Comments on: optional http://oneword.com/word/optional/ Tue, 21 May 2013 21:30:08 +0000 hourly 1 By: missalister http://oneword.com/word/optional/comment-page-4/#comment-135880 missalister Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:18:01 +0000 http://oneword.com/staging/word/optional/#comment-135880 <p>choosing was not optional. the opportunity to take money from the 7-11 cashier presented itself and josey took it like blinking, like her heart pumping, like to survive, to pay toward rent, buy a little food for her kids. that she was caught running undaunted 2 blocks down wasn't optional either, but one of many results governed by the law of unintended consequences. still, for a few glorious moments, free will felt roaring and real.</p> choosing was not optional. the opportunity to take money from the 7-11 cashier presented itself and josey took it like blinking, like her heart pumping, like to survive, to pay toward rent, buy a little food for her kids. that she was caught running undaunted 2 blocks down wasn’t optional either, but one of many results governed by the law of unintended consequences. still, for a few glorious moments, free will felt roaring and real.

]]> By: amalia nieves http://oneword.com/word/optional/comment-page-4/#comment-135881 amalia nieves Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:01:59 +0000 http://oneword.com/staging/word/optional/#comment-135881 <p>the way that you feel about something like the way i feel about jewelery and the way that you do we may not feel the same way.</p> the way that you feel about something like the way i feel about jewelery and the way that you do we may not feel the same way.

]]> By: amalia nieves http://oneword.com/word/optional/comment-page-4/#comment-135882 amalia nieves Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:00:29 +0000 http://oneword.com/staging/word/optional/#comment-135882 <p>your own opinion what you think about something noone else feels the way that you do..=)</p> your own opinion what you think about something noone else feels the way that you do..=)

]]> By: bonnie http://oneword.com/word/optional/comment-page-4/#comment-135883 bonnie Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:57:16 +0000 http://oneword.com/staging/word/optional/#comment-135883 <p>The assignment was optional, but leaving him at that moment seemed irrational. I've never had a superior come on to me in that fashion before. I was so unsure.</p> The assignment was optional, but leaving him at that moment seemed irrational. I’ve never had a superior come on to me in that fashion before. I was so unsure.

]]> By: Phillip http://oneword.com/word/optional/comment-page-4/#comment-135884 Phillip Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:40:39 +0000 http://oneword.com/staging/word/optional/#comment-135884 <p>success is optional<br /> laziness is optional<br /> procrastination is optional<br /> life is optional<br /> a good life the is<br /> </p> success is optional
laziness is optional
procrastination is optional
life is optional
a good life the is

]]> By: Magical Pacifist http://oneword.com/word/optional/comment-page-4/#comment-135885 Magical Pacifist Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:15:26 +0000 http://oneword.com/staging/word/optional/#comment-135885 <p>We're not welcome here.<br /> Don't you know? Haven't you see how we're treated?<br /> They say it's right that we're caged and treated unequally<br /> No one bothers<br /> No one cares<br /> Cooperation is optional</p> We’re not welcome here.
Don’t you know? Haven’t you see how we’re treated?
They say it’s right that we’re caged and treated unequally
No one bothers
No one cares
Cooperation is optional

]]> By: Mushi http://oneword.com/word/optional/comment-page-4/#comment-135886 Mushi Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:00:29 +0000 http://oneword.com/staging/word/optional/#comment-135886 <p>Don't have to do it. </p> <p>What is wrong with western education that for so many people, you give them a word to free-associate on, and they just give you the definition?</p> <p>Maybe it's a funciton of our brains, our need to categorize and classify things as soon as we see them, a basic outgrowth of fight or flight - is this something that's going to eat me, or can I eat it?</p> Don’t have to do it.

What is wrong with western education that for so many people, you give them a word to free-associate on, and they just give you the definition?

Maybe it’s a funciton of our brains, our need to categorize and classify things as soon as we see them, a basic outgrowth of fight or flight – is this something that’s going to eat me, or can I eat it?

]]> By: Hope http://oneword.com/word/optional/comment-page-4/#comment-135887 Hope Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:57:34 +0000 http://oneword.com/staging/word/optional/#comment-135887 <p>Optional, he said to me. I get to choose. Life or death, mundane foreverness, or the final climax of Earth. I must decide, as time is running out. I, Mercy Dawn Llowyn must decide, I must decide now.</p> Optional, he said to me. I get to choose. Life or death, mundane foreverness, or the final climax of Earth. I must decide, as time is running out. I, Mercy Dawn Llowyn must decide, I must decide now.

]]> By: joface http://oneword.com/word/optional/comment-page-4/#comment-135888 joface Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:54:54 +0000 http://oneword.com/staging/word/optional/#comment-135888 <p>Ooh the power of choice! Which to choose..so many options. Opt in, opt out- it's up to you! The thing about options is that you often only realise your mistake afterwards</p> Ooh the power of choice! Which to choose..so many options. Opt in, opt out- it’s up to you! The thing about options is that you often only realise your mistake afterwards

]]> By: jason http://oneword.com/word/optional/comment-page-4/#comment-135889 jason Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:52:12 +0000 http://oneword.com/staging/word/optional/#comment-135889 <p>so i sat in the bar nervous as hell, but i had to pretend that all was well, i saw a girl but didn't go over,then bartender called me over</p> <p>he said "Boy , if you don't talk to her you'll hate yourself, living your life is optional but you should live it well"</p> so i sat in the bar nervous as hell, but i had to pretend that all was well, i saw a girl but didn’t go over,then bartender called me over

he said “Boy , if you don’t talk to her you’ll hate yourself, living your life is optional but you should live it well”

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