“We say to the confused,
Know thyself,
as if knowing yourself was not the fifth and most difficult of human arithmetical operations,
we say to the apathetic,
Where there’s a will, there’s a way,
as if the brute realities of the world did not amuse themselves each day by turning that phrase on its head,
we say to the indecisive,
Begin at the beginning,
as if beginning were the clearly visible point of a loosely wound thread and all we had to do was to keep pulling until we reached the other end, and as if, between the former and the latter, we had held in our hands a smooth, continuous thread with no knots to untie, no snarls to untangle, a complete impossibility in the life of a skein, or indeed, if we may be permitted one more stock phrase, in the skein of life.”
Notes:
- Quote – Thank you WhiskeyRiver.
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beautifully summed of life in three phrases.
It is…it is. Saramago was/is in my top 5 authors list…
As if..
And. You’re just going to keep us hangin’?
Laughing…yes. Just agreeing with the sentiment – as if one could always find the beginning to follow to the end. And so on.
OK. That’s a bit better. There you were talking to yourself and hoping we’d be able to fill in the gaps. 🙂
My bad…sometimes I just figure that everyone’s in my head with me – heaven knows there are enough opinions and thoughts debating with each other in there!!
I’m not diving into that one. 🙂
sometimes it’s a circle and hard to imagine, let alone find, the beginning or the end.
Yes. Agree.
1. Yeah, so?
2. Huh?
3. There’s always a beginning—the piece of knot in front of you, the section of yarn in your hand…
Laughing. Love how your knife cuts through the butter.
Going with the flow isnt always so easy, either.
Now, THIS, is true.
my flow is sometimes dammed
Laughing. More truth.
This nicely explains the origin of the word, “duh!”
Good One!
We say to the disgruntled, “Live and let live….” As if… As Carolann noted, it ain’t always easy to ‘go with the flow,’ but I concur that it’s a laudable goal (she says as she retreats to her corner and assumes the lotus position…) 😉
Funny!
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