I often wonder about my strategic wisdom ( or lack thereof ). On the intellectual end I went through a few stages of tightening security : grade school was focused on getting to college, college was focused on delineating the structure of all knowledge, and the 18 years after that were focused on understanding the lived experiences of ordinary people.
Throughout these times, I made a point to try and be as normal as possible : so while I might have understood the world differently from most people, my continuous compromise was to interact with them, eat like them, entertain myself like them, work like them, etc. in order to maintain a semblance of social cohesion.
Now in my fourth year of sabbatical I find myself increasing militarising food and exercise. I fear that this just makes me less and less relevant to the ordinary member of society. But it is what it is - the time has come ... I will just have to deal with it.
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