“To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one’s self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived—this is to have succeeded.”

― Bessie Anderson Stanley

It is sickening to me how far ahead of his time Wilde was, that we are presently still so far behind and are too ignorant to know it ourselves!! Such a genius. . .

Oscar Wilde

Lord Caversham: "No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex."

Lord Goring: "Quite so. And we men are so self-sacrificing that we never use it, do we, father?"

--from Act III, "An Ideal Husband" (1895) — in London, England, United Kingdom.

October 27, 2012 

"Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow."

--Oscar Wilde

If the definition of "serious", then represented my choices being made, I could live in a world much less shallow than the one I am here, today. The more there is my need to feel serious, the more I know less about it. Which to me means, that I live in a world mostly made up of vagrants.

- Marco

va·grant - /ˈvāgrənt/

Noun:

1. A person without a settled home or regular work who wanders from place to place and lives by begging

Adjective:

1. Characteristic of, relating to, or living the life of a vagrant

What I am implying the word vagrant possesses, that people in general are too serious of their own means - they act too shallow in seeing the difference between cause and effect. They refuse to challenge their own skillful ignorance. That they are so skillfully trained at their profession (i.e. serious), they are invulnerable to take notice of their own demise. Demise equates to seriousness; shallow equates to weakness.

1- "If the definition of "serious", then represented my choices being made, 2- I could live in a world much less shallow than the one I am here, today." (MA2012)

(a) My definition into not being 1- serious^ is what characterizes 2- (b) the sum of all fears.

Fear is what symbolizes every persons weakness (shallow) thought. Therefore, people in general (automatically) are afraid to acknowledge - the fears they may otherwise care to demonstrate. Such fears can be dispossessed, characterized as forms of being serious: condescending, patronizing, demeaning, dominating etc.

3- "The more there is my need to feel serious, the more I know less about it." (MA2012)

All that this implies is the inhibition of what characterizes fear, that the "more" I am aware of my fears, the less shallow I become aware of those fears taking over. Therefore I feel less of a need to be unconsciously serious all the time.

4- "Which to me means, that I live in a world mostly made up of vagrants." (MA2012)

^That this directly represents the world of professionalism otherwise are unaware of their own ignorance, over compensate being serious, as positions of their own authority.

The moral of all this^ is if I could redefine the terms and conditions related to all things in the world, would make me instantly aware - aware of myself. That in the (a) nature being serious - there is (b) fear which acts as a threat to (c) being possessed of their ignorance. In other words they are too shallow to see cause and effect of their own self.

- Marco

If the pure nature of romance had a script, I would love to be living in it - that the sad truth is everyone else (is not) forgot.

- Marco

"It's sad that everyone eventually becomes a memory." > Absolutely false. Memories can morph into an alternate reality I control. - Marco

"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another." - William James