Machines have so much more to say to us when things go wrong than when they go right. Do you know any people like that? On the other hand, total failure means you might as well start again fresh.
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You were standing in the rain. In the story I tell myself, you were waiting. Maybe you were just smelling the rain. Maybe, like me, you just wanted to feel something. Now, this was a temperate rain and I thought I could sniff the tropics with it, but I’ll admit my imagination is easily influenced [...]
It is one thing to be carried away by what you believe, quite another to be carried off by what others do. How much have the beliefs of others affected you?
If you lost memory of everything, how easily would you be able to reconstruct yourself? Do you prefer to leave traces of yourself everywhere, or to go through the world traceless?
A friend described seeing such an umbrella. Umbrellas aside, have you seen people put up analogous kinds of screen?
Is there any place you need to get away from? Any state of mind or condition? Do you have a friend who is in a rut?
A friend told me recently that if she finds herself unable to decide what to do, she tosses a coin and uses it to test how she feels. She didn’t say what she does when she doesn’t want to choose. What do you do?
Some jobs just grind you up and squish you out. Which industries do you think are the roughest? Is your job a meat grinder?
How to deal with choice? You might know the right choice. You might know the wrong choice won’t matter. Otherwise, why choose?