Current mood:
discontent Category: Life
Well here it is, July 4th. For those of you that know me well it is my most hated holiday. Definitely not because of the copious amounts of both explosives and barbecue, because in truthe those are two of my most favorite things. The hatred is because for many consecutive years something strikingly unpleasant happened to me on the 4th of July. I shoose not to go into details, but it's been ongoing for years. So this year I stumbled upon a passage in a book that seems to fit. Not only this particular day but the state of my life in general.
From Robert Pirsig's Lila.
"There's an old analogy to a cup of tea. If you want to drink new tea you have to get rid of the old tea that's in your cup, otherwise your cup just overflows and you get a wet mess. Your head is like that cup. It has a limited capacity and if you want to learn something about the world you should keep your head empty in order to learn it. It's very easy to spend your whole life swishing old tea around in your cup thinking it's great stuff because you've never really tried anything new, because you could never get it in, because the old stuff prevented its entry because you were so sure the old stuff was good, because you never really tried anything new. . . on and on in an endless circular pattern."
How's that for profound. Kinda makes my head hurt, but I think it means a lot. Especially to me. And my notoriously over filled head. . . Oh and just so you know this wisdom is brought to you by the same man who graced modern literature with Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
If you haven't read either of these books you should. It might make a difference.
 | Currently reading: Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals By Robert Pirsig Release date: 01 November, 1992 |
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