quote of the day

[topaz]

Spotted in a friend's journal:

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

--Joseph Campbell

Oof. Yeah.

Comments

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Definitely. I try very hard to have the life that is waiting for me without actually just being lazy... hard to balance.

[jacflash.livejournal.com]

*smiles at the idea of ever-industrious Molly trying to be lazy*

Maybe being lazy isn't part of your life as it's supposed to be? :-)

Perhaps the act of accepting life as it is includes accepting the urge to move yourself forward. After all, the forces that move and shape you are, whether external or internal, part of the drama, no?

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Oh, trust me, I laze. I so laze. The only reason I'm writing my thesis now, for example, is because I never wrote it six years ago. Six years! Also, I am skilled at lying on couches and trying to wheedle dilletante into bringing me things from the next room.

On the other hand, I decided at some point that I was doing something wrong if I wasn't constantly moving forward and changing some aspect of something about my life (without having, you know, reached enlightenment or ascended to godhood). My method for not letting this trap me into thinking I need to be following A Big Plan is to never plan things out more than one move at a time: my motion forward is nearly always the result of whimsy, or at least whims.

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

Whimsy! That's one of the things I need to remember. I need to make sure there is whimsy in my life.

It feels strange that it's something I should have to remember, since it's always come so naturally to me.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

...says the man with the neon alien on his backpack.