It seems that we're always chasing something. By we I mean everyone. Who isn't trying to improve their life? I just wonder if I'm running after the right things
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ryan i miss HANGING OUT! i hate being busy: it leaves me no time to consume ALCOHOL WITH MY FAVORITE DRINKING PARTNER let's get wasted and go to steak n shake
All that you chase is nothing more than a crystal ghost. You see it's reflections so you know it's contours, but really they're only figments of your own mind. And you are always looking through it into several different facets of the future. With no concept of future, there's nothing to chase. What we chase, then, is always the future. The problem is when people don't see that. They get stuck, either in the present searching for pleasures of the flesh, or in the past trying to reclaim what was once theirs and never will be again.
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
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i hate being busy: it leaves me no time to consume ALCOHOL WITH MY FAVORITE DRINKING PARTNER
let's get wasted and go to steak n shake
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With no concept of future, there's nothing to chase. What we chase, then, is always the future.
The problem is when people don't see that. They get stuck, either in the present searching for pleasures of the flesh, or in the past trying to reclaim what was once theirs and never will be again.
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
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