mangled moments in lost time - October 3rd, 2007
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09:04 am
[Link] | in the absence of everything there is nothing and vice versa. my mind is in constant drift, unable to retain a focus, and distracted by the body, the world.
at some point we get sucked into a life. whether it is ours or not is somewhat up to us. when you're young you have the sympathy of family to fall back on, so this would seem to be the time to set off on adventures (when you have no roots, attachments, responsibilities). i'm in a committed relationship with a house (and the biggest responsibility in many ways is our temperamental cat. this sounds silly to some, but she is sort of like a child to us. we have friends who are watching someone's dog while she is out of the country and the dog died. that's hard, and one can't help but wonder if she might have noticed something sooner or if the situation were slightly different if the outcome could have changed, or at least she could have been with her dog when it died. anyway, that's the definition of responsibility and attachment.)
i remember a story about a man going up to a fisherman and telling him that if he expands his business that he could eventually retire. he said that if he retired he would just fish, insinuating that he was already doing what he wanted and the extra work wouldn't result in any advantage for him.
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