Tag: questioning

• Blanket Rules are Illogical Rules – Thoughts from May 28 and 29, 2023

  

  May 28, 2023 Following rules you hear is not the same thing as following rules that are written and documented. Enough said. May 29, 2023 It was fun to end my Thoughts paper yesterday with “enough said” after one sentence, but I wasn’t actually done. Today, I will finish what I only introduced yesterday. The…

  Brian Kirwan

  May 28, 2024

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  2023, all-or-nothing statements, arbitrary and unecessary rules, being a rebel, being aware of other people, blanket rules, caring about other people, challenging behavior, changing my ways, common sense, courtesy rules, daily routines, disagreeing with all rules, established rules, experience, following blanket rules, illogical rules, individual decisions, knowing why I’m doing something, managers, preventing rudeness, questioning, questioning rules, rebels, rude people, sound reasoning, sterile workplace, thoughts, understanding a task, verbal rules, walking on the right

• Thoughts from September 2 and 18, 1998

  

  September 2, 1998 Here I sit in my open casket. I’m not dead, but I’m not really alive. If there were a state of questioning, I would live in it right now. My questioning has to do with everything (as opposed to the questioning of nothing I normally do). I drink from an orange cup,…

  Brian Kirwan

  January 17, 2023

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  1998, Beavis and Butthead, better life, breaking up with me, contest, depressed, direction, free time, I do, inseminated, lazy, miserable, mowing the lawn, MTV, music, my break, Patti, pregnant, questioning, thoughts, three-day weekend, work, writing

• Thoughts from 1991

  

  1991 was the earliest entries in which I wrote my thoughts about my life. I believe I just thought of them as diary entries. I was in my first two years of college and was still trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my life. There are only two entries for the…

  Brian Kirwan

  December 6, 2022

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  1991, angst, confidence, diary entries, humor, life, music, paper, poetry, Prince, Prince fan, questioning, regurgitating hamster, responsibility, self-centered, self-deprecating, singing, speech, speeding, speeding ticket, thoughts, twenty-something, uncontrollable

• August 29, 1997 – Thoughts from Life 4

  

  I’d have the world in the palm of my hand right now if it weren’t so wet. I don’t like wet hands. I never did. Many people have strange neurotic conditions and quirks. I don’t know why anyone would ever consider themselves normal or would want to be normal if it existed. My quirks made…

  Brian Kirwan

  November 15, 2022

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  1997, Barbie, bargain shopper, Dan Quail, Disney, Drew Carey, flowers, food, gossip, hobbies, hobby, jobs, juggling, Lego, low self-esteem, lying, Mickey, mistake, music, nutrition, opinion, pinning flowers, playing house, pool, questioning, questions, ride share, scuba, swimming, toys, wedding, work, writing