2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
So I open my eyes in the morning, out of habit, I perform a set of some actions (or inactions) and plunge into the hustle and bustle of a new day.
What for?
Well, yes, I have some goals, plans, desires, etc. etc.
But where do they all lead me in the end?
After all, no matter what I have achieved from the "planned", the same question is inevitable: "And what next?"
After all, I don't even know for sure how I will actually feel, having finally gotten what I want. I only imagine that I will be happy, I guess, dream about it.
But dont know.
And what do I know about myself, about my life?
That I appeared in this world without my will and that I will leave it the same way.
That I, by and large, can not control anything either in my life or in the world around me. I can only try to somehow influence something and maintain my illusion of relative control.
What do money, children, power, falling in love, self-realization, pleasure, and so on mean against this background?
All that I want for myself.
I appeared without everything, and I will disappear, leaving everything.
So why am I at all?
The climax.
(I would like to insinuate myself in an interlinear translation with an ironic grin: "Well, well, author, give me your original answer - what's the point?")
Pause…
And silence.
It seems to me that there is no and cannot be a final answer.
The answer is the end.
Maybe the end of the world, the end of life.
Life is a process, movement, searches, finds and disappointments, affirmations and refutations, the possibility of change.
Truth is unchanging, and therefore, perhaps, it is no longer life.
Bottom line.
I only know that people like me live next to me.
Infinitely distant and incomprehensible to me in their unique process of life.
Very close and understandable to me in their loneliness on the path of life, so similar to my own loneliness.
And my life would probably be many times more meaningless if it were not for this “near”, with people.
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