October 30, 2009

moleskine tried meaningful 2

8 Responses to “moleskine tried meaningful 2”

  1. Chris says:

    Ouch! This is so pain­fully true for so many peo­ple I know. I’m watching the squi­rrels outside of my win­dow run around like crazy, pic­king up acorns and scurr­ying up the trees to stash them away. Is this a mea­ning­ful life? I sup­pose for squi­rrels, yes it is. For humans, it is (hope­fully) more than mere sur­vi­val that dri­ves us. It can be pretty damn depres­sing when the fai­lu­res seem to domi­nate – a tiny suc­cess once in a while would be nice.

  2. David says:

    You just desc­ri­bed how all suc­cess is built.

  3. JoAnn says:

    Pain­ful. I pre­fer a more hope­ful mes­sage. Is that sha­llow? Is it a more hope­full mes­sage? Oh, gee

  4. Collette says:

    actually this seems mighty hope­ful to me! I’d rather try to live a mea­ning­ful life and fail, than to just turn my brain off and follow ins­truc­tions. I’d rather fail a million times trying to do something impor­tant, than not even try. 

    and I think the peo­ple who do the most mea­ning­ful things pro­bably also feel a sense of fai­lure a lot of the time. and I think they could be remin­ded, often, that their mea­ning­ful lives are suc­cee­ding, even if it feels like it’s not.

    that’s what I got out of that, at any rate.

  5. David says:

    This is defi­ni­tely a hope­ful mes­sage. I can’t count how many fai­lure fee­ling like times I’ve made it through after touching on the thought that, loo­king back on some of the coo­lest stuff I’ve done, a lot of the time doing them I felt like a failure.

    In fact, I often was a fai­lure, just a fai­lure to someone else.

  6. What bet­ter advice is there than just keep wor­king at your art. Like the stock mar­ket, if you sell when the mar­ket is down, you lose. In art if you keep wor­king thought­fully, hope­fully you’ll suc­ceed. That’s how I feel any­way. Both you and Hazel really give frank insights into pres­sing ahead. Thanks. Errol.

  7. HowardG says:

    Fai­lure is not doing.
    “From the view­point of abso­lute truth, what we feel and expe­rience in our ordi­nary daily life is all delu­sion. Of all the various delu­sions, the sense of disc­ri­mi­na­tion bet­ween one­self and others is the worst form, as it crea­tes nothing but unplea­sant.”  — Ten­zin Gyatso

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