Believe, Achieve, Succeed

I don't know about you, but the Soviet Russia meme (is it a meme? I'm not absolutely certain) is definitely one of my favorites. It is best expressed in this delightful poem:

Roses are red,

Violets are blue,

In Soviet Russia,

POEM writes YOU!!!!

So of course, this just made me unbelievably happy.

Anyway. A girl down the hall has the word "believe" in a magnet on her door. I think there's another word as well, but it struck me that it just says "believe." Not "believe in something," "believe in yourself," "believe in God," "believe in the power of your dreams;" just "believe." It made me think of this poster in my high school foyer: "Believe...Achieve...Succeed." What does that even mean? It's like they just took three very positive-sounding words and put them together. I don't think I ever felt inspired by that poster in the foyer. It never meant anything to me. Like those motivational posters about teamwork and climbing the mountain. A teacher of mine had one of syncronized sky-divers making patterns in the sky. And I want to say I remember one with pictures of hot-air balloons. I prefer these. Particularly this one. I'd rather look at a poster and be amused than look at a poster to get motivated.

On my wall I have Raphael's School of Athens and Van Gogh's Almond Branches in Bloom. And Matisse's Goldfish. What does this say about me? I think it says, "I've taken Art History classes and I might be a snob about it." I have, and sometimes I am. I actually wanted to major in Art History, but as much as I love going to a museum and being all, "I totally know what this painting is and can tell you off the top of my head who painted it, when they painted it and with what!" Which I love doing, but I haaaaaatttteeee the process of memorizing slides for exams (even though when I took my last Art History class [19th Century European Art] I had a most excellent method for memorizing images that involved pretending they were all hanging on the walls of my dorm....long process, but very effective). I also KICKED ASS on my Art History final my freshman year and OWNED the slide identifications (and by owned I mean I got a perfect on that portion of the exam-BOOO-YAH).

Anyway. I think writing inspiration words on the wall is kind of stupid. There are things of this nature that can be effective; someone once suggested to write down all the stuff I like about myself and put it on the wall of my closet to remember how AWESOME I am. I haven't done it, but I think it might work.

Ohhhh I know this isnt' going anywhere. I'm going to post it anyway, because I need to work on a speech for tomorrow.