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Wednesday, September 10, 2008

loveAgain?

It may seem that all I write about is love and that I am incapable of writing anything not related to it. But isn't that what people do? They cry, they laugh, they sing, they dance and they pray, all in the name of love. That is reality and I understand it more clearly now. We do all these things because we live for love and we love because we want to live. We seem to live in this perpetual paradox of interdependency between the Self and Others even though we are not sure if there really is a Self or an Other for that matter. We go around in circles seemingly unable to progress but that is precisely where the wonder of being human comes in. We are aware that we would never know true love and that we would never reach the "unattainable" but we never give up, we keep on trying. And this is the point where I disagree with Nietzsche. Though I believe in the inherent weakness in humanity, unlike Nietzsche I see something more in humanity--beauty. The beauty of humanity lies in our ability to hope even when there's nothing left to hold on to, to reach even when it continually evade our grasp and to try even if we teether on the edge of despair. To be human is to be able to be in this predicament of trying and failing and yet be able to say "so what?". And so to love even when there is no more happiness involve, to continue reaching even when everything seems to be slipping away is humanity expressing itself in us.

By the way this is me trying my very best to philosophize not justify.


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