08 September 2020

sub specie aeternitatus

Another full revolution around the sun and I have mixed feelings about how much wiser I've gotten. The truth is I feel I've made a lot of progress and yet I could have known years ago. Why is this true, because I feel like the big ideas that I've sorted out in the past 1.5 years is all contained in the first 5 chapters of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, which I first read back in middle school. Granted that was perhaps a little early for the same ideas to really lodge in my head, but I did also find evidence that I was anxious about the same things from this doodle from early high school featuring one of my stuffed animals:


To summarize the lessons learned: gain perspective and make decisions.

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