Sunday On the Verge of February

we cant always look in all directions

On the Sabbath the Lord rested, and so did I. It’s been a really long time since I spent two days in a row at home without leaving the house in any reasonable way. Listing every little thing I did today is would be simply mundane, instead why not read some of my thoughts for the day.

I was staring at my lava lamp this morning when I woke up; I switch it on every night when I sleep because it’s so hot that it warms my room and yes, I like my room warm, and my bed warm and my blanket warm. Watching the endless loop motion of the wax bob up and sink down. The wax would have some false sense of progress, the form of the wax changes, the wax if it could feel itself change would think that it is improving. But from my point of view, looking at the wax from my IKEA bed its feeble attempts at change look sad at best. Would the wax listen to me if I were to tell it that what it is doing will result in nothing worthwhile?

One of our greatest short coming is that we cannot see our forehead, or as the Greeks would say “the eye can’t see the eye”. Fundamentally, we all believe that we are doing the right things, making the right choices, doing what we think is best for ourselves and those who are important to us. But that is what we think, that is merely our opinion it is the furthest concept from fact. Believe it or not, we, mortal human beings can’t over all the angles, we can try, but we cant cover 100% of all possible trains of thoughts.

What we need is alternative perspective, established persons who with the best intentions at heart offering us their own point of view. But be wary of advice, the best intentions does not equate to the best advice, and good advice can only come from wisdom.

There are many ways one can obtain wisdom; one of them is through experience, or through “Life”. But, good and correct wisdom can only come when one has lived his life correctly, hence he will be in possession of good wisdom. Not coffee shop talk and vague instructions for success, not “common sense” or “logic”. Attributing the reason for a course of action to logic is a public display of ignorance as any creditable student of philosophy can tell you that there are many forms of logic and they are far from compatible with each other.

Here are some examples of bad advice:

“In stocks, to make money one must buy low and sell high” – Every time I hear anyone give any one else or God forbid me this advice I have to will myself not to slap him, why? Because saying something like that is akin to saying nothing and hence wasting everybody’s time. He should be telling me how to buy or sell, which to buy and sell or to watch, and at how much it’s worth at best or at its worst.

If the CEO of a listed company tells me 1 week before he liquidate his company and that I should sell off all my stock in that company… now that is good advice.

“Study hard”, now this is a classic example of bad advice. Study what? Study where? Study for how long? Study under who? What does “hard” mean, at the expense of your health, social skills, communication skills or the ability to be tactful? If I want to be a professor who is weakly, antisocial and live in an ivory condominium filled with books and a single seat sofa, I would take that advice.

“Get a good job”, now this is rubbish, one of the most outdated and out with the times advice ever. GET THIS INTO YOUR HEADS, NO SUCH THING EXIST. Next time ask me to marry an invisible pink unicorn.

Peace