Is life short or long? Now most of you are saying "life is short. You only live once and before you know it you're dead so eat pizza smoke cigarettes and generally sex life up and down until you drop." A few others have revolted against this cliched perspective. "Life is long," you rebut. "Each hour is an eternity and they drift into endless days weeks months and years that loll on by as lazy as a dog in summer. If you make a bad choice you will have a lot of time to sit around and regret it so slow down and be smart kid. I smoked/drank/sexed/McDonald'sed and in the end it did nothing for me." Then of course the meta cats out there know the question is absurd. "The average life cannot be called long or short because its duration is all we know. In comparison to the life of a quark it is endless, in comparison to the life of a star it is not even a hair on the universe's ass." But despite what positivists and other anti-philosophers may say, when we wake up in the morning we must act within a perspective. We must either go out looking for thrills or try to develop ourselfves into who we wish to be. Krishnamurti says neither attitude is going to help. As soon as you want to be anything you are a million miles away from home. I know I'm a few trillion miles away. I wish someone would take me home or tell me how to get there but it just doesn't work that way, does it? I still mostly can't see the light on the other side of the false dichotomies and paradoxes. But at least I don't have work today.