Comments for Tristan Layton http://tristanlayton.com Wed, 23 May 2012 12:49:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Dreams. by akismet-823876445afa7946094a3492ae337446 http://tristanlayton.com/2012/05/09/dreams/#comment-10 Wed, 23 May 2012 12:49:10 +0000 http://tristanlayton.com/?p=39#comment-10 Mate! I had no idea you were such a talented writer! Wow well written post my friend. Your words here:
“Construct your dreams on what makes you happy. Not what makes your parents happy, not what makes your friends happy, but what makes you happy. ”
… remind me of something I read in the first hostel I stayed at in my first backpacking trip down under:

“Don’t live your life conforming to rules laid out by our society and the media. Write your own script, your own lines. You only have one life to live, one chance at every day. Don’t try to fill a role you have set up for yourself, worrying about what others think, giving strangers so much power over your life as to influence you in how you live the one life you have been given. Every moment is a gift from above and should be treasured as we are not owed anything. These words, like many others you have read before, are now yours to do with what you will.”

So stoked to continue reading the blog. ctrl+d

]]> Comment on My Renaissance – The Stages of Literacy by stjohngill http://tristanlayton.com/2011/12/02/my-renaissance-the-stages-of-literacy/#comment-4 Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:13:21 +0000 http://tristanlayton.com/?p=15#comment-4 An interesting article indeed! From an old persons perspective however, I think the time also come where you tire of dense complex storylines and long for simpler books. It’s certainly obvious that many adults are as keen to read Twilight or Harry Potter as a teenager.

It’s probably much the same as the respite a fictional tale gives you from a season of non-fiction or informative reading. Does anyone really stay in any one season of reading? The stages of literacy are definitely pronounced but I don’t think that they are finite! Some books are timeless, some are fleeting and others are positively unknown gems.

I have seasons of reading, fiction, non-fiction, biographies or even of extra-heavy bible reading. So is the natural ebb and flow of life…

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