KODA

Is it not true that often, the most you can ask from someone for them to be a “good person” is the concerted effort to be a good person?

And if that is the case, does that not simply become the concerted effort to a concerted effort be a good person? The concerted effort to a concerted effort to a concerted effort to be a good person?

Where did the good person go? Where did the original goal lose it’s meaning? Is this not the fallacy of this kind of self-referential definition? But then, is it not enough to simply try one’s best?

What does it mean to live life with earnesty?

Why is it such a challenge to cultivate authenticity?

To be contemporary, one must mount an opposition to the old-fashioned.
To be old-fashioned, one must mount an opposition to the contemporary.

The joke is that what was once old-fashioned will soon become contemporary again, and the cycle will repeat itself.

To be modern, one must develop an appreciation of both the old-fashioned and the contemporary.

But while contemporaneity is brief and transitory; Modernity however, lasts.

Today I had my first Aikido class for at least 10 months. It was fantastic… just being back in a familiar dojo with my old sensei. Boy, it’s such a wonderful feeling to just be thrown around for a while and rolling - it’s about the closest feeling you can get to flying in my opinion. I was embarrasingly rusty, but after a little while (and some prodding by sensei) it was pretty easy to get flowing again. It’s so great to be back!

It’s also made me very tired, so this will be it for now. Good night!