Existentialism, Anxiety, Man Up
Lately I've felt the currents of change pulsing through my entire life. I'm beginning to take tons of shifts at work, we're on the verge of moving out, my girlfriend lives by herself in the dorms, college classes start bright and early tomorrow, and I'm starting to become independent with nearly every aspect of my life. Not that I am totally independent in any respect, but I am certainly gravitating towards it.
The best part about these changes have been that I've been able to share it with the people that I care about. Not every single friend I have is able to experience it with me, but nearly all of my close friends are here experiencing these changes with me. It not only makes it less frightening, but it definitely adds another level to the experience that I am able to talk about it with those around me.
The changes that are starting to reflect in my own life are also manifesting themselves as philosophical ideas. Ideas of responsibility of choice and freedom (consequently leading to what the existentialists, notably Sarte) deem as anxiety. Also, I am starting to find other tenets of existentialism as not only desirable but ultimately "true".
Through out my entire past, I've defined myself by the ideologies I've ascribed to, the social statuses I've held, or my roles as a gender. I've used philosophy to try and guard against personal responsibility as well as trying to provide meaning to something which cannot have meaning ascribed to it. I do not want to dive in depth into my recent discoveries yet, but I will in further entries.
The best part about these changes have been that I've been able to share it with the people that I care about. Not every single friend I have is able to experience it with me, but nearly all of my close friends are here experiencing these changes with me. It not only makes it less frightening, but it definitely adds another level to the experience that I am able to talk about it with those around me.
The changes that are starting to reflect in my own life are also manifesting themselves as philosophical ideas. Ideas of responsibility of choice and freedom (consequently leading to what the existentialists, notably Sarte) deem as anxiety. Also, I am starting to find other tenets of existentialism as not only desirable but ultimately "true".
Through out my entire past, I've defined myself by the ideologies I've ascribed to, the social statuses I've held, or my roles as a gender. I've used philosophy to try and guard against personal responsibility as well as trying to provide meaning to something which cannot have meaning ascribed to it. I do not want to dive in depth into my recent discoveries yet, but I will in further entries.