Score: +2
Total: 23
Work hours today: ---
Work hours for the week: ---
Days Sugar Free: 1
Comments: Great wake-up, work, studied vocab at lunch, unpacked after work, went for a run in the park (beautiful scenery), started making dinner while listening to NPR, cleaned up around the house, went to Maxx's for some miscellaneous groceries and appreciated their clean and attractive store, finished dinner, wrote some emails, ate dinner with some wine and jazz compliments of WRTI, and soon I'll be going to bed.
Herbal tea in the morning and wine in the evening are great. Wine and jazz, eating and relaxing--it's a very beautiful way to wind down and get ready for bed.
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
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Along with my previous cynical comment... are you really going to look back 50 years from now and reflect "Wine and jizz, man, those were the days. Bed, man, those were the nights." I don't know what happened to you, man. I think somehow you were manipulated and you don't even know it.
If ambition and achievement are the only things that merit value to you, let's see at the end of it all who has the greater amount of achievement, as a friendly challenge to compare approaches. See, not only do I enjoy jazz and wine because it's pleasurable, but also because 1) I believe that it will make me more productive in the long-run by providing me with opportunities to recharge, and 2) It will preserve and stimulate my humanity, which will allow me to maintain the frame of mind necessary to accomplish good things in the world. I believe that megalomaniacs driven by work become monsters, and though they can create a huge mountain of labor, it is often empty, or worse, damaging to society.
Yeah, that's why when you were talking about breaking up you asked me to come to Philly and be a megalomaniac with you. I don't accept such a perception -- megalomaniac. The only thing that makes me into a monster is my anxiety resulting from wasting time. I can't believe this is year three of the real world. It's just a matter of time before you reflect on your "accomplishments" and realize that it is just a thin slice of what the rest of the world contributed. Do you really think in this day and age you are going to succeed by relaxing and reflecting on your humanity? This is the most competitive world ever, and it just becomes more competitive as time goes on. I don't doubt you'll do some great things, but if your spirit, which appears to be locked away in the depths of your abdomen, is unleashed in the decades to come, I am sure you will regret not having attempted Ben Franklin's conjecture regarding elimination of diversions. I don't know, maybe it is just me. If the rest of the world had the opportunity to drink wine and listen to jazz I'd do the same probably. But the world is fucked up, and I can't live happily knowing that. Always in the back of my mind are the injustices of the world: little girls and boys being molested, families who sell their children so they can eat for a year. You know, I'll never change. It is something I wish I could do, but I can't. You and Derek have changed, that is clear to me. You guys sailed away on the SS Nee. That's cool, I mean, that's your life. Nonetheless, I still stand by my belief that somewhere inside you there is Wu Tang at 6AM every morning.
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