This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. |
3 lietas, kuras man sevī nepatīk: 1. Man nepatīk, ka man nepatīk situācijas, kad man kaut kas nepadodas, un, kad pārējie, acīmredzami, ir labāki par mani. Nav labāki un sliktāki. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Un zināšanas var iegūt. Jālasa, jāpēta, jāklausās, jāsapņo. 2. Man nepatīk mana šejienes attieksme : es pārāk nenopietni attiecos pret šejieni. Nedaru neko tik daudz, cik varētu. Un cik vajadzētu. Pīpēju neizmērojami daudz, skatos filmas ar savu vīrieti, un plūstu. Man nepatīk plūst. Nepatīk, ka palēnām pazūd jaunības maksimālisms. Akli uzticēties mērķiem arī nevar. Vairāk jādara. Tas man sagādā vislielāko prieku. Darba augļi. Tāpēc es priecājos tikai tad, kad augļi ir redzami. Pārējā laikā esmu nesociāla un skumstu. Un šeit es esmu nesociāla un skumstu. Tie laiki, kad vēl domāju katru pāra minūti pēc mājām ir pagājuši. Man nav nekā, kas mani tur tur. Tikai doma, ka es atgriezīšos. Ka kādreiz dzīvošu savā mīļākajā pilsētā. Rīgā. Pietrūkst Rīgas intelektuālisma. 3. Man nepatīk, ka man pārāk daudz laika jāpavada skaidrojot sev, ka mīlu sevi. Ka izdosies. Ka jātic. Ticības ķeršana aizņem vairāk laika, nekā darbs, kurš būtu jāiegulda labākai rītdienai. Kas tad ir svarīgāk, atbildēt uz jautājumu : "If today were the last day of your life, would you still be doing what you are doing now?" ar jā, vai saprast : šodiena ir nesvarīga, gribu atdot savu šodienu labākas rītdienas vārdā. Un tā visu dzīvi? Bet tāpēc es labošos. |
Un piebildīšu "no rītdienas". Es tā varu atļauties pat tad, kad tas nav iespējams. |
"I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting." /by Steve Jobs/ And do I have an idea what to do with my life? |
"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life." /Steve Jobs/ |
"No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. (...) Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. (...) On the back cover of "The Whole Earth Catalog" final issue, it was sort of like Google in paperback form, was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now (...) I wish that for you." |