by iambiguous » Wed Oct 07, 2020 4:53 pm
Charles Yu
...unfortunately, it's true: time does heal.
If you know what he means.
If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am.
Examples, please.
Maybe we spend most of our decades being someone else, avoiding ourselves, maybe a man is only himself, his true self, for a few days in his entire life.
Or, for some of us, considerably less.
Sometimes when I'm brushing my teeth, I'll look at the mirror and I swear my reflection seems kind of disappointed. I realized a couple of years ago that not only am I not super-skilled at anything, I'm not even particularly good at being myself.
You know, if something like that would bother you.
At some point in your life, this statement will be true: tomorrow you will lose everything forever.
Let us know when it's you.
Failure is easy to measure. Failure is an event. Harder to measure is insignificance. A nonevent. Insignificance creeps, it dawns, it gives you hope, then delusion, then one day, when you’re not looking, it’s there, at your front door, on your desk, in the mirror, or not, not any of that, it’s the lack of all that. One day, when you are looking, it’s not looking, no one is. You lie in your bed and realize that if you don’t get out of bed and into the world today, it is very likely no one will even notice.
So, how insignificant are you? And why does that even matter?