Sticky Thoughts

Gotta go forward;
I don’t know where I’ll end up,
But here goes nothing…

Same thing,
Same thing
Every day;
No change,
No change
In work or play.
Steady,
Stagnant,
Tame decay;
Tired,
Familiar,
Life as cliche.
Uncommon,
Different,
Something new;
Defiant,
Disturbed,
Contrary few.
Surprise,
Confound,
Avoid routine;
Live life
As human,
Not as machine.

Let light invade,
And drive the darkness all away;
Let confidence come,
And then tear self-doubt to shreds.
Let sadness fade,
And let not happiness be prey
Nor hope succumb
To life’s many fickle threads.
Let anger go,
And cast out suspicion too;
Let fear escape,
With despair as well to follow.
Let power flow,
To fight all existence through;
And let courage find shape
In a heart no longer [...]

They say that wherever you go, there you are – “they” being, of course, that inexplicably all-knowing, strangely anonymous yet supposedly unerring font of collective human wisdom from which I would ordinarily try to take any advice with a grain of salt. After all, if they’re anonymous, how do you know whether they actually followed [...]

What a funny thing it is, that a blog can feel neglected.
Or rather, that the blogger feels neglectful, I should say, since of course a blog can’t feel anything, so far as we know. (Ghost in the machine? An A.I. with an online journal? … What a different book William Gibson’s Neuromancer would have been [...]

Funny thing about the Internet: it’s often a double-edged sword, at least when it comes to using it to feel “connected” to the world at large. It can bring you closer to people and allow you to feel like part of a community, or it can cut you down and make you feel like you’re [...]

I’m in a rather contemplative mood at the moment. I suppose I’m always kind of in a contemplative mood at some level, given my perhaps overdeveloped self-awareness (and/or self-consciousness), but tonight it’s especially palpable. And for good reason: touched off by a vague feeling of dissatisfaction (whether valid or not) with my life’s accomplishments – [...]

As a quick-and-concise follow-up to my previous post on failure, a bit of wisdom from Sir Winston Churchill:
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”