Michael Leunig - another Oz yeti
Posted by:: John Cook
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 16:12:45 +1000
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It is worth doing nothing.
from Resurgence issue 202
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(From Mr. Curly to Vasco Pyjama)
Dear Vasco,
In response to your question, What is worth doing and what is worth
having? I would like to say simply this. It is worth doing nothing and
having a rest; in spite of all the difficulty it may cause, you must
rest, Vasco otherwise you will become RESTLESS! I believe the world is
sick with exhaustion and dying of restlessness.
While it is true that periods of weariness help the spirit to grow, the
prolonged, ongoing state of fatigue, to which our world seems to be
rapidly adapting, is ultimately soul-destroying as well as
earth-destroying. The ecology of evil flourishes and love cannot take
root in this sad situation. Tiredness is one of our strongest, most
noble and instructive feelings. It is an important aspect of our
CONSCIENCE and must be heeded or else we will not survive.
When you are tired you must HAVE that feeling and you must act upon it
sensibly you MUST rest like the trees and animals do. Yet tiredness
has become a matter of shame! This is a dangerous development. Tiredness
has become the most suppressed feeling in the world. Everywhere we see
people overcoming their exhaustion and pushing on with intensity
cultivating the great mass mania which all around is making life so hard
and ugly so cruel and meaningless so utterly graceless and being
congratulated for overcoming it and pushing it deep down inside
themselves as if it were a virtue to do this.
And of course, Vasco, you know what happens when such strong and natural
feelings are denied they turn into the most powerful and bitter
poisons with dreadful consequences. We live in a world of these
consequences and then wonder why we are so unhappy.
So I gently urge you, Vasco, do as we do in Curly Flat learn to curl
up and rest feel your noble tiredness learn about it and make a
generous place for it in your life and enjoyment with surely follow.
I repeat: its worth doing nothing and having a rest.
Yours sleepily, Mr. Curly x x x
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John Cook
The Bandwidth of reality is Wonderfully wide