note to self

[danuv]

There's a time for thinking and there's a time to shut yourself the hell up and just live. It's difficult sometimes to find the right balance between the two, to know when you've done enough analyzing and examination and to know that it's time to let life happen and experience it rather than always trying to understand and outsmart it. It's too easy to slip fully into the role of either a passenger or an observer and either of those let you out of your real place in life as a participant. Life is too beautiful and scary to not engage yourself with it and in it. You can't outwit it or outthink it and conversely you aren't a helpless being swept along powerlessly in its flow.