How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? Life is a series of setbacks, blows, and defeats… interspersed with the occasional win for the home team. Go Wolverines! Failure is guaranteed. After all we all die eventually. It’s what you do with it, how you cope, how you pull yourself … Continue reading On Failure
You're writing your autobiography. What's your opening sentence? Cicero was a master of brevity. He once said vixerunt or “they lived” as an euphemism signalling the demise of the Catilinarian conspirators to the Roman Senate. To me, the unique appositeness of this word appealed for an altogether different reason. Life is meant to be enjoyed, … Continue reading Vixerunt
What experiences in life helped you grow the most? Pain is a natural fertilizer for personal growth. It’s not love, mind you. It’s relentless, ongoing emotional distress. Pain is to growth what water, manure and sun are to a plant or a tree. It’s what makes it grow into a splendid bush of roses or … Continue reading On Growth
Do you believe in fate/destiny? Yes, I do. Everything is fixed and we cannot change it. Entropy is everything. Mosaicism, Christianity, and Islam swear by it. What we do in life does echo in eternity, as Maximus so aptly put it. But our agency is confined to how we go about fulfilling our destiny. It’s … Continue reading On Predestination
Is the Pen mightier than the Sword? We all must decide for ourselves. I know I did. Perhaps we need both. The French Ancien Regime believed that. They retained both the noblesse d'épée as well as the noblesse de lettres, de robe.
Describe a phase in life that was difficult to say goodbye to. Moving on is never easy. In fact, I would wager a lot of money it’s the most difficult thing you’ll ever do in your entire life. We are creatures of habit. All of us. No matter what the naysayers claim. They are chronically … Continue reading On Clinging to the Past
We are born to be Free. Freedom of Speech in inalienable. Nothing else matters.
If you could be someone else for a day, who would you be, and why? Some people are unhappy. Others feel neglected. Most of us experience both sentiments during our lifetime. A few also stare into the sky waiting for things to change. All this is normal. A small number of gents take things further. … Continue reading On Wishful Thinkers
People like their comforts. I get it. People enjoy technology. They think it helps them live better lives. False. Technology makes people needy. They need, nay, crave comfort. That’s where Government steps in. They provide the comfort People pay for. That’s how Government controls the People. They lose their Freedom. But, hey as long as they have wi-fi, it’s all good, right! That’s how Corruption works.
Describe the most ambitious DIY project you've ever taken on. Contrary to what people may believe it to be, a shaving horse is not what its name implies. A shaving horse is a wood working bench used by bowyers to make a wood stave into a longbow. Or better said, to make a length of … Continue reading The Shaving Horse
Götterdämmerung 