Tag: Books
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Trapped with Geniuses
What are your strengths and weaknesses? Adaptation. Your weakness? Adaptation. I guess that pretty much sums up my life. The more I adapted, the further I sometimes moved away from myself and my dreams. And yet, because I kept adapting, I somehow always managed to stay on my feet and keep chasing those same dreams.…
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Peasantry: From Rural Roots to Urban Consequences
After coming together and working with enough peasants from different nations, I started writing this piece while thinking: why shouldn’t I criticize these peasants mercilessly? Actually, my starting point was a sign hanging in the forest where I walk during work breaks. It said: “We do not want wind panels in our homeland.” I was…
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Character Building
Another day when I chose to be alone. The weather is too gray for socializing. My head can no longer take people in, but I cannot stay away from people either. I ended up in the café on the corner near home. Spring is about to end, but summer is not coming either. It showed…
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Escape
He ran into the forest. He was out of breath. He didn’t know how long he had been running, but at least now he could hide. He kept running for a while without looking back, until he felt safe. When he stopped and looked around, he flinched. He had no idea where he was. The…
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Against the Sentence
I had to make a decision against what was being written. No matter what he wrote, this time it would be different. After all, I would be the one who felt it. Again. “Look” the writer said. “Don’t drag it out. Move forward and do your job” “What do you mean by moving forward?” I…
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How to Know Yourself-69: Existence and Meaning
Knowing Ourselves: Meaning, Existence, and Perspectives After completing about 90% of the journey of getting to know ourselves, we reach the themes of existence and selfhood. If you have truly reflected on yourself and made efforts to resolve the issues in your life, you will have reached not existential despair, but existential confidence. Instead of…
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Sartre’s Perspective: Freedom and the Strangeness of Existence
“People think in the past, judge in the past, compare in the past. The fact that an action was done in the past matters more than whether it was a mistake.” Jean-Paul Sartre — writer, philosopher, political journalist — is one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century.Short, cross-eyed, wearing large, attention-grabbing glasses,…
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The Illusion of Freedom on Twitter
Since my cousin went off to military service, he’s been repeating a phrase that struck me deeply:“Has your freedom ever been taken from you?” For some reason, I really loved this question.Actually, I had been thinking about it for a long time—since reading The Captivity of Will, maybe for 6 or 7 years now. Are…
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