One day in the salt mines, my buddy announces that he’d like to go to Japan: he says he’d love to go. I say ‘Go!’
He continues to tap away at his keyboard, but because I know him I can hear him thinking ‘well…..that wouldn’t make any sense!’
All these ‘crazy’ things people don’t do because they wouldn’t ‘make sense’, i.e. they don’t fit the context of your life, ‘all you’ve worked for’ etc…. You know what doesn’t make sense? You know what doesn’t fit too well with all you’ve worked for? Death! And treating everything as controllable is the most unrealistic thing you can do. My point is not to do things at random, spin out of control…… rather, see all you do, and the consequences of what you do in light of the fact that one day there will be a Real Big Thing happen that you don’t have any control over: that’s the ultimate upshot of all you do, so don’t not do anything that you suspect you might like because you have too much to lose or it doesn’t fit ‘your plan’…..
{ 0 comments… add one now }