- Long ago, one of my friends had once complained that all the academic textbooks now read like the authors' blogs and personal opinions and he started complaining heavily.
- Finally I realized the difference between empathy and sympathy in one of our training classes: "When you think, you empathize; when you feel, you sympathize."
- I heard a great quotation from someone yesterday: "Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people." I knew he was subtly referring to me when he said that, but I had an idea and said, "That's a good quotation, I should note it down!", and he fortunately took it in spirit and told us another one: "The confident says, 'I can do it.', but the arrogant says, 'Only I can do it.'"
- I want to write about people referring to their own blogs on their blogs and explaining why they can't post regularly or couldn't write something the previous week, but I wonder how I can do that without being arrogant or hypocritical.
- No poems or thoughts come to me as I sit and wait. I think and feel, I sit on my chair and wait. I am still waiting. No poetic emotions come to me. No enlightening thoughts. I wonder if That has forsaken me, either temporarily or permanently. But, I am still aware that I had once a copy of That in my mind and heart, and I know I can find it again and again, every time I lose it. For that is the beauty of That.
- You know what I want? I want to learn the key to learn all the languages of the world in one go. Will even learning the root language help me achieve that goal? I guess not, because it's either no longer being used or it's vastly different from modern and current languages. Possibly, even the right answer to "What is that, knowing which, I can know everything?" won't help me with this problem.
- I want to not use the words 'right' and 'wrong', 'good' or 'bad' ever, for they are ever so subjective, especially in professional settings. But then, how can I make people understand or even convey my meaning to them if I don't speak their own language? They use it in an introductory or a context-setting sense. Can I set the context using different adjectives and adverbs? I most certainly should be able to: 'extremely abysmal' or 'heavily disappointing' or 'immense room for improvement' could be some setters that I could use. I have no idea: Ich habe keine ahnung.
- Coming back to the desire to master all languages, I consider having 'perfected a language' only when I can read and write literature and poetry in that language.
- More?
Saturday, February 13, 2010
We are all lonely together
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