Happy April!
Quick read
Shunya on Detachment
A car can't be serviced while it's moving.
Clothes can't be washed while you're wearing them.
Once in a while, detach from everything.
Let the universe do servicing.
Don't wait for a total breakdown.
Visual
Somewhere in Louisiana
Fact
The longest work of English literature ever written by one person is a Super Mario Bros. fan fiction, it’s 4,102,328 words long.
This day in history
54 years ago today, on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. The civil rights leader was in Memphis to support a sanitation workers’ strike and was on his way to dinner when a bullet struck him in the jaw and severed his spinal cord. King was pronounced dead after his arrival at a Memphis hospital. He was 39 years old.
Tune
Quote
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” // Aristotle
Something to ponder
Detachment doesn’t mean that you do not own things. It means that things do not own you. // Bhagvad Gita
Honorable Mentions
Personal update
I spent this past weekend in New Orleans with a bunch of my best friends cheering on Duke.
Things didn’t go quite as we had planned. Between the waves of self-pity, I couldn’t help but think of a line from one of my favorite books.
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.
According to Randy Pausch (the author of the book), I have a lot more to offer after this weekend.
Here’s to making the most of things—especially when the only way out is through.
Until next week,