Comments | shadowfalconer: That smell of summer in the air

shadowfalconer

That smell of summer in the air

Apr 05, 2012 08:37

I haven't worked all week. What little work I do has been preempted by Spring Break. So I don't work at all. I should do something. I should write. So, here I am ( Read more... )

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tohsakas April 5 2012, 16:03:20 UTC

You're thirty.

shadowfalconer April 5 2012, 16:14:26 UTC

So?

tohsakas April 9 2012, 04:37:38 UTC

This means you are entitled to both the spontantiety of youth and the wisdom of experience. I say milk that shit.

shadowfalconer April 9 2012, 04:45:44 UTC

I reject your spontaneity and substitute taking a nice nap instead. NOW GTF OFF MY LAWN.

kaleidochrome April 7 2012, 13:47:22 UTC

The path of least resistance, if you will. I am a river, flowing from stone to stone, meandering its path untouched by the hands of man.

Congrats. You are officially Daoist. I approve.

Looking around at what other people do to get to their goals. The things they give up, and the things they make other people give up. I saw it happening to myself, and I didn't like it. So, I choose not to participate.

Sometimes, I like to believe that I'll always be like this; always racing forward with boundless energy, chasing new things and new adventures and doing all sorts of crazy things along the way. However, I know that this is improbable, and like the seasons turn so will I. I'll settle down, somewhere and somehow. I'll be happy when I do. It'll be a natural turn of events that I cannot foresee but more feel, and if I'm stupid I'll fight it tooth and nail and cause myself a midlife crisis.

You can't MAKE someone think differently. You can only make your own choices and live your life the way you feel is best, and maybe they'll see ( ... )

evenstarred April 10 2012, 08:47:45 UTC

It seems that some of this is from age, some from personality, and the rest from choices related to previous experience. There's nothing wrong with it, and in it's own way, you've found a sense of wisdom by excusing yourself from the 'rat race' of office drama and politics of a company that will run on money and money alone. The goal orientation of earning a living changes the actual process of living into one of striving, and most people can't actually function that way and stay healthy. Most people are perpetually overworked and this is damn well reasonable based on what they are doing to themselves on a daily basis. This is not a good thing, but for the sake of their goals, the object and possession of things outweighs the prospect of personal health, and in Shanghai, this is the case unless you're basically vomiting blood and passed out *in* the hospital, and even then sometimes people still expect stupid things from you. The idea that health and personal well being, no matter which aspect of it is involved in the situation at ( ... )