People race to get to places they have no interest in being.
From The Beginning Viewed from the End, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
The commuter lot behind the hardware store filled at ten past seven, same as always, and a man in a gray coat ran the last forty feet to his car. He got in and sat there. I watched him from the light pole for a good while and he did not start the engine; he just sat with both hands on the wheel looking at the brick wall in front of him. For years I took running as proof of wanting, the way I take a hawk's stoop as proof of hunger, and it seemed to me a safe enough rule. But people race to get to places they have no interest in being, and the proof is how still they go once they arrive. Switch says squirrels run first and decide after, which may be the same thing said by someone with a better tail.
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.
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More like it
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- Some make little of much and others make much of little.
- Life gives us more gifts in a day than we unwrap in a year.
- The lost opportunities that count most are the ones being lost in this moment.
- If you're getting it done in one lifetime, you’re ahead of schedule.