2011.10.06
Time to Waste
"Time which you enjoyed wasting was not wasted"
--G.K. Chesterton
![]() Another thing that troubles us about mortality is the idea that we're not going to have time to do the things we need to do. |
![]() Even if we don't know what that is-- and I'm not sure that anyone really does-- we worry that we won't have time to do it in. |
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![]() (It's like John Cage said when Life magazine asked him and other notables "Why Are We Here?"--"No why. Just here.") |
![]() Life can't have meaning except what we find in it. |
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![]() We should be nice to each other and do unto others. |
![]() We should be gentle and kind and forgiving and generous. |
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![]() Patient with others as well as yourself. |
![]() Besides these ideas, it's up to you to work out your destiny. |
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![]() There's a good chance that you'll be happier if you're not a crusader, or at least not a crusader all the time. |
![]() So once you figure out what part of your life you need to devote to the causes are important to you, |
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![]() once you take into account the time you need to spend at work, |
![]() to keep body and soul together, |
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![]() your time is yours. |
![]() If you can fill it with exciting adventure, living one big beer commercial of a lifetime, that's good. |
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![]() If you live in simpler circumstances, if you rarely look beyond a night of tv, a few beers, a good book... that can be fine as well, so long as you can be fine with it. |
![]() (Romantic love help as well; most people can find if it they search, but almost everyone will be stuck without it for some period in their life.) |
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![]() So figure out what makes you happy, and do it; |
![]() be content in the fact that you can do things to make you happy, |
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![]() and don't worry that time is wasting or that you don't have forever to waste time in; |
![]() you have your own lifespan, and that's all anyone will ever have or has ever had. |