Responsibility
7 01 2009Should people have some kind of responsibility to contribute proportionally to their ability?* Is there some significance behind the discrepancy in the definitions of genius?
Look at the difference between, say, Richard Feynman and George Dantzig. Dantzig didn’t seem to be a prodigy and, although he won prizes, has never really been acclaimed as a genius. However, as a grad student he found high-profile unsolved statistics questions merely “a little harder than usual”. Should people who work hard and, as a result of this, achieve fantastic things be respected more than those who do it with little effort? Should they be respected in a different way?
I’m slowly but surely becoming someone else. I’m not certain it’s who I want to be or who I wanted to be or who I will want to be but it’s like, the only solution (like). It’s all about… something.
I feel like disastrous climate change etc. is going to cut short our progress as a species. I think we should go into space. Maybe we can’t solve problems apparently intrinsic to human society - but if we can, it’d be almost unforgivable to give up. What a dilemma, ha ha ha!
Just concentrate on your breathing and slow it down and don’t think about anything. Initially, your mind will wander as it doesn’t usually get the chance, I guess (unless it does, in which case you’re ahead of me and like, should forget this). After a while you’ll have it, you know, down. You’ll make patterns with your thoughts and then you can be really calm and just sort of forget about the petty things that might ruin you.
Yes - I’m testing my theory.
Pax
*socialism? meritocracy?
Hey there…..I am getting into Mozart, and I saw your response to his Requiem.
The words to your song captured me. Here’s the deal, my response to them
Fascinating. You have a way of accurately putting your thoughts to music that
is wonderful. ~ Here’s my deal: I’m a grandmom in America, near Baltimore.
I have four amazing kids, and three little amazing grandkids. ~ The reason
I am writing is that I remember being your age. I love teens and college kids because I remember the tension between having your whole life ahead, and trying to figure out what it’s all about, all at the same time! It’s so wondrous and scary. Also, there are temptations out there that can waylay a person for years. So, I’ll never stop loving young people….! I have gone through the very same things. I’m not trying to write you b/c I’m weird, but just b/c I wish
I could give you a tip that I wish people had given me. Hope you don’t mind.
Actually at your age, I didn’t think about such huge ideas. But, fortunately, I started little by little, when I was 19. Anyway, the questions are huge, aren’t they? I so applaud you with daring to ask, instead of getting your brain numb on video games, because daring to look is too scary. OK, well, anyway, I have a website that I think would be fascinating to you, it’s a bunch of little videos of people who have had to face darkness and have come through to the other side……it’s very wonderful. I have a lot in common with them, because we all have a story! So that’s why I love to find out about people’s stories! Anyway, the tip I offer is through this website. Here goes:
http://www.iamsecond.com/ (I am really fascinated by the tattoed guy from Korn)
I hope you check it out!
Well, I think you have a lot of gifts, and I hope you just keep stretching to the stars.
Ok, gotta go……take it easy! Also if you want, feel free to let me know what you think!
By the way, I’ve been to London a few times. It’s a beautiful, but wild place!
But I love the red busses! We need them in America! Anyway, I like the countryside better!
PS Hope you keep up your songwriting!
haha thanks for writing in such detail. I’ll check that link out and respond properly later (have some work to do!) but thanks again. I am indeed keeping up my songwriting - you may see more yet!
Meditation is slowly leading me to be able to focus on fewer objects than when I’m not meditating. When I started, I had the “Reign in Blood” album by Slayer going through my head, constantly. Now, I have the sound of rain, which is less regular, more fluid, etc, and so probably represents my sub/unconscious telling me that I’m awesomely better at this, more calm, more meditative while meditating.