Thoughts

haha it so happened i posted about that even before i saw your post gideon. lol and my posts are usually of that kind of length. if not longer : ) short posts belong on the tagboard, dont they? bahh anyway..

life is only interesting cos the extremes exist. take clement's example of anger. if anger didnt exist in the world, and everyone were docile and pacified all the time, wouldnt life be boooring? if passionate love and hate didnt exist, our relationships would be limited to acquaintance status alone. and if everyone were simply acquaintances, i'd really rather die.

look at the friar. look at aristotle. fine, they would get through life relatively 'happy', because suree, the amount of conflict in their lives might be significantly reduced. but then again, do you think they could be truly happy? without euphoria nor depression, life is simply like the life monitoring machine thingy that goes teeeeeeeeeeeeeeet. yeah you're dead like the patient attached to it. your life would be empty. and when they look back on their lives, they wont be able to say anything about it except 'whew, ive survived __ years on earth.'

is there anything in your life worth remembering? nothing

is there anything in your life you regret not doing? everything

i have only pity for such people.

"Then love-devouring death do what he dare; It is enough I may but call her mine"
Would i die for for a passionate, absolute and consuming love? yeah you bet i would. for that kind of love gives me a cause for living. and that very same cause should be one worth dying for.
"When a man ponders death, he becomes more alive than ever." what are YOU willing to die for? can you say you are actually living life? or are you just surviving?

think about it.