A feeling I find myself greatly disliking, is stagnation. I require the sensation of progress and the constant furtherance of myself toward new goals. If I feel there is more I can do, things that I’m not doing, I get frustrated with myself. Without my self-created goals and projects I become lost. Consequently, I don’t relax easily.
These feelings play on my mind this evening as I gaze into the eyes of the walrus mounted on the wall to my left. He seems content merely strumming away without looking for where this is taking him. Why am I worried about where I’m going? If I diagnose myself correctly then wherever I’m at with my life I’ll always be looking to go further. If you asked, I wouldn’t say I was ambitious, but it seems I must be. Ambition reconfigured from the usual wealth hoarding, to the aesthetic. I want to be doing great things, and then greater things.
I am not the walrus.
Now I’m put in mind of Schopenhauer’s Cycle of Life. Desire leading to brief satisfaction, leading to boredom, leading to the generation of new desires. I’d like to get off the grand cycle for a while and hang around in some smaller ones. Small desires, small satisfactions, small worries - a great thirst for learning.
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Here in the fort we were pondering what happens to the pleasure and velocity no longer enjoyed when a sneeze is lost?
Your much cuter than the walrus, but I guess it’s better on guitar.
There’s nothing wrong with keeping on wanting more, but there is if you try to tackle it all at once - find a bit of progession in something new (not by getting a new bird tho :p).
Just enjoy what happiness you get.
Not only what happens to the lost energy of a non-sneeze, but what would be the consequences were we able to harness this power? I am sure that hundreds of sneezes go unsneezed every day across the World, and these can only contribute to pent-up aggression and rambunciousness under the Earth’s silky crust, leading to earthquakes. Quakes of the Earth.
A simple nose tubing system was suggested for funnelling any potential energy, thus providing a source of power in sneeze-ridden countries, whilst also eradicating all earthquakes and earthquake-based sadness. This excludes people who enjoy earthquakes, but sometimes you just have to come to a compromise.
The beauty of the simplicity of this is that it is so complex.
I have to say I enjoy the pleasure more than the velocity.
We are the eggmen