Je fais du ménage dans mon blog technique et je retrouve des petits bijous que je veux garder mais qui n’ont pas leur place là-bas. Ce post en fait parti.

I had a blog before this, a long long time ago. I was updating it quite regularly (once a week), and I had some thoughts for my friends to share and comment. Not many readers, but enough so that it was worth it. I really loved the experience at the time, although it died too quickly to my taste.

Some posts on that old blog still move me when I re-read them. I don’t want this blog to be about profound thoughts about myself or about my friends, but I still think that, sometimes, I might share with you my feelings about this world and how to deal with it.

The fact that I post this right now is no coincidence. I think I have a friend who is feeling and asking the very same questions I was wondering myself years ago, when I first came in Montreal. I think that, although it might not answer her feelings (which do not concern me but as a friend), it might help her light up the thoughts she’s going through.

The entry wouldn’t be that insightful or interesting (just some piece of thoughts) if there wasn’t an answer from snoopie, which made the real post worthful. As always, she often came with the right thing to say at the right moment. Those who don’t know her probably should, although don’t ask me about her, there wouldn’t be enough for a lifetime of story telling

Comment if you will.

There are some choices we do not want to make, whatever happens. Those choices depend on either the avaibility of a good ending, or no desired options, or even both.
One tries often to predict the future to the outcomes of either possibility (even if those prediction are futile, considering the different interactions), and take it into consideration.

It is a vicious way of solving this problem. In a sense, it often comes to short-term good for long-term bad, or the reverse. Then you look at the options, and can’t decide if you want to make up later for not-so-bad consequences and take the present as-good-as-it-is-possible, or the other way around…

Sometimes you get away of this, timing out, or because someone else took the decision instead of you. You’re then glad you didn’t make the choice… and happy about the outcome of it…

Or so it seems.

posted by Hans Larsen at 2:55 PM

1 Comments:

Snoepie said…

I’m speechless on this, only that what comes up in my current state of mind, would be:
we keep making the wrong choices, and the more choices we make, the more the wrong-number shall increase.
You just gotta hope that eventually the % will smooth out and start dropping.
Often when someone else took the decision for me, or I did not take it myself in time, the outcome is bad. I’m stuck in a situation then I did not pick, therefor its automatically bad. See chapter on controlling behaviour.Most choices are not about whats good though. they are about picking the least wrong one. Simply because everything has both negative and and positive consequences, and we’re doing nothing but damage control our lives long.bah.
Today no more choices. too much of a pessimist view.

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