Comments on: moleskine tried meaningful 2

By: susan kuhn frost

susan kuhn frost — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:20:55 +0000

Yow. Spot on.

By: HowardG

HowardG — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:00:31 +0000

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

By: Errol Moo Young

Errol Moo Young — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:40:45 +0000

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.

By: David

David — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:11:47 +0000

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.

By: Collette

Collette — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:51:09 +0000

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.

By: JoAnn

JoAnn — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:36:31 +0000

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

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By: David

David — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:29:54 +0000

You just described how all success is built.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:06:19 +0000

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.