Good at nothing

I’m good at nothing – good at doing nothing that is. I’m good at other things too, but being good at nothing sometimes feels like a superpower.

I witness the unfolding of my own thought: I watch it, I listen to it

— Arthur Rimbaud, Letter to Paul Demeny, 1871

A whole lifetime could be passed in the watching of a moment and it would not be wasted. The wake of moments, the ripples they create on the surface that we watch, the surface of time. Do we watch the same surface from different perspectives, or are we watching different surfaces entirely?