Facade it until you want it

Now you're out of time and then what?

I keep thinking in my head: and then what? And then what?

And then what?

Rainer Maria Rilke told me to


"Fling the nothing that you are grasping
out into the spaces we breathe.
Maybe the birds will feel in their flight
how the air has expanded."


One of Gretchen Rubin's tips is to act the way you want to feel, and let your body and mind pick up the slack, so to speak. So it follows that if you want to feel happy, act like you are happy. Obviously it's not always that simple. I agree with Rubin that sometimes in some instances it is.

The reason that people are able to placebo-affect themselves is because the placebo effect can work. This seems circular but maybe there's some synthetic a priori truth to the bit.


Trent Reznor has this one song called "1,000,000" where he says that he feels a million miles a way, he doesn't feel anything at all.

The answer is that quality of life depends on knowledge. Knowledge depends both on exploration and discovery by oneself, and also the connection with one's surroundings and environment.

Continue to be excited. Get other people excited. Somehow you have to excite yourself into exciting yourself even more. The joy that you have can create more joy, the work that you do can create better quality and quantity.