Tag: status/evergreen

  • The Game That Plays You

    There’s a man who wants nothing, nothing at all. He lives day to day, come what may.

    There’s a man who wants something simple, something easily found. Something he has to reach for, but on the ground.

    There’s also a man who wants something hard and rare. Hard to get, and far from here.

    And then there’s a man who wants everything. A little more here, a little more there, a little more everywhere.

    Do you want something?

    Really?

    What is it?

    Is it simple, or hard and rare, or everything yet fair?

    Tell me, are you playing the game or being played by the game, without a care?

    By the way, have you decided what you want?


    There’s a man who has nothing to lose, nothing at all. Maybe just some booze.

    And a man who has simple things to lose, things that are easily found. Easy to reach, not beyond the ground.

    Then there’s a man who has something hard and rare to lose. Something once in lifetime, and to keep, there’s nothing he wouldn’t do.

    And lastly, a man who has everything to lose. A life of gamble, with no preamble.

    What do you have?

    What do you really have?

    Is it really yours?

    Is it yours to keep, or yours to lose?

    Is it simple, or hard and rare, or everything yet fair?

    I wonder, are you playing the game or being played by the game, without a care?

    As they say, if you don’t know who’s the patsy, then it’s…

  • The Habit of Trying

    Try.

    Try to try.

    Try again.

    If stagnant try differently.

    Try small.

    Try slowly.

    Try fast.

    And if you must, try something else.

    To attain the things that are worth having, that are valuable, and highly sort after there’s no best way. There’s no shortcut, no guarantee, and no easy way. It is hard. It is long. It’s not necessarily complicated. It can be achievable and obtainable. It is worth the effort.

    So learn the habit of trying.

    Just try.

  • Christopher Alexander – “Which Has More Life?” Questions

    This is extracted from Christopher Alexander’s, The Nature of Order. I added the numbering.

    1. What is the next step which most intensifies the feeling of the emerging whole?
    2. Which of the two seems to generate a greater feeling of life in me?
    3. Which of the two makes me more aware of my own life?
    4. Which of the two induces a greater harmony in me, in my body and in my mind?
    5. Which of the two makes me feel a greater wholesomeness in myself?
    6. Considering my self as a whole that embraces all my dimensions and many internal opposites, I then ask which of the two is more like my best self, or which of the two seems more like a picture of my eternal self?
    7. Which of the two makes me feel devotion, or inspires devotion in me?
    8. Which of the two makes me more aware of God, or makes me feel closer to God?
    9. When I try to observe the expanding and contracting of my humanity, which of the two causes a greater expansion of my humanity?
    10. Which of the two has more feeling in it or, more accurately, which of the two makes me experience a deeper feeling of unity in myself?

    Links to this note:
    A Genuinely Felt Problem is the Most Powerful Generator of Creative Problem-Solving that Exists
    Controlling structure undermines intrinsic motivation; enabling structure supports it