So I came damn near close to not writing this blog. In fact I have been taking my first extended break from blogging in like, forever.
Today’s topic is about the feeling of apathy. Some people would call it lazy but that’s just apathy with intention. Others would say insouciant but that’s just plain lazy without caring. Lassitude is too dang slow to describe the feeling.
Half-heartedness. That’s it! Apathy is all about heart, really. Or lack thereof. You see when your heart wanders you lose sight of your goal. Without a goal you flounder. Like a flat fish on dry-land flip-flopping for water you gasp for meaning. You need a purpose. A destination maybe. A reason to compel action.
Sometimes you take these for granted. You never notice them. You work to earn a living. You love and create to feel alive. When times are good you function on autopilot and all is right and good with the world.
When crisis erupts, however, you lose your bearing. Like a drunk, you stagger woozily. Disoriented, you sometimes lose sight of your goal. Instead of action, nothing. A profound sense of sadness or frustration or carelessness typically underpins apathy. The result is non-action. Time drags by slower. The world dims. You have urgent desires to eat chocolate or watch re-runs of “I Dream of Genie”.
So what to do?
Turn on all your lights? Ramp up your heat? Or shake it off like a dog waggling off water? Yeah, spray everyone around you. Piss them off. Will yourself into the world and the world will kick you in the shins and it will hurt. But the pain will focus your attention on the big questions: What am I doing? Why am I doing it? The feeling of apathy then becomes a gift of sorts. An opportunity for you to re-evaluate those questions and reinvigorate your response to them.
So have you ever suffered from the feeling of apathy? What brought it on?
What was your response? How did you beat it?
What is Truth North on your life’s compass?
Clark and I had been friends since our youth back in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. It was there that Clark and I began our epic rivalry. It revolves around hot, spicy, ethnic food. You see in Tennessee we grew up thinking that kind of fiery food only came from Taco Bell.
When we left [...]
So I gotz ta thinkin the other day that the Jihadists and Muslim fundamentalists seem to have cornered the market on suicide bombing as a method to furthering their political aspirations. This seems slightly unfair. Something drastic needs to be done to level the playing field.
So I thought to create a rival system and [...]
So I came damn near close to not writing this blog. In fact I have been taking my first extended break from blogging in like, forever.
Today’s topic is about the feeling of apathy. Some people would call it lazy but that’s just apathy with intention. Others would say insouciant but that’s just [...]
So life’s been swamping me of late. Don’t you hate it when your real space encroaches on your blogging.
Today a little updating of Shakespeare “All the World’s a Stage” soliloquy similar to my last attempt (“To Blog or Not to Blog”) for your reading and commenting pleasure …
All the world’s a blog,
And all the [...]
So I came damn near close to not writing this blog. In fact I have been taking my first extended break from blogging in like, forever.
Today’s topic is about the feeling of apathy. Some people would call it lazy but that’s just apathy with intention. Others would say insouciant but that’s just [...]
Some days I hanker for simpler existence. You know, a life afloat in a sea of middle class ennui, unmoored ambitions, and Starbucks iced tea. Do you?
Yet for some cosmic unknown reason, I’m a magnet for high drama and complication. I can mutate the most innocuous of situations into danger [...]
Have you ever been torn by conflicting urges? Frozen in inaction, angsting an impending decision or course of action, Hamleting your precious life away?
So I have. In fact, some would say I gain some perverse pleasure from this purgatorial state of being. I, of course, would disagree.
So to [...]
His luck ran bad. He had gone 1084 days without catching a fish. Never mind that he hadn’t fished for the last 1083 days. Today was the day his luck would change.
He readied his trusty gear – nightcrawlers, slimy and earth brown, squiggling in their container, rods, tackle, explosives. He headed early to [...]
Go and catch a falling rock star,
Immaculately conceive with some ganja
,
Tell me how many dead brain cells there are
,
Or who invited the Devil’s last hurrah,
Teach me to hear mermaids kvetching
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Or to keep away envy’s retching,
And find what wind serves to cloud an honest mind
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If thou be’est born to kinky sights,
Things risible to see
,
Be ridden a [...]
I am forever looking for the deepest meanings in words. The layer below. The strong undertow of implied meaning. Or that gentle tug on emotion. Those lyric little beauties. But sometimes it is the sheer whimsy of words that catches my breath. That breezy brush over the surface of life that [...]
So why do you read anything anyway? Great literature, newspapers, magazines, blogs; every word we digest builds up emotional muscle, laughable ligature, spiritual sinews.
Like calories, we intake words to live. They inform us, educate us, entertain us and on rare occasions even enlighten us. Unlike bricks and mortar, they do not crumble [...]
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