"trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth"

i love saturdays.

and i love rain.

i'm currently reading "The Wisdom of Insecurity" by Alan Watts for my Philosophy class. It's very good.
It must be obvious... that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.

For the greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.

i'm really enjoying my philosophy class. last time we read WEB Du Bois and talked about double consciousness and racism...this time we are reading Alan Watts. We've gone through Socrates, Kant, Kierkegaard, and so on.
i don't even really like philosophy because so much of it seems like it is trying to define things that will never be defineable. i think that is why i like Watts' book so much...because that's what he's saying. You shouldn't waste your time trying to figure out the future or make excuses for the past. You shouldn't try to define things such as "God" and "self" and such, because they are not defineable. they just are.