i've always felt that i'm most productive at work on tuesdays.
and i've noticed that i have a lot of blog/journal entries on thursdays.
mondays are a given - i'm sluggish and would rather stay in bed all day. although recently, i find myself busy spending my nights with SD and TSC tasks.
on saturdays and/or sundays, i do make time for lots of sleep and/or being a couch potato. i'd like to be more active though.
it would be real nice if i could spend my wednesdays for the things i like - books, music, nature - to name a few.
keeping fridays open for unplanned activities should give me just the right amount of the unknown to keep my week out of a rut.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Thursday, February 10, 2011
falling deep into...
the unbearable lightness of being [milan kundera]
"Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves."
"The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life's most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant. What then shall we choose? Weight or lightness?"
"...there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes."
* ouch. *
"But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave."
* huh. in weakness, there's strength. o diba.*
"There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning..."
* and live we should. *
"The goals we pursue are always veiled... The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us."
"...it is questions with no answers that set the limits of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence."
* okay. *
read the book during 1st year college. i miss reading. but i still can't seem to get back to my favorite hobby. busy busy days.
"Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves."
* hmm, is this why i'm always bothered by dizzy/vertigo spells??? *
"The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life's most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant. What then shall we choose? Weight or lightness?"
* weight. ano pa nga ba? but sometimes, we're not given a choice. we just have to deal with what is. *
"...there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes."
* ouch. *
"But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave."
* huh. in weakness, there's strength. o diba.*
"There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning..."
* and live we should. *
"The goals we pursue are always veiled... The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us."
"...it is questions with no answers that set the limits of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence."
* okay. *
read the book during 1st year college. i miss reading. but i still can't seem to get back to my favorite hobby. busy busy days.