06-23-2017, 12:00 AM
So, take home point (can't speak to that guy's situation, specifically....it's too rhetorical)...don't be too hedonistic to recapitulate. Being too hedonistic to recapitulate means just putting off the inevitable....being "surprised", as you say, by what's left undone when the "putting off" can't be sustained any longer. Yeah, I get that. I see a tendency in me to do that.
Hedonism, on the one hand....and masochism on the other. Both are distorted. One, the procrastination...and two, the desperate attempt to get it all over with sooner than what appropriate pacing would allow for. Anyway, that's rhetorical too, given I've no taste for seeking out pain/suffering. I'm imbalanced on the pleasure side of things.
Sobriety, I guess, is taking an honest, clear look at things as they are. Perennially, actively looking for what's still active....sticky...from day to day and upholding the intent to be perennially unraveling what comes to light.
Hedonism, on the one hand....and masochism on the other. Both are distorted. One, the procrastination...and two, the desperate attempt to get it all over with sooner than what appropriate pacing would allow for. Anyway, that's rhetorical too, given I've no taste for seeking out pain/suffering. I'm imbalanced on the pleasure side of things.
Sobriety, I guess, is taking an honest, clear look at things as they are. Perennially, actively looking for what's still active....sticky...from day to day and upholding the intent to be perennially unraveling what comes to light.