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I came into the office yesterday morning, and one of my workmates was here feeling sorta morose as he usually is want to do. That wasn’t particularly unusual. He’s fairly eeyorish… as in… eeyore off winnie the pooh… now I seem to remember eeyore as being quite a depressive kind of fellow.

Interestingly, this links in with the motivation trip I’ve been having lately…

The night before last, I sat there watching DVD’s, and looking things up on google, stuffing about without getting anything done - “WASTING” a lot of time, so to speak. I was procrastinating. I find that interesting. Procrastinating doesn’t seem to be so much about NOT doing the thing, but rather of getting in the way of just doing something entirely different for a while so that you can come back to the thing fresh, which is what you needed in the first place.

So yeah, I got to work, and my workmate is in this kinda grumpy mood, and he chances across lifesucks.info - well he typed life sucks into google and that came up - of course LOL. Reading this is one of the most strangely sort of bizarre things… I mean, you read it expecting to start feeling a bit morose, but you kind of feel like “Oh, cool, someone else has been down” It obviously leaves out all of the positive things in life, or at least colours them in drab gray… but I’m sure he’s got at least 5 points that almost everyone has felt at some time… which is very interesting, because the effect of the website is that it directs you OUT of any spiral you seemed to be in… because he’s MORE depressing than you could ever be. What a strange place to find a motivator.

Then I stumbled across this article about being eeyore, and that kinda lifted my spirits a little.

It sort of depresses me slightly to think that I’m just a piece of “something” blowing in the wind so freely that anything that happens can impact me to such a huge degree, but I guess that’s part of being human, isn’t it? The advantage of that is that I’m adaptable to change.

I’m not really sure WHERE I’m going with this post, only to express that motivation for doing things, and how the human being (/ event / machine / whatever you want to call it) deigns to co-operate in accord with itself is still very much a mystery to me, even after being on this earth for what I’d consider to be a fair amount of time.

I have a sneaking suspicious that success in this area may have something to do with swimming with the current and yet still going towards your goal rather than trying to directly get across the river, which would actually result in being washed away.

(Listening to 101 On the Run by Tigerskin - you can get this on iTunes Store)