My father was a writer. He wrote all of his life, inflicting upon many of us his novels, plays, articles, essays, and self-help books. Some were marvelous; some merely well-intentioned. But of all the things he wrote, his journal is his legacy: by turns wise and bewildering, it neared 1,100 type-written pages when he died in 2010. Although perused many times, this is the first time it will be read - cover to cover, page after page.
Thursday, June 4, 2015
Driven to Unattainable Goals
If people have reasonable expectations and understand the limitations life imposes, it becomes a simpler process. Not having clearly defined goals and being driven to attain them, hoping they will become clear in the pursuit, is to instead increase their obscurity and it is a self-sustaining process so that we are forging deeper into obscurity and thinking it is light. To expect what is unattainable or unavailable to us (though it may be possible in someone else's life) is not helpful
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