The rhythm of life

bryce0lynch

bryce0lynch

i fucking hate writing ...
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Certain things make sense. The changing of the seasons with their holidays, harvests and festivals from fertility & maypoles to summer and harvest and the rebirth of the sun in winter. Pork chops & applesauce or peanut butter and jelly, or the slow transformation of Diana over the month from new to full. The rhythm of life. And sitting under a railroad bridge in the early light with the full moon out, sipping on your Mad Dog 20/20 just after donating plasma.
 

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Nah, girlfriend is a self-employed music teacher. She's been hit hard, so when she said she was going to sell plasma I told her I would go with her and do it also, to be supportive. But, everything should be an adventure! Hence the 20/20.
 
It's very weird.
I usually have a diet heavy on fresh fruit, and a salad for dinner with raw veggies and nuts/seeds, etc.

But I'm now on a low fiber diet for a procedure on Monday. It's all "No fresh fruit or veg!" and "not buts or seeds or hulls skins!" and "processed foods only! mushy meats like lunchmeat!" and "carbs and pasta!" ... all of which is essentially foreign to me for the past decade or so.

Weird eating mushy salt fatty processed stuff again.

But ... booze is ok. :)
 
I'm going mostly offline. If you need me drop me an email.

I can't get motivated. Book progress is ok, but on review mornings I just look at the screen and sigh. So, I'm going to force my hand. I'm going straight down the list, no picking and choosing. Just one sorry thing after another. Expect weirdness.
 
Together with Gravity, Electromagnetism, the weak and strong Force Bryce's adamant will to power through mountains of garbage for the sake of other people is one of the core forces keeping the multiverse together.
I fear the day when Bryce decides to skip reviewing an adventure because he thinks it's bad before he has read it :/
 
There are some strong authors with newly released material people might not have picked up. I know I always wait for your take before I decide to support physical product.

Use one of those authors to pick you up!
 
The1True said:
Where is the joy in this?
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You are supposed to do things because you find joy in them. I have yet to be able to reconcile this with reviewing, learning a language, or any of the thousands of other daily tasks that seem like obligations rather than joys. When every activity results in this and all thats left is boredom, what then Zarathustra?
 
Are you saying your life is a choice between boredom and obligation?
I assume you started reviewing these things for the joy of something.
The joy of writing? (ha!)
The joy of sharing with a community?
The joy of being a cautionary tail to others? (this is a thing)
The joy of figuring out precisely what makes a good adventure work and a bad one bomb?
The joy of occasionally reading something spectacular and being able to spread the word?
Find your joy man, because you sure bring us a shitload of happiness and I'd hate to think you're not deriving an equal amount of it.
 
TerribleSorcery said:
It is not for you to complete the work,
but neither are you free to desist from it.
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Whole heartily agree. Modern society, in absence of answers for life's big questions, has placed personal happiness as its core conceit. Moving away from that ultimate goal was probably the biggest mental inversion of my 40's.
 
squeen said:
Whole heartily agree. Modern society, in absence of answers for life's big questions, has placed personal happiness as its core conceit. Moving away from that ultimate goal was probably the biggest mental inversion of my 40's.
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I read somewhere that both love and happiness are invented concepts, love by the romantic poets.
 
It's not as deary as it sounds.

Although I've recently been accused by Malrex of overstepping my bounds by playing internet doctor...in the spirit of life's comradery I'll risk offering you this quote and a few thoughts:

C.S. Lewis said:
“In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it. If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth -- only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair.”
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For me, recognizing my selfish desires and habits---and trying to let go of them---was a first step to finding some peace of mind. Moving from a desire to reshape reality to my own liking, and instead reminding myself to be thankful for what is was another. I do believe love is real --- but it's something you feel for others...not a commodity you receive.

TS's quote is right on. So is EOTB's. So it Prince's. You've got to surrender. As Dylan sang: "You gotta serve somebody."

Beyond that I'm as clueless (or more so) than the next fellow. Despite all our self-assumed cleverness and pride, it's the proverbial mid-life crisis, arriving right on schedule. Hang in there amigo.
 
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