| | Never stay in a quiet room for too long. And if you must, discard your computer, so as not to think you are going places for hours on end to discover you've been sitting for longer than you'd rather admit. Never open tabs on your browser, five or ten at time, and think it's an expression of your intellectual prowess, to multi task, to do ten different things at once. You're really doing nothing at all. Never read the news, thinking you are reading about reality. You are reading the poorly written fables of hired pens. There is only one reality, the reality that comes from conversations with living people. Never eat while you watch television, or watch television to get away from thinking. My grandfather once corrected me in a conversation in what has stuck with me for a long while. It is not that I am because I think, as Descartes would have it, but that I am only when shouting my thoughts to the world. I am because others can hear me. This doesn't mean asserting your existence every five minutes with doggerel. For you do not exist merely through the act of speaking but in its content as well. You are what you say. Say nothing, and you don't exist. Of course, saying and talking are not the same. By say, I mean communicating, I mean making yourself known to another person, sending a message, an idea, a feeling.
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