251.When one is too enmeshed in light matters, serious matters become heavy burdens. 252.Being out of touch from the familiar makes the return strange. 253.The superfluous are decorations built from the base of essentials. We can add them on or discard them when it pleases us or when prodded by necessity but we cannot dispense with the essentials. 254.How well we perform a task reflects how much we have learned. How well we perform a task reflects our aptitude level. 255.When a situation is prevalent, a deviation is seen as an exception, anomaly or luxury. 256.Life comes to us in fragments .We have to link the pieces to find our place in it. 257.We express knowledge in full, in portions, always or at times. We admit ignorance in full, in portions, always or at times. 258.Process involves cause and transition of former states to that of latter or resulting states and eventual outcome. 259.For one to know intellectual fullness and depth, one must beforehand be submerged in the levity of banality. The two states come in intervals. 260.We develop our intellect by striving to know what others know. We advance our minds by formulating what others know not. 261.Impulse demands for attention .It is our discretion which chooses to see to its needs or to ignore it. 262.We are too preoccupied with singular functions which deal with worldly tasks. It is akin to acknowledging the individual components of a contraption and not the reason for its invention. 263.Philosophy and deep rumination is often ill considered by those in the fever and throes of the rat race. 264.In order to relate to a state, experience of that state comes to play. 265.Some things lose their appeal when they lose their novelty. 266.Be sure to secure the base of or triumph at the time of glory lest it be eroded when it is our turn to face the brink. 267.We regard time spent on a matter only to find it unsuitable for our purpose a waste yet it isn?t for the evolution of thought and concepts have brought us to our present stage besides strengthening our tenacity. 268.A preference may be linked to the emotions or emotional detachment. Preferences may be formulated from practical necessity or the heart?s calling. 269. Bitter or sweet farewells are in synchrony with our emotions at the time. 270.Little bits of misery is found all over existence and it is unevenly distributed. 271.One cannot be dogmatic in a game of cat and mouse. 272.We are victims and beneficiaries of our excesses, austerity and moderation. 273.Between ?could have been? and ?has been? is ? being?. 274.Jadedness is when excitement?s throbs are tempered by experience. 275.Matters past which we had derived from sources other than ourselves is knowledge. Matters past which we have lived through is experience. We have knowledge and experience with us. 276.All worthy actions done were done not in vain.