Footsteps of the Furies
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Footsteps of the Furies
@jerseymac.bsky.social
Breaking the chains of illusions
Small pleasures

Small pleasures, all those pleasures that can be bought and sold or distributed by those hoarding them or having a monopoly on them, are a fundamental part of our lives. And they are fundamentally wrong...

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January 18, 2024 at 5:11 PM
Lack of high standards

I don't accept a lack of high standards in others. I slowly learned to tolerate it and deal with it, but it still bothers me a lot. Of course — I hold myself to very high standards in all I do...

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January 17, 2024 at 5:28 PM
Overextension

I feel tired. Tiredness came suddenly and hit me like a ton of bricks. Winter wasn’t so bad until last week — then the severity of the season came to a full and heavy blow. Dangerously low temperatures...

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January 16, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Artificial lies

A curious thing happened to me yesterday. I was looking for books about the history of Central Asia, more specifically connected to the time of the Silk Road and even more specifically to the cities of Samarkand...

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January 15, 2024 at 6:23 PM
Fresh footprints

Look closely. Do you see it? They are barely visible but definitely there — my footprints in the fresh snow. It was snowing again overnight and it will keep on snowing forever. I am sure of that...

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January 14, 2024 at 12:15 PM
Sharpness in January

It has been about thirty-five years since I started wearing glasses and I cannot imagine life now without my glasses. And I like the fact that every couple of years after getting my eyes checked and getting...

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January 13, 2024 at 3:23 PM
Commonality in slight craziness

In winter, when driving conditions become treacherous because of the snow or ice or sleet or deep freeze or all those elements at once, I leave my car at home and take a bus to get to work...

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January 12, 2024 at 5:31 PM
A serious kind of detachment

Detachment from anger and its causes, that is what I mean. Getting detached from smaller and interpersonal issues might be difficult and uncomfortable, but there is not much in comparison...

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January 11, 2024 at 4:32 PM
A small kind of detachment

I don't know if that can be done, but I hope so. I need to learn (or develop) a way where I can detach myself from the problems of others. It is still too easy for me to get involved with situations...

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January 10, 2024 at 5:14 PM
Mind deception

I should probably have gotten used to it already because it happened again like clockwork, and again it happened very routinely. The pattern is the same — whenever I feel well and good and content and almost on the verge...

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January 9, 2024 at 5:09 PM
The idea of god and god-wrath

There are two different ways of looking at the idea of god. One is based on the initial thought process of ancient Greek philosophers and then refined over the ages...

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January 8, 2024 at 4:57 PM
Masks

I have worn various masks for more than thirty years of my life. I stopped wearing most of them as my default face a little over three years ago. Some of them I still keep on hand so I can slip them over my real face...

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January 7, 2024 at 11:17 AM
Two Sundays

I slept well and woke up late today. I got up at an ungodly late (for me) hour of 8 am and spent some time making a special and elaborate breakfast. Then I aimlessly moped around the house for a while...

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January 6, 2024 at 4:05 PM
Deep freeze

The dog was surprised by each step on the snow as we walked in the garden tonight while awaiting the deep freeze coming in the next days. Snow crackled and snapped and crunched and squeaked with the unfamiliar sound...

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January 5, 2024 at 5:24 PM
Fitting in

If that is conformism, then I am a conformist extraordinaire. Going by my life experiences, I always fitted well within any group of people I encountered — either personally or professionally...

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January 4, 2024 at 5:30 PM
Tell me...

Tell me I am a good boy. I am so hungry for compliments. I so much crave good words about myself — and those words don’t have to be true or even believable. Tell me I am a good boy and I am all yours...

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January 3, 2024 at 5:45 PM
Being jealous

I am jealous of many things and of many people. I can live with most of my pangs of jealousy since I am sure other people could be jealous of me and the way I am and the way my life goes on...

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January 2, 2024 at 5:43 PM
More fun
I’ve done a lot of things in the last year — I walked a little over 4.000.000 steps (which is about 2900 kilometers), and I rode my bicycle for 1700 kilometers more. I started lifting weights for the first time in decades. I read 116 books...
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January 1, 2024 at 10:59 AM
Unforeseen consequences of happiness

I learned a lot this year. I read a lot of books, I digested a lot of ideas and had time to think and analyze and create (more or less) coherent train of thought. It might be fitting that on the last day of the...

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December 31, 2023 at 1:09 PM

A late December

I checked and rechecked and something wasn't right. At all. I had to go to the most reliable source of historical information — bank statements. Banks don't miss anything, there is a record of all your actions...

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December 30, 2023 at 4:56 PM