April 2013
24 posts
I’ve decided I need to be more spontaneous. Stop thinking about things so much and just do them, or else nothing that I want is ever gonna happen. Like today, there were so many things I wanted to do, that I should have done, but I waited too long and missed my chance. So tomorrow I’m gonna try much harder to just do the things that I want, not think about it, so hopefully it will be better.
“Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You’re by no means alone on that score, you’ll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You’ll learn from them if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.”
—~ J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
