Each book on every shelf has a story to tell. Should I listen to the dozens of stories awaiting to be recounted? Or should I self off those books as quickly as half.com can snap them up?
I can't seem to let go of A Guide to Feynman Diagrams in the Many-Body Problem or Mass Customization: The New Frontier in Business Competition. Some books (such as a copy of The Best American Essays 1996 (Serial)) actually belong to friends with whom I've more or less lost touch. And in the desire to master both Mandarin and Cantonese Chinese (i.e., to Read and Write Chinese) in my copious free time, I purchased Concise English-Chinese Chinese-English Dictionary and Let's Talk Cantonese.
What Should I Do with My Life? My goal is still Creating a Life Worth Living. If only I could follow those simple formulae: Do What You Are and Live the Life You Love by Getting What You Came for .
I'd like to have it all, I suppose. I want to experience The Joy of Work that emanate from The Effective Executive leaders all around me. Love would be wonderful too. However, as one of those Singles at the Crossroads, struggling with Boundaries in Dating, I'm comforted that at least my would-be lovers are Caring Enough to Confront me by saying, "I Only Say This Because I Love You."
Maybe I don't need the love of a good woman. I just need to love humanity at large. All I have to do is to start Making Room in my heart, eating enough Bread for the Journey. But as it ought to say in The Activist's Handbook, we must work Peer-to-Peer to spread what must be My Only Comfort (or is that Wishful Thinking?), that the Good News About Injustice is that there will always be work for us do-gooders, regardless of attempts at any Bridge to Understanding.
In the end, Finding Faith in God and practicing our faith in the great God in the Dark will answer the cry of the heart, "Please Understand Me!" and that refrain, "Please Understand Me II!"
Don't forget How to Read Slowly. For you'll see that what started as an attempt to poetry ended up to be Something Like an Autobiography, full of Good Taste, Bad Taste, and Christian Taste.
Posted by rdhyee at August 7, 2003 11:11 PM