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Weariness- Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then feels his nothingness, his forlornness, his insufficiency, his dependance, his weakness, his emptiness. There will immediately arise from the depth of his heart weariness, gloom, sadness, fretfulness, vexation, despair.
- Blaise Pascal from Pensees
Indeed. While wonderful and exciting things have been happening all around me and to me this last several months, I have found myself personally in a state of weariness. Without excitement or passion for my work, my ideas, my craft, etc. Forgetting to take joy in things, forgetting to appreciate things and forgetting to think well (forgetting, of course, courage). BUT! The joyous “but,” I awoke this morning with a sense that I have gotten past the “weariness.” So as I grin at my screen, tickity-tack-tack-typing these words, I urge you, if you are weary, be not so.
