"Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs on hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate—he has little success in this—but with the other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins, for he sees different (and more) things than do the others; after all, dead as he is in his own lifetime, he is the real survivor. This assumes that he does not need both hands, or more hands than he has, in his struggle against despair."--Kafka



Saturday, April 9, 2011

On writing up my paper

So I am now fully utilizing my April to write up 2 papers. I'm particularly interested on writing one of them as I am writing something concerning the existential situation of human beings. OK, I'm not writing about Being and Time, but just on Irwin Yalom and Rollo May. I cannot dig into philosophy as sometimes I find that existentialism is too dark and distressing for me. Writing these stuffs make me feel that I am able to integrate my different interests, such as psychology, movies, drama, reading and buddhism. That makes me feel great.

Meet someone who also love Irwin Yalom's writing. I was so excited to show her my copy of "Love's Executioner" to her when we talked. She was surprised that I love Yalom as such young age. I regard that I'm a little bit late. Several years earlier I become interested in existentialism but I knew that I couldn't find the answer to living as a human being from such writings and so I quitted. That's great that I finally find Yalom. His compassion towards human beings is comforting.

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