so on saturday i had lunch with mr. metaphor. we had a nice time. i'm left now with two things:
let's discuss the more interesting of those two things-- the web site. it's an online dating system that uses a lot of preference testing and some algorithms to match people. supposedly to get good results from the site, one must answer hundreds of questions. it's amazingly addictive. i enjoy answering the questions.
anyway, i just ran across a particularly interesting one:
"It is more worthwhile and satisfying to: A) Improve the world. B) Appreciate the world."
it's probably not surprising that i immediately answered "Improve the world", but after answering, i paused over my answer.
after october 30th, all of my non-work-related, deadline-based obligations go away. i basically have no plans. to say that i am looking forward to that time would be a wild understatement; it's like the light at the end of the long, dark tunnel that has been this year.
i thought to myself that perhaps i should make a greater point of appreciating the world after i'm done improving it. perhaps i don't need to be endlessly productive; instead, i could make a greater point of taking things in. new things. fun things. strange things. marvellous things.
Posted by lisa at October 21, 2004 12:51 AM | TrackBackYou reminded me of a book titled something like "Think Twice." It offers a series of questions like that one. Some I remember:
Would you rather live in a valley, with a great view of the mountains? Or on a mountain with a great view of the valley?
Would you rather be smarter than you are now, or taller?
Posted by: Phil on October 21, 2004 02:40 AMi like questions like those, phil, that make me pause and think about who i am.
but i also find, as lisa alludes, that my answers can wildly vary depending on what day it is. this leads me to believe that i'm somehow a different person every day of the week.
i must be terribly difficult on my friends. ;-)
Posted by: christa on October 21, 2004 12:57 PM