"For humans, life is meaningful because it is a story. A story has a sense of wholeness, and its arc depends on the moments that make sense. The moments when something important happens. We have goals beyond our own. The self of memory is not only trying to recognize The highs of pleasure and the lows of pain and the way the story unfolds as a whole"
"Our lives are inherently interdependent and subject to forces and circumstances far beyond our control"
"The battle to be a person is the battle to preserve the integrity of one's life - to avoid being cut down, to be dissipated, to be conquered, to avoid breaking up who you are and who you were and who you want to be in the future"
Favorite book of 2021 and favorite movie of 2022 so far They complement each other in content About getting old this thing has been on my mind almost every day for a while There is always a day when it might be a parent or a loved one might be Friends and even pets one day we have to learn to say goodbye, if we learn how to face before we say goodbye, will it be able to reduce the pain of the living and the dead a little bit
That's probably what it feels like to grow old
I can't find my watch It's the only "time" I can hold in my hands I don't know what's going on around me I'm trying to prove that I still have a clear memory But I don't even know what I'm doing every day where did you wake up are you in london or paris and i'm in the flat or in the house is she still there and i'm still there
Human beings are constantly fighting against birth, old age, sickness and death. No matter if this struggle lasts for millions of millions of years, human beings will eventually fail. Above this long river of struggle, the question we need to figure out is that rather than defeating the pain and defeating the old, we are actually Are the things that need to be done (…) the things we need to do with the time we are buying are actually more meaningful than the battle should be?
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