Moreover I have outgrown my belief in fate. I like to think I haven't - that way I can somehow be connected to Ted Mosby - but ultimately my education gets the better of me.
The funny thing is that I got an early Christmas present from one of my professors: Coelho's Like A Flowing River, and it is essentially his diary. The book is a collection of short stories and little pieces of wisdom Coelho has acquired on random walks with his wife (I am not joking). Even though I have already decided I will not be a Coelho-crony, I actually share some of his philosophies, so yesterday I spent around an hour ignoring my friends at the lunch table to read the book and realized a few things:
- I still do not believe this "personal legend" stuff.
- But I do agree with us humans being aggregates of everything in the universe. We are influenced by everything around us somehow.
- "All religions lead to the same God," which is why I have always wondered why we criticize other religions and why we do not have the same moralities. Maybe we don't realize that we're worshiping the same higher power?
- You can spend an entire lifetime thinking productivity will give you all the satisfaction you need and that you will end up unhappy when your ability to work is taken away from you. Your uselessness will be the end of you.
- Working does not actually give you enough merit to last a lifetime. Neither does a degree. I still don't know what being alive requires you to do though.
- What craft makes you feel happy and fulfilled? Pursue that. I learned it the hard way, so I am warning you now before you can make a mistake of throwing your talent away to be part of the commercial (I use this term loosely) society. You can make the money but not the happiness.
Because it is almost the end of 2012 and not of the world - don't be ignorant - here is a playlist that works for some reflection:
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