A few random musings to keep you entertained:
First, as I have stated and may have even become apparent in recent entries, I was beginning to fear that I was becoming a cynic. I have always prided myself on my wide-eyed optimism, and I think it has led me down some really unique roads. Recently, however, I'm finding myself slightly less likely to fall for things I would have taken for granted in the past. Perhaps it was the death of hundreds of thousands of brain cells during my recent cold, or perhaps it is the prospect that I may actually find an internship at some point, or perhaps it is even the light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel effect of this being my last semester of coursework. Whatever the case, I'm finding myself a bit of an idealist again. Also, I'm starting to get it. Milton Glaser also clarified that for me in a speech of his I was just reading today. In "10 Things I Have Learned," delivered a few years back, he says:
Number 8
DOUBT IS BETTER THAN CERTAINTY.
Everyone always talks about confidence and believing in what you do. I remember once going to a class in Kundalini yoga where the teacher said that, spirituality speaking, if you believed that you had achieved enlightenment you have merely arrived at your limitation. I think that is also true in a more practical sense. Deeply held beliefs of any kind prevent you from being open to experience, which is why I find all firmly held ideological positions questionable. It makes me nervous when someone believes too deeply or too much. I think that being sceptical and questioning all deeply held beliefs is essential. Of course we must know the difference between scepticism and cynicism because cynicism is as much a restriction of one’s openness to the world as passionate belief is. They are sort of twins.
See, I'm not cynical or apathetic, just "skeptical." The rest of his advice is also excellent. I'm posting it on my wall in "that creepy-Cathy-comic kinda way." Read the transcript
HERE.
I got a great treat this weekend. About the only thing I could eat were bananas and Indian orangey-limey things. I bought a bunch of bananas during one of my adventures out of my door, and low and behold, I got a Hrithik Roshan banana! Two for the price of one, baby! Like twins, but even more satisfying!
Hey, if you leave for spring break and your hamster is alone, have a neighbor keep him company instead. How unfortunate... I hope he caught must-see-Thursday before they turned off the set...
Did you know...? Well, in case you didn't, here is the compendium.
Last, remember that it's better to be pissed off than pissed on, smoking shortens your cigarettes, and you shouldn't play leapfrog with a unicorn...
Flown by mariposa at 06:04 PM on March 08, 2005
