When I was a freshman at Yale I rapidly accumulated a sense about other students. They were almost all bent on material success. I considered their humane values poor and I wanted to pursue a more noble path by aiming to be poor.
I certainly have succeeded.
But I find that, being poor, I can't eat as well as I would like. I realized at Yale that finding a spouse would be difficult if I were poor. I didn't realize I would have trouble eating well. Knowing a spouse would be problem I have worked on that ever since. I believe that I have made progress in that matter, with my courtship of Crystal Newell. However, I have not made progress in the matter of eating well. It is bounded by income.
Being poor was a frightening prospect when I was young. I soon realized I had put myself irrevocably down a road that would prove more difficult than I desired life to be. I began to improvise ways to avoid it. I tried majoring in economics. That didn't work. I tried architecture. Here I was confused by the difference between nobility and professional ability. It drove me insane.
Insanity completed my trajectory into poverty.
Now poverty has proven to be a task master of the highest order.
English transformation art is a noble business. Nobility is profitable only at vast scale. The final vast scale is time.
The blog art sale is up. Time will hone it.
Friday, August 28, 2009
life design at Yale
2009-08-28T16:26:00-07:00
glenellynboy
economics|insanity|material success|nobility|poverty|values|yale|
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