Required Reading: Letter 22: On The Fulity Of Half-Way Measures
“…a good man will not waste himself upon mean and discreditable work or be busy merely for the sake of being busy.”
“No one has anything finished, because we have kept putting off into the future all our undertakings…” And who can argue with that?! Hence, we fear leaving; we wish to keep living in hope that one day soon we can finish what we started. But who has the TIME? Is it ever enough? So why start something new? Why keep being busy? Why don’t you finish what you started ten years ago? Was it to finish a degree; buy a home; get marry; have children? What was that unfinished business; that half-way measure? Halt! Finish what you start!
Now, what is this longing to stay at it? To not depart prior to? Does the hope of being an active-busy-body keep you feeling you are living? Life should be tranquil; still from the day to day hustle. Yet, who is to blame? Not you of course; you happen to be born and rolled right into it; that magnificent hamster wheel; the one that noone has the free-time to analyze and ascertain “how did I get on this in the first place? My parents were on it prior to and even after I was born; perhaps their parents too…Well, it just the way it is.” Continue reading “Discourse 22: Regarding On The Futility Of Half-Way Measures”