Reader loses the plot completely

A READER WRITES: “I think I'm losing the plot. I put a reminder in my phone that went off at the alloted time 11am. The reminder just says 'Elton'. What in the hell does that even mean? Suggestions welcome.”

BRIAN BARRINGTON, PHILOSOPHICAL COUNSELLOR TO THE STARS, REPLIES: According to Saul Bellow (pictured here) “It’s easy enough to see what people think they’re doing. Nor is what they really are up to hard for common sense to make out. The usual repertories of strategems, deceits, personality rackets, ringing the changes of criminal cunning, are hardly worth examining”.

It’s not that difficult to work out what other people think they are up to. But what people think they are up to is rarely what they are actually up to. Working out what another person is actually up to is slightly more difficult than working out what they think they are up to – but the difficulties are not always insurmountable. The real difficulty concerns working out what you yourself our actually up to. In other words, the really difficult thing to attain is self-knowledge. It's much easier to work out other people, than it is to work out ourselves.

So what on earth are you up to? In this case, I don’t even know what you think you are up to, let alone what you are actually up to. You’re all over the place. You’re a complete mess. You’re a mystery. I give up.

On this note I would like to ask readers: what in the name of God am I actually up to writing this blog? What is really going on here? Suggestions welcome.