- It's late and sleep eludes me
- Melancholy
Second, my notions of success are being severely bloodied, bruised and brandied by reality. I'm reading a book that contains interviews with some of the most successful people in the world and each of them, it seems has a slightly different perception of what success actually means, although there are always common themes. That's fodder for another late-night blog entry.
I do not agree with Epicurus' views on God, but his philsophy on leading simple lives, I believe, could make our lives so much... simpler!
...Epicurus was commonly misunderstood to advocate the rampant pursuit of pleasure, what he was really after was the absence of pain (both physical and mental, i.e., anxiety)
“Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul. And to say that the season for studying philosophy has not yet come, or that it is past and gone, is like saying that the season for happiness is not yet or that it is now no more. Therefore, both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom, the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come. So we must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed towards attaining it.”—Epicurus, Letter to Menoeceus