• Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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    18 days ago

    I never knew what he looked like.

    he looks like a real cool nerd in his Hobbesian sweater

  • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    Gosh, I never knew he did a commencement speech. Watterson has always been someone I look up to. His work is still so inspirational to how i want to approach life and work. He’s the real deal and I salute that he did his work his way, and not the way the suits wanted. This speech reinforces all of that.

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    Good number of heavy lines to understand from his speech. “Most of us discover where we were headed once we arrive”… a philosophy I’ve built out of that was trying new things even when I thought I’d found the best, new places, restaurants, ideas.

    Life’s all about the experiences, even the ones far off the beaten path.

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    18 days ago

    This was a good read. Anyone who’se purchased any of his anthologies will be familiar with some of the content, but the appeal to live a fulfilling life and how hard that can be as you get older was refreshing.

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    17 days ago

    “If you ever want to find out just how uninteresting you really are, get a job where the quality and frequency of your thoughts determine your livelihood.”