The Future Is Dark
I'm very lazy. Hmm... No, that's not quite it. I'm not lazy, I do work quite hard. But when it comes to some things, I do not work very hard, in fact, I give up quite readily with some things. There are quite a few things to which this applies, one of which being this, writing. I have quite a few blogs on here that I've made private after they have sat unused for several months, slightly embarrassed at my negligence/failure to keep writing. Here I am again. When will I give up this time? When will the laziness kick in? I was reading a book recently, Men Explain Things to Me. I'm picking it back up after a long while of not reading it. (How on theme.) There is this chapter where the author, Rebecca Solnit, quotes Virginia Woolf: "The future is dark. Which is the best thing the future can be, I think." Disclaimer: I am poorly read and should probably know way more about Woolf and literature in general. But Solnit uses this quote to talk about how we know...