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wolven7Fiona Apple - Fast as You Can--- Sometimes I wonder whether this urger to dig in deep and spread tendrils out is a desire to eiminate the ability for anyone to know anything about me. I resonate, very clearly, with that Donald Glover quote: "Make it all for everybody, always. Everybody can't turn around and tell everybody, everybody already knows, I told them."
I find that I am greedy. I want everything, and I want all (pleasant and many not) experiences. But I also find myself wondering if greed, without selfishness, is really greed at all. What else would that be called?
Can someone tell me the downside to wanting new expeiences? (Social Distortion - [It Coulda Been Me]). To greed, I mean. I know that never being satisfied, never luxuriating in the Now, can be detrimental. But what if you know the good of the now, and can see the good of the next and more, and you want all of that? I want to work at these places, and that place. I want to put this convention together and build a class curriculum. Et Cetera.
What the hell is wrong with that? Where's the drawback? I ask, because I know there has to be one, and I don't know why I can't see it. Which means, to me, that it's exactly the thing I need to be investigating.
You don't know what I want, unless you do.
I find that I am greedy. I want everything, and I want all (pleasant and many not) experiences. But I also find myself wondering if greed, without selfishness, is really greed at all. What else would that be called?
Can someone tell me the downside to wanting new expeiences? (Social Distortion - [It Coulda Been Me]). To greed, I mean. I know that never being satisfied, never luxuriating in the Now, can be detrimental. But what if you know the good of the now, and can see the good of the next and more, and you want all of that? I want to work at these places, and that place. I want to put this convention together and build a class curriculum. Et Cetera.
What the hell is wrong with that? Where's the drawback? I ask, because I know there has to be one, and I don't know why I can't see it. Which means, to me, that it's exactly the thing I need to be investigating.
You don't know what I want, unless you do.
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Date: 2012-02-20 02:43 pm (UTC)http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/02/14/science/novelty-seeking-neophilia-can-be-a-predictor-of-well-being.xml
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Date: 2012-02-21 07:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-20 04:20 pm (UTC)At first I thought I wanted all the things. (Okay, maybe a subset, like board games or role-playing books or whathaveyou. Every Legend of the Five Rings card ever.)
Then I realized that I'm cool with not personally owning all the things, as long as
I) I know that someone has all the things, and
II) I have access to it. If it's either a public collection, or a private collection about which I have details, it's all good.
Theorizing further, I guess it doesn't have to be a single physical collection, since we can meta-collect it, and it's collected within the [humanity] set.
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Date: 2012-02-21 07:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-20 05:20 pm (UTC)That's just the pesky humanity in your current mortal shell acting up. You missed part of his soul. Find it, eat it, then get back to devouring everything, never stopping to enjoy anything. *Hug to end all hugs in it's reality encompassing vastness*
You're Loving Brother
-Jörmungandr
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Date: 2012-02-21 07:32 am (UTC)