Episode 25


Pride with Moderation makes Bliss

April 6

So I can’t seem to get a good night’s rest nowadays, for several reasons including but not limited to the following:
Alarms (not mine), telephones (not mine), homework, research papers, registration, midterms, finals, calculus, money, jobs, future employment, short-term employment, visits, trains, money, tours, summer, physics, schedules, relationship time, grades, resume, money, this year, last year, next year, the year after that…etc.

You get the idea. Stoicism sometimes feels like a swell idea. And I refuse to become a machine. I’ve been there, it’s not healthy.

Overall I don’t know why I’ve become so worried all of a sudden. All things considered, I’m kicking quite a bit of ass this semester. The tough thing about school (perhaps life) is that you have to look really hard to get self-satisfaction for anything. But it can be done if you’re not afraid to congratulate yourself.

I aced my physics midterm and my writing essay. I rule.

See? That wasn’t so hard. It doesn’t even have to be that big a deal…

I totally didn’t trip and fall on the sidewalk today. I rule!

Life can be an amazing string of victories if you look at it the right way. Consider a new perspective; that which looks upon all humans as crucibles of incredible power. Make a big deal of the little things. It’s a wonder that we’re capable of anything. Boredom and depression can easily foster when you forget that.

We are all incredible beings.


EVENING UPDATE

We lost power for a couple hours tonight. I'm not sure how long, or when it came on, since I was doing calculus work for about 5 hours straight and still haven't finished. So I was rather disconnected from changes in my surroundings, lost in a metaphysical world. Transcendentalism in homework?



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