"Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler" - Einstein
A dreamer
I'm also totally all over the place when it comes to books. I don't read as much as I used to - but I'm going to try to get back to reading more. My all time favorite authors are Guy de Maupassant, Gustave Flaubert, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Aleksander Dyma, Victor Hugo, Charles Dickens, John Galsworthy, Stefan Zweig, russian novelists Dostoevsky, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Aleksandr Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy etc.
I am forever a dreamer !!! I intend to live forever.
I build my life with dreams and make them to come true. Life for me is like climbing a mountain. You started life in the bottom and you work hard to reach the top. During this journey we all build dreams and work hard to make these dreams come true. We build dream after dreams until we get to last dream on the top of mountain. When I get in the path of climbing a mountain: circumstances do change, so I approach and the path have to be changed accordingly. I start with a general idea of which way to climb but as I go up I find my way blocked; well then I find a way to go around it or sometimes you need a hand to cross this. If it were easy, life would not be like climbing mountain. The whole point of climbing is that it is difficult. It is not easy, but that's why I do it. Some people will climb the steepest mountain they can find. Some people get elevated by someone else.
Beethoven said that life without suffering was not worth living. I think he meant something the above. He certainly did not sit in one place and repeat the same thing over and over.
Life is a set of choices that we make. Even the act of not making choices is our choice and our decision. We are ultimately responsible for our own choices and actions. The choices we make lay up seeds for things to happen in the future. My world is so different now, but in the end, I am who I choose to be.
Here is from Steve Job's talk 2005.
... "Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."
"Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle."
"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."
"No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true."
Below is the link of his talk.
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary." - Steve Job
In QED, Feynman diagrams involving a virtual electron-positron pair effectively give the photon a "size" of the order of the Compton wavelength lc of the electron ((a) in diagram). This produces an interaction between the photon and gravity that distorts the photon's trajectory through curved space-time so that it no longer follows the usual geodesic path ((b) in diagram).
