Tuesday
Today is Tuesday.
I awoke this morning and one of the first thoughts I had was: "Oh yes, today is tuesday. I wonder, what is the most exciting or most interesting thing that will happen today? Hmmm..."
After thinking about it for a while, I came to the conclusion that very little of any excitement or interest was slated for the day. The day would likely involve my going to work, working until 5 or so, coming home, working on the album (most likely rewriting the opening for a track called "modern man", and possibly finishing the mix), and then going to bed. This made me feel sad and depressed, the fact that nothing terribly interesting was going to happen.
I thought about it some more. A number of further ideas occurred to me. The better ones are:
1. Probably everyone I know, my family, friends, co-workers, etc, and billions of people I don't know, will all have days that are equally as "exciting" as mine.
2. I can't expect exciting or interesting things to just "happen" to me. It doesn't work that way. I am responsible for my own existence. I could create excitement myself very easily. I could call my friends and try to organize an outing...although this may not be met with success. I could get really, really drunk...that would be easy to do. I could perform an impromptu song and dance in the middle of the morning's scheduled staff meeting...also easy. I'm not going to do any of these things.
I concluded that to feel sad because the upcoming day isn't particularly exciting is a completely stupid thing to do.
So the questions that remain are: Is there any point at all in entertaining such thoughts, about the quality of one's upcoming day? What kind of person has such thoughts? What sort of frame of mind is this person in? Is this person suffering from some sort of personal crisis?
Finally: What is the point of writing this down in a public forum such as this? Maybe you, dear reader, will have enjoyed reading it, and maybe it will be something interesting or exciting (albeit on a very minor scale) that happened to you today. Altruism. Or maybe it's just me trying to create some excitement for myself. Selfishness. Maybe it's both. I don't know, really.
I awoke this morning and one of the first thoughts I had was: "Oh yes, today is tuesday. I wonder, what is the most exciting or most interesting thing that will happen today? Hmmm..."
After thinking about it for a while, I came to the conclusion that very little of any excitement or interest was slated for the day. The day would likely involve my going to work, working until 5 or so, coming home, working on the album (most likely rewriting the opening for a track called "modern man", and possibly finishing the mix), and then going to bed. This made me feel sad and depressed, the fact that nothing terribly interesting was going to happen.
I thought about it some more. A number of further ideas occurred to me. The better ones are:
1. Probably everyone I know, my family, friends, co-workers, etc, and billions of people I don't know, will all have days that are equally as "exciting" as mine.
2. I can't expect exciting or interesting things to just "happen" to me. It doesn't work that way. I am responsible for my own existence. I could create excitement myself very easily. I could call my friends and try to organize an outing...although this may not be met with success. I could get really, really drunk...that would be easy to do. I could perform an impromptu song and dance in the middle of the morning's scheduled staff meeting...also easy. I'm not going to do any of these things.
I concluded that to feel sad because the upcoming day isn't particularly exciting is a completely stupid thing to do.
So the questions that remain are: Is there any point at all in entertaining such thoughts, about the quality of one's upcoming day? What kind of person has such thoughts? What sort of frame of mind is this person in? Is this person suffering from some sort of personal crisis?
Finally: What is the point of writing this down in a public forum such as this? Maybe you, dear reader, will have enjoyed reading it, and maybe it will be something interesting or exciting (albeit on a very minor scale) that happened to you today. Altruism. Or maybe it's just me trying to create some excitement for myself. Selfishness. Maybe it's both. I don't know, really.