September 19, 2008

  • So I'm sitting here, waiting from a podcast to finish downloading (and praise be to VH1 for offering Best Week Ever as a free podcast - have to get my pop culture fix somewhere so I don't feel completely cut off from home), and killing time online. I was checking My Yahoo, and just for grins, I decide to look at my horoscope. Believe it or not, I hadn't checked it in ages. Lo and behold, here's what it told me today:

    You want to live your life your own, but are you willing to pay the price? Being independent means that sometimes you have to be ready for your reputation to be bruised a little bit -- but wouldn't you rather be known as someone who occasionally breaks the rule than as someone who always does everything they are told to do? Stop making choices based on how it will make you look in the eyes of others. Just go your own way and accept the consequences.

    Funny, but for the last couple of days I've been contemplating what role I was willing to have certain people play in my (quite possibly new-and-improved) life once I get back home. Some changes will get made, some radical, some minor, but changes nonetheless. So this is one of those times where the horoscope actually speaks to me - admittedly, while being wonderful and general. But I think it's sound advice regardless of when you were born.