key="2879729" Drops of Jupiter by Train is very cathartic for me. I like to listen to this song after a stressful day because I think it has a sense of awe about the universe and makes my problems seem irrelevant.
 * Part II:**

I heard them, Many many days ago. And now the breaking of the hermit's door, And the death-cry of the dragon, And the clangor of the vault! Will it not be here anon? Is it not hurrying to upbraid me? For my haste? Have I not heard its footstep on the stair? Do I not distinguish that heavy, Horrible beating of its heart? To a discordant melody; While like a rapid ghastly river, Through the pale door, A hideous throng rush out forever, And laugh--but smile no more. media type="youtube" key="IeuGQNuPhGs" height="344" width="425"  The Barenaked Ladies song, Pinch Me, talks about releasing your barbaric yawp in different ways and not to take yourself to seriously or you will just get frustrated. Getting back to these simple roots, like in the song, is very cathartic in the process of self-discovery.

It's like a dream - you try to remember but it's gone, then ya Try to scream but it only comes out as a yawn, when ya Try to see the world beyond your front door.  Try to figure out what all this is for. Pinch Me Pinch Me Cos I'm still asleep. Please God Tell Me That I'm still asleep

I must learn to reawaken, Not by mechanical aides, But by an infinite expectation of the dawn. Learn to detect and watch that gleam of light Which flashes across the mind from within. To believe my own thought, To believe that what is true for me in my private heart Is true for all men, genius.
 * Part III:**

I am able to apprehend What is sublime and noble Only by the perpetual instilling and drenching Of the reality that surrounds me. Whether I travel fast or slow, The track is laid out for me. Let my spend my life conceiving. Familiar is the voice of the mind. Trust myself: Every heart vibrates to that iron string.

Every human being has a steel plate in his head. But if I lie down now and then And get still as I can, It will slide open like elevator doors, Letting in all the secret thoughts That have been standing around so patiently Pushing the button for a ride to the top. Real troubles in life happen When those hidden doors stay closed for too long.

The world will give me that Once and a while. Where somebody dabs mercy on my beat-up life.

The whole problem with people is They know what matters, But they don't chose it. Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, And I didn't know which was heavier. Once I know the truth, I can't ever go back and pick up my suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, The truth is mine.

Bryant, William Cullen. “Thanatopsis.” Yale Book of American Verse. 1912. Bartleby: Great Books Online. http://www.bartleby.com/102/16.html |http://www.bartleby.com/102/16.html.
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