The Road / Cormac McCarthy

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.
You forget some things, don't you?
Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
"To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong." Joseph Chilton Pearce

"If you press me to tell why I loved him, I feel that this cannot be expressed,
except by answering: Because it was he, because it was I."
Michel de Montaigne, "Of Friendship"

Monday, August 15, 2011

Plan

I came here without a plan, but I'm not leaving without one.

My dad, at a bakery-cafe after our reserved (no one was there, though) Italian lunch, shared me something that I wrote down in my notebook. (Yes, I had always known that my dad would tell me something meaningful no other dad could say.) This was what a pastor in a sermon he listened to said:

Those who do not plan plan failure. (계획하지 않는 자는 실패를 계획한다. He said this in Korean, so I think it's fair to quote the original.)

And I gave him a high five for that. I think. (Did I give him a high five?) Let's say I did.

I came here without a plan. My plan did not fail because there was no plan to fail in the first place. But I did. I failed.
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