year 02; sem 01; literature entry week 12
From De Profundis
By Oscar Wilde
Is without doubt, one of the best pieces of literature I have ever read! And I will continue to read throughout my lifetime for I know, being human, that I will forget these messages I should never forget. In my life so far everything used to be picture perfect until events and scenarios happened where I could not make decision on what was right in accordance to how I had been brought up. Through confusion, trial and error, I experienced an unsheltered world where everything is not as perfect as I wished they had been. M I S T A K E S were made, although I’m not sure if “Mistake” is the right word for it, because I’m not if I would want to change any of my “mistakes” if I went back in time. If I did... what would I have learnt from it? Nothing. What life experience would I have? None. It was bound to happen one way or another. Acceptance of the choices made is something really hard to do. It takes a lot of time for this acceptance to occur. As you can tell by Oscar Wilde’s ‘De Profundis’ it took him quite some time to write this entry whilst he was locked up.
Humility. We have learned. We can never learn enough though.
Life is our greatest teacher.
“Nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand”
“I have got to make everything that has happened to me good for me”
“I will not say that it is the best thing that could have happened to me, for that phrase would savour of too great bitterness towards myself.”
“Absorb into my nature all that has been done to me, to make it part of me, to accept it without complaint, fear, or reluctance.”
Do not hide your misadventures, nor forget them, for they are a part of your life now. And by acceptance, you have learned one of the hardest virtues humanity has deals with...
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