“People are strange: they are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice." We live for the most part on a micro level, taking many temporal and temporary matters very seriously. We often forget the purpose of life is to have a wonderful go of it, realize our potential and help others do likewise. From the perspective of the entirety of our lives, the time spent in anger is a waste of time....
The second law of thermodynamics states that entropy always increases with time. As such, it is easier to predict the near-future but less predictable is the distant-future. However, over time, as the distant-future becomes the near-future, it is more predictable. As well, the past becomes increasingly less certain over time; yet we often convince ourselves otherwise....
We have freedom of speech as long as no one is listening....
The best remedy for pain or stress is laughing. It works every time and has no side effects. However, it can be addictive and highly contagious. Moreover, it's not recommended while operating heavy machinery....
“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” Life is an experiment. Whether a success or a failure is of little matter. What counts is whether it merits a writeup. If not, we haven't lived. Randomness, the unexpected, can upend any well-laid plans. Best to have many tries to hedge against randomness....
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” Socialization has its costs....
In the night sky, looking for constellations we see few stars....
The mind is always open and often closed. The mind is always open to an overwhelming amount of sensory information from outside itself but often closed as it interprets the information in the context of memories, generalizations and stories we create that distort the information....
Our eyes see beauty everywhere. But when we see the world through our mind, the beauty is often disguised by dramas; some pleasing, some not....
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” The etymology of "hap" (the root of happy) is luck. Whatever roles we assume in life will work out well if we are lucky. It's funny when the truth is revealed, unless the truth undermines the foundation upon which we've built our lives; funny from the perspective of the audience watching the play of life (the gods), though maybe not so funny from the perspective of actors in the play who take their roles seriously....