Cumulative Returns

learning to sit on the sidelines, pay attention to what is going on around me, and say something that is both relevant and performs a relatively healing function has been my life’s greatest challenge

small step for man

it is too easy to seek attention when it isn’t coming, and take offence when no respect is shown, but realising that we all take in information in different ways can be helpful no matter what the scenario

gaining respect

just because one thing works in one circumstance doesn’t mean it will work in another – whilst you don’t have to spend each day reinventing the wheel, pushing the boulder back up the hill, you do have to have respect for first principles and recognise that often things really are in a sense happening for the first time

repetition is the key to success

just because one person sees something as mundane, it doesn’t mean it doesn’t serve a purpose – the teleological impulse, the belief that there is a cause that is not merely random ought to touch us all, but it doesn’t.

the mountain

and so we plod, to the mountain, with our shovels, and we dig out way to success, it almost doesn’t matter in which direction, so long as we progress, it is not simply what we say or even how we say it, but a feeling that what we are doing matters that causes something special

but what if it ain’t?

and then you have the jobsworth – the bureaucrat who takes pride in their own power at the expense of the person whom they are supposed to serve – the alienation causes problems – not just for the non receiver of the service but also in the complacent bureaucrat themselves – who wields power as if it is absolute – whose lack of compassion is rewarded with a payrise and index linked pension – and then you have a society of cunning vindictive animals setting an example for us all

so we do