As soon as I saw you, I knew a great adventure was about to happen.
– A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
Epigraph
Man Alive
Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; By settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.
– G.K. Chesterton, Man Alive
In The Shadows
“Like a shadow, I am and I am not.” – Somebody
Regrets & Dreams
“A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams” – Somebody
Dead or Alive
“Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
— Ernest Hemingway
Never Too Late
“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, start whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people who have a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.”
— The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Attitude Adjustment
I am going to struggle with this concept.The next time you adjust a setting, think twice. Sometimes it’s better to change yourself to appreciate the defaults than to change the defaults to suit you.
Someone
Enjoyable
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Roughing It
Why do people consider getting outside and into nature as “roughing it”?
Here in the city and in the suburbs are chaotic. The traffic, the hassles, the deadlines and the noise are unbearable.
The most enjoyable, peaceful times one can have are outdoors and even away from the city.
One of my favorite memories includes a weekend in a lakeside cabin, a borrowed Hemingway novel and no expectations.
“Three months of camp life on Lake Tahoe would restore an Egyptian mummy to his pristine vigor, and give him an appetite like an alligator.” – Mark Twain, Roughing It
Another memory included thin, crisp, clean evenings on a mountain range
Not very rough at all.
Ignorance Is Bliss
I love a spirited debate as much as anybody. I even like being wrong, if something can make a good case … on something. I’m confronted by my own ignorance or misunderstandings all the time.
—Anthony Bourdain