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In the struggle to reach some ideal status it is very easy to forget that the journey is the entire point. Whether or not you reach your intended goal is irrelevant (though the goals themselves aren't, necessarily; destinations provide an impetus to get moving). The fact that you're walking, progressing is what's important.
Yesterday was more or less me being more focused on my goal than my progress. Thanks to people like![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
foxen_alopex, who always makes sure I don't take myself too seriously, and lazarusrat, who makes sure I don't the stuff around me too seriously, I've been able to come back into perspective. :) Thanks a lot guys.
This still doesn't mean I'm completely off the hook, though. At the very least I've figured out the problem that's been plaguing my friendships and giving me a vast sense of ennui over the past month or so. Simply put, when I'm talking to friends, I'm so busy doing something else (playing pool, watching TV, involved in too many conversations on-line and RL, attempting to write, etc. etc.) that I'm never really just talking to them. I'm always thinking of other things, going from moment to moment thinking of the next one, or the one after that, never simply...talking to someone. This is a chronic thing, I often slip into this kind of problem and don't even realize it, even when I get vague feelings of dissatisfaction with my relations. :)
So, the simple answer is to focus on what I'm doing, nothing more, nothing less. Which is pretty much what I intend to do.
I got my first issue of Tricycle magazine a week or so back, and I haven't been able to sit down and read it just yet. I'm bouncing my time between writing Boomer Express and reading The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton. It's a really excellent book, and not to be confused with The Consolation of Philosophy, which was written by Boethius about a thousand(?) years before and has no 's'. At any rate, it's helped me keep perspective on a number of things and I'm no longer quite so dismissive about the need for logic these days. It helps to know the rules you're breaking, after all.
The keyword for today is: COLD. The temperature got sliced in half overnight, so there's a little bit of snow on the ground and you can see your breath a lot more clearly now. :) I love this weather, but it struck me as soon as I was out the door that I'm completely unprepared for it. To increase my warmth (and weirdo geek factor), I'll be getting some long underwear and maybe a toque to keep my protruding ears warm.
Oh, and just a little lesson I learned yesterday hanging out with Riku: Rocko's Modern Life, perhaps my favorite NickToon ever (sorry Vasquez-fans), changed theme songs somewhere after the first couple seasons of its run, and I remember really disliking it. The first one was really catchy, it had didgeridoos and all kinds of good stuff. The second one was this weird...Seinfeldian theme song that reminded me a lot more of something that would have popped up on late-night USA back in the early 90s, or maybe Ha! before it got merged into Comedy Central. As it turns out, the second theme song was recorded by none other than the B-52s, which explains an awful lot. Just a neat connection, I thought. It should be a Trivial Pursuit question.
Time to make the doughnuts.
Yesterday was more or less me being more focused on my goal than my progress. Thanks to people like
foxen_alopex, who always makes sure I don't take myself too seriously, and lazarusrat, who makes sure I don't the stuff around me too seriously, I've been able to come back into perspective. :) Thanks a lot guys.This still doesn't mean I'm completely off the hook, though. At the very least I've figured out the problem that's been plaguing my friendships and giving me a vast sense of ennui over the past month or so. Simply put, when I'm talking to friends, I'm so busy doing something else (playing pool, watching TV, involved in too many conversations on-line and RL, attempting to write, etc. etc.) that I'm never really just talking to them. I'm always thinking of other things, going from moment to moment thinking of the next one, or the one after that, never simply...talking to someone. This is a chronic thing, I often slip into this kind of problem and don't even realize it, even when I get vague feelings of dissatisfaction with my relations. :)
So, the simple answer is to focus on what I'm doing, nothing more, nothing less. Which is pretty much what I intend to do.
I got my first issue of Tricycle magazine a week or so back, and I haven't been able to sit down and read it just yet. I'm bouncing my time between writing Boomer Express and reading The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton. It's a really excellent book, and not to be confused with The Consolation of Philosophy, which was written by Boethius about a thousand(?) years before and has no 's'. At any rate, it's helped me keep perspective on a number of things and I'm no longer quite so dismissive about the need for logic these days. It helps to know the rules you're breaking, after all.
The keyword for today is: COLD. The temperature got sliced in half overnight, so there's a little bit of snow on the ground and you can see your breath a lot more clearly now. :) I love this weather, but it struck me as soon as I was out the door that I'm completely unprepared for it. To increase my warmth (and weirdo geek factor), I'll be getting some long underwear and maybe a toque to keep my protruding ears warm.
Oh, and just a little lesson I learned yesterday hanging out with Riku: Rocko's Modern Life, perhaps my favorite NickToon ever (sorry Vasquez-fans), changed theme songs somewhere after the first couple seasons of its run, and I remember really disliking it. The first one was really catchy, it had didgeridoos and all kinds of good stuff. The second one was this weird...Seinfeldian theme song that reminded me a lot more of something that would have popped up on late-night USA back in the early 90s, or maybe Ha! before it got merged into Comedy Central. As it turns out, the second theme song was recorded by none other than the B-52s, which explains an awful lot. Just a neat connection, I thought. It should be a Trivial Pursuit question.
Time to make the doughnuts.
