Saturday, September 26, 2009

Ahh . . . ahh . . . HAH-CHOO!!

Logic is neat stuff. I use it. I like it. I'm not always rational, but I am always making an attempt to put things together logically.

The problem is that all the logic in the world can't account for those things that are unforeseen. I can be both logical and rational but I will never know what the next 30 seconds of my life will hold.

Like when you have no idea that you're going to sneeze and the next thing you know - HAH-CHOO!! (Only on a much larger scale). The logical sequence that was interrupted by the sneeze might have gone like this:
Open the cabinet.
Grab my toothbrush.
Turn on the water.
Get the toothbrush wet.
Put toothpaste on th-  HAH-CHOO!!!
. . . 

Thus the logical and orderly routine of brushing my teeth is interrupted. Now I have to put down the toothpaste. Put down the toothbrush. Grab a kleenex. Blow my nose. Pick up the toothpaste, etc.

I didn't plan on the sneeze. There was nothing illogical or irrational about the order or method that I was using to brush my teeth . . . and hah-choo - my life got interrupted.

This is not to suggest that my life would be better were I to throw my hands up in a fit of 'fuck-its' and never brush my teeth again. I guess I used this example to illustrate (mainly for myself) that logic isn't neccessarily the answer to living life the way I want to live it.

I have been relying heavily on reason, and to little avail because (as I've said before) the future is made up of entirely unforeseen events. (Not to mention all that stuff I wrote about flawed logic recently). That's it. I'm done thinking about my thinking for now.  

Monday, September 21, 2009

Were i but a...

I was going to write a new blog entry but it took me so long to figure out how to disable the Hindi transliteration that I don't have time.

basically, the world continues to spin on it's tilted axis, regardless of my deepest wish that it stop for what would become an indeterminate (if not inconsequential) period of "time".