time for something new to look forward to

[fflo]

Okay. It's a new year. Here we are. I have no time off work planned. Doing some stuff around the house---maybe that's the thing to focus on.

There should be snow on the ground by now. It's practically the dead of winter. Maybe it all got used up in the Plains.

The touch of the blahs I have may be related to fighting off this pesky almost-cold for practically a week now. But I'm sure there's more to it than that.

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Re: a dodge is a dodge is a dodge

[shmizla.livejournal.com]

it's pitiful in the same way that having to eat and bathe is pitiful: it's repetitive and boring and unavoidable. that's why capitalism likes to tell you that it isn't, so you'll always buy more things that make it look like you didn't do the same repetitive thing again. but you did.

life does have meaning. the meaning of it is to keep busy thinking about it and showing yourself what wild things you can do that you didn't know yesterday you could do today. and maybe you couldn't do them yesterday, but now you can.

the "world" (of people) won't tell you that you got it. it is meaningless while waiting for everything to clear up, waiting to hear that one has bought everything that could be bought, that one has done everything there was to do. if you've figured it all out, you're probably dead.

busy people are happy, and i don't mean those who work all the time. busy in the head, and unafraid to be busy in the head. unafraid in general: to say they are weak and sad and lonely, because they know everyone is.

it's good that it doesn't matter. it will never get resolved anyway, and the sooner we stop expecting it to be resolved, the better. it never has been, for anyone. whoever claims it was, is a shameless liar, and we know it. that's why we don't have many friends. but the few we have are pure gold.