The second craw wasn't there at all
I've always been slightly terrified/haunted by the idea that I had to Do Something with my life, and that that Something had to be big and important, because otherwise it would mean that my life was being squandered. It occured to me, though, that the living of it all should come first, and the doing will either follow naturally, or it won't, but
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Taoists will often tell you that words are really more trouble than they're worth. If they can't describe the Really Important Things without marring them, then what's the point? We make words, we define words, we use words - we are masters of words. But when we set our thoughts to words, they become entities seperate from us. We can stare at them triumphantly because we have created them, and also because they are different from the original. Plato said that our concept of "a tree" and the trees in proximity to him bore no resemblance. He has a point... the concept of a "tree" applies both to oaks, alders, firs, and maples alike, despite that these are all very different from each other.
Words, as concepts, are approximations of realities. We approximate our ideas so they fit into words, but words can never reach what our ideas originally were. You could think of it like stuffing a cake into a small box: the box is too small for the cake, so it gets all mushed and mangled, hardly representing the original, but it's still technically a "cake". If you put a mushed and mangled "cake" into a small box, nobody would ever know the difference.
People often forget the different between their own thoughts and the words they use to describe them, so they forget they ever had a cake in the first place: all they come to believe in is the messy bundle of flour and frosting they found in the box. Zen students try to exist in the disconnect between the original cake and the box, existing through intuition as opposed to linear descriptions like words. Aristotelians try to master the reconstruction of the cake to its original form, knowing well that the disconnect exists between the contents of the box and the original cake but not knowing how else to transport the cake from person to person so that they might partake of it. Delicious indeed.
I hope I added some sort of insight.
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But I suppose that would be like "fishing for trout in a peculiar stream" -Shakespeare (or some moderation made by Lizzy and co.) however sense I dont have a particular fondness for "AH FISH!!!!" -ME as proved by my killer guppy experience perhaps the fact that even emily jones inquiring if "the testing made us tired..." and how it went would only produce unanimous "BUBBLES" -Nikki, Lauren, Aarthi, Lizzy and Me will convence you that I need a piece of cake.
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"Guys, I'm pissed." Harriet
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