Yet Another Refugee from Livejournal

There's this funny little man who lives inside my head who's always asking me questions.  Recently, he asked me one which was tangentially related to my most recent journal entry.

Q: So, you've been having some trouble getting an appointment with a psychiatrist.  But why did your doctor refer you to one in the first place?

A: Because I asked him to.

Q: Uh-huh.  And why'd you do that, Tom?

A: I've been having some short-term memory issues  Like, I go upstairs to get something, and by the time I get there, I've forgotten what the “something” was.

… (That's not entirely a bad thing, of course.  I get more exercise that way.)

… But it's still, on the whole, a pain in the butt, given that it's been happening more and more often.

Q: You have my sympathy.  But you still haven't said why you wanted to see a psychiatrist.

A: Um, I sorta thought that was obvious.  I thought maybe a change of medication would help with the memory problems.

He didn't have any more questions, so I guess I'll post this, and go on to the next item on my to-do list.

If only I could remember what that was.

You remember that I have a "home page" at The Well,
right?  Just in case the URL is not at your fingertips, here
it is:

https://people.well.com/user/edelsont/index.html

There've been some changes there.

There's a whole new Category, called "Philosophy".

And there's more!  Therein, you will find a file, in PDF
format, titled "Why Do Anything?".

And what's that about?  It's about a page long.

Oh, you meant "What is its subject matter?"  Well, see
now, its title is ambiguous.  If you read it quite literally,
you might expect the subject matter to be something like "What
counts as a good reason for doing anything?"  (Well, you might
expect that if you had a philosophy degree.)

Okay, so what's the other meaning for the title "Why Do
Anything?"  That would be something like
"Why do we do anything?"

But I'm not going to recap the whole content here; this is only
a teaser.  Its purpose is to motivate you to go read the PDF
file itself.  If you want to jump directly to it, here's a
link for that:

https://people.well.com/user/edelsont/philosophy/why-do-anything.pdf