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. | |
|  (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. | |
|  We should be nice to each other and do unto others. |  We should be gentle and kind and forgiving and generous. | |
|  Patient with others as well as yourself. |  Besides these ideas, it's up to you to work out your destiny. | |
|  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, | |
|  once you take into account the time you need to spend at work, |  to keep body and soul together, | |
|  your time is yours. |  If you can fill it with exciting adventure, living one big beer commercial of a lifetime, that's good. | |
|  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.) | |
|  So figure out what makes you happy, and do it; |  be content in the fact that you can do things to make you happy, | |
|  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. | 
