“I had a french professor who once said if you just did something like going to the supermarket and experienced it fully without the goggles of habit and categories you would go crazy with pure sense and joy. I think about it all the time. In a way this is all for him.”
yet another sentiment that makes me think about kurt vonnegut telling his wife he's going out to buy envelopes
"Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet?
And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by.
And I give them the thumbs up. And I'll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is - we're here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And it's like we're not supposed to dance at all anymore.
Genuinely genuinely the best thing I ever did for myself was start treating the world like I'm a benevolent alien. everything is so beautiful and people are so cool and food is so delicious and helping other people is fun. You can live so vibrantly