173 Laughing and smiling. -The more joyous and self-assured his spirit becomes, the more a person forgets how to laugh loudly; by contrast, a spiritual smile continually wells up from within him, a sign of his astonishment at the countless concealed charms of a good existence.
It sometimes happens that it is complicated
you only see one button to push
but you already know what it does
and the rest that is on display
it's hard to understand
even that little sign
that urges you to read
the manual
I dug deep to reach a place
to take away
where nothing no longer came out
I looked upon the result
a hole
with besides it what's left
excavated
the beauty of what once was
that hole
My resolution last year was to write more constructively. I want to write a book, but I have difficulty focusing on one goal. Instead, I get distracted fast and follow many small ideas while never following one to the end or stringing them together.
I also struggle with doubt. I doubt my ability to learn how to write, and I doubt my message.
I know I have to be patient. I sometimes write longer pieces on my blog and re-read them once or twice before posting it, but I always notice many more mistakes when I re-read it a couple of days later. I also know that it is important to plan ahead and not, as I do, just write what comes up and see where it ends. Anyone that writes knows that it is not easy to delete an hour’s worth of work when you know it’s going in the wrong direction or nowhere.
But writing is one thing. In a couple of years, you can just tell your writing program what you want the text to be about, and it does it for you as GPT-3 does now already in a certain way. My biggest problem is that I want to write about life, and not just in a cold way how I see it but in a way that you can get some meaning out of it. I struggle with the thought that for thousands of years, people have written about life and what it all means, and though we have come a long way in understanding it in the sense that life for more people is now much better than it was 3000 years ago, we still have not come closer to a possible answer. Thousand of really smart people have written and preached about it, but with little effect besides some more tolerance for each other’s differences. After all, we don’t burn our witches anymore with fire but on social media, and we also no longer advertise the slave markets as they did before. Now you can at least say that you are free no matter where you come from.
I feel like a musician who hears a cool tune in his head but is unsure if he has heard it before or if he has the time to learn a musical instrument to let others hear this song so the listener can decide the value of it.
297 Do not wish to see prematurely. -As long as we are experiencing something, we must give ourselves over to the experience and close our eyes, and thus, while still in it, not make ourselves already the observer of it. That would, of course, disturb our good digestion of the experience; instead of a bit of wisdom, we would take away a bit of indigestion.
Don't stack all your experiences on top of each other
if you use it as a defensive wall
it will crumble if you lean against it
put some effort into it
like cement
Bundled together the road markings lie dormant
waiting to be placed when winter is in sight
dormant go we through life
our thoughts bundled together
though winter is still here
we rather feel our way
through the next corner
around that ravine
ASUS P6T Deluxe V2 DDR3 Socket 1366 Intel X58 Motherboard
OCZ Vertex Series SATAII 2.5″ SSD 30GB (2 stk in raid)
Sapphire Radeon HD 4870X2 2GB GDDR5
Noctua NH-U12P SE1366 CPU cooler
Tagan TG900-BZ900W, Pipe Rock, Modular
Ram unknown, 3x4GB DDR3
For everything in life, some people understand what it means what you say or, in this case, what I have written above here, and others don’t. It’s not a judgment call, just a call to realize that there is much we don’t understand what is clear to others. For the people that understand, this computer was pretty cool in 2009, and I could run Crisis in all its glory…just.