ah, now i remember

not too long ago, i was wondering why we generally did not seem to expend much time or energy wondering about, you know, meaning-of-life type questions. i mean, people, this is the very core of our existence! but... somehow we'd rather go about our daily lives and just keep doing whatever it is we were doing, and what everyone else is doing, since we can't really go wrong doing that?

now work is piling up. meetings, calls, emails, memos, contracts. things that demand my immediate attention, or else, well... not-so-good things will happen.

so now, i remember why again.

plenty of people are asking me to do various things (work or otherwise), while no one is demanding me to figure the larger questions out. arguably, it has little relevance to my daily life. and the thinking is simply exhausting, and i often wonder when my brain will actually explode.

it's much easier to take care of the things that are screaming for my attention - the unread email, the facebook notification, and the thousands of other things that i could be doing that is actually physically visible and tangible.

in my world of limited time and unlimited distractions, instant gratification simply works rather well.

i came across a friend who quoted edward stanley: "those who think they have no time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness".

does the corollary hold true - those who think they have no time for self-reflection will sooner or later have to find time for mental anguish?