sometimes a quote so aptly sums up your current mental state

Wisdom is distinct from cleverness or mental efficiency. Wisdom is about getting the big things right. A prerequisite is the ability to recognize what the big things are, i.e., a sense for proportion, for what is important. I am often thinking about this: What if I am overlooking something essential or getting a big thing wrong? Then whatever progress I'm making is in vain. It is worse than useless to travel fast and far if one is going in the wrong direction. How can one reduce the probability of such fundamental error? And of course, if one spends too much of ones time worrying about such questions, one never gets anywhere at all. In the ideal world, perhaps one would have two lives. In the first life, one would figure out what the right direction is. In the second life, one would set off in that direction at one's maximum pace. As things stand, one is left to make a half-hearted compromise between recklessness and paralysis. (Nick Bostrom)

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possibility

"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!
-Kierkegaard

clarity

if i could only hold on to these fleeting moments of clarity

A POEM

Your life lies as a panorama unfolding before you.
Ahead there are mountains and valleys
Deserts, oceans and meadows
Ands the roads-the choices
Are many;
And their ends-the results,
Are often distant and varied.

There might come happiness or sorrow;
Mere contentment or fulfillment;
Pacifity or involvement
Exultation or regret.
But always,
Until one has reached the
Height of his aspirations
There must be change.

Choose your roads carefully.
Be cautious and analytical;
And free and flexible
Within yourself.
Try to anticipate all that might lie ahead,
And if your choice happens to lead to something less
Than what was expected feel not too
Discouraged or defeated,
Leave it and choose another
For through experience
Ones knowledge does usually broaden;
And often,
The second road is far more promising than could have been the first.

Maintain hope, confidence and resolution,
And remember always;
That he who stays in the desert
When he yearns for the ocean
Grows gradually deeper in
Frustration and regret,
And in the end perishes-
Having hardly lived at all.

-Anonymous

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