So dear friends, our love is gone
Alright, alright.
So I haven't had any bad days lately, and that makes it easier to have a philosophy like this. Come to me in two days, I'll be telling you that depression is so wonderfully beautiful that a man must mire himself in it till he nearly drowns, playing some amazing game of blackout with that deep water till he has drunk his fill, BUT:
Today, everything is very simple. Today I can say,
"I am aware of my own existence, so I must exist. Everything else is currently immaterial. I am aware of other existences that claim to exist. I must therefore relate them to my own self, as they seem, upon inspection, to be existing very similarly. Anything that causes me discomfort I will assume to cause them discomfort. Things that I observe some of them to find discomforting that I do not find discomforting will be added to my care list, and I will do my best to encourage comfort and ease for all existences. Things that I enjoy I will consider secondary to a mean comfort level for other existences, though I will not sacrifice myself into discomfort illogically." Further discussion of the nature of existence and reality can be a lot of fun, but doesn't get one very far...
Personally, I feel I've spent too much of my life counting the angels dancing on heads of pins, and am quite sick of staring at my belly button.
There is no damn point to sitting around trying to figure out life all the time! The answers are simple, and basic, so get on out there and move and shake! Have dignity, never act in a way that makes you ashamed of yourself and when you are ashamed, get up, dust yourself off and keep living! Common sense is the most important tool for enjoying yourself at all in life!
Philosophy, Psychology, Physics, these are all noble, and exceedingly necessary pursuits for anyone who wants to achieve true knowledge of themselves, but they are more of a means to an end than ends in themselves - unless they happen to be your goals, in which case you must chase them, chase them with all your strength. I don't think we ever will know everything that we need to know, but perhaps you will discover profound and wonderful things all the same!
I don't preach stupidity, a lack of questioning or a revolution against intellect - just a balanced life of adventure and conversation and low nights and passionate days!
Even if you don't know what you want, you know what you like. Always, always work towards that, and never let yourself think that it could only be found in one person or one thing.
This world is too big for our dreams to not be true, and too small for us not to find them.
So I haven't had any bad days lately, and that makes it easier to have a philosophy like this. Come to me in two days, I'll be telling you that depression is so wonderfully beautiful that a man must mire himself in it till he nearly drowns, playing some amazing game of blackout with that deep water till he has drunk his fill, BUT:
Today, everything is very simple. Today I can say,
"I am aware of my own existence, so I must exist. Everything else is currently immaterial. I am aware of other existences that claim to exist. I must therefore relate them to my own self, as they seem, upon inspection, to be existing very similarly. Anything that causes me discomfort I will assume to cause them discomfort. Things that I observe some of them to find discomforting that I do not find discomforting will be added to my care list, and I will do my best to encourage comfort and ease for all existences. Things that I enjoy I will consider secondary to a mean comfort level for other existences, though I will not sacrifice myself into discomfort illogically." Further discussion of the nature of existence and reality can be a lot of fun, but doesn't get one very far...
Personally, I feel I've spent too much of my life counting the angels dancing on heads of pins, and am quite sick of staring at my belly button.
There is no damn point to sitting around trying to figure out life all the time! The answers are simple, and basic, so get on out there and move and shake! Have dignity, never act in a way that makes you ashamed of yourself and when you are ashamed, get up, dust yourself off and keep living! Common sense is the most important tool for enjoying yourself at all in life!
Philosophy, Psychology, Physics, these are all noble, and exceedingly necessary pursuits for anyone who wants to achieve true knowledge of themselves, but they are more of a means to an end than ends in themselves - unless they happen to be your goals, in which case you must chase them, chase them with all your strength. I don't think we ever will know everything that we need to know, but perhaps you will discover profound and wonderful things all the same!
I don't preach stupidity, a lack of questioning or a revolution against intellect - just a balanced life of adventure and conversation and low nights and passionate days!
Even if you don't know what you want, you know what you like. Always, always work towards that, and never let yourself think that it could only be found in one person or one thing.
This world is too big for our dreams to not be true, and too small for us not to find them.