Words by me » bullshit http://wordsby.me This is a porcupine bathing in brine, or it's a blog. YOU DECIDE. Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:55:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 The struggle to be here now http://wordsby.me/2011/01/09/the-struggle-to-be-here-now/ http://wordsby.me/2011/01/09/the-struggle-to-be-here-now/#comments Sun, 09 Jan 2011 15:44:29 +0000 Me http://wordsby.me/?p=605 Resolution

I don’t really do resolutions. I’ve found that whenever my ambitions or intentions are pinned to some kind of temporary condition, such as the new year, they are more likely to fail. I think that, if you really want to achieve something, you shouldn’t need to wait until the start of a new year to make them happen. Of course, the beginning of a new year is a natural time to reflect… BUT I DIGRESS

I’ve been making long-term plans, and find myself dreaming of the future. The danger with making plans is that you can easily end up living in the future, feeling that your future is what you want, and your present is unacceptable or unimportant. And if you spend large chunks of your life dreaming about ‘tomorrow’ then you never get to enjoy today, and today is your life. So unless we remember to focus on today, and live in the moments, then we aren’t really living. A lifetime could pass without you ever being there.

So if I have any resolution at all, it’s to live for today, and to enjoy each day.

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]]> http://wordsby.me/2011/01/01/the-bad-scientist/feed/ 0 Alcohol: preventing the masses from doing anything significant? http://wordsby.me/2010/04/23/alcohol-subdue-masses/ http://wordsby.me/2010/04/23/alcohol-subdue-masses/#comments Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:09:11 +0000 Me http://wordsby.me/?p=550 drunk dude on subway

Does alcohol subdue people, removing their ability to be effective?

For many people, weekends are an oasis – an island amid the sea of employment. Weekends are a temporary escape from the bindings of their employer – a blip of freedom sandwiched between infinite slices of work.

And many people spend their weekends running away from their own consciousness, medicating their minds and forgetting their in-trays, their supervisor and their upcoming appraisal. Alcohol numbs the pain and makes all the bad stuff go away.

But Monday comes and the bad stuff is back. And with the bad stuff comes a hangover. Mid-week drinking or drug-taking blurs the edges of the monotony, the obligations and the stress of bowing to pedants and middle-managers. In between these narcotic thrusts the men and women of our nation are rendered pallid and uncertain.

Does our collective dependency on drugs and other mind-numbing things (like TV) crush our spirit and allow powerful men to dominate us? Do our politicians get away with heinous crimes because everyone is too dull to fight back?

Discuss.

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