Eccentricities of a Sane/Mad Man

Monday Morning,
April 21, 2008
8:45:04 AM

Eccentricities of Sane/Mad Man


So here’s the Situation: This morning, but 10 minutes or so ago, I almost got into a few high speed car accidents while driving on 280 North on the way to work. Yar! (I don’t where that pirate expletive came from!) So anyway, also during the hectic trek to campus, these strange insightful thoughts dance about in the head. They twirled and turned, leaped and crashed like a quintet of wild ballerinas on crank, gracefully bumping into one another, these thoughts.

Now, in an office at work, with a bowl of cereal and milk, a mixed CD playing The Killers, Tear for Fears and other shit, I feel ready to write, to explore, make some sense of, attempt to string these thought together:

F*ck, I have to start work SOON.

So let me just start a list, then maybe hopefully elaborate later..


Ok,here's the list, thoughts separated from each other by "~~~~~~~~"


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--Focus on what I can give… Rather than on what I want, what I think I need from the world, want from people, certain persons, from society…

What can I give?

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--The narrator of Dostoevsky’s novel, Notes from the Underground begins with the line, “I am a sick man.” The novel continues and we see how sick he is.

Now maybe…just maybe I am a healthy man, I think....

Or maybe I’m the sickest kind, the kind that doesn’t believe he’s sick!

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--Seneca or was it Epicurus' 3 RULES to HAPPINESS

1) Self-Sufficiency
2) Having friends
3) An Examined life

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--Tears for Fears, subscribed to Janoff’s Primal Scream Therapy note their song Everybody Wants to Rule the World starts with the words:

“Welcome to your life / there’s no turning back…”


And um duh, their song Shout "Shout, shout let it all out / these are the things I can do without..."

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Damn gotta work now!

Oh well...

After thought: I should double check the sources/references, Bah! it's just a blog!