June 11, 2009

• I question the sobriety of that turtle

  If you want to do something in particular in life, you might not achieve it, and thus will be unhappy.  But in that case, why not fashion ourselves so that we want to do anything and everything?  That way no matter how life turns out, we will be happy. 

  But we like when what we want falls within a narrow range of possibilities, and then it happens.  Human enjoy the improbable.

  (But if that’s the case, we should just be happy we got to be alive at all—for who expected that to happen? ) 

  And that’s what makes us like stories, lovers, adventures, climbing mountains, surprise parties, and so much else.  Thus, it is good to have friends who are always up for a round of the improbable. 

  • 11:20 pm
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