The Advisor
Sometimes you see this on social media: “if your could talk to your younger self what would you say?” My answer is “read more” and get cracking. I mean read shit you don’t understand. You’re fifteen. It’s high time to read the Nicomachean Ethics. Study Boolean Algebra and for fun read Melville. Picture yourself floating on the coffin of your dead pal. See yourself as an empty set. “For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.” O Aristotle. Good numbers scrawled on a napkin. My younger self wanted very much to starve himself to death. Melville: “I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.” Just read and laugh. Read and laugh.
Planet of the Blind 