I'm so up past my bedtime
Twice in the past two weeks have I had to listen to dear friends say things like "Well, based on history, there's no reason to think my future will be any different."
Oh, that hurt. I've only had a chance to tell one of them that the world is bigger than they can imagine, especially if they stop forcing it into familiar shapes.
Sure, maybe things won't change. But that's not because they haven't changed yet. I'm not going to preach happy endings at people. That would be ludicrous.
But confined endings? Endings to which we know every note? Even when we try and write the score ourselves, there's more than we can predict.
If you won't be better tomorrow than you are today, what need have you for tomorrow?
-- Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav
So if it goes again the way it always has--don't make that your fault. Not if you don't like your history. Let it, at best, be coincidence. Sometimes it will turn out differently. Isn't that part of the point of waking up in the morning?
If we do not meet with agreeable things, we shall at least meet with something new.
--Voltaire, Candide
I don't have the imagination to guess what tomorrow will bring. I want tomorrow to be as good as possible, but even more than that I want it to be good in a way that defies my preconceptions. The world is bigger than I am. I want it to stay that way.
I mean, honestly, the idea that tomorrow will be different and hopefully better is why I keep getting up in the morning--even though I know it can be worse. It doesn't have to stay this way, and if I'm going to bother keeping waking up I certainly don't want to be the one to blame for it not changing.
Oh, that hurt. I've only had a chance to tell one of them that the world is bigger than they can imagine, especially if they stop forcing it into familiar shapes.
Sure, maybe things won't change. But that's not because they haven't changed yet. I'm not going to preach happy endings at people. That would be ludicrous.
But confined endings? Endings to which we know every note? Even when we try and write the score ourselves, there's more than we can predict.
If you won't be better tomorrow than you are today, what need have you for tomorrow?
-- Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav
So if it goes again the way it always has--don't make that your fault. Not if you don't like your history. Let it, at best, be coincidence. Sometimes it will turn out differently. Isn't that part of the point of waking up in the morning?
If we do not meet with agreeable things, we shall at least meet with something new.
--Voltaire, Candide
I don't have the imagination to guess what tomorrow will bring. I want tomorrow to be as good as possible, but even more than that I want it to be good in a way that defies my preconceptions. The world is bigger than I am. I want it to stay that way.
I mean, honestly, the idea that tomorrow will be different and hopefully better is why I keep getting up in the morning--even though I know it can be worse. It doesn't have to stay this way, and if I'm going to bother keeping waking up I certainly don't want to be the one to blame for it not changing.