Hiro Antagonist ([info]hiro_antagonist) wrote,
@ 2008-08-12 11:17:00
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Becalmed at the Creative Sea
Haven't written much of anything in the last few weeks. I haven't written anything remotely creative / not about my personal life in even longer a span of time.

Haven't had much interest in shooting models, trying to see if doing architectural photography would make me any more inclined to take pictures.

If I didn't know better, I'd almost think I was depressed.


Lately, I've just been playing COD 4, while Assassin's Creed and TF2 languish in the dust.

Classes start in a week, three this semester, two next semester, and after that I'll actually have a degree after eight years of fucking around in college. I've learned a lot of things, but I'm not sure it was worth 8 years of my time. To be honest though, about 1/4 of that time was spent failing classes very creatively when bipolar disorder reared its nasty head.

I feel like I haven't done much with my life to date. Short of carving my name into the moon with a giant laser, I might always feel like that. If I ever have a conversation with someone, and the question 'what have you done to set yourself apart from everyone else in this world?' were to come up, I wouldn't have much of an answer. That disappoints me.

Perhaps it's simply the biological understanding of impending mortality that fuels this urge, the notion deep down in your cells that you won't be here much longer and so you should do something to be remembered by.




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[info]damyx
2008-08-12 06:36 pm UTC (link)
"Ode on Solitude" by Alexander Pope:

Happy the man, whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his native air,
In his own ground.

Whose heards with milk, whose fields with bread,
Whose flocks supply him with attire,
Whose trees in summer yield him shade,
In winter fire.

Blest! who can unconcern'dly find
Hours, days, and years slide soft away,
In health of body, peace of mind,
Quiet by day,

Sound sleep by night; study and ease
Together mix'd; sweet recreation,
And innocence, which most does please,
With meditation.

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;
Thus unlamented let me dye;
Steal from the world, and not a stone
Tell where I lye.

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[info]hiro_antagonist
2008-08-12 10:02 pm UTC (link)
There is that thought.

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[info]damyx
2008-08-13 04:26 am UTC (link)
I think it represents the other extreme.

And I feel like for most of us the best course falls somewhere in between.

I struggle with the same thing that you do - wanting to make a difference, an impact, do something memorable, something to outlive the few inadequate years that I'll be alive myself - but damn it's a frustrating thought, because there seems to be so little that I can really do. So then I think of things along the line of Pope's Ode and try to remember that it's possible to be happy and satisfied without Winning, if you know what I mean.

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[info]hiro_antagonist
2008-08-13 04:33 am UTC (link)
Yeah, I think it is possible to be satisfied, though I fear it's not in my nature to be.

Maybe when I hit 65 I'll finally be able to relax. Maybe...

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