Illegitimi non carborundum.
Perfectly encapsulates my world view, my view on relationships, my political ideology... Its a good phrase, what with being mock latin.
Hmmm, Perhaps I should have it added beneath the hammer and sickle on my left arm.
Kaleion said:
"No te tomes la vida muy en serio, despues de todo no saldras vivo de ella" which translates to "Don't take life too seriously after all you won't come out of it alive" though for some reason I wrote it like this on my profile "Don't take life too seriously since you know, you won't come out of it alive anyway"
It's something one of my mother's friends told me after I came home with all bruised from fighting at school because someone called me a coward, 3rd fight I had gotten into that week, I adopted the phrase for myself later on mostly to confuse my friend, it's meant to be funny because it's the kind of phrase that doesn't fit me at all, after all I almost never smile and according to my friend the day that I laugh it's the day reality will shatter, it's also sarcastic because I tend to say it in the most serious way possible while I look like I'm half dead, but it's also meant to represent how I have no regard for my own well being, often doing stupid stuff like fighting 3 muggers at the same time all by myself, which is really stupid considering I have never won a fight, ever, it sort of matches my view of life in a bizarre way, because it's both optimistic and pessimistic at the same time, and yes I have put way too much thought into it, kinda funny since as I said it was originally just meant to be funny because of my deadpan way of speaking and my incapacity to show much emotion when I speak, but it oddly started to fit really well, at least in my head anyway.
Heh. The reason I am quoting you is cause you reminded me of something.
Prior to a few world shattering events in my life, I was called Giggles. The phrase that was trotted out when talking to me was usually "Why so serious?" repeated ad nauseum. The reason being? I never smiled. I never laughed. I took myself way too seriously, I treated every moment in my life like it might be my last and I was preoccupied with a mixture of death and the depressingly small imprint I was making on the world.
Then I had a few days that could have been my last and I saw a few people live their last days. And BAM, Suddenly I had a sense of humour again.
If you cannot laugh at yourself, who will have the balls to laugh at you? And if nobody is laughing, you are doing something wrong.
Yeah, write that one down. I guess it can go with Illegitimi non carborundum.
EDIT:
Huh, I just remembered two which are very close to my heart which I came up with a long time ago. They only makes sense to one person, believed dead.
"I wish I could teleport, I wish I could fly, I wish I could blast black holes in the sky"
"There is a fine line between madness and genius. I rode over that line on a motorcycle made out of jelly a long time ago."