Scribblings

It's what you work against that makes you stronger. At least until you come to terms with it. Then it makes you relatively weaker.

Hope for the best. Pray for the worst.

Necessity might be the mother of reinvention but reinvention is the mother of necessity. Every reinvention becomes necessary to change, eventually. Economic theories, scientific theories, philosophical resolutions - and even formalized religion at times - get reinvented by the necessity created at their very birth. Every revolution carries with it the seeds of its own destruction, but that creation creates something new. Organized by entropy.

If you peel an orange, it's still an orange. If you peel an onion, it's still an onion. At some point in peeling, though, something ceases to be what it was and becomes something new. It's just up to us to see the difference. Thus peeling an orange and peeling an onion have different cultural subtexts.