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solipsism of the present momentwith apologies to Santayana Status Quaestionis
If these & other questions of the same ilk keep you awake at night & throw [a Heideggerian Geworfenheit] you into existential angst, then check out personalpedia No Way to Make a Living"If you want to really hurt your parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow,
for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell
stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as
you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have
created something." Vonnegut, Kurt A Man without a Country (2005), p. 24 "What? Me Worry? Stoicism 101"our only defence against death - or rather, against not being able to think about anything else – lies in 'the acquisition of worthwhile short-term worries.' " (e.g., If you're facing a deadline - final exams, business presentation, unclogging the toliet before in-laws arrive - you don't really have time to think about being dead, except perhaps in the latter case) Read Tihs
"Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe." what one book?'If you were marooned on a desert island, & could have only one book, what would you choose?' When G. K. Chesterton was asked this question, one would have expected his answer to have been: "the Bible". Actually he said, "I would like to have a copy of Thomas’ Guide to Practical Shipbuilding".
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