It’s a fool’s deed to predict the movement of infinity,
A jester's quip to suggest
Any sure knowledge of the many days to come.
I have not seen a single tomorrow,
Have you?
Absorbed in the absolute of the moment, here and now,
We must live and breath to live and breath.
Though guessing games may be our favorite pastime,
If cold or hunger be at hand, there is no other need.
One may have a gift for planning
But we have seen the ways of best laid plans.
At worst, a vague and misleading incantation,
Bound by a universe of variables
That we have yet to understand!
And though we ache for resolution,
The playing field a level grade,
When we live a life tomorrow,
We undo a life today!
I'm skipping around in your work, trying to catch up from the time off and my own 'coming to terms' with lifeafterwork...this write speaks volumes to me...for neither have I, seen a tomorrow. I'm living now in the full 'absolute of the moment' on the boat...riding the wave of 'today'.
i totally agree with this poem ... Living in The Now keeps us focused and and in touch with our universal design ... we then can live free and unbridled ...
You know how I like you and your work, and feeling great kinship, I tend to disagree strongly with your assumption that living only for today leads to a more enriching and less troubled life.
I think just the opposite. Now that I've retired and don't have to plan out each day, I have found myself falling into a deadly routine with very little serendipity. In the past, I have had many plans and carried them out. Along the way on these plans I reached heights of knowledge and experienced insights into life that I never would have reached just living day to day like so many do without plans.
I remember fondly all those doctoral students that followed me eagerly grabbing up my written doctoral plan that allowed me to achieve my doctorate in two and half years while others without focus took 10 years or more. They all wanted to know my secret. I didn't miss out on anything during those two and a half years I squirreled myself away in a small efficiency and focused on my plan. In fact, during that period of time, I had many very positive people experiences, an active social life, and read more philosophy than most people read in a lifetime. Planning has got me where I am because I made plans and carried them out. They always worked for me because I was realistic about what I could do and didn't try to plan to do too much.
Eh . . . Though men believe they have the secret of our being on this earth, be they scientists or religious scholars. I am not among either of those two, but I admit to leaning toward what they believe. Don't know if mankind will ever find out the secret.
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I think just the opposite. Now that I've retired and don't have to plan out each day, I have found myself falling into a deadly routine with very little serendipity. In the past, I have had many plans and carried them out. Along the way on these plans I reached heights of knowledge and experienced insights into life that I never would have reached just living day to day like so many do without plans.
I remember fondly all those doctoral students that followed me eagerly grabbing up my written doctoral plan that allowed me to achieve my doctorate in two and half years while others without focus took 10 years or more. They all wanted to know my secret. I didn't miss out on anything during those two and a half years I squirreled myself away in a small efficiency and focused on my plan. In fact, during that period of time, I had many very positive people experiences, an active social life, and read more philosophy than most people read in a lifetime. Planning has got me where I am because I made plans and carried them out. They always worked for me because I was realistic about what I could do and didn't try to plan to do too much.
I have hurricane plan with alternatives. Do you?
Ron
Definitely a keeper.
Sensational final verse!
May