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"You speak to me of Perfection, but is there really any such thing?
Or is it a siren, leading us astray. I happily predict that neither of us will ever summit that elusive peak, but I care little, as long as we walk together.
Art gives us the perception of control.
For a moment, as I paint, I find order among the chaos.
That is, for me, a moment of pure contentment. And that is truly better than perfection."
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We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are
never going to die because they are never going to be born. The
potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in
fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia.
Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats,
scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of
possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of
actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in
our ordinariness, that are here.
حتما شنیدید که میگن «خودت رو با گذشتهات مقایسه کن و سعی کن از دیروزت بهتر بشی» این جمله درسته ولی من یکم نسبت بهش بدبینم - خصوصا پارسال - چون که قطعا یکی پیدا میشه که کمینه عملکردش برابر بیشینه توئه، و عملکرد تو در مقابل اون شوخی و بی معنا به نظر میرسه.
این فکر برای من یک ناامنیای ایجاد میکنه که وقتی پیش دیگران میخوام از عملکردم بگم احتیاط به خرج میدم و هر لحظه منتظرم بگه «اوه این چیزی که تو داری میگی برای من چیزی نیست».
و خب چیزیه که سعی میکنم بالانس کنمش. مثلا میتونم با این شروع کنم که همیشه دست بالای دست هست. همیشه کسی هست که کمینهاش، بیشینهاته. همیشه کسی هست که تو در مقابلش خوب نباشی. پس این سیکل معیوب مقایسه کردن هرگز به اتمام نمیرسه. پس آدم باید پیشرفت رو نسبی بسنجه وگرنه درون یک باتلاق میافته که هر چی تلاش میکنه ازش بیرون بیاد بیشتر فرو میره.
آدم میتونه انتخاب کنه یک سری چیزها رو چطوری ببینه. یا میتونه به خاطر این که دوم شده خوشحال باشه به خاطر این که اول نشده ناراحت بشه و احساس بیارزشی کنه.
انتخاب دومی چندان معقول نیست.
This country-ballad-meets-sea-shanty is yet another wildly different style that Cohen employs on Various Positions. It tells the tale, in first person, of a soldier and his captain, either in a war or returning from one. The soldier is morally uncertain: he’s done a lot of dark, immoral things, and is worried that he’s a villain. His dying captain, however, has no qualms with being a villain. It’s likely that this is a criticism of the Vietnam War. Various Positions was recorded in 1984, less than a decade after the end of the war, and America was still dealing with the aftermath, which included dealing with the well over 2 million veterans returning home, many with untreated psychological issues stemming from witnessing and committing horrific violence. Many Americans thought the war was unjustified, and it was by all accounts a gruesome experience, one that caught many civilians in the cross-fire. The moral justification America felt about World War II was not as strongly present in Vietnam. With that in mind, and the reference to “a baby in Saigon,” it seems feasible that this is a conversation between two soldiers, returning from a war zone, and dealing with the moral issues it provokes.Source
I was in this situation so many times that talking about it makes me feel embarrassed. My life's stagnant and I'm doomed basically.
