Listening to good CDs always gets me in the mood to type reflective entries. Although the morning sun shining through doesn't quite complement the mood. I can't stop praising Leo Tolstoy's 'Anna Karenina', it's exceedingly well written. Landed myself in Part 4 of the book at the moment. Half way through!


Trying to grapple with existentialism.


My mind's not clearing up at the moment. Can't structure a proper entry. I suppose we as humans think very highly of our mental capacity. I beg to differ. There is so much we can't do. We can't detect UV. We can't orient ourselves using the magnetism of the Earth. You may argue that we have instead developed tools to help us to do the above tasks. Granted, but if you strip us of the tools, what do we return to? Lord of the Flies, anyway? Which is by no way related to LOTR, whose author i find very tedious. I spluttered my way through a few pages of 'The Hobbit' and crashed. Fantasy is just too unreal for me. I prefer good old domestic affairs. Looking at my bookshelf, the selection available is pretty much non-fantasy. No pictures of mystical creatures gracing the book cover. Poo, how did i get myself side tracked this way? Very alarming - the fickleness of the mind. Sometimes, words just come out of you, when you least expect it.


So many people in my life i have left behind. It invariably happens. You don't have so huge an arm to carry all of them through your life. Perhaps it's better to leave them behind, and have memories to fall back on, rather than pick them up again at the next bus stop. They may have changed their T-shirt and it is sometimes disappointing. You think you knew them well enough, but then changes are always unexpected. It has happened before. Like albatrosses who parent their chicks as a couple, relationships require mutual investment. If you can't keep up with that, maybe dropping it is the better option in the long term.