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joe's avatar

Your promiscuous thinking and multi-storied lifestyle has always been one of the things I've admired about you. Maybe because I experience a similar penchant and have you, my senior, to show me what a life following multiple prompts can look like.

That second quote from Rogers' book is a striking capture of this sentiment. In high school I described it as "the tumbling motion of life" and I feel like I'm still living that way. Whenever my tumble gets lodged someplace I fear I've lost some powerful momentum, so I have to give it a good kick and send it flying again. I wonder if there will come a time when I won't do this.

Sending love from Japan,

JOE

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Oleg Kagan's avatar

Thank you for the kind words. I can't *really* complain too much. My life is a delightful ramble for the most part. The closest people like us may come to intellectual stability is working on a hard, long-term project. And when it ends, liberation again!

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R Cesaretti's avatar

This idea of living life free from having to interrupt thinking and writing about thinking to eat, take care of others’ needs, to have the self-control to focus on one thing for a long period, I think the last time I had this luxury was for a couple of years as a teen, but then that’s only because I was the depressed teen that skipped school and did other stuff popular in the 70’s.

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Oleg Kagan's avatar

I reckon very few people actually have both all-around well-being and a life free just to think.

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Igor Kagan's avatar

Be

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Oleg Kagan's avatar

Shaddap, Canadian.

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Kim Zanti's avatar

Inveterate Curiositor, I hope you never stop flinging your imagination into parts unknown.

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Oleg Kagan's avatar

The challenge is finding time for it all!

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