Reality

"... of the major disadvantages of reality: from up close, it looks very different from any "picture", a difference which no theory can explain".
-Bertrand Russel from Logicomix
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I realize why I have this great tendency to live in my imagination sometimes.

Personal Interpretation

It is said that: "A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them- they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship"*.
True! Which makes them hopeless always and again...

*Rainer Maria Rilke

Life of a mind

My train trips these days are devoted to reading a book titled "In search of memory" by Eric Kandel. It's the story of a refugee kid of Nazis-era, a husband, a father, a man and a Nobel prize winner.
And my sharing for today from this book:
...But the argument with Denise about spending more time with her and Paul did cause me to pause and think. As a consequence I learned from this argument the obvious lesson that hard thinking, especially if it leads to even one useful idea, is much more valuable than simply running more experiments. I was later reminded of a comment made about Jim Watson by Marx Perutz, the Viennese-born British structural biologist: "Jim never made the mistake of confusing hard work with hard thinking".

I didn't speak up

...They first came for the Communists and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me--and by that time no one was left to speak up...
Martin Niemoller

Then you win

First they ignore you,
Then they laugh at you,
Then they fight you,
Then you win.
Mahatma Gandhi

The more opinions you have, the less you see.
-Wim Wenders

"When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it".
Bernard Baily