Trash · Memories

Sad tonight, up way too late with nothing to write, I read the old journal...

"Observe the ups and downs of your own life, and you have not yet lost the Way...Observing their lives, cultured people are blameless...To observe their own lives is to observe the people at large...They observe their lives because they do not yet have piece of mind."
-- The Book of Changes, Hexagram 20, Wind over Earth, Observing.

"When I'm forty, I'm going to meet some 24 year old girl and she's gonna ask me what I did when I was her age, or something, and what am I going to tell her? "I tried to get back into a university for the fourth time" or "I worked my ass off so I could buy a car and travel across the country for six months until I ran out of money in Portland" Which sounds better to you? The fucking latter, I'll say."
-- me, 2002