I’ve been spending more time than I wish at Home Depot lately. During my last visit I vented my frustration over a part that I had failed to attach. The toilet wouldn’t work because I could not fit the nut to the feed line. Harvey, a most pedagogical member of staff, just said:
“You have to be patient and find your thread”
Seriously this is a metaphor for life! There should be a Home Depot Chair of Practical Philosophy and I nominate Harvey as the first to hold that chair.
What would happen if the poor old Wile E. C0yote ever caught Road Runner? Everyone needs goals in life and what happens when we attain the goals? In the worst case we end up like this brilliant cartoon on Popped Culture
Popped Culture is also looking for the origins of the cartoon – So if anyone knows where it’s from contact Popped Culture.
Anyone know where this image is from? I’ve been scouring the interwebs trying to source it, but to no avail. It has the look of Family Guy, but doesn’t appear to be.
Ever since a teacher long ago explained Camus’ use of the Sisyphus myth in his work The Myth of Sisyphus to attempt to reach a conclusion as to why we should all not kill ourselves I have been fascinated by the myth itself and the work by Camus which ends with the words: The struggle itself is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
In Greek mythology Sisyphus was a king punished by the gods to roll a huge boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll down again, and to repeat this throughout eternity. He has been the image of pointless work and Camus used him as an example in his work to defend the pointlessness of life.
The first days at work after a vacation are never the best…
Found this beautiful image at Agency of the Urban Subconscious the original wall is in Sicily
Over the holiday I read A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (author of The Kite Runner) the book tells the tale of the horrors faced by women in Afghanistan. It’s the kind of book which is impossible to put down – so filled with tragedy and misery that compells you to read on.
There were some small sparks of optimism among which is the wonderful quote of a woman being led to her execution after a life of total misery. The spark of positivism is probably an exaggeration of reality but it was necessary to enable the reader to carry on…
Miriam wished for so much in those final moments. Yet as she closed her eyes, it was not regret any longer but a sensation of abundant peace that washed over her. She thought of her entry into this world, the harami child of a lowly villager, an unintended thing , a pitiable, regrettable accident. A weed. And yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had loved and been loved back. She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A mother. A person of consequence at last. No. It was not so bad, Miriam thought, that she should die this way. Not so bad. This was a legitimate end to a life of illegitimate belongings.
Cannot explain the value of this quote – just read the book.