Linkin Park & the value of Information

Jun 10, 2009 08:38

I wanna run away
Never say goodbye
I wanna know the truth
Instead of wondering why
I wanna know the answers
No more lies
I wanna shut the door
And open up my mind
- "Runaway", Linkin Park

I wish to assert that whoever wrote these lyrics values Information.

(Jake's Core Values for Pondering the Motivations of People in Interpersonal Relationships: Information, Time, Comfort, Assets/Money, Power/Status)

These lyrics resonate with me. To me, what's implicit in it is that I would never run away and not say goodbye, because whether or not these people I need to walk away from value information, I do. It's a cruelty, by my standards, to not tell people why if they want to know. That desire to shut the door, open my mind is, to me, the desire to not need to know why, to be Zen. I rarely attain that state.

This gets me into an awful lot of trouble on occasion.

I experience lack of information as emotional and even sometimes physical pain.

And now, I need to go re-engage in my life and live it, instead of just thinking about how I do it. Analysis paralysis begone.

Information
Time
Comfort
Assets/Money
Power/Status

Which do you value the most?

armchair philosophy, you tell me, i am terrified of complacency, i tell you, i'm not in charge of patience, self-awareness, music

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