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[kjmckendry]

Book Review: Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman

I've been reading a lot more this year than I have in a while and I thought I'd share some of my favorite books every now and then.

Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman is an eye opening look at how we really think about what we do each day and how we end up spending most of our time. The average person lives approximately 4,000 weeks and that of course is if you're lucky to live into your 80s. That doesn't really seem like very many weeks. For me, that means I'm more than half done. I only have about 1296 weeks left.

My task is to think about how I really want to spend those. Maybe some days I still want to sit back and watch some football with my husband or take a nice long nap, but for me the point is that I want to be consciously making those decisions. I want to be present and choose what is important to me each moment.

[wormholealice]

I thought about recently the past versus the present or...how moments of time move. It’s a difficult concept to explain fully, but I can at least try. 

If we think of time in the way it exists in space, in that if the universe is expanding, the dimensions of time is also expanding. But what happens in the very moment you are living, as it becomes on of those things where you can get infinitely close to the very moment you are in, but it’s always fleeting.

So maybe this moment of life in infinite and as time expands, this moment becomes the past, because we are all moving through space, therefore we are also moving through time. 

I also thought this to be similar to the start of the universe, because we can seem to get very close to what happened at the exact moment the universe began, but we cannot actually reach the exact moment. And as the seconds tally up after the start of the universe, it is expanding. 

But if when the universe is created, how is time being involved if it didn’t exist before? How can the start of the universe be a start if it suppose to be the universe? The existence of time on our universe might mean that our universe is not a uni-verse, but just simply a verse, in which maybe there are other verses.

[inkwardspots]

Random Philosophical Thought #3

I don’t like how when I draw something I automatically expect to give it light coloured skin. What is up with that? As a child, no more than six years old, your told draw a self portrait. But you don’t draw you, you draw what society wants. I drew a light skinned a girl with big eyes, straight black hair and red lips. 

But that’s not what I look like. I have darker skin than that, and my eyes are almonds, not walnuts! Also, I don’t have strawberry lips. I have coconut ones. And my hair isn’t straight, its curly, never tamed and constantly messy. So why? Why do we impose the image that little girls have to follow rules, big eyes, big lips, straight hair and clear skin?

And I know that we’ve come further and faster to rescue the girls that want to change how they look. But it isn’t enough. When you go to Asia, you see girls dolled up in their cultural clothes, but wearing a hideous white powder to make them look lighter. 

Why? Are they not beautiful enough? Are they not powerful enough with their own skin? Are they not beautiful creatures with hidden world and wonders an spectacles hidden in their hearts, only to be covered up with a grotesque white powder to westernise them?

What has the world become, if little girls, dark, mixed or light, must constantly bow to to the norm that is big lips, big eyes, unmarred skin and a beautiful body?

-inkwardspots

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The elementary heaviness of being

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I watched a plastic bag dance in a breeze. The way its creased grey skin responded to the air felt remarkably familiar. Gravity is the heaviness that living on earth imposes on the body. If the soul expands and comes close to the surface of the skin, the weight of air upon it is enormous, and often escapes as a sigh. Let…

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O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

Saint Augustine

[chantelagen]

Den allvarsamma leken

"Man väljer inte sitt öde. Och man väljer lika litet sin hustru eller sin älskarinna eller sina barn." - Hjalmar Söderberg

[tolivecontent]

“The essence of all morality is this: to believe that every human being is of infinite importance, and therefore that no consideration of expediency can justify the oppression of one by another. But to believe this it is necessary to believe in God.”

Human Rights and Belief in God - NYTimes.com