| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from United States Declaration of Independence: that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,
that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men,
deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends,
it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute
new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing
its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect
their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments
long established should not be changed for light and transient causes;
and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed
United States Declaration of Independence |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: saw that they had left the road and were cutting across the
plain, as if to take the sharpshooter in the rear.
Her troubled thoughts stayed with her even after she had reached
the ranch. She was nervously excited, keyed up to a high pitch;
for she knew that out on the desert, within a mile or two of her,
men were stalking each other with life or death in the balance as
the price of vigilance, skill and an unflawed steel nerve. While
she herself had been in danger, she had been mistress of her
fear. But now she could do nothing but wait, after ordering out
such reinforcements as she could recruit without delay; and the
inaction told upon her swift, impulsive temperament. Once, twice,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe: hung upon the walls. The general furniture was profuse,
comfortless, antique, and tattered. Many books and musical
instruments lay scattered about, but failed to give any vitality
to the scene. I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
An air of stern, deep, and irredeemable gloom hung over and
pervaded all.
Upon my entrance, Usher rose from a sofa on which he had
been lying at full length, and greeted me with a vivacious warmth
which had much in it, I at first thought, of an overdone
cordiality--of the constrained effort of the ennuye man of
the world. A glance, however, at his countenance, convinced me
The Fall of the House of Usher |
