Friday, November 6, 2009

A Feast, A Banquet, An Overindulgence.

"Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread." - Richard Wright

I've been having a few confusing problems in my life, and I've always found that the realisation of the answer and resolution, is one of the greatest feelings ever. Your shoulders rise an inch. You breathe easier. You start seeing everything again. You are just happy. And I haven't even fixed my problems yet. But knowing what they are, how I can fix them, and hopefully what the outcome will be, makes me very very happy. I wish I was a wise man so it wouldn't take me this long.

I have also come to the realisation that when I am beset by a problem, I (usually) have three points of view: the head, the heart and the gut.
The heart usually says what you want to hear.
The head usually says what you think the answer is; usually this is what you don't want to hear.
And the gut is the all-knowing actual answer to your problems.

The problem lies in figuring out which voice is which. Sounds simple enough, but sometimes it really isn't. I for one often get my gut and heart confused and my head just complicates matters, usually coming to the wrong conclusions by focussing on the wrong facts. But that's why life is interesting. If it wasn't complicated, it'd be a really boring place to be.
And if this was a boring life, and I were a solipsist - I'd be a sadist.

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith." - Franklin D. Roosevelt


Eureka Ethan..

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