Showing posts with label What Am I Doing With My Life?. Show all posts
Showing posts with label What Am I Doing With My Life?. Show all posts
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2.11.11
d) All of the above
"If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day." - E.B. WhiteI've been circling ineloquently around this very thought for some years now, and after much unnecessary dialectical thinking and stress paralysis (do one, do the other, freak out and end up doing neither), I have, as always, settled on the most optimistic answer:
Do both.
27.10.11
Life Lesson #12
Seeing is essential; showing is incidental.
[Laugh; forget the joke. Look; forget to lure. Thrill, throw your head back; forget to tell. Peer through, push down on the shutter release, and forget the film at the bottom of a backpack for several months afterward.]
[Laugh; forget the joke. Look; forget to lure. Thrill, throw your head back; forget to tell. Peer through, push down on the shutter release, and forget the film at the bottom of a backpack for several months afterward.]
15.9.11
Life Lesson #10
It is every lemon's responsibility to make itself into lemonade.
[And if it is lucky enough to be very slightly juicier or more fragrant than some of the others, it means only that it needs to be squeezed harder.]
[And if it is lucky enough to be very slightly juicier or more fragrant than some of the others, it means only that it needs to be squeezed harder.]
24.2.11
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24.5.10
What I Am Doing With My Life:
In case someone's wondering, here's what I am doing with my life:
Making every possible effort to reduce my complicity in a world-system which invariably results in disasters like the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the anti-immigration legislation recently passed in Arizona.
That's the gist. That's what I'm up to. That is what my whole deal boils down to. That's what I'll be trying to do tomorrow, Thursday, and six years from Sunday.
If in the process I happen to change or improve something in some small way, that's just a bonus.
Making every possible effort to reduce my complicity in a world-system which invariably results in disasters like the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the anti-immigration legislation recently passed in Arizona.
That's the gist. That's what I'm up to. That is what my whole deal boils down to. That's what I'll be trying to do tomorrow, Thursday, and six years from Sunday.
If in the process I happen to change or improve something in some small way, that's just a bonus.
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