Comments on: Busy-ness is blindness http://www.tinygigantic.com/2007/05/23/busy-ness-is-blindness/ An inspration feed updated daily by the troublemakers at Language in Common Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:59:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: Richard Oliver http://www.tinygigantic.com/2007/05/23/busy-ness-is-blindness/#comment-3162 Richard Oliver Wed, 23 May 2007 21:11:13 +0000 http://www.tinygigantic.com/2007/05/23/busy-ness-is-blindness/#comment-3162 This is the problem with busy, busy, busy it tends to become same old, same old. Doing "nothing" seems to open a space of possibilities where new stuff can happen. This is the problem with busy, busy, busy it tends to become same old, same old. Doing “nothing” seems to open a space of possibilities where new stuff can happen.

]]> By: okat http://www.tinygigantic.com/2007/05/23/busy-ness-is-blindness/#comment-3171 okat Thu, 24 May 2007 02:51:20 +0000 http://www.tinygigantic.com/2007/05/23/busy-ness-is-blindness/#comment-3171 or rather replace "in doing nothing" with: "This weekend, <b>by smoking my joint</b>, I found all kinds of inspiration for new cool stuff to do." or rather replace “in doing nothing” with:
“This weekend, by smoking my joint, I found all kinds of inspiration for new cool stuff to do.”

]]> By: josh kamler http://www.tinygigantic.com/2007/05/23/busy-ness-is-blindness/#comment-3176 josh kamler Thu, 24 May 2007 03:23:53 +0000 http://www.tinygigantic.com/2007/05/23/busy-ness-is-blindness/#comment-3176 Okat: Maybe so. But I wouldn't give the weed too much credit. It was also, as Richard says, the simple freedom from <em>doing something</em> (in my case, the inability to motivate to do <em>anything</em>) that opened up the potential for newness. Okat: Maybe so. But I wouldn’t give the weed too much credit. It was also, as Richard says, the simple freedom from doing something (in my case, the inability to motivate to do anything) that opened up the potential for newness.

]]> By: Garrison http://www.tinygigantic.com/2007/05/23/busy-ness-is-blindness/#comment-3403 Garrison Tue, 29 May 2007 19:49:17 +0000 http://www.tinygigantic.com/2007/05/23/busy-ness-is-blindness/#comment-3403 All it would take to completely change your mind on this would be an 18-month-old in your household. All it would take to completely change your mind on this would be an 18-month-old in your household.

]]> By: ABC http://www.tinygigantic.com/2007/05/23/busy-ness-is-blindness/#comment-3736 ABC Thu, 07 Jun 2007 15:04:32 +0000 http://www.tinygigantic.com/2007/05/23/busy-ness-is-blindness/#comment-3736 i don't see why an 18 month in your household would change the fact that we (especially San Franciscans) believe that busy is status. Face it, if you constantly told your family and friends that you were just chillin, didn't have any goals and were just cruising, most of us would feel bad for you and look down on you, myself included. this isn't about weed, or kids...it is about thinking that not actively pursuing our next life's goal is a waste of valuable time...and soon you'll be dead, which in our godless society is the end. don't take your life for granted, get out there and do it. problem is, the "it" is just a made up thing we want, and it won't matter one bit if we got there or not once we've stopped breathing. believe that it is a process, an ebb and flow. constant struggle may help us think we are more special than the next person, but the fact is, we are all bound by this flesh and by time. i don’t see why an 18 month in your household would change the fact that we (especially San Franciscans) believe that busy is status. Face it, if you constantly told your family and friends that you were just chillin, didn’t have any goals and were just cruising, most of us would feel bad for you and look down on you, myself included.

this isn’t about weed, or kids…it is about thinking that not actively pursuing our next life’s goal is a waste of valuable time…and soon you’ll be dead, which in our godless society is the end. don’t take your life for granted, get out there and do it. problem is, the “it” is just a made up thing we want, and it won’t matter one bit if we got there or not once we’ve stopped breathing.

believe that it is a process, an ebb and flow. constant struggle may help us think we are more special than the next person, but the fact is, we are all bound by this flesh and by time.

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