things to ponder

“To experience time travel, read.

To achieve immortality, write.”

for some of us, the default approach is to go through the day implicitly treating all sorts of things as matters of life and death when they aren’t even close to being matters of life and death.

The below quote by William S. Burroughs is only becoming more relevant with time:

'What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty and above all it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits out quantity.'

"You can't make a comeback if you don't start."

Poet and novelist Sylvia Plath reminds us that choosing a path means ignoring the rest, but not choosing means squandering them all:

“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and child... See more

Habits need to be revised from time to time. Which habits have become more important and you need to double down on next year? Which habits are no longer serving you and need to be replaced next year?