Friday, April 4, 2008
Late
I have a couple of rules that I have lived by. As I have grown older I have been steadfast in the no more than two beers per month rule. Tonight I had two beers; they were 20 ounce beers however. Thus I actually had 3 1/3 beers this evening. Oh have I failed my guidelines. As a result I am slightly tipsy, drunk perhaps. (Yes a lightweight, cheap date). The hour is late near midnight. Drunk and late, what a perfect segue, http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15377
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J.T. don't know if you ever read, or respond to, the comments. BUt sometimes you may think too much. Maybe life is to be lived.........and not so analyzed.
But that's from a recently retired state employee who just got back from a month in the sun (which we'll be paying for until NEXT winter, no doubt).
So go on in your life of (not so) quiet desperation. And enjoy when you can, as much as you can.
JDB
JB,
I am not sure of the ettiqute of responding to postings. I don't know that it is so since you seem to want a response I guess I will start with yours.
You seem to indicate that I should slack off on the implied navel gazing. I can't. As I see it life is the time of my life has grown short. What time is left I want to be purpose filled and to have meaning.
I often lie awake questioning on the points I am kicking around on the blog, that is, is there ultimately any meaning in our existence and on issues of right and wrong (morality/ethics).
If I think too much now, it is because I thought too little on other occassions when I was younger. My choices then were made based on either sensual impulse or adherence to dogma. No more, I just can't do that now.
Will I still have my monthly two beers? Ubetcha. Will I ponder what my choice to consume them means, that too is an affirmative.
JB,
I ask that you forgive the typos in my first response to your post. The little program applet doesn’t have spell checker (or I didn’t find it). My guess is that the gist was ascertainable. I also apologize for any implication that may have sounded judgmental because I didn’t mean to be. The whole reference to Narcissus and Goldmund was meant to convey that whatever value there is to the paths by which we live our lives is determined subjectively. I have to choose my route and everyone else has to opt for their own path. I am not allowed to make a value judgment as to the value those routes have. So if I seemed a bit snippy, I didn’t mean it. Mea culpa.
G
It is what it is. THAT is my analysis of pretty much everything.
Jay,
This is nothing new to you. You have always lived an examined life interrupted by bouts of inhebriation in your younger days by whatever substance you had at hand. To change now would admit defeat.
Press on, I say, question everything.
I have no problems, either with your typos or your sounding "snippy". After all, we've been friends several years......and been through a LOT of work (and other) related shit together. That said, only you can give your life meaning. IF that takes navel gazing, implied or not, have at it. But sometimes gazing may interfere with LIVING. Which is what you do best. Use your time away from the mill to do what you want to do. Be that writing or gazing or wandering around with the family.
In the meantime tho, I myself will probably look for work.......meaningful, if possible, otherwise, maybe Sam's Club?????
Keep in touch. And "hey" to the "J" team.
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