Another Sleepless Night

Aug 16th, 2008

5:50 am

There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.
- J. G. Holland

Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.
-  Gian Carlo Menotti

Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don't count.
-  Robert Anthony

How much of human life is lost in waiting.
-  Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every second I spend alone is a second unshared, unmemorialized, unspecial, unknown, undesired, unresultant, ungratifying. Every film I watch, every word I write, every book I read, every thought I have, every inch I grow in the darkness of seclusion does nothing more than separate me further from the rest of the world, from those I love, from those I want to melt with.

Or am I just arrogant to believe that the waiting world is falling behind? Are we in fact reaching the same goal along different paths... but if so, why is this path so painful? Why is my path one of unfullfilled desire? Why is anyone's? I know the difference between good and bad, so what remains the point in suffering?

I taught today that often results are the same, that it is the way we achieve those results that is important. Why then are there so many good ways to fail? How much of human life is lost in waiting? Why, in pain, is every second is an eternity? Why, in bliss, does time slip away so easily?

6:12 am

Good morning

Goodnight...

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