One man thought: “If I’m so smart then why can’t I be all of the time, the way I am some of the time, and want to be all of the time?”
Then further thought: “Because smartness has so little to do with it.”
Another man thought: “If I’m so pushy then why can’t I be all of the time, the way I am some of the time, and want to be all of the time.”
And further thought: “Because aggression has so little to do with it.”
And still another man thought: “If I’m so spiritual then why can’t I be all of the time, the way I am some of the time, and want to be all of the time?”
And further thought: “I guess because you-know-what has so little to do with it.”
And wouldn’t you know it, a fourth man heard all of this and said to himself: “If so many things have so little to actually do with it, then why are we standing around her yacking about it!”
(A chap, apparently uninvolved in the above, told the clerk: “I believe I’ll have a Danish, plain, if you please.”)
What’s the sense in thinking about Paris
when you haven’t even reached France yet?
Okay travelers – back to sleep.
One day while thinking about stuff, a man said to himself: “Perhaps the easiest way to do it is simply don’t criticize anybody – even mentally.”
And one of his thoughts responded: “Why don’t you just shut up!?”
The ends do not have to justify the means or anything else – the ends must simply identify themselves.
No matter your art, if your work is not surprising, it’s not fully entertaining.
J.