Friday, December 30, 2011

year-ender II



The Funny Thing About Human (lifted from Paolo Coelho's Like the Flowing River)


"A man asked my friend Jamie Cohen: What is the human being's funniest characteristic?"

Cohen said: 'Our contradictoriness. We are in such a hurry to grow up, and then we long for our lost childhood. We make ourselves ill earning money, and then spend all our  money on getting well again. We think so much about the future that we neglect the present, and thus experience neither the present nor the future. We live as if we were never going to die, and die as if we had never lived.'

*photo not mine

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