09-10-2020, 11:30 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-11-2020, 06:45 AM by JCasterlin.)
First Cycle Day 6 - The final day of my first cycle. Currently running my loops while I read. I am finally finishing a book I first bought over four years ago. Just now I came across this and it seems highly relevant given that I'm running OF but also because of recent events in my life
"when I came to the startling realization that if there really is no reason to do anything, then there is also no reason to not do anything; that in the face of the inevitability of death, there is no reason to ever give in to one’s fear or embarrassment or shame, since it’s all just a bunch of nothing anyway; and that by spending the majority of my short life avoiding what was painful and uncomfortable, I had essentially been avoiding being alive at all "
"when I came to the startling realization that if there really is no reason to do anything, then there is also no reason to not do anything; that in the face of the inevitability of death, there is no reason to ever give in to one’s fear or embarrassment or shame, since it’s all just a bunch of nothing anyway; and that by spending the majority of my short life avoiding what was painful and uncomfortable, I had essentially been avoiding being alive at all "
