Unconscious overclaiming.

My new office is located relatively close to Whole Foods, so I went there a couple of times for lunch.  To buy lunch.  For me.  Only.  Every fn time I left there with bags of organic potatoes, coffee, olives, pastas, rice, apples a few berries, and a few other items that I would not buy if I went for lunch anywhere else in the world.  I could have had a lunch in a strip joint and spent much less.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kelly-maclean/surviving-whole-foods_b_3895583.html

Luckily, during my trips I never discovered any disease and I don’t do yoga.  Can’t stand Prius either (sorry, my Prius-owner-friends).

OK, back to to my solitude and last day of not working.  Tomorrow (drum-roll), I’m going to a delivery room for at least 3 months.  Will see after that.  So, back to my solitude.  Louisa sent me this article a few minutes ago and I find myself in a constant state of unconscious overclaiming as well.  Why can’t I be like some of the great ones:

“When  men are merely submerged in a mass of impersonal human beings pushed around by automatic forces, they lose their true humanity, their integrity, their ability to love, their capacity for self-determination.  When society is made up of men who know no interior solitude in can no longer be held together by love: and consequently it is held together by a violent and abusive authority.  But when men are violently deprived of the solitude and freedom which are their due, the society in which they live becomes putrid, it festers with servility*, resentment and hate.”  From THOUGHTS IN SOLITUDE by Thomas Merton

* I wonder if servility is the ultimate desire of any “pro-people” government?..  The one that would prefer making all the “right decisions” for their people.  The one that “punishes” the successful by demanding its “fair share”.

On a related note, from the timeless genius of Rand: