Yitz aka Isaac Wasileski ([info]agnoster) wrote,
@ 2005-05-30 02:53:00
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Easy come, easy go
Yup, all gone. But it just proves to me again how good it is to be me. Why? Because it doesn't bother me. I'm fucking Zen, man, I have no attachment to this world. I affirm it and I love it, but take it all away, and I'm pretty fucking tranquil.

My hard drive died. Won't even be recognized. At this point, it looks like all of theAssbook and theCite are *poof* gone. And you know what? I don't really mind. In fact, I'm kind of glad that I've been given the opportunity to start over again and do it right.

Loss is a beautiful thing, and freeing. There's no sense in mourning what has passed, instead, one might as well take pleasure in all the new opportunities arising.

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[info]brytness
2005-05-30 06:29 pm UTC (link)
oh, I am so sorry, Yitz. But I am glad you take such a good perspective on it. You always do :)
Good luck.

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[info]jigsawjazz
2005-05-30 11:57 pm UTC (link)
But it just proves to me again how good it is to be me...take it all away, and I'm pretty fucking tranquil.

you ought to bottle that stuff. you'd make millions that you wouldn't mind losing!

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oh man.
[info]crayonfaery
2005-05-31 01:57 am UTC (link)
+1 point for getting your zen on.
+2 points for using the phrase "fucking Zen," in the best sense.

and if i were andrew cone, +1 more point for gettin all metaphysicish about computers. because he would think that that's pretty hot. y'know.

instead, a question... i am sort of weirded out by your lack of attachment to this world, and am going to risk starting an overly pretentious internet conversation, because i'm just that obsessed with death and all things related.

"take it all away, and I'm pretty fucking tranquil". indeed, i wonder whether you could be more tranquil sans world. but what i wonder about a lot more is what you meant by your statement of having no attachment to the world. do you mean it in what i'm going to call a "living" sense? that is, being in the world all accepting of it, including the absurd bits? or do you mean it in a more extreme sense; if you died, would you be satisfied in the process?

i might have not said that very well. but i'm curious.

-heather

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Re: oh man.
[info]agnoster
2005-05-31 02:33 am UTC (link)
In response to the last question: a bit of both. Death doesn't really bother me, I think it's a natural process that is really completely necessary and beautiful, in a sense. That said, I think I would prefer to live forever. I never cease to be amazed by the world around me, and I feel I could quite comfortably spend eternity observing and contemplating reality.

But basically, I think my lack of attachment comes from having learned that most good things come of loss or other things that appear to be negative at first glance. I believe in a deeper thread in the world (not necessarily God, maybe something more like the Tao), and that trusting in this thread while doing your best to follow your calling is a pretty good way to live and die.

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