1.24.02 – the seekers of truth

wow. everyone feels compelled to response to my last post. it was self help day, guys. the question of “what is independence” was a rhetorical one, not an essay question assigned to the whole class. okay, so i realize that working out my own neuroses in a public forum is weird and exhibitionist, but hey, its my blog. i’m in my twenties. figuring out what constitutes The Good Life is supposed to be a hobby. didn’t you see reality bites? oh god, i’ve referenced that movie twice in the past week. i’m so lame. i do, however, appreciate the concern, and i love getting fan mail provided that it’s not too psycho (comments about my physical appearance not necessary). I wonder if everyone responded to yesterday’s post because i struck a common chord of some sort. nick writes, “…I think the pursuit of happiness as a life goal is a trap of disappointment.” i might just be toying with semantics here, but he has a point – if you spend your whole life pursuing happiness, it means that you never found it. i just finished reading The Tao of Pooh, which was a very cute introduction to the basics of Taoist philosophy based on the Winnie-the-Pooh books. one of the lessons the book offered was that there’s a difference between pursuing happiness and learning to find it in the life you already lead.

there was nothing in the book on taoism to tell me how to be happy about the fact that i have the flu, however. i hurt all over and last night i kept waking up in fever sweats, so i didn’t really get up until i had to leave for work at 3. unfortunately, in my industry, that cheesy cliche about “the show must go on” isn’t just a cliche. there are no sick days, only Dayquil. i feel particularly cheated because i even got a flu shot this fall and it evidently didn’t work. i want my 10 dollars back.

ps – weird, MS Word’s spellchecker has the word Dayquil in it. what sort of crazy cross-marketing deal is that?