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The Life and Mind of DamnBlackHeart
This is to help me stay actively writing. So expect to see rants, tips on writing, thoughts on subjects, me complaining of boredom, reviews, anime, movies, video games, conventions, tv shows and whatever life throws at me.
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It's a Christian, Catholic, Anglicans, Lutherans, etc. tradition that starts from Ash Wednesday and ends on Easter. The point of it is that people give up something they love for 40 days. It's our way of honoring Jesus Christ's sacrifice and withdrawal into the desert for 40 days. Jesus spent those forty days fasting in the desert before the beginning of his public ministry, where he endured temptations by Satan.
Some people give up eating meat for those forty days. Or cursing. Some give up other favorite foods (chocolate, cookies, candies, ice cream, etc.) or favorite drinks (soda, alcohol, coffee, etc.) or an activity (going to the movies, texting, watching tv, playing video games, surfing the internet, clubbing, unnecessary spending/shopping, etc.) for Lent. OR they may take on volunteering for charity, church, library, shelter, etc. You can even be doing something positive each day (like cooking for your family each day, keeping the house clean) and so on, instead of giving something up. Sometimes people do both, giving something up only to replace it with something positive/a good habit.
For example: Giving up junk food and replacing it with going to the gym. Or stretching for 5-10 minutes each morning before going to work or school. Some give up candy and replace that by thanking someone each day, or hugging someone each day or letting your friends/love ones know you appreciate them.
What I'm giving up is my time. I love to be lazy, sitting on my butt and surfing the internet. Instead of always lazing around, I decide to spend 5 - 20 minutes (even more) doing something nice and/or doing something for someone. So far I started my Lent by taking 20 minutes to draw three pictures, a little funny comic strip and two drawings of a female.
One of those drawings is something for my friend since I only drew it because I came up with the idea when I was thinking of her. I spent my time today, playing with my cat, Fluffy. She likes to sleep a lot and instead of sleeping and getting chubby I will spend my time with her. Giving her even more attention. I'll do other things like spending some of my time answering people's questions or those that need advice or opinions, helping friends with some research or retouching their photos or creating some artwork of them.
 DamnBlackHeart · Fri Mar 11, 2011 @ 01:48am · 0 Comments |
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