Thursday, September 13, 2007

Why walk alone?

If you're the type of person that knows the path to take through life, have you ever wondered what it would be like to not know where you wish to go? True, uncertainty can be decidedly unpleasant, in some odd way like sea-sickness, but it does offer a certain freedom. A freedom to choose any path at every fork in the road. That is a freedom not afforded a man of vision. Indeed, one must pay a price to chase a vision - one must forsake anything that may lead one astray, however dear it may be to one's heart. Often, men who choose such a path walk alone, immersed in the world around them and yet far removed at the same time. They are men cognizant of the price and willing to pay it. Though it is not always gladly that they make sacrifices, they do it with the unfailing faith that in the end, it will all be worth it. The essential question then is rather simple - is their faith true? Or are they lost? There's only one way to find out, isn't there?

This, that and some other stuff

What have I been doing this long? I've been pondering the title of my as yet unwritten book... the book that I shall write... well, time frames are really just constraints. Anyway, here are some working titles I've come up with:

  1. Drink heavily, in moderation.
  2. The pleasure of finding things that go bump in the dark by accidentally stepping on them, killing them in the process
  3. Well, fuck you too! I fucking refuse to be fucking angered!
  4. Inventive invective
  5. Just some more crap...
  6. Don't bother reading any further.
  7. You will regret buying this book... I promise.
  8. All you'll ever need to know about nothing
  9. An uneventful life
  10. Plotting to take over the world... and other self-motivation techniques