On arriving
Nov. 26th, 2025 12:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
posicScott D. Clary writes in Facebook -- https://www.facebook.com/scottdclarypage/posts/pfbid034Q2hmFDF3Q9ALxvue6B6A1pMrpxLSE8XCCV2pm6JXqK8obXghK9XqNJgGYXv5wYEl :
There's no arriving.
The idea that you'll reach some destination where everything is finally handled is a beautiful lie that keeps you chasing horizons. The point was never to arrive -- it was to become someone interesting along the way.
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Another week or month, and the length of my list of peer-reviewed publications (with the final bibliographical datum available) will reach the mark "70". I tend to think of it as a kind of arrival, but it probably isn't.
Have I become someone interesting along the way? It depends very much on interesting to whom. There are too many people to whom I do not want to be interesting at all.
There's no arriving.
The idea that you'll reach some destination where everything is finally handled is a beautiful lie that keeps you chasing horizons. The point was never to arrive -- it was to become someone interesting along the way.
***
Another week or month, and the length of my list of peer-reviewed publications (with the final bibliographical datum available) will reach the mark "70". I tend to think of it as a kind of arrival, but it probably isn't.
Have I become someone interesting along the way? It depends very much on interesting to whom. There are too many people to whom I do not want to be interesting at all.
