Message for a society designed around desk-clearing

"If you spend all your time cleaning your desk, you'll just have clean desk. That's not enough."

-- Bill Harley

"As a consequence"

"I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utter laziness. I've lifted, pulled, chopped, climbed, made love with joy and taken my hangovers as a consequence, not as a punishment."

--John Steinbeck

{a special hat/tip to Mark P.}

Yeah, the math has always struck me too.

"When you looked around, you used to be baffled by the ratio of upright people to prone, devastated people. Sure, you understood your math was off. You knew the prone, devastated people were hidden behind locked doors, if they could help it.

But still: There seemed to be a LOT of walking, functioning, smiling, grocery-shopping, 401-K-stuffing, married, baby-having, employed, vacation-planning people in the world, compared to, you know, YOU.

It’s still hard to shake."

--Jenn Mattern