seemingly random thoughts on a rainy tuesday evening.
June 9, 2009
It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.
- Tyler Durden, Fight Club
Music (with video).
Lyrics (for above video).
No excuses (in case the first one wasn’t enough).
Good luck.
….what? That’s it?
Shit, I coulda posted three links a quote and ten words.
Lame, very lame.
But I got the point. (ouch)
Eyeteaguy
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Heh heh, my fingers were too sore from swinging my kettlebells to write more
Hi Brett,
Been thinking about you a lot. Hope everything is OK. Miss our page.
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Hi Wendi,
All is well (Brett was just in a silly mood last night, watching videos and stuff, and surviving workplace Armageddon) – I sent you an email.
I hope that you are well too, my friend.
@Eyeteaguy
I think Brett’s trying to follow my blogging format. Write something that takes five minutes…and try to milk it for 300 comments.
@Brett
We almost have enough followers to start our own Church of the Fight Club.
I think it would give the Flying Spaghetti Monster a run for it’s money.
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@Friar,
Well, Eyeteaguy kind of looks like Edward Norton/Jack a bit, and he’s a tough mofo…
Now, about the 300 comments thing, doesn’t seem like folks are interested in taking it that far.
Maybe I need a picture of some dead fish.
Well it couldn’t hurt……
All we need is for someone to ask a dumb question or say something off topic and get the rest of the krew on board.
Hey, do you think if I puched you in the head you could really stand up again like in the movies?
I have never seen a bar fight last more than two hits, one to the head, head to the floor.
Eyeteaguy (More Pekoe then Earl Grey today)
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@Brett
That would be LAME-ASS dead fish, to be exact.
Next time I catch some, I’ll bring the carcasses over.
And maybe next time Eyeteaguy comes over, we can all punch each other in the head, and see who’s the last guy standing.
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Ok, but i get to go first and second.
If you are still standing you can hit me…. but you have to catch me…..and I’ll be wearing my helmet.
The only confidence I have is the 500 YouTube videos of guys hitting each other and not gtting up.
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The last three blogs I have read tonight all sound like you guys are going to Urban Panther’s for dinner and Brett is bringing the whine…
hmm Friar is catching the fish?
ITguy is just wondering about it all?
Sounds like a slow cooking picnic…
just need some of Vered’s cupcakes
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I’ve been thinking about the quote a lot. It certainly sounds profound, but it might be trying a little too hard. Because I’m not at all sure it’s even true.
@Patricia,
Well, that’s the plan, anyway… apparently I’m being dragged there by Friar, though a glass of wine is all it will take
@steph,
Perhaps it should not be taken as an absolute i.e. you *have* to lose everything before you can be free.
I find it to be a useful starting place – one can always imagine they have nothing to lose – and then at that point, they are free, at least in their own minds. And usually, it is just the mind that holds you back.
The fear of failure. But if you have nothing left to lose, if you’ve failed miserably at everything already, what’s to lose? So pretending that you’ve nothing to lose can be pretty powerful.
Because at the end of the day, what is there to lose, really, if we’re still breathing and moving? We’ve everything to gain by trying.
I remember going off on my bike for 6 months with everything I needed in my saddle bags.
I didn’t lose everything but I did have very little to lose and I learnt a great deal about myself.
I had a great depth of strength I did not know about. I learnt that people really are nice. And that I can be mighty resourceful when I need to be.
I learnt all I needed to know from Tyler.
Eyeteaguy
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@Eyeteaguy,
Exactly.
My awakening was losing a child.
After that, nothing else phases you. The only thing preventing me from doing anything, is my own laziness. The whole “body at rest stays at rest thing”.
But you know, if I were fired or laid off tomorrow – so what?
Brett: I see your point. I think it’s close to what my sister and I were talking about the other day when she quit her job without having another to go to: opening yourself so much that you truly feel as though you’re okay with whatever happens.
If you were laid off or fired tomorrow, how you felt about it, I think, would dictate what happened next. If you were to feel free and open to possibility and opportunity, instead of despairing and desperate and bitter, good things would come your way. You’ve made room for them.
steph,
That’s right! In fact, I borrowed that idea from your sister, remembering it as you told it to me in your email.
Making room for the good things, the possibilities. So if we lost everything (or, pretended to lose everything), we would have room for new things – for great things.