It was December, 2013. A Tuesday morning.
It’s often misguided – and sometimes even dangerous – to put value, worth, and emotion into inanimate objects.
It was a Tuesday in the middle of winter. Late January or early February.
One of the (many) reasons I don’t like working with my hands is because I don’t feel any sense of accomplishment with having done the work. If a fence needs to be built in my yard, I feel the exact same way if I do it or if I pay someone else to do it.
And that’s how I feel in all aspects of my life.
I value the destination over the journey.
Recently, I learned that someone close to me had received a promotion. A big promotion. They would now be doing a job that is reserved for very few people in the world. It meant plenty of perks and tons of responsibilities. It was one of those jobs that comes with a press release.
“But no one can be happy if worried about the most important thing in one’s life.”
– Cicero
You think this thing will make you happy. Then, you think the other thing will make you happy.
“I have more pictures of my children than my father ever looked at me.”
– Jim Gaffigan
I do the grocery shopping in my house.
No one grows up dreaming of working a safe, mundane job. Nearly everyone in that position wants to be something else.
A musician. A painter. A crafter. An inventor. A brewer. A writer.
“And why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice!”
– Euripides
“Life is a long lesson in humility.”
– J.M. Barrie
Life is not easy. It’s also not fair. Often, it’s not even logical.
“Anything in my life that I would recommend to someone else just to make their life better? An underrated thing that you can do that no one does anymore: just sit in a dark room. Give yourself, like, twenty minutes, don’t meditate, actually think about things, and I feel like…if you have a bunch of problems in your life, it’s amazing how twenty minutes alone in a dark room in the middle of the day can change everything.“
– Chuck Klosterman on the How To Be Amazing with Michael Ian Black podcast
The Passion of Christopher Pierznik 