Sunday, March 13, 2011

JOT Day 83 - That kind of vicious circle

Unintentional but glorious sleeping in.

Homemade spinach omelets. With bacon.

Writing newsletter copy in advance.

Packing a few boxes.

Anticipating the above freezing weather about to come our way.

These are the things that fuel dancing in the upper registers of the emotional scale.

And thus drives the arrival of more good stuff in the future.

That's the kind of vicious circle I like being caught up in.

 

Mar 13, 2011 3:05:28 PM | JOT

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JOT Day 82 - I like answering questionnaires that have questions worth answering I like answering questionnaires that have questions worth answering. "What would you bring with you to a deserted island?" is not a question worth answering. You don't get to choose what you'd take if you end up on one, so why the question? Here's one worth asking: "What accomplishments must, in your opinion, occur during your lifetime so that you will consider your life to have been satisfying and well lived--a life of few or no regrets?" And one worth answering. You can't do it with favorite television shows or the viral video of the week. You have to reflect and ponder and decide and discover and realize to answer that question. And of course all kinds of things will come up for processing, like why am I not doing those things that will sum up to my satisfying life? I know why. I know why, and I know how to stop not doing those things. And I'm learning how to tell you what I know, so you can benefit from that knowledge too. I promise I will never ask about the desert island. But I will ask about the well-lived thing. Because everyone deserves that kind of life. Everyone. Especially you.
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JOT Day 84 - The Devil and The Usual Suspects I watched The Usual Suspects again recently, and since I'm different this time around, of course what I got out of it was different. What I remember from my first viewing was the very end, where the Kint character very cleverly walks free and transforms into someone we were led to believe he was not. In the hours after the film was over, this line stuck with me: "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." This applies to personas, and to cultural phenomenon, too, the kind that are so cleverly implemented that we don't realize what their influence really is, and then blame each other for their intended side effects. It would be possible to substitute most marketing and advertising for the word devil in that quote from the film, the kind that is not authentic or permission based, the kind that creates emotional voids and then pretends to fill them. It would be possible to substitute most organized religions--not the people in them, but the powers that be--because their power comes from our giving ours away. What is amusing to me is that this control "they" are after-- and the money that can be made from it--doesn't have to be manufactured nefariously. There's more than enough to go around for everyone. In fact, the economy would explode were our dollars spent on what really feeds us. We'll buy bottled water. Just don't tell us it's not from the backyard spigot. I'd like that economy, please.

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