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Some Filler Sentences

Technology exists today and early adopters are showing way forward.

Cloud computing started as a cost effective flexible way to consume storage and service but over the period it has become much more.

Big data is taking center stage powered by automation that is transforming how business is done today.

In order to sustain dynamic demand of  business, it is critical for any business to have analytics at its fingertip.

There were dueling predictions over how powerful the internet of things will be, but most indicates the market place will host 20k objects by 2020, signalling novel change in hardware.

Actionable intelligence is a necessity  in a dynamic world of massive information growth they empowers organization with crucial insights and enables decision makers to anticipate, respond and take action. They provide a basis for call to actions when there is eventuality of crisis.

We can't be defensive; we can't be future proof ourselves. We have to recognize that  the disruptive driven through technology, the volatility in change and be prepare to be agile and smart enough to take advantage of it.

Mass Communication

Mass Media/TV/Internet

It affects the behaviour, attitude, opinions and emotions of population that perceived and received the information.

Mass communication is the association with TV, print media, radio broadcasting, films, advertising and journalism. With such diversification new source of exploding social media and internet has created wave in communication.

The availability of 24x7 television channels and live telecasts of breaking news and events has posed an ongoing challenge to the business model of mass communication. The paradigm has also broadly shifted due to online feeds in fraction of seconds with advent of Twitter tweets and social media. The speed has changed the overall dynamics of mass communication.

The only problem with this speed is the authenticity of such information which when turns out to be false , it creates social tension, unrest, conflicts and riots. It leads to conducive social environment. The careful and thoughtful journalism has been compromised with alluring fate of cheap publicity in public domain targeting only negative aspect of community and wellbeing.

No doubt with an advancement of technology, world has shrink and become way compact but still the reality slips through the cracks leaving a wide gap open completely filled with hype.

Many mass media seem to be under siege of broad range of advertisement and marketing of product stills its proponents see this is the only way to combine events with consumer product. What if you see news telecast shows a devastating incident followed by promotional advertisement of life insurance? At some instance you will view this as insensitive and insane but it’s the only way forward to sensationalize and deliver while you sell.

The debate, analysis report, market trends, financial watch, real estate broad view had paved our ways of life.

When news broke, information spreads sporadically, with the blink of an eye stock market crash, farming to fishing  to traveling stays in lurch such an impact we have in our lives.

Globalization

Globalization/ Outsourcing/Offshoring/Immigration/Emmigration/Expat

Many analysts place the origins of globalization in modern times while other traces, its long before the age of voyages to the new world. In the late 19^th century and early 20^th century, the connectivity of the world’s economies and cultures grew very quickly.

Globalization tends to bring people into contact with foreign people and cultures. Xenophobia is the fear of what is perceived to be foreign or strange. It can manifest itself in many ways involving the relations and perceptions of an in-group towards an outgroup, including a fear of losing identity, suspicion of its activities, aggression, and desire to eliminate its presence to secure a presumed purity of its culture. Other points that extensive deterioration of the environment, the spread of new disease, increasing job challenges and alienation, which they claim are the unintended consequences of globalization.

Free trade and globalization seem to be under siege from a broad and load range of opponents.

For decades there has been a strong consensus that globalization brought more jobs, higher wages and lower prices, not just for richer countries but also for developing and poorer nations.

But many people, including world politicians are now voicing their angers as they see jobs are disappearing and waves of migrations disturbing the established orders and decorum.

China imports explains 44% of the decline in employment in manufacturing sector in the US between 1990 and 2007 according to a report by the Institute for the study of Labour in Bonn.

Part of that declines are due to the outsourcing of jobs to other countries but automation and more efficient processes have also taken their toll.

Unprecedented growth of trade in goods and services and spectacular expansion of foreign direct investment were powerful drivers in mid 21^st century in human history.

Just look at inequality, 1.1 billion people have escaped extreme poverty since 1990 whereas 100 million people were lifted out of extreme poverty line.

The world bank, World Trade Organization and International Monetary Fund have made the issue a central part of their agenda.

The opponents of globalization and world trade feel their movements are making inroads with Donald Trump and Brexit.

With voices from the political right and left raising questions about the benefits of globalization, there is a broad base of discontent.

Globalization may be under assault from all sides but its proponents insist its revival is the only way of alleviating the discontent that now fuels its popularity.

Many service sector jobs are now under treats from outsourcing and offshoring, as companies try to save money by shifting their functions that can be done internally. What China has become to manufacturing, India has become to the new world of business process outsourcing which includes everything from payroll to billing to IT.

Commonly Used sentences, words, phrasal verbs, collocation etc.

By Philip Freeman-

More than two thousand years after his death, Julius Caesar remains one of the great figures of history. Julius Caesar was one of the greatest heroes of human history.
Like most gladiators during Roman times, Spartacus was a slave.

An Italian entrepreneur named Lentulus Batiatus, who trained gladiators near Naples. Given the danger posed by large groups of slaves trained in combat, these schools were heavily guarded. Some gladiators wore light armor while others carried shields, swords or scimitars. Since gladiators are very expensive to purchase and maintain,death in the arena was rare.Including Spartacus and his friend Crixus fled to a nearby mountain to wage war against Roman rulers. Marcus Crassus led a force to combat against Spartacus army.Spartacus thought his men might stand a better chance if they divide into a groups to rebel against Roman forces. Retreating to the toe of Italy he joined hands with pirates. Crassus took advantage of this to trap Spartacus, nevertheless, he and most of his men were able to fight their way out. The deliberate attempt to earn wealth through governance was common practice and independent source & means of income. But these practice was soon hounded by creditors for years to come. By then over the course of three years, Pompey along with Crassus support had conquered new lands and rearranged the whole political geography of the near east. Crassus had been nursing a grudge of his(Pompey) victory over Spartacus. Even though the two had made peace and worked together as consul in 70 B.C. By that time, Caesar had for years been carefully,step by step, building his credentials as a proven military leader and sensible populist politician.

Julius Caesar way-

The problem is that people only remember what happens last. He reminds, that death was really no punishment in itself, just an end of suffering.The more harsh the punishment you give, the less will be their courage. If they see even a slightest hint of weakness on our part, they will descend on us ferociously. 

• Over the bank holiday weekend.
• get together
• into town
• cut my study time.
• over an hour
• have any time to prepare for that
• that the rates are increasing.
• Much of his research objectives are driven
• the fire left the area almost completely devoid of vegetation.
• I'll now demonstrate how the reaction can be arrested by adding dilute acid.
• The initial results are
• the opposition so far are unresponsive for our proposal
• The majority of the hardware we are using was build for a customer.
• The nearest automatic teller is in front of the anatomy lab.
• The lecture will deal with influence of technology on music.
• Make sure you correctly sight all your sources.
• There are hundreds of clubs in society to choose from.
• On a daily basis.
• He was not the only one to call for reform in 16th century.
• There is a position available for junior lecturer in media study.
• There will be significant rise in tution fee starting next year.
• ofcourse you can also choose to have your grades email to you.
• Does the professor skips regular office hours.
• I'll check again,i am pretty sure we suppose to read chapter 2.
• Where will they stay?
• When i was in school i had many of the same problem you do now.
• I thought the mid term exam only worth half of course grade.
• Many of the most popular courses available online.
• Please have copies of your seminar paper in the library a week in advance.
• Most students are not eligible for housing
• Does the university have an ice hockey team.
• The modern approach to the problem is to stress the symbolic side of human nature.
• without doubt his primary motive is economy
• Most of these criticism can be shown as false
• The seminar  will now take place a week on tuesday.
• You don't have to be on prof smith's lecture
• There will be a conference here next summer on using web for academic research.
• The university have world renowned school of archaeology.
• will work with large team of researcher
• The higher number of patience were infected than during previous outbreak of illness.
• The final year will consists of 4 taught courses and 1 project.
• right on time
• Biochemistry is more than just a combination of biology and chemistry.
• For 20 years, I have worked as an instructor and a professor in biochemistry and biophysics at Oregon state university.
• Our goal is to understand how it functions.
• I thought i would begin with a quote from one of the most famous economists of all times.
• She hadn't know he was such a good cook.
• Cells are the smallest unit of an organism
• You should add remaining laptops into the piles over there.
• Fall in line/Fall into line
• Jump the queue
• Cutting in line, also known as line/queue jumping, butting, barging, budding, budging, skipping, ditching, breaking, shorting, or pushing in

• Anyway- Y - Anyways X
• Despite the game
• In spite of the game.
• Everyone, someone, anyone-singular everyone is having a good time.

•  
• veto(I forbid)
• Clementia(Mercy)
• Fascism(Use of force)
• imperium(power of command)

• 2 thousand not 2 thousands
• 
  
• I have already
• i have just
• I have never
• as fast as
• I didn't went -Wrong
• I didn't go.
• 
  
• 
  
• Find out
• take off
• turn up
• show up
• fall over
• slip over
• get on well with each other
• split up break up
• give up
• cutting down
• let down
• let him down
• pick up
• drop off
• 
  
• cut off
• rip something off
• tear something off
• 
  
• Chop up
• Cut up
• tear up
• eat out
• eat up- finish
• drink your eat up.. finish it complete--increase somethi coffee up
• 
  
• we are running out of coffee.
• turn you down- refuse /reject offer
• we run out of milk
• warm up
• warm it up
• work out solution
• car has (not is) broken down
• car broke down last week.
• She has come with an idea
• come up with great idea
• Doing up/undo
• Do up shirt --Doing you up
• Mix up -
• 
  
• Put on - take off (shirt)
• Put out that cigarrete
• Show off
• Showing off- Proud off-Impress people
• take apart
• put together
• take it down
• take it out of your pocket
• Rip off/Tear off/Cut off
• 
  
• Stretch out
• Work out
• Check out/find out
• Break out
• clear up
• call up
• ask out
• pick up
• lay down
• count in -thumps up
• sit up
• hang up
• stand up
• walk over
• turn on
• pick out
• try on
• take off
• hang up
• open up
• put on
• put away
• clean up
• get in
• start up
• turn on
• turn up
• get down
• back up
• set up
• shake up
• fill up
• run out
• throw away
• take out
• call out
• stick out
• come out
• hold down
• light up
• step out
• give out
• turn down
• take away
• put out
• buckle up
• watch out
• run out
• turn around
• pull over
• fill up
• point out
• drive through-pick up
• Eat out
• pig out
• throw up-vomit
• hit on- on to someone
• back off
• call off
• break up
• knock out
• pass out
• make up
• make out
• run out of
• come across
• blow up
• drop by
• caught up with
• look after
• call on
• catch up with
• check in check out
• cheer up
• cross out
• figure out
• fill in
• get across
• get along
• get in
• get out of car
• get off the bus
• get on the hourse
• get over- climb over the wall-
• get up wake up
• give up
• grow up
• hand in
• looking into
• look alike
• look up
• make out
• make up
• pick out
• put away, cast away
• put on
• take back bring back
• take after
• wait on
• watch out for
• write down
• jot down
• wear out.. tore
• to walk past
• to come over

• Grumbled
• Stumbled
• Tumbled

I grumbled while dreaming then I hurried downstairs, stumbled over my back and tumbled all the way down to the door.

Everyone was late just like me.
The city were as noisy as ever.
I took the stairs two at a time.

I am taking you out to lunch.
Why don't we order first?
Did I mention I can be incredibly annoying at times?

Birds/Animal

• Parakeet Squawk(Harsh Noise)
• Monkey Howl(Loud cry)
• Jaquar Prowl(Move to attack prey)
• Butterfly drifts(like current of water)
• Toboggan -Slide
• Hammerhead fish
• Anemos fish
• Horse gallop - great speed
• Cattle graze
• Turkey gobble- Eat hurriedly
• Sheepdog laze- live lazily
• Rooster- Cock
• Drake and duckling Swan
• swallow bird
• crocodile lurk be or remain hidden so as to wait in ambush for someone or something.
• dodge
• Okapi animal
• Impala is like reindeer.
• Bandicooots
• Wombats
• wallabies  Kangaroo

• The way I understood is that, there are two ways to do this.
• Lets qunatify.
• Eventually we will go down that path.
• there are quite few touch points essential to start with
• I m thinking ahead.
• Let me get my head around that.
• your guess is as good as mine
• hit the nail on the head
• to hear straight from the horse's mouth.
• Sit on the fence
• Once in a blue moon
• see eye to eye
• taste of your own medicine
• all by yourself
• all by your own
• in the heat of the moment
• cut a long story short
• let the cat out of the bag
• it takes two to tango
• your nights will haunte you
• Jump on the bandwagon
• keep something at bay
• Up in the air
• you are just going to have to sit tight and wait.
• we can all pitch in and do something
• after we lost with big number, we have to face the music of sponsors.
• As a rule of thumb you should always take first action.
• yo will find something, so keep your chin up and keep looking
• Beat around the bush
• can't stand
• easier said than done
• get over it
• Hang on a second
• hold your horses
• laid back
• last shot
• take a chill pill
• to touch base
• locked in
• no big deal
• out of nowhere /unexpected
• out of the blue/unexepected
• pull the plug
• since day one/for a long time
• something fishy/something doggy
• spill the beans
• spur of the moment
• take him out of the picture
• take it easy
• draw the line
• the last straw/ the last thing that causes everything to fail.
• time flies
• on the same page
• that's tight /that's awesome
• All of sudden he refused to pay
• I knew it !after all, i was right
• i knew about his little secret all long.
• all the same no difference
• As a rule, we offer 55 discount.
• as far as i know, he was at his home all day.
• as far as i m concerned this one is harmless.
• As for me, you can always rely on my support
• so as to
• he knows math and physics as well.
• i don't know french at all.
• love at first sight.
• at first sight, it seems easy to do.
• At this point, we can't turn back.
• i can give him ballpark figure at this time.
• Some of the managers here are behind the times; their methods are not modern.
• he'll be better off with a new job.
• she is in good health.
• he is in charge of marketing department.\
• he is in good shape.
• orsakes were in the red last year.
• i'm on my way
• This information is out of date.
• I undestood the fact that i blew it/up the whole plan.
• The bottom line is, i don't have a plan
• The broke the ice
• bu all means
• learn this poem by heart.
• she will get what she wants by hook or by crook.
• all by himself.
• by the way, i got the book you recommended.
• he always tells the truth and calls a spade a spade.
• let's call it a day. call it off
• This picture caught my eye,
• That was really close call.
• it never crossed my mind that he might come this way.
• he ran fast, cutting corners where he could.
• i can do my bit, you can count on me
• down to earth.
• easier said than done
• every now and then i visit him
• first things first
• follow in someone's footstep
• i can't think in this frame of mind.
• he knows everything from A to Z.
• The situation is getting out of hand.
• he usually gets to the bottom of things.
• Please get to the point.
• Come on stop it!Give me a break!
• if i were you, i would go for it, give it a try.
• his career went from bad to worse.
• he goes out of his way to please her.
• drink went to his head right away.
•  i had no choice.
• i don't have the heart to tell him that he wasn't selected. he 'll be so unhappy.
• in a nutshell, my plan is straight right there.
• in fact he works as a supervisor here.
• In general, he likes to be alone.
• in other words, you left here when needed him.
• He knows the ins and outs of this business.
• I wouldn't want to be in his shoes now. He lost his job, and his wife is in the hospital.
• In the long run, it will be better to buy it.
• Stop arguing with me. We're in the same boat and should help each other.
• I came in time to have a cup of coffee before class.
• Hurry up, it's time to go.
• His boss mentioned a job in Europe, and Peter jumped at the opportunity.
• Take an extra shirt, just in case.
• I tried to keep a straight face but failed.
• She keeps me company quite often.
• Good-by and don't forget to keep in touch! Keep in touch with us. We may have new openings next week.
• Walk, trot and canter- Horse speed - slow, fast and faster

Far, Far away, a long way, away

1. How far is it to your place?
2. The office is a long way from the city centre?
   
3. Its quite far away from my place?
4. The hospital is 20 miles from the ocean.
5. The nearest city is 20 miles away from here. 

• A little while ago
• Its little over a year ago
• A few weeks ago
• From past six months 
• Its little over a year and half
• Last 2 months 
• 2 years ago
• For a past 2 years.
• Until now
• Earlier this year
• which is why
• since then
• Unless and until
• almost
• nearly close
• At MS this year,
• A thousands of year

More than
A small number of users was taking up more than 14 times the average storage.

Since the time
The small number of users was misusing the service sine the time the company began rolling out unlimited storage for cloud users.

Collocation
Enables you to
Provides a great way
Make it even more attractive.

• With the benefits of hindsight and three years of engineering effort, we aim to embody ideas from each philosophy to offer the best of both world.
• They typically pay close attention to ease of use
• Thanks for all your support and for the confidence you placed in us that we can deliver.
• Rethinkdb captured some of the best ideas from Cassandra and couch dB
• Raising the bar.
• Many people have been asking how Rethinkdb is different from Mongodb.
• Sharded

Go Along

• I hope everything is going along well.
• Things are going along quite nicely.
• I bought a new suit and some fancy shoes to go along.
• No need to explain the rules to me- I'll just learn them as we go along.
• The trip was going along nicely until you lost the map.
• We knew the scheme was not worth it but we went along with it anyway.
• The government was concerned about the rise in smoking and all the costs that go along with it.
• Could you run that past me once more

• an hour a day

• soup to nut

• from beginning to end

• from start to finish

• throughout

• alpha and omega

• don't get me started.

 The productivity drain is compounded by the complexity of business processes and the interdependencies between departments

•3 in 4 want simple, self-service support processes that are as easy to use and  apply as consumer websites such as eBay or Amazon.
•9 in 10 agree that automating these inefficient work processes would make  them more productive.
•Only 4% disagreed with consumerising support processes, and only 3%  disagreed with automating administrative tasks.

The technology exists today and early adopters are showing the way forward”.

Needless to mention, but still felt good way...

Thanks for all your continued support and for the confidence you placed in us that we can deliver. 

There are duelling predictions over how ubiquitous the Internet of Things will be, but most indicate that the marketplace will host between 50 and 75 billion connected objects by 2020, signalling novel challenges for hardware manufacturing and development.

The lineup of corporate presenters converses on the same message.
Design will never be the same. Data aggregations from diverse sources will form the foundation of everything, from prototyping to the way IT react to changes.

A little over a year ago, I managed the delivery of cloud based systems. Since that time, I helped customers realize the power of API, Cloud and mobile with artificial intelligence so that the customers get the speed, scale and cost effective benefits of their ROI no matter what they want to do.

Technology everywhere! I shake my head to get it off! but I can't! its difficult. I roll on my back and wonder ,well there can be time when nothing can be done without technology. Technology can be answers to all question.

We'll be just fine!

Where am I? In dark age of intolerance and anxiety where everything has to be at its pace , speed and very much in demand of new world , new opportunities.

I hate packaged Software but I hate custom software more! Architecture don't last but technology can.

Cloud computing started as a cost-effective, flexible way to consume storage and service, but over the last few years it has become so much more.

Big data is taking center stage powered by automation that is transforming how business is done.

In order to sustain dynamic demand of business, its critical for any business to have analytics at their fingertips. The first of its kind in areas of machine learning and artificial intelligence has surface greater spectrum of data avenue with decisions which business can take on a spur of a moment.

To help developer builds apps that improves productivity we also have office graph api.

To here more about these technologies from people who helped build them and how they can help you build your next intelligent app. Follow channel 9 msdn for more information.

Key News:-

Courtesy Windows IT Pro

Microsoft pull off the plug once again after they realized that cloud service storage has been misused by a small number of users.  This small number of users have been abusing the cloud storage service since the time MS began rolling out unlimited storage for office 365. Some of this abuse resulted in these users storing in excess of 75 TB of data in their account. according to Microsoft , this small number of users was taking up more than 14 k times the average user storage.

• It again like an another bricks in the wall.
• You seems to talk more phony today.
• How deep is the ocean or how high is the sky..
• Chicken and Egg situation.
• Don't count your chickens before they hatch.
• The point is in all situation like that..we cannot make two wrong as right..
• Angst and Cynism
• If we have not done fast enough it would be grave concern to us..
• You fishing in troubling water, my friend.
• This is the travestry of Justice. Justice delayed is Justice denied.
• Audacity
• What is happening is also part of the society.
• Harness
• Proclaim you need us
• Indulge yourself, try and get it.
• You are unable to lead your life with your intelligence but you are capable of electing or judge politician to..
• You only have surface level knowledge. Had that with you makes no difference.
• Bit longer as it
• close to around.
• Claim vs Fact

Sequencing

First-

(To Begin with)First of all- you have to read recipe

(Secondly)Next- buy the ingredients

(then)-you should preheat the oven.(at the same time)

 while oven is preheating.

after that- After that you prepare the cake base.

last/finally- take the cake out of the oven.

Lastly

Finally

Terrible! Annoying! Horrible! Pathetic!Complete disaster! Fall on your face

Talk a walk

1. Touch base
2. Its rule book
3. At ground level.
4. This is horizon ,reality is still to realize
5. Ball park figure
6. Conclude this meeting for now. Thats it for now. Thanks everyone for joining
7. What you foresee as a problem we will flash to leadership right up front to mitigate the issue which will aggrevate later.
8. I m taking a pause again and reiterate the matter once again
9. Please revert with comprehensive solution
10. Kindly consolidate and send it across
11. We need colloborate atleast  a week to gauge depth of the issue.
12. We will be looking at this from 100 feet high.
13. We validate and verify your concerns/points and get back to you in no time.
14. We running out of time. In interest of time we will proceed now and take this offline.
15. We must identify and mention the tricky ones and take baby step now to solve this on priority
16. This is mission critical we have to work on it and get it done ASAP.
17. We've to device a mechanism to tackle this problem statement,
18. Right thats a good point.
19. Lets make it a point we will stick to our timeline.
20. Stringent timeline
21. Milestone delivery
22. Engagements.
23. We need human brain to look into this
24. We take in chunks

• line of action
• next course of action
• Don't read between lines
• We will face the music if we didn't clean up the mess
• Pretty much sure on this
• Get it right at first place,
• On top of my head, i do remember few things now which is important and essential
• don't beat around the bush
• its very little that i can do it from here
• uncover all issues before we consolidate all our findings.
• He is veteran in this field.
• i m sending quite a few mail..to checkpoint but nothing works as expected.
• they are learning and picked up well by them
• Earlier we had escalation from customer..shift leads are not better communicating..probably i will observe for a while and then action out later.
• Still would like to keep this open.
• Any other risk that come up.
• Any other things that you need to bring up..

Most Common Mistakes to be taken care of

1. Mary have a car so does John
2. Mary and John swim everyday so do nancy and Bob
3. Mary can swim so can john
4. Mary couldn't lift the box neither could john

Common Daily Expression

1. Hello !How are you
2. We've missed you.
3. Its been a while since I saw you
4. Great Thanks
5. I'm very well Thank you..
6. Its going really well
7. Its all going really well
8. Its nice to see again
9. I've been looking forward to seeing you
10. How's everyone at home
11. Sui sends her regards.
12. Give my regards to your mom.
13. Give your mom my love
14. You haven't met my friend, have you?
15. I don't think you know each other.
16. Let me introduce you.
17. I like you to meet my cousin
18. This is john, collegue of mine
19. How do you do
20. Pleased to meet you.
21. Its getting late
22. We must be on our way
23. I must get going
24. I'm afraid I've to leave now.
25. It was very nice meeting you.
26. it was nice to see you again
27. The pleasure is all mine.
28. Do keep in touch
29. let me know how you're getting on..
30. See you again soon
31. Catch you later
32. Take care

1. The best way is to do so...
2. We run them through presentation to help better understanding of subject.
3. Resolution stand point we are not doing so well as per the expectation.
4. Otherwise I'm kind of pushing towards timelines nothing can happen so quickly.
5. Lets first tackle and target Burning issues.
6. Lets discuss patchy points first.
7. I m sorry say that again please.

None of us is going out of here alive so stop treating !

“If I would have known my life would end this way I would have lived it more to the fullest enjoying everything I was told not to!”

“None of us are getting out of here alive, so please stop treating yourself like an after thought. Eat the delicious food. Walk in the sunshine. Jump in the ocean. Say the truth that you're carrying in your heart like hidden treasure. Be silly. Be kind. Be weird. There's no time for anything else.”

Up in the air

How much does your life weigh? Imagine for a second that you're carrying a backpack. I want you to feel the straps on your shoulders. Feel 'em? 

Now I want you to pack it with all the stuff that you have in your life. You start with the little things. The things on shelves and in drawers, the knick-knacks, the collectibles. Feel the weight as that adds up. Then you start adding larger stuff, clothes, table-top appliances, lamps, linens, your TV. The backpack should be getting pretty heavy now. And you go bigger. Your couch, bed, your kitchen table. Stuff it all in there. Your car, get it in there. Your home, whether it's a studio apartment or a two bedroom house. I want you to stuff it all into that backpack. Now try to walk. It's kind of hard, isn't it? This is what we do to ourselves on a daily basis. We weigh ourselves down until we can't even move. And make no mistake, moving is living. 

Now, I'm gonna set that backpack on fire. What do you want to take out of it? What do you want to take out of it? Photos? Photos are for people who can't remember. Drink some ginkgo and let the photos burn. In fact, let everything burn and imagine waking up tomorrow with nothing. It's kind of exhilarating, isn't it?

Now, this is gonna be a little difficult, so stay with me. You have a new backpack. Only this time, I want you to fill it with people. Start with casual acquaintances, friends of friends, folks around the office, and then you move into the people that you trust with your most intimate secrets. Your cousins, your aunts, your uncles, your brothers, your sisters, your parents and finally your husband, your wife, your boyfriend or your girlfriend. You get them into that backpack. And don't worry. I'm not gonna ask you to light it on fire. Feel the weight of that bag. Make no mistake - your relationships are the heaviest components in your life. Do you feel the straps cutting into your shoulders? All those negotiations and arguments, and secrets and compromises. You don't need to carry all that weight. Why don't you set that bag down? Some animals were meant to carry each other, to live symbiotically for a lifetime - star crossed lovers, monogamous swans. We are not those animals. The slower we move, the faster we die. We are not swans. We're sharks.

Tonight most people will be welcomed home by jumping dogs and squealing kids. Their spouses will ask about their day, and tonight they'll sleep. The stars will wheel forth from their daytime hiding places; and one of those lights, slightly brighter than the rest, will be my wingtip passing over.