| Lik-See's website |
| Links: (websites I enjoy, nothing really to do with the monthly topics) |
| http://www.howstuffworks.com/ This is an interesting website where you can have fun educating yourself�good website too if you have absolutely nothing to do but want to learn something useful. |
| http://www.bahiker.com/ Excellent website about where to hike around the San Francisco Bay Area. Great description of trails and plenty of pictures. |
| If you have any comments, suggestions, thoughts, etc. about this website, please email me at [email protected] Thank you! |
| http://news.bbc.co.uk/ Good website to news events in different parts of the world. |
| Thank you for checking my website. I wish the best for you in 2004. I found out that consistency is not my thing when updating my own website, but my 2004 resolution is to update it 1-2 times a month. This month, the topic is what makes a worthy and worthwhile life. Lik-See, 01/05/04 Last year, I've touched on topics of getting older, the value of hoping in something and the less-than-healthy effects of T.V. I think I was motivated to touch on those topics by a common thread, namely to address the question: What makes a worthy and worthwhile life? My thinking and belief says my life needs to be lived with clear direction (pursuing a target goal) and excitement (passion in what you're pursuing). Therefore, it affected my thoughts on the few topics I've covered in 2003: -I realize that getting older-which I can't stop anyway-is not as bad as living life in a futile and directionless way, basically limping unenthusiastically through life. How I live-how and what I pursue with excitement-is more important than how many years I have left to live. -I realize that if there is nothing better to hope for than where I am now, that is a really hard place to be. Hope in something better in the future is a basic motivation in life, so I can wake up in the morning every day, to believe that I can gain and experience something exciting I don't possess now. -I realize how T.V. can drug me up mentally and emotionally if I don't feel like there's anything exciting to pursue; it can be a sythnetic substitute of what excites me. Maybe the amount of time that I watch T.V. is a barometer of what I'm doing with my life or how excited (or unexcited) I am about living it. |
| WHY THIS WEBSITE EXISTS: To share and stimulate thought and insight on life issues we can relate to. |
| Live with direction, as if you are going somewhere worth heading towards. |
| Quotes: Find an aim in life before you run out of ammunition. --- Arnold Glasow And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. --- Abraham Lincoln The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. --- Albert Einstein **The purpose of quotes on this website is to provoke thought and may or may not be an endorsement of the person being quoted and his or her beliefs. |
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| Question of the month: What do you feel that you need in your life to make it a worthy and worthwhile life? a) material gain for provision and enjoyment (possession of house, car, money, etc.) b) relationships-good friends, including a signficant-other c) ability to become a better person, developing personal character traits and morality. d) a worthy cause that benefits others e) a vocation or job that you like, or in general, good utilization of your talents and skills f) God, religion, spirituality g) don't know h) don't think about it or care-I'm just trying to survive. |
| Note: just to let you know, I'll put a new topic each month. This means I'll update this website at least once a month, usually at the beginning of the month. Sometimes, I add new things mid-month. I'll plan to start archiving my websites as the year progresses. |
| Some more thoughts: the opposite of living a worthy and worthwhile life is when you get that sinking feeling that your life is going nowhere. Some ways to tell this is the case: 1) You literally mean it when you say that you did nothing over the weekend. 2) You hate getting out of your bed every morning. 3) You hate or have a hard time being alone for any extent of time. 4) You think so much about your problems, that you forget that others deal with similar problems. 6) You spend too much of your free time in front of the T.V. or Internet. 7) You spend your social time with others mainly engaged in superficial, light-hearted, joking conversations. 8) You have a hard time being still, to reflect and think and dream. You actually hate it. 9) You consciously and unconsciously make decisions based on trying to avoid as much difficulty and pain as possible. 10) You look back at the year, feeling like you didn't accomplish much. |
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| LSC's basement: I usually put random stuff here, such as requests, advice, and my favorites. I'll share one of my favorites for this month: my favorite childhood book is Bridge toTerabithia by Katherine Paterson. |
| http://photosbymartin.com/index.htm This website contains beautiful pictures of different places in the world. |