If you happen upon this blog, because I admittedly will talk about this and share this with many friends and family, I apologize in advance for the seeming lack of coherence or consistency. ![]() ![]() I’m not imagining any sort of audience, nor am I catering towards anyone except maybe my future self, who will hopefully look back and be inspired in a way only I would understand. Because self-reflection is crucial to truly understanding oneself, and only from a true understanding can an individual find a way to improve vices and strengthen virtues.Īlso I anticipate that it’s going to be very fun to do this, and fun is important. Maybe I should make peace with myself and live with the transience of things but I’m not ready to do that, especially when I have such a powerful tool for preservation.īut I also believe that this self-centered project is a noble, courageous journey of learning what the world has to offer, what life has to offer, and how I can live to be a better person. It’s quite simply a form of self-preservation I don’t want to just experience and feel these things and let them die away after. My mission is completely and unabashedly self-centered, coming from the perch of privilege this I openly admit. Write them down describe them find, or in many cases fabricate the special implicit meaning in them. My goal for this blog then, is to find those things in life where I feel the juice is worth the squeeze, and then go and squeeze. The meaning and feeling of playing and enjoying music, the inspiration from reading a book, the excitement of a new one rep max on bench press, the bittersweet nostalgia of reflection on a past memory and discovering some deep lesson that has only been revealed with the passing of time…there is so much out there to add flavor to life that it would be a damn shame if much of it were deemed not “worth the squeeze.” But I personally believe that the “juices” out there that are worth the “squeeze” are numerous and diverse. So yes, there is indeed “trouble”’ involved in squeezing the juice, and it ultimately must be decided whether the rewards are worth the challenges. Then, it is up to the individual to determine how to squeeze Beethoven and Chopin, how to play them, how to listen to them, how to interpret them so that the music becomes meaningful in the context of one’s own life. This fruit of truth must be squeezed in a way so that the juice is comprehensible, meaningful, and applicable to each individual who deems that the juice is indeed “worth the squeeze.” For example, we have the great works of Beethoven and Chopin as fruit. ![]() If the juice is the ultimate prize, and the squeezing is the challenges and obstacles encountered along the way, then the fruit must be the pure, natural, originator of that which is desired. ![]() If one is talking about juice worth squeezing, then a logical starting point would be the fruit. Put briefly, I’d like to “metaphorize” it even more than it has been. does the reward outweigh the punishment.” I’d like to slightly, or maybe drastically, add to and reform this definition and remold it to something greater than what I see as a harsh simplification entailing only a cost-benefit analysis of reward and punishment. A quick Google search of“the juice is worth the squeeze” yields an Urban Dictionary definition: “knowing if something is worth the trouble of trying to get it, i.e.
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