Posted by Racer on February 1, 2004, at 15:53:37
In reply to Laziness is unbecoming, posted by noa on February 1, 2004, at 15:41:07
I'm feeling the same way myself, and with only one computer *monitor* in the house, there's a pretty constant wrestling match over who gets to use it. Instead of doing anything useful, I'm typing long emails and even longer Rants here.
Oh, well, I did clean the catboxes...
You know a trick I've learned that helps me with this sort of feeling? I have found two things that help: making a list of Useful Things I Could Do, and taking a nap. The first provides me with ambitions, so when I have energy and no focus for it, I can just pick a name out of a hat and go. The second, of course, helps me get over my ambitions, but satisfying ambitions isn't always the best goal. Sometimes just having unsatisfied ambitions is enough to keep us going, right?
(There's a wonderful scene in a novel by Orson Scott Card about this. The novel is called "Treason, Card". The hero tells a government secretary that he wishes to see the king. The secretary responds, "It is good for us to have unsatisfied ambitions." Hard to describe out of context, but great in the book.)
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