I keep telling myself, after this cigarette, after breakfast, after lunch; then I forget and lose myself to aimless TV watching, surfing the Internet for "news", surfing for viral videos, listening to music on my laptop (of which I am sick by now). Anything but getting down to studying.
Here's the deal: I don't believe I am procrastinating. I believe, I am thinking. Of other things. Such as the nature of man, the human condition, the nature of the masses, how vocabulary-systems create meaning etc. And these thoughts are worthwhile. Or at least one could argue they are.
I'll leave you (those who have read this far and haven't shot their brains out) with a small nugget of wisdom. Something this day of wasteful, reflective thinking yielded to me-
There are two kinds of people on earth. Those who reach their conception of reality through someone else's description of reality. And those who describe reality for themselves.
And the 2nd type aggresively builds their vocabulary, so that they can talk about anything. They agressively read Marx, Foucault, Mencken -anyone- and all they look for are words - and the meaning the words attempt to convey. They do not hope to find wisdom. They hope to find vocabulary.
Be the 2nd type.
Here is what Steve Jobs had to say on the Issue:
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be
trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most
important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow
already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."- Steve Jobs.
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