Can’t get no satisfaction
The other day I commented to my girlfriend that we have almost been living in our current residence for almost 2 years and she said “where has the time gone?”. It’s never really worried me before but I guess I’ve changed a bit in the last 2 years and no I do wonder where has the time gone, what have I got to show for it? We got a dog, I got a higher position at work, I gained some more possesions, nothng out of the ordinary really. But what makes time spent important? What elevates it above being wasted when nothing I do will last much longer than I will, on a grand scale there is no doubt to me that life is completely futile. However I think your going to find way to make your time worthwhile it has to suit you and it probably won’t suit others, someone else might find that trying to change the world with something that will last as long as possible is for them, just because I don’t see it that way doesn’t mean that eigther way is wrong, he I think the old philosophical statement “There are no absolutes” helps me.
“There are no absolutes” is self defeating the first rebuttal to the statement is “but that statement is an absolute” and of course it is. There are many paths you could go down from there but I choose this… “There are no absolutes”, I’m sorry if it breaks your logic but the fact that the statement is an absolute proves it, hopefully I can laymanise it “There are no absolutes, is an absolute proving that even an absolute statement denying absolutes cannot be absolute.” The fact that it disproves itself proves it. So you have to accept that eigther there are both absolutes and non-absolutes or their are neigther. Things are as they are and can be this and that.
Boy that was fun.
I don’t think anymore that there is anything that can give lasting satisfaction, but there are things that will satisfy me till the day I die and even with my philosophy those things are worthwhile if I approach them properly. Travel is that thing. To go further into this I’ll have to leave the topic of travel further and I don’t really want to here so I’ve created a subdomain, I was thinking the other day of making another so I could rant without it being part of this so thats what I have done and unimaginatively called it rants.thelostglobe.com. I’m not sure if it will last or not, at some point I’ll probably get sick of ranting, it’s happened before but the urge has returned a little.
Promise next post will be strictly travel, probably gear related again, hope it isn’t boring anyone.
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ha, you know, we have quite a lot in common. i’ve been living at my residence with my (now) fiance, for about 3 years. Last year we got a dog. We’re doing fine, working in our interesting day-jobs, learning more, hanging with friends, reading, etc. We managed a 2 month trip to southeast-asia last year, and this year it will be 2 weeks in costa rica. but what i really want is that one year wander. i will not feel rested until that happens.