1.) God doesn't help you get what you want but gives you what you need.

2.) I feel very free lately. I think that all the bad karma of a previous life has nearly run out.

3.) Advice: Sometimes you have to do things in your own best interest. Be able to balance selflessness and selfishness accordingly.

4.) I've been pretty hard on myself and I think that I've been looking at life all wrong. As weird as this sounds, forget regret, forgive yourself, and accept that you will die. This sounds very morbid, but if you are able to do those things I think you'll be able to look at life through rose colored glasses.

5.) Accepting death. I swear I've heard that 'life is too short' a million times, but it never really sank in as much as i thought. I've always been driven to explore what the world offers and it just so happends my passions in the arts have lead me to a career that'll alow me to do everything I've always wanted.

6.) There's just one thing that would make my life better... but unfortunatley I'm too proud to admit it. It's because I suck at it.

7.) Advice: Be unconditional.

Where life is more terrible than death, it is the truest valor to dare to live

1. Like us guys, girls shake after they pee!!!  It's gross I know but I always thought just guys do the jig after they relieve themselves!

2. .Put nuts like cashews or peanuts into the meat when you are making burgers. It adds texture and protein.

3. I've been watching westerns lately only to confirm what the majority of the world already believes.  Yul Brynner is great performer, Clint Eastwood is my hero, and  John Wayne is a bad ass

4. Don't eat at Miyako... Eat at Kubo's  nuff said

5. I bought gas on the "Do not buy gas day so gas prices will go down"... few days after gas prices rose from $2.80 in my area to $3.05.  People are sofa king wetodded.

6. My healthy eating habits are coming back to me just yesterday. I really thought that willpower would deter me from eating crap, but really it's my body that rejects it...   now if only I can stop drinking again.

7. I'm so blind sometimes...

8. Blessings and Luck for Gireesh Shintri, a brother who's a Marine and is heading off to Iraq.

i might as well go ahead and let everyone know that i think i need to disappear again. for those of you that don't know, every once in a while i make a willful decision to just disappear. it's kind of seasonal for me...

in that time i step back from whatever life im living, reassess what direction i am going, formulate a plan, and somewhere in between accept what has happend, accept who i have become, and then move forward.

i'm certain everyone does this in some form or another...

if you cycle with me... i'll ride as a team... eventually i fall back... so i can ride alone.

After finishing the 178 mile bike ride from houston to austin, i was changed. for a few days i felt free. it was a feeling i haven't had since i last layed under the stars and on the white sands of boracay. the crisp clarity of that horizon and that brightly lit sky, was the same feeling as the enveloping winds of the plains of texas on my skin. i felt whole. and i hate to sound sentimental... but i felt in love. it was a definate high that i wished lasted longer. after coming back to houston and getting involved with the many things which i refute to be my reality... that high felt like it was forgotten.    

my mother tells me since i was a kid i have been surprisingly mature for my age. am i really that mature? or am i still a child? to this day she still calls me an idiot. i can honestly not tell.  i just want to find peace.

Hey guys,

This past year I have been training diligently for the MS150. What it is is a fundraiser for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, which is dedicated to ending the devastating effects of multiple sclerosis.

I cycle over 180 miles from Houston to Austin. If you can or would like to support my ride kindly enter whatever amount you would like to pledge.

Ballers and big spenders only! haha I'm just playing! Thanks guys!

Your friend,
Gabe Medina

Please click the following link if you would like to pledge

http://ms150.org/ms150/donate/donate.cfm?id=194413