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Reason in Common Sense



...Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness.When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted; it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in whom instinct has learned nothing from experience. In a second stage men are docile to events, plastic to new habits and suggestions, yet able to graft them on original instincts, which they thus bring to fuller satisfaction. This is the plane of manhood and true progress. Last comes a stage when retentiveness is exhausted and all that happens is at once forgotten; a vain, because unpractical,repetition of the past takes the place of plasticity and fertile readaptation. In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity. The hard shell, far from protecting the vital principle, condemns it to die down slowly and be gradually chilled; immortality in such a case must have been secured earlier, by giving birth to a generation plastic to the contemporary world and able to retain its lessons. Thus old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible ; it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions; its memory becomes self-repeating and degenerates into an instinctive reaction, like a bird s chirp... [1]




I was going to avoid commenting because I thought that it was eloquent enough, but the grammatical errors are just that bit too annoying to not mention. So I did, and I have. (*were)




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1. Santayana George,  The Life of Reason: Reason in Common Sense (2nd ed.), Charles Scribner's Sons, New York 1924

We live together in a photograph of time.

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 I was lying in my bed tonight when it suddenly hit me; I just have to let you all know how I feel. 

I once was asked to write an essay on 'love'. I sat there in despair, wondering how I was ever going to explain this inexplicable emotion. I came to the conclusion the definition was irrelevant, and it was more the sheer fact it existed that made love so important, some I would say the reason for living. That the existence of love somehow made humanity complete- for it was not the higher power binding us all on this earth, but a simple yet unyielding emotion which holds us all together, and with it our sanity too. Time will change things, this is for sure. But what will always remain constant is the love I have for this man.

I know this is actually a round-about way of saying Happy Birthday, but I'd prefer to make those words true than wish them to be so.

Happy Birthday Luke.

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でも

しかし、何も事項私はあなたを愛しているから。


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わかりません


Watshi ha wakarimasenn. Watashi no tokidoki ha sakebimasu. Demo, atode watshi hamamadesu. Wakarimasenn. Anata wa, watashi ga amarini mo ōku o kitai suru yōna kibun ni sa seru. Soshite watashi wa gizen-tekina kanji. Wareware wa, saigo ni subete no tawagoto no hitodakara。

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Hindsight

This is what it is.

This has been a long time coming. And despite that, I'm still at a loss of what to actually write. What this all comes down to is resentment and jealousy. I guess this is the product of my own doing, and I can only blame myself.


None of you were surprised, and indeed many were expecting. So I wonder why I felt the need to keep to myself all these years. The resentment I feel  towards myself, for denying who I am all these years (to what means?), even if just to others, is what's really eating me up inside.


This is where the jealously comes in.

Nothing specific.

Just you.

I could say the way you have this natural ability to outshine everyone. The way, somehow, you just make people like you. Or the way you seem to just have everything you want, worked for or not. But ultimately I'm jealous of your conviction. That you've never felt the need to hide yourself from anyone, or anything. For it feels like I've wasted all these years trying to be something I'm not (for myself more than others), and missed the opportunity to really live, until now. I look back into the past, I knew who I was. And now you do too.

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When I don't know what to do, I write a blog post.

You may have noticed.

It's gonna be a long long journey
It's gonna be an uphill climb
It's gonna be a tough fight
It's gonna be some lonely nights
But I'm ready to carry on
I'm so glad the worst is over
I can start living now,
I feel like I can do anythin'


I told myself I'd retire this. I told her I wouldn't write this.


There's some sort of closure I can't seem to find, without writing something here.


I just don't know.


and I guess I never will.



Cruising at 10000 feet.

There are some (little) things which just make my day. I've been trying to compile a list of those small moments  but usually they're forgotten as soon as they pass. If you've ever watched Amelie from [some French city starting with Montmarter...(I don't remember now)], think of the opening dialogue; 'This is Amile, she enjoys...(Its been that long I also don't remember any of those things now. I should watch it again.)'.

Today's moment, well actually there's been a few today, so today's most recent moment occurred while taxi-ing down runway 33L at Sydney international. Without going into so much detail, the take off was rather rushed due to curfew's and delays (follow the full story on twitter), and when we finally did get the confirmation that we were indeed heading to Avalon tonight, spontaneous applause erupted, half in thanks to the efficient crew, half in a congratulatory self appreciation in our own collective efforts in the hasty boarding.

Long story short, spontaneous applause is (yet another) one of those life reassuring moments.

Virtues

With an unrequited love
When your passion’s exultation,
Finding refuge is not enough


It strikes me that sometimes you unnecessarily need to compete. I don't have a problem with this, or you, I just wonder about the implications for you in the long-run.

No matter what you say, I can think how I like, and what I like. Sometimes the concept of personal space is lost.

You're throwing around the L-word like there's no tomorrow, despite me making it clear things were never going to happen. And (then) still you claim your intentions are not what they seem.


Oh, memories, where’d you go?
You were all I’ve ever known.
How I miss yesterday
And I let it fade away


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