signs of the times

"Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are."

(from 'Let Us Commence', by Annie Lamott, commencement address at UC Berkeley, 2003)


Hmm. i wonder if the absence of any sort of reference to making life better for other people is a sign of the times. i'm no ascetic saint-on-a-desert-pillar, but surely there must be more to life than this. It all seems to be all about me, myself and I, which i think is probably fun for a couple of years, but whether or not i want to make me the focus of the rest of my life..... Sounds dead boring, as far as i can tell.

Hmmmm.
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