living, thinking and writing
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Thursday, June 17, 2004 will be right back Being away from blogging for whole month. Being lazy. seems learning computer language is quite distracting. Don't feel motivated to switch between machine language and human language, nonetheless, they are both foreign language to me. Also being troubled by what to write. Not because nothing to write, but too many things to put down in detail, but hate to just list them like an inventory. So I give all the little nice things and thoughts in my life a fair treatment-keep them in my memory only. Memory is fading and altering all the time; I'm worried that my time in this life just click away without leaving any trace, even my own memory can not hold that much enriching life stories. Do we live for the moment or for the forever memory, or for some stories that can run through the offspring generations after me, or even, an immortality that might be mentioned in strangers' lips? That decides whether you need to keep a journal, what you want to write down and to whom you are spoken to. I've been recently, coming to realize that I, like majority of human beings, serve mainly as a consumer in this life. Food, clothes, theme park, books, news, movies, concerts are all good things that we are given to enjoy and play with. The core of consumer culture is transient pleasure which we have to pick up more later. We think we can leap forward by spending quality time in intellectual or cultural activities. Well, that depends on what you do. Most of these activities can not be more than consuming cultural product: reading other's book, contemplating on other's idea and fantasizing in other's art creation. I'm not negative about it, this is life, we can't escape, not everyone is born to be a creator. Most people are doomed to lead a life of a consumer. I sometimes speculate that some people, consciously or unconsciously, strive to smash the self-image as consumer and remold oneself in writing. Writing per se is the most accessible form of creating. The bottom line, even it is not a good writing, is that we at least engaged in a creativity, even what we really do is re-creating our self image based on our self expectation. And that's it for my blab today. got to go back to Python, the machine world. posted by lmeimei @10:44 AM| permanent link| | |
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