Oct 13, 2005 18:27
well life goes on...i studied for my paper a lot today. Lots-o-reading, but it was refreshing, just sitting at my deski and reading about the life of sam beckett, and his plays...it really got me thinking about how I focus my energies in life. For example, I know I'm an intelligent person, and I have a good sense of things, but I seem to fall short of others none the less. Here's my answer: I focus my intellectual energies into inconsequential self-satisfying, and equally self-depricating, and ultimately pointless arguments with myself. What am I missing? That is a perfect example of a question I have asked myself since day one, or at least since cognition. What do I not have that I need for life to be worthwhile? I never before fully relized how ridiculous this question is until now. First of all, it is inherently subjective due to my limited perspective, and therefore it can never truly be answered to my full satisfaction until I FEEL complete (if that day ever comes...I mean does anyone ever really feel complete?). Furthermore, it is a bit of mental masturbation, rather than proactive self-improvement, to sit around and decide what I need, because at the end of it all I never have anything more, and certainly not what I think I am missing. SO what's the point? ? I think that if I spent more time focusing on activities and less time inside my own futile arguments, I might start to feel more complete...
I have also realized that there is more to knowledge than simply understanding the concept as a whole...details are more important than previously thought...