Friday, February 08, 2008
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
The hardest thing to do is usually the right one
When I first heard this remark it was probably from a teacher or self-help text and I rolled my eyes at it, thinking it trite and illogically.
Make things hard on purpose?
What about the way of the Tao? Like water?
"Take it easy, Take it easy, don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy." (Incredulous question mark.)
Always doing what is most difficult would make for a rather high strung work-a-holic. But are those my own thoughts? I have a cast of critical characters in my head, a sort-of "Ethics in America" meets Jerry Springer type panel that critiques my every thought. The scholarly, emotionally stable Marxist, anti-self-helper is critical of any sort of selp help one-liner. "Society is manufacturing all of your problems. That saying is a capitalist mantra of 60 hour work weeks."
But to have the manicured and nimble fingers of a 5'2" hair dresser running through my hair was what it took for it to click. "You know, the hardest thing to do is usually the right one," she said, as she added texture to my baby thin wispy head of cobwebs. That and an over dose of Rhinocort and Waliten-D. But ok, perhaps hair product and antihistamines are what it takes for a neurotic agnostic to find answers.
Make things hard on purpose?
What about the way of the Tao? Like water?
"Take it easy, Take it easy, don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy." (Incredulous question mark.)
Always doing what is most difficult would make for a rather high strung work-a-holic. But are those my own thoughts? I have a cast of critical characters in my head, a sort-of "Ethics in America" meets Jerry Springer type panel that critiques my every thought. The scholarly, emotionally stable Marxist, anti-self-helper is critical of any sort of selp help one-liner. "Society is manufacturing all of your problems. That saying is a capitalist mantra of 60 hour work weeks."
But to have the manicured and nimble fingers of a 5'2" hair dresser running through my hair was what it took for it to click. "You know, the hardest thing to do is usually the right one," she said, as she added texture to my baby thin wispy head of cobwebs. That and an over dose of Rhinocort and Waliten-D. But ok, perhaps hair product and antihistamines are what it takes for a neurotic agnostic to find answers.
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