Most Men Lead Lives of Quiet Desperation


Henry David Thoreau once remarked that “Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.”

Today marks two small milestones for 2Points4Honesty. Well, they’re really only “inch stones”… Today is the half-birthday of the project  of posting all my entries from the journals. It has coincidentally coincided with me posting the last entry of my first journal.

When I decided to post my journal entries to the world at large, I decided to do it for six months and then reassess from there as to whether or not I would continue.

Few people in my immediate life know about this blog and the project associated with it, and I hope to quietly keep it that way. But I don’t want is to take Thoreau’s song to the grave with me. Our songs of life want to be sung, needs to be sung. And this site, this project to me is a few melodic notes in that song. To me it’s a few soft beams of light to illuminate the corners of myself.

It’s become a way for me to understand myself and share that self openly.  “Quiet desperation” is being so busy living life in the struggle of survival, so busy paying our rents, insuring our cars, paying our cell phone bill, grocery shopping, dealing with social, family, and job commitments that we have far too little time for life. We forget to live.

Posting my journal entries on this site has allowed me to slowly revisit the past in a way far more compelling than simply re-reading my past journal entries. Each post requires me to reflect on the past, and write about it through the lens of the present.

Thanks You!
So if you’re reading these words, thank you. Thank you for being an important part of this project. Thank you, anonymous world at large, for teaching me a few notes of a song I will not take to the grave.
The next journal I’ll be posting has over 100 entries and covers a lot of ground July 1998-February 2002… it takes me through some treacherous, teenage angst-infused years, but I look forward to the ride.

www.2Points4Honesty.com

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