Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site burl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!geoff From: geoff@burl.UUCP (geoff) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: independence-dependence cycles Message-ID: <625@burl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 20:03:35 EST Article-I.D.: burl.625 Posted: Mon Jan 14 20:03:35 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 15-Jan-85 02:25:52 EST References: <959@watcgl.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Technologies; Burlington, NC Lines: 20 Dave, you are definitely not alone. Sad, but true. I have seen this cycle more often than I care to recall. In some ways I find that I am the happiest when in a 'fuck the world' state of mind (not really negative about the world, just not allowing it to impinge upon me). I get all sorts of work done and just lose myself in the computer. The 'creative fire' or whatever seems like just compensation for whatever I am missing. For a while. Then I feel a need to reach out, etc, which I do. This aspect of the cycle is the most 'fun', but seems to be fleeting. The rest of the cycle is less so, until I am back lost in a computer again. It does get a little wearying going round and round, though. Especially when the cycle can be seen far more clearly in retrospect than in day-to-day life, so that what you do at any given point is clear and reasonable (at the time). This last point is what makes the cycles so hard to break -- at any given point you really are doing pretty much what you want to do. It just doesn't last very long. geoff sherwood