#how to live
Living an existential life, pt. 1
Do our lives have meaning? The idea that life is without meaning has become increasingly prominent in this modern secular world. It hasn’t merely been brought forwards by people who have rejected religion in any of its many forms, but also by the continental philosophers of the 19th and 20th centuries. The Existential movement takes the idea that life is devoid of meaning as an integral tenet of…
“The world will tell you how to live, if you let it. Don’t let it. Take up your space. Raise your voice. Sing your song. This is your chance to make or remake a life that thrills you.”— Shauna Niequist, Present Over Perfect
I Don’t Know Who Needs To Hear This, But
Sylvia Plath’s 1956 program “to win friends and influence people.” I really needed the last line in there: "Write — you have seen a lot, felt deeply and your problems are universal enought to be made meaningful — WRITE —" (How perfect that it ends with an em dash, pregnant with promise…)
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Any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be hereditary again.
Homer, The Iliad
You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain
