Monday
Aug312009
You read, and you read to catch up with the sun but its sinking ...
Monday, August 31, 2009 at 7:16PM
I often wonder why I am so passionate about exercising the muscle between my ears and filling it with stuff when one day it will simply rot away ....
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Because, ultimately, if you worry about that sort of thing what is the point of doing anything?
Do what you can do when you are breathing because when some ambulance bloke is staring down at you when you draw your last breath it is only the lives you have touched and the things you have passed on that will survive you.
Imagine if Newton/Turing/Oppenheimer/Heisenburg had thought the same...
Plans that either come to nought
Or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in unquiet desparation is the Scottish way
Because you care ";+)
What else you gonna do with that muscle .. let it lie there and passively ingest stuff from the boob tube ?
Given that it's there ('tween your ears) and that is so for the rest of us too, and given the amazing amount of knowledge humans have created and consumed over the centuries, it's astonishing both how much progress AND how little progress has been made in so many areas.