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by lontau
Posted to Diaries, Diary on Tue Mar 12, 2002 at 06:12:21 PM PST
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The last several days have dealt quite an eclectic hand of cards to me. It seems like I've been walking for hours in the dim twilight, contemplating that which amounts to little and questioning my own purpose and curious existence.

Why do I wake up in the mornings? What drives me to stiffen up my resove and throw myself into the day that lies before me? I have few talents... the only reasonable conjectures at which I've been able to arrive share one motif; I am here to learn.

Why should I learn, though? My thoughts flow alongside Hamlet's during the famous "To be, or not to be" soliliquoy... "Thus conscience does make cowards of us all and thus the native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought."

Why is thought such a recursive process? We ask the same questions over and over, as one question demands another, time and again. This thoughtful contemplation is never boring. Perhaps I would just like a place on which to set my gaze.

Writing is to be preferred before verbal conferences, as being freer from passions and tergiversations.
--Abp. Bramhall.

Even still, much life for long without exposure to passion and fickle feelings tries one's sanity. If only.

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so many questions (4.00/1) (#1)
by janra on Tue Mar 12, 2002 at 07:50:17 PM PST

...and so hard to put them to words. Harder still to find answers, if answers indeed exist.

I've found that I go in circles, my amorphous thoughts yielding and reforming elsewhere when I bring my attention to bear on them. If I let them flow out my pen, I tie them to more concrete shapes.

Ok, that's not my usual writing style, and I don't know where that came from. But yeah, writing things down organises my thoughts. Now what was my point? ;-)

Motivation and drive are important... and they can't come from outside. I've found that drive is entirely internal, and motivational speakers are mostly a waste of time, and occasionally help people find their internal motivation.

I don't know why you should learn; I know that I learn so I can know how to make the world a better place. That is also a big part of my motivation. Not all of it, of course - lest you think I'm completely selfless. I mostly want to make my bit of the world a better place, but 'no man is an island' and all that.

Anyhow, welcome to Write On! and I hope you enjoy your stay :-)


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Who needs to be big and burly when you can just apply physics?
Note to janra and others, the question WHY? (none/0) (#2)
by Andrea on Fri May 03, 2002 at 12:34:28 PM PST
O.k. Make the world better. But how do you know what is better? I am troubled by this thought. Who decides? I am convinced that not everyone's motives are as pure as janra. Or as ready to admit the limitations of such an ideaology. What is your true motive to write? Between birth and death why write? Reply please everyone!
If teabreaks exist all things are possible...
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It's a quality of life thing. (none/0) (#3)
by ana on Sat May 04, 2002 at 01:24:40 PM PST
It may not have any Cosmic Significance, or grant any more (or fewer) hours of life. But I find that the amount of living in those hours is greater if I write. I do it in part to get to know myself better. And at least some others seem to find the results at least amusing.

Ana
Exploring dark places since last Thursday
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I think I'll agree with ana :-) (none/0) (#4)
by janra on Sun May 05, 2002 at 04:58:52 PM PST

I write because it makes me happy, and those that have read my writing (and told me about it) seem to enjoy it. And to me, that's what's important. I want to be happy - to me, knowing, learning, and doing my part to spread the knowing and learning around makes me happy. It may be indirect, through my stories, and it may be direct, like when I've tutored in the past, and now with my Girl Guides group teaching guides about engineering and science.

A genuine 'wow, thanks!' does more to motivate me than any motivational speaker or even monetary compensation... I wrote about half of the admin documentation for the program that runs this site, just because I submitted one section and got a sincere thanks. So I submitted more, and more... :-) Yeah, so I'm a sucker for the warm fuzzies.


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Who needs to be big and burly when you can just apply physics?
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