The most common reaction when I tell people that I quit is ,”Why?!”.
This is intended as a note to self.
if it doesn’t come bursting out of youin spite of everything,don’t do it.unless it comes unasked out of yourheart and your mind and your mouthand your gut,don’t do it.if you have to sit for hoursstaring at…
“Smoking kills you.”
“Living kills you.”
Leo Igwe over at Culture Kitchen has an interesting post about the human condition and why we are the way we are, in an African context. An excerpt:
The Nigerian author, Ben Okri in his book, A Way of Being Free, said, “There are many ways to die, and not all of them have to…
im’ma go away to a deserted islandand read and think and write and shyteand then there’ll be a thunderboltand enlightenment will be mine
From Ben Casnocha’s blog, an excerpt from a David Foster Wallace story:
a large percentage of bright young men and women locate the impetus behind their career choice in the belief that they are fundamentally different from the common run of man, unique and in…
I watched this interesting and thought provoking talk by Tyler Cowen recently and came to some conclusions about myself.
1. I am highly influenced by stories — I bought an iMac :) — but it is ok to be so ;)
A major life decision has been made. Plans are afoot to break free of cubicle nation and go where the heart desires (the list is long!). As a friend aptly put it, “There is a premium on your youth, don’t piss it away”. Of course, some might say aimless wandering is precisely pissing it away…
Me: Who am I?Me: Who wants to know?Me: I do.Me: Who am I?Me: Ok, this cycle is fake. I think, therefore I am, so the existence of I is not in question, the nature and description of I is in question.Me: Ok, what is the nature and description of I?Me: Umm, how do I tell you…
Life is an acquired taste.
There are times when it is unpalatable. Just suck it up, and learn to enjoy it. Eventually you (me) acquire a taste for it. Like single malt Scotch whisky, perhaps?
