keeping your options open sometimes only leads to the same old options being leveraged over and over and over.
so what'll it be? open endings or open beginnings, fresh slates or the ability to move?
i tend to agree with, of all things,
nick hornby's "high fidelity"....if you don't do anything, that's doing something. by keeping your options open, your options are automatically narrowed by life for you...
yeah, its a good rule to live by. though, the thing for me has always been that i want to do a very wide variety of things, and i have no interest in choosing one over all the others. i want to do them all.. what's more important for me is deciding AGAINST the options that i think will lead me the wrong ways, and pruning that way. so the question is always for me: do i really want to close down this option? might it be usefull at some point in the future, or is keeping it open just going to sap my energy needlessly.
i guess i don't really get where this bit COMMIT theme is coming from.. seen it in a few responses here. ... i'm not having any trouble commiting to anything, i don't think i ever have. its more like a questions of what's my strategy and what are my real goals, which are kind of one and same question. options and resources are indeed somewhat separable, but also closely intertwined in important ways. resources, though, to me are more like complexes of ideas tied to physical entities tied to communities of like minds. that's a resource.. a structure.. though you can take and find those kinds of things wherever you go. the hard part is that to do certain things you need a certain comfort level.. i.e. to work on personal projects you've got to have the whole housing/food/money issue solved enough to not make it top priority. then, you need the supplies to do your projects. anyway, i'm not really concerned about any of this, i was just musing on it
( ... )
we made the systemlaszloApril 2 2002, 13:19:35 UTC
it's a toss up. we like to keep our options open but alot of us hate making so many decisions. hell, we freak out when we need to drive stick despite the fact that learning this simple technique gives our car better performance (acceleration, gear wellness, etc.) we develop routines to simplify our lives. and certain ongoing routines lead to depression. you see where i'm going with this. we need to restructure our reliance on routines yet still preserve the qualities that simplify our lives and organize our options.
Re: multi dimensional arrayasdfApril 3 2002, 11:12:44 UTC
to me its more of a matter of room size. i can walk through the doors between the rooms, but there are many rooms, with many doors, and different rooms have doors to lead to the same rooms. i tend to want the rooms with the most doors.... but i am learning that sometimes you need to nail some of them shut if you don't want to get caught in the path of least resistence.
yup... saving up... looking... scouring....
i guess first ill have to pay rent for april... somehow
as for room size, good point... you could just try burning ALL DOORS!!!!
(this seems at first like a bad idea... but a burnt door, means easy access
through door ways.... the passage itself, is not affected) .... the burning of bridges
however... is a fallacy
Comments 13
nick hornby's "high fidelity"....if you don't do anything, that's doing something. by keeping your options open, your options are automatically narrowed by life for you...
Reply
yeah, its a good rule to live by. though, the thing for me has always been that i want to do a very wide variety of things, and i have no interest in choosing one over all the others. i want to do them all.. what's more important for me is deciding AGAINST the options that i think will lead me the wrong ways, and pruning that way. so the question is always for me: do i really want to close down this option? might it be usefull at some point in the future, or is keeping it open just going to sap my energy needlessly.
Reply
Reply
Reply
Reply
(and give me a break. i'm not saying you never commit to anything. shit.)
i look at options and resources as somewhat separable.
for instance -- you've got a blank slate.
fortunately, you've still got some leftover chalk.
you might need to go bust some motherfuckers up to get some more chalk later, but you've got somewhere to start.
i don't know. i feel like if you've built up resources a lot of times already, you should be able to take some of them with you.
and i feel like you gave everyone the wrong impression with what you wrote in your original post. that's interesting to me.
Reply
Reply
Reply
Reply
start saving up.
Reply
to me its more of a matter of room size. i can walk through the doors between the rooms, but there are many rooms, with many doors, and different rooms have doors to lead to the same rooms. i tend to want the rooms with the most doors.... but i am learning that sometimes you need to nail some of them shut if you don't want to get caught in the path of least resistence.
Reply
i guess first ill have to pay rent for april... somehow
as for room size, good point... you could just try burning ALL DOORS!!!!
(this seems at first like a bad idea... but a burnt door, means easy access
through door ways.... the passage itself, is not affected) .... the burning of bridges
however... is a fallacy
Reply
Leave a comment