1.
Performing any
disciplined action
for any
amount of time (note—waking
up in the morning
doesn't count
unless you're doing it—to
spite the alternative)
has been shown to
strengthen the self-
control muscles,
mostly
by sapping
the ego.
2.
Sitting and thinking—perhaps
time doesn't pass
if nobody
measures it—still doesn't
give you
what you actually want,
still won't make it run
backwards.
In order to do that,
you have to
impoverish
chaos; you have
to wash
dishes.
4.
As years pass, the strings
pull taut
but get
longer in the process.
Things get
streamlined, yet
simultaneously
more complicated. For
instance,
now, the old saying
actually goes
more like—
Damned
if you do.
Damned if
you don't.
Or
if some
cop—
or the
doctor—
says so.
5.
Man is
garbage. His
ideas
are the recycling bin.
What is
Justice? But the crusty old
ruins of
Revenge—with just enough
of the
blood power-washed off.
