Friday, November 18, 2005

By The Numbers

Adolf Galland once said, ~Sometimes numbers are the telling factor.~ For some, most, or all of you who have read a number of the Yodaisms that have been sent out. If you've read my early one's compared to the one's you've been reading recently there is a definite change in the overall structure but conceptually the ideas are still the same. Just to refresh your memory the title, quotes, and mood are the three key ingredients that bring it all together. Yet, the question remains, how may quotes have been used, which author(s) have been used and or quoted the most, which Yodaism would I like to redo, what three subject matters have been primarily talked about, and most importantly, which particular subject matter has been thought about the most.

In the early stages of writing these Yodaisms there any use of quotes because they were basically short thoughts. But as time progressed the Yodaisms started to progress as it got more and more on a deeper level in which it made you think, as well as, use your imagination. In my own thinking, the right quote is essential and authors such as Charles Dickens, Rainer Marie Rilke, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, E.E. Cummings, Robert Louis Stevenson, C.S. Lewis, Leo Buscaglia, and Ralph Waldo Emerson were instrumental in making a Yodaism come together. Primarily 206 quotes have been used and when it comes to the author quotes most, 6 times, it comes from my favorite author Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Without a doubt, every Yodaism that I have written I have felt content in the finished product. However, there is one particular Yodaism that didn't really sit too well with not only myself but also other people as well. It was a Yodaism entitled Apple Of Your Eye in which that special someone was like an apple on a tree and the basic premise was asked how far are you willing to climb to be with that particular guy or girl on interest. It had the best intentions in being an ok Yodaism but it entirely went off into a totally different tangent. If I had to do it all over again, I would still use the same quote, but give it a new concept, as well as, new title "The Core" which may be done later down the road.

If you have been an avid read of the Yodaisms that I sent out and/or posted, you get three subject matters that are either from my own personal experience or what I observe around me on a semi-daily basis. The first subject is life and each one of us go through certain situations in life that are either similar or parallel each other's lives. The second subject is love and/or relationships that every person can relate to a little bit or a lot, which one can sympathize with because you may be going through what I tend to talk about. The third subject is my job at the Youth Center otherwise known as The Insane Asylum, which has given me some of the greatest material to talk about when it concerns "my kids".

In retrospect, there have been countless friends who have read the Yodaisms that I have sent out to and they in turn have sent them to their friends. For there have been a number of people who have emailed me saying that certain Yodaisms have gotten them through the toughest of times. In any case, the total number of Yodaisms, which includes this one, comes to 306 and the number will continue to rise because there are many untapped subject matters to talk about such as Karma. Ultimately, the subject of my job has been talked about 26 times, love and/or relationships 132 times, and life about 148 times. So, in the end, when you look at it by the numbers the subject of life wins out just a bit over love and far surpasses what I see/do at work.

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