This is water…..

Short version:  Life is what happens when you are annoyed and think time is being wasted. If you can truly live in those moments without judgement, you are just KILLING it. For real.  Empathy & Perspective - Have some.  If it was for sale alongside the french fries and processed foods I am sure we would swim in it.  Until then, we’ll have to actively force compassion. It’s healthy for everyone.

An exceptional, & incredibly important, video from David Foster Wallace’s commencement speech from the mid aughts. It’s worrying though. It is amazing how few people “get it” in the comments.  The unbridled entitlement born into today’s people creates a blind selfishness that seems precarious.

Sad about Foster’s suicide… it is interesting to think of his words here, and his inability to recover from his depression.  Even profound genius’ who understand the pressures of these nearly invisible “banal platitudes” is victim to lonesome genetics.

I will say, this ties in nicely with one of those maxims or aphorisms that you can sit and ponder for a bit:

Water seeks its own level.  That applies directly to this, so sit a spell and ponder. Feel free to tap out questions or thoughts in the comments.