Life divided
Rachel emailed me shortly after the last post with a poem from a book she's reading:
read your post today - and I just read this poem in a book I'm reading
(book is called 'encyclopedia of an ordinary life' and is actually up
your alley - check it out sometime)
You Want a Social Life, With Friends (by Kenneth Koch)
You want a social life, with friends,
A passionate love life as well
To work hard every day. What's true
Is of these three you may have two
And two can pay you dividends
But never may have three
There isn't time enough, my friends -
Though dawn begins, yet midnight ends -
To find the time to have love, work, and friends.
Michelangelo had feeling
For Vittoria and Ceiling
But did he go to parties at day's end?
Homer nightly went to banquets
Wrote all day but had no lockets
Bright with pictures of his Girl.
I know one who loves and parties
And has done so since his thirties
But writes hardly anything at all.
I don't know if it's true...I read it to justin last night...but he
didn't really say anything back. curious what you think.
rachel
I've been thinking about it for a couple hours and decided to post it to all of you. Can a person have all three? And if so, what (if anything) gets sacrificed?
posted by Lisa @ 6:41 PM
4 Comments:
Well...there's work, and then there's painting the Cistine Chapel ceiling or writing the Iliad.
(says the guy who is blogging because he can't sleep because he spent the evening drinking with his beloved and has to give lab meeting in 8 hours.)
I haven't worked for two years. I rarely enjoy socializing without a computer screen as buffer. And yet I still feel like I am always behind.
But then, I am not nearly as efficient at living as you are. I waste incredible chunks of time just doing things wrong.
From Reader's Digest:
I am retired. I wake up with nothing to do and go to bed with half of it done.
Nice post, BTW.
I think it might be human nature to need something to bitch about. So, I think there are plenty of people who have all 3 - but they choose to bitch about one or the other to artificially give themselves something to strive for (a better job, a more loving relationship, etc). I think it's the mentality of those who believe 'the grass is always greener...'
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