Unoptimized life

I love this article by Evan Armstrong “In Defense of the Unoptimized Life.” It articulates so much of what I was thinking when I wrote about busyness.

I especially enjoyed the Kurt Vonnegut bit about his wife getting on his case for going out to buy envelopes:

“Oh, she says well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy 100 envelopes and put them in the closet?

And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope.

I meet a lot of people. And, see some great looking babes. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And, and ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know...And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And, we're not supposed to dance at all anymore.”