A Life Without Advice
Do you have to be reminded to eat food?
Do you need to be advised not to sit still for 14 hours each day?
If your answer to both questions is no, perhaps this is evidence that you already have some idea of how to carry yourself through life.
You will respond that these decisions are easy, but that life also requires a thousand less obvious benefits.
I would reply that if it isn’t obvious, how do you know it is beneficial?
Why not wait until it becomes obvious. Is there not intense, nourishing pleasure in other things?
Pleasure that doesn’t simply cause a craving for more of the same.
The pleasure of a permanent closing of a chapter.
It’s true that this kind of pleasure is rare.
You will say it is hard to wait. That the meantime is spacious.
Fine. But be clear with yourself. Following the latest recommendation gives you nothing but a method of filling your meantime.
Or an undoing of what you created from your restlessness.
