The world moves so much faster now, there’s more pressure for everything to happen faster and to get results quicker. Then again, becasue everything happens so much faster, lab experiments, shipments of barnacles and necessary communications would not take as long today and his studies would be concluded quicker.

So I suppose it’s not the length of time that’s impressive, it’s the committment to do something for as long as it takes; and that’s quite a scary prospect!

“When a man finds himself in a movement, he always invents a goal of that movement. In order to walk a thousand versts, a man must believe that there is some good beyond those thousand versts. He needs a vision of a promised land to have the strength to go on moving. The promised land for the French on their march into Russia was Moscow; on their retreat it was their country. But their country was too far; and a man walking a thousand versts must inevitably put aside his final goal and say to himself every day that he is going to walk forty versts to a resting-place where he can sleep; and before the first halt that resting-place has eclipsed the image of the final goal, and all his hopes and desires are concentrated on it.”

But I just keep making them. And even though physically these actions, to the outside world, don’t really look to be bringing amazing results right away, as in NOW, a million unique hits to SpiritSentient.com and ebook sales – I feel compelled to keep doing these actions, not knowing the result and simply giving and giving and giving, marketing and promoting the fuck out of what I believe to be providing massive value on many levels.

And I think in order to do this, like looking at fruit flies for a decade and being happy with it, to really be able to do this, has 2 parts. One is absolutely loving your own decision despite what any external forces may think of you, and not caring about results.

And the results do come. Just not always in the ways one expects.