An Anonymous friend of Buck had these poetic words to say about living.

I'm watching a life. I think it's mine, but i can't philosophically tell. I'm randomly thinking dance moves, yet I've i can't quite grasp that concept of movement. Frazzlement comes to mind, along with astronauts, and I float to the floor. Among the clouds there are too many dryers and too few thoughts. "I am thinking it's a sign" that life, a broad and emotionless word, is too far away. "come down now, but we'll stay" It's grasping towards zero, but i'm sweating, yet they're tears of love. Phasing in and out, and in again, importance? I think, therefore I have the brain pathaway capable of transferring thought. Skyworks. Waterworks. Monopoly on psuedonyms. Categories of phrases, clips, and quantums of tripods. ZZzip, the longest baseline conquered by firings from an introspective pysche. Losing my metaphorical steam...

lucid words, lucid words

Unhappiness may just be a state of many low-grade problems, each of which can't be corrected easily.

How does this work?

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I wonder how many people are living vicariously through Jesus (or bin Laden, or Bush, or Ann Coulter, or Wesley Clark).

I've been on this "pursue passion" bent for about a year now (amazing, given that I was on a "pursue $" bent for the previous arc of my life)... but.. according to McLuhan, our media and technology are mere extended appendages of processes that we already do... i.e. the train extends the foot...

now, if your passions are projects that are manifestations of your identity, which in most cases they become, and you are inspired to do them because you "love them" then aren't you loving yourself?

Doesn't that leave you empty like the legend of Narcissism instructs us to believe?

Can anything you "do" and "love" not imply a love yourself? Maybe depends on whether the love of doing something is such because you feel good at the end of the day and stand proud of "what you have done."

I guess self-less love is what I'm reaching in the dark here for

Ask any smart person a tough quetsion, sure they got the answer. But then ask them, how did they become a smart person in the first place? Maybe the answer is, "academics" or "I studied hard"...

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