maandag 11 juni 2007
Seems that needlessly it's getting harder to find an approach and a way to live.
"You can spend your time alone redigesting past regrets, or you can come to terms and realize you're the only one who cannot forgive yourself. Makes much more sense to live in the present tense."- your friend and mine, Eddie V.I've been trying to figure out for a while now how a person can properly self-criticize, and I just don't think it's possible.When you write a story or an essay, you give it to other people so they can tell you what you did wrong. You care too much about your writing to be able to see all it's faults. For similar reasons, it's probably best to peer review your life as well.Basically, I think you need to leave it to other people to tell you where you're fucked up. And your job is to tell them and yourself that they're full of shit where you can, and try and accept it when you can't. That seems to be the only way to get things done. Maybe I'll actually do that someday.In other news, I found out that some guy I was good friends with for the first half of my life is now a professional soccer player. That was weird.
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Jimmy Conrad's a professional soccer player????Eddie Vedder is a friend to the masses. Just the other day I was watching a repeat of SNL when Pearl Jam was on, and Adam Sandler was doing Opera Man and singing a part about how Eddie made him question his own sexuality. It was funny and the immortal Emilio Estevez was host in promotion of Mighty Ducks 2 - the sequel to The Mighty Ducks.I think you're right about the criticism and that. But, for instance, I can look at myself and say that I have a terrible work ethic and that I'm lazy on the weekends and waste time doing nothing or watching reruns of Wings when I could be writing, or exercising, or doing any number of things that would make me a better and more interesting person. I can criticize myself in that way. More later I think. Bye for now.
Yeah, he plays soccer for the San Jose Earthquakes. And he writes some sort of pseudo-column on Sports Illustrated online, or some such. It was kind of strange to read that stuff and try and match it up with the person I used to know.I'm not saying that you can't criticize yourself. Everyone can do that. What I meant is that you can't do it properly and/or realistically. I like to say that I'm aware of all my faults, both real and perceived. But, while I certainly know where a lot of my problems are, there are plenty that I don't see or choose not to acknowledge. And of course some that aren't really problems at all, but I think are, for whatever reason.
If you or anyone else would like a detailed critique of your life, I have started a new service doing just that. Send me $9.95, and I'll send you a point by point report with index and table of contents detailing all your foibles and problems, areas that need improvement and topics for therapy.Anyway reminded me of this quote I was just looking at:"We find our selves like a hollow glass globe, from whose vacancy a voice speaks" -- Schopenhauer
I think Omar Khyaam put it very well in his Rubaiyat.
The Moving Finger writes: and, having writ,
Moves on: Nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
Hope you like it.
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