a quote i found recently that i thought made a good point:
"The simple possibility of achieving that which we desire causes the soul of the common man to be filled with guilt. He looks around, and sees many others who have not succeeded, and so he thinks he does not deserve it. He forgets everything he overcame, all he suffered, everything he had to renounce in order to come this far."
Also I was struck by a passage in Deleuze about the refrain in music...as he points out the refrain is just that a repetition of that which we already heard, but each time we get to the refrain we hear it differently (as we are a result of what came before it) and also are about to embark on a new journey for the next piece after the refrain will be new. Viewed in this way the refrain is kind of like life. Each day is resembles repetition (some days more than others) you know the usual wake up, eat, shower, work, lunch, procrastinate, break, eat, run, study whatever. The point is though that we have two choices: first, we can let the refrain be mere repetition, not alerting ourselves to how we have changed and the possibility for changes that emerges with each day. second, we can look at the refrain, the repetition, as a small bit of the puzzle, serving as that piece which we are both familiar with, but which we approach each and every time with new experience. In a good piece of music the refrain is central and a good artist turns mere repetition into a musical experience. And that I guess is the aim of life, to view the refrain as music not mere repetition. Did that make any sense....or am I asleep at the keys?
