Ideas for Blogs which evidently never materialized and Mari's unforseen encounter with Da Vinci

To the ambitious for whom neither the bounty of life nor the beauty of the world suffice to content, it comes as penance that life with them is squandered and that they posses neither the benefits nor the beauty of the world. And if they are unable to perceive what is divine in Nature which is all around them, how will they be able to see their own divinity, which is sometimes hidden. - Leonardo Da Vinci

I started writing this blog last Friday; and I even liked the idea behind it: It is the way we choose to go about living that makes us who we are.

I just read that Da Vinci quote right now and it made me realize that what I was really seeking in thinking about this "who are we, really?"stuff is how we can be happy.

Then this quote sort of opened my eyes to the fact that maybe. at a least bits of happiness are not about what I have, or how I got it, or who I am because of how I attained what I got. It is not about me at all: but on the outside.

Perhaps I have been too self-centered to realize how great things really are, and to see my own treasures.

Original blog:

Every little thing triggers an idea for a blog, fortunately for the cyber space - which given the recent youtube video of prisoners dancing to Thriller, does not need anymore junk - I have not had any time to blog. Unfortunately, for the readers of this speck of megabites which I fondly call with certain authority MY BLOG I have decided to just post the IDEAS for a blog and let you wonder how great they could have been - don't you love that room for greatness that can only be found in the unknown?



Idea 1: Pedestal



(based on the "dirty jobs" commercial)



I thought about a poem which would explore the values we hold on to.

Figuratively it would be kind of "what's on your pedestal?".

I am very fond of this personal values talk. My mom managed to raise 2 children on a single piece of advice - or threat - "your actions should be true to your values, because your values are who you are".

One can only hope no one will ever try to connect my actions with my values.

But in any case, the poem boils down to a rap song like "are you in it for the money or are you in it..." for what? - " for the front, for the respect, for the self fulfilment, for the soul, for the art, because there is nothing better to do".

So that's where the pedestal comes in.



I also thought about expanding this to a broader issue, respectively:

" are we what we look like?"
" are we what we have?"
" are we what we do?"
" are we who we do?"
then my personal epiphany would be the climax of the poem:
We are how we do.
In the long run it more about How we got there.
If how we accomplish things is the most important aspect, then our values will guide us to our actions...and it doesn't really matter what we get - we have to feel good about how we got it.
It should start:

On my pedestal sits a hypocritical, overly critical but well-meaning pot belly pig...

Anyway, the phone rang and I was talking to the girls.
They are right: when you first see somebody it might be about what they look like, but gradually it becomes about their personality.
I don't know why I can't just be satisfied with that. It would be much less time consuming.