Who am I? I am both nobody and somebody.
So part of where my thought process came from in the previous post is the fact that, everything I've done for the past few years, even if i got paid for it, hasn't felt particularly "real." If you've been reading for awhile, you've surely noticed that every year since 2005, I've described my activities as "dicking around."
What happened in 2005 ( Read more... )
What happened in 2005 ( Read more... )
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I feel sort of relieved to be dispossessed of the notion that people create their own destinies. All you can really do is take your best shot - there's way too many people and they can't all be ultra-successful.
When I think about our privileged position in relation to other Earthlings, it's entirely a consequence of geography and nothing more. The same holds true in our society today... nepotism may not do everything for someone, but without some form of it, you can't necessarily do anything.
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yes, precisely.
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"A personality is what you thought you were...Personality is a physical matter almost entirely; it lowers the people it acts on-- I've seen it vanish in a long sickness. But while a personality is active, it overrides 'the next thing.' Now a personage, on the other hand, gathers. He is never thought of apart from what he's done. He's a bar on which a thousand things have been hung-- glittering things sometimes...but he uses those things with a cold mentality back of them... when you feel that your garnered prestige and talents and all that are hung out, you need never bother about anybody; you can cope with them without difficulty."There is a habit that many scrappy young go-getters have which I call "resumeing," in which they feel obliged to list all their accomplishments to people they meet (and usually inflate or embellish them), in order to seem appropriately "impressive" or "accomplished." Often, they just come across as "trying too hard ( ... )
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You just made me think of actors I sometimes meet. I am usually wary of actors who spout off places they've trained and drop names of teachers/directors they've worked with.
"I studied Kabuki with so and so and the way I do it is..."
These people usually turn out to be hacks/inexperienced/annoying. A person who has truly trained in something has absorbed it into their own system of doing things. They don't wear their training on their sleeve.
They just DO, they don't SAY.
In other words, they don't say they are bad-ass, they just are bad-ass. The folks who say it are usually trying to prove something. I don't collaborate with those actors very often.
Anyway, happy potential-ascending...
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Nyo ze in, Nyo ze en. I dig this very Buddhist realization.
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