Everyone deserves an occupation in which they are able to say, “I’m very good, at what I do.”
Mansard Roof
There needs to be a special name for things that are as practical as they are beautiful. The reason I think we don’t have such a word is, we consider the two to be oppositional in a way. The more practical, the less beautiful, and vice versa. But consider for a moment something you believe has both qualities in high amounts. Which direction did this thing come from? Probably the practical. We tend to beautify our implementations. Nature however tends to take advantage through beauty, making it practical. I guess, order is beauty, painted upon disorder. Maybe practicality itself is beauty. Maybe that’s why there’s no name for it. They’re one and the same.
Swing For The Fences!
I think that everyone should, in their lifetime, strive for one major contribution here on Earth. Even if it’s something you can only leave after your death. I know, I know. Your whole life is a contribution, but I think that not enough people think about things to leave behind. Major things. Leaving good things behind may be as important as being responsible living things. Everyone should try for something larger than life. I need to take my own advice and start thinking of something.
Maybe I’m getting better at this. This song started on a sherut late last night, and ended an hour and a half later…(needless to say, far far far from a finished product)
Mini-Post
Why is it that things are so much more appealing when they’re smaller or bigger than they should be? Things, once mundane and therefore undesirable, gain a quality of instant ‘musthavedness’. Imagine if someone handed you a rolling pin. “Thanks man. That’s…nice of you…”. Now imagine that same friend handing you a rolling pin that was ten centimeters long. “Cool! Where’d you get this?” Even a plain book has a degree of aesthetic value, but not as much as a teensy weensy one, complete with pictures and micro-print. If someone gave you an antique chair, you may be stoked, but lets face it, it would be horribly out of place. Now, if they gave you a mini-antique chair, you’d display it proudly on your mantle.
