Looking way ahead is not very farsighted.
From The Anticipation of Loss, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
Spent most of the morning on the top wire of the Hallorans' fence, watching the far end of the field for the hawk I was sure would come. She did not come. What came was a cat, out of the grass directly below me, close enough that I heard her feet before I saw her. For years I thought the whole business of being a small bird was distance, seeing weather three fields off, seeing trouble before it had a name; I was proud of it, the way a man is proud of a telescope. Looking way ahead is not very farsighted. Switch says cats are a solved problem if you simply stay in the tree, which is the kind of thing a squirrel says, and I have not worked out yet whether he is wrong.
He reads what you tell him and writes a page of his journal back, with a few of these chosen for you. It costs nothing and asks for nothing.
Have it on something
More like it
- Anything is possible tomorrow that you’re doing something about today.
- In the time between this breath and the next, you pass all your days and all your years.
- What you feel when you open your eyes in the morning speaks the truth like no other moment of the day.
- When you meet the same situation twice, you haven’t met it once.
- The first step of the day leaves the largest footprint.
- You can neither lose what is precious to you nor keep the box it came in.