Everywhere you look
You see lights
Illuminating spaces and things
That there is nobody else to look at.
How wasteful we are
Every light source unacknowledged
Yet working,
Contributing to the increase of entropy in the universe.
Photo by gunnarmh 
When you look at a piece of art
You’re looking at the ‘crystallisation’ of someone’s creative energy from a moment in time.
Put another way,
What matter is to energy
Art is to creative energy.
Photo by MichaelGaida (Pixabay)
If your work provides no meaning, or joy to you
You are wasting your life at it.
Or at least
You are wasting the part of your life
That you spend working.
“If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Photo by ericksonkee
Make many mistakes
But make each one only once.
Photo by Mr B’s Photography
You know whose name to answer to,
But you do not know who they are.
Photo by Misha Sokolnikov
The difference between a mistake and a lesson is what you take from it.
I’m a speck of dust
On a sandy beach.
The waves rush in
I know not what I am
Nor how I got here
Nor where I am going.
I only know that
I will soon be gone.
Photo by Free-Photos (Pixabay)
If you take offence where none was intended
You have chosen to take something that is offered to you.
That is entirely your choice,
Your problem
And no one else’s.
Unless,
Having taken offence
You go so far as to make this someone else’s problem.
This is how we conjure new problems out of thin air.
Photo by streetwrk.com