I’m at a point where I’m having a hard time figuring out if I’m supposed to be learning a new lesson, or if some part of me is trying to figure out how this is a thinly veiled repeat of a lesson I was supposed to learn a long time ago.
Parting thought for the day – I believe that most people spend their life largely in one of two modes; 1) chasing what they wish the world to be, or 2) running away from what their imagination tells them to fear. I’m honestly not sure which is worse.
If one is invested in entertaining only agreeable ideas – then it is a life wasted, and the sole contribution to the world is in extending its impoverishment. That’s not to say that one should agree with every idea that passes through. There is an equal level of bankruptcy in the lack of intellectual and [...]
It is an act of self-betrayal to confuse the pursuit of goals with the pursuit of happiness. In the day-to-day they can become blurred and one might mistakenly believe them to be synonymous. And certainly their coincident arrival can be enough to fool the most sober of us into seeing them as conjoined twins. But [...]
Graveyards
The world’s graveyards echo with the memories of faltered heroics and unrequited genius. Bear that in mind when the smaller part of self beckons you to shrink from a worthy challenge.