Tuesday 6 November 2012

Definitions.

You want to define your life? Go ahead. Use one word. Use one sentence. Add another. Add several.
Go ahead, construct a definition. Write lines. Write paragraphs. But don't limit yourself.
Definitions help. They add coherence; they add essence. But if I believe in sticking to a little bit of direction, I believe equally in discretion. I believe in perspective. A prism was always so much interesting to inspect than measuring flat triangular surfaces.
So you've peopled this puzzle board with your solution. You've completed the picture? Shake it up. Put it together again.
Look around you. See one angle. Then tilt your head a little to the side and look at another. Then look at the many other. Nothing in life should come one except a kind of human being. Keep looking. Keep definitions but not one. Keep many.
Go with what you believe in. Stand for what you know but keep revising what you know.
There is always one perfect word but even this word has synonyms.
Who wants to spend their life in a house with one window?
The day you decide to lock yourself up in such a one, you have come full circle. From here, know that you need only travel this circular path to come back exactly to the spot you started from.
I read once somewhere, "Strive for progress; not perfection."
And then I wondered if perfection exists.